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Hey guys, welcome to the Inside Texas Live show here on this Thursday night...

...joined by Pack. Pack, brother, doing okay with it.

Busy busy student life and Austin, Texas going okay.

Yeah. Busy bugged.

Good to hear, man.

Pack and I, we're going to kind of get into a, you know, under the radar Texas players.

Guys that maybe, you know, I mean, it's an archmaning lead team.

Of course, with some other players in there.

But you have big, big names. You have some big personalities.

Guys that have been around for a long time. Name said everybody knows.

And just kind of some names that might surprise a few of you guys, us included.

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But all right, Pack, when was...

...think in Texas, you know, obviously, you know, you know, Arch, you know, Cam Coleman.

Everybody has made themselves, I feel like, acquainted with the new running backs.

Stayed open to film. They've looked at the numbers.

You know, we know that the studs are on defense.

You know, the people that draw the guys, rather, that draw the headlines.

But when I, if I remember to ask you, who were the first under the radar guys that kind of come to your mind?

It can be on either side of the ball. Okay, some special teams.

What players come to mind? You guys in the comments. You guys watching.

There's some names too, you know, if you believe the guy is going to step up.

And maybe he takes a big step. Maybe it's a guy that everybody knows.

So that you expect a big step to be taken by that said player.

You know, share it with us. Let us know if you think. But what do you got for us, Pack?

Yeah, so offensively, I think you start with Emmett Mosley.

That's probably, you know, the first one.

Because really, I think offensively, it's kind of hard to have an under the radar guy.

Feels like there might be, you know, eight, eight NFL players in the, in the starting 11.

And you know, it's hard to say that an offensive lineman's under the radar.

Because they're pretty much always going to go under the radar unless they're, you know, up there for all American.

If they're going to be all SEC outside of that, it's kind of hard to be under the radar there.

So really on thinking of scope positions.

And feels like everyone that Texas has from a scope position standpoint in terms of who they're going to walk out for.

And the first 11 is really, really talented as a guy that nationally is pretty well known.

They're all probably going to be drafted.

under the radar. We're talking about guys that come off the bench, guys who are in the

two deep that may not start. I think you think of guys like Cleak Lockett, Sterling Butter

Colter, and that's kind of about it in terms of who you think is going to make a meaningful

contribution, especially not knowing what the spring looks like for some of these guys,

not knowing how much weight some of them have put on like a germane bishop. He comes to mind if

he can put on enough weight to be able to put on the field, but if he weighs 165, 170,

you're going to have a really hard time getting him on the field, so it's hard to name him,

and then defensively, a lot of guys come to mind for me. I think Bow Mask out recently

in the last week went back and watched his tape at Rutgers. I really liked what I saw super long

as some techniques that SK cleaned up for sure from a full-work standpoint at corner, but

I think he does a good job with a ball in the air. I think he's comfortable playing as a

quarters corner, playing as a deep third corner. I think it looks pretty comfortable and offman

as well, so a lot of things you'd like to see from that. I think Wardell Maxx, a guy that I've

always been really high on, I think if he can really step into that role at STAR, I think that'll

help Texas defense a ton. I think he's physical enough to really help in the run game when they

want to play stuff like me and for mod or anytime that they need to get their star in the fit

in terms of as a force defender. Those are the two names defensively that come to mind. I think

you could talk a lot about the guys in the secondary though in terms of guys who are going on in

the radar and even some of the guys in the front four when we're talking about guys who maybe

aren't talked about super nationally. To me, when they added, we're going to start with

Bow Mask out. When they added Bow and you have all these recruiting and bless you. All these

recruiting and portal recruiting, just fanatics who want the biggest names, they want all the stars,

they want stats at the last school that they were at, and then Texas takes a former three star

from Rutgers. To the fan base, I have an issue with it, absolutely not. I'm going to trust the staff,

especially on the defensive side, and then I'm going to go fill in my own opinion, but it's just

not the big sexy name that a lot of people want, and it doesn't really move the needle for a lot of

fans. The more that I've seen his tape, the more that I get into it, he's going to be a big part

of this defense. How dependent is Texas's defense and being a quality defense especially on that

back end, depending on Texas hitting on Bow Mask out? I don't know that it is just because I think

there's a lot of depth there. If he doesn't hit as long as Kobe Black hits, as long as Grayson

Littleton hits, as long as Cade Phillip hits, as long as Samari Matthews is playable, Warren

Roberson is playable. You can kind of get away with it. Now, if he is a real plus and it's a hit,

then that gives you a lot of depth. It allows you to maybe try Kobe Black out at star,

allows you to move Warren Roberson somewhere, allows you to do some different things with

Wardell Mack as well. So I would say him being a hit only helps the depth. I'm not so sure that

him hitting is a necessity for the Texas defense being really good.

The nut's bad. I think he has a really good chance to be arguably the best cornerback on the

team. I think he's going to be a top half dozen cornerback in the SEC by the time everything shakes

out. Again, it could be a little bit of bias in there, but it may have just really fallen in love

with the tape of Bo Maskow. I'm excited to see him as part of that defense. Now, let's talk about

this. Kobe Black, a guy that you saw play as best football later in the season. Warren

Roberson, another guy you could say played as best football later in the season. Wardell Mack,

let's start with his name in that trio as well. Which of those three do you envision taking the

biggest leap into 2026? You would think you would be Kobe Black, because this is probably

in terms of a scheme fit, a really good one for him. From a standpoint of, you know,

much champs going to play some press is going to play some off-man, but in general, a lot of

a lot of what Texas is going to play has some man principles.

If you had been watching the Saturday shows that I do with Homer and Ian, you can see that a lot

of the coverage is that much champs going to run have a lot of man principles, especially outside.

It's almost exclusively man outside and then what happens inside dictates the coverage structure.

So because of that, you'd think this would be Kobe Black's best fit in terms of where he's

going to be maximized. And then with Warren Roberson, I think the question has always been

from a processing standpoint, how quickly can he pick up the playbook? How quickly can he, you know,

see something to actually do it? So, you know, with much champs defense, it's not

less complicated than Peacook Huskies. It's very much the opposite, especially from back-end

standpoint. They do a hell of a lot more the saving guys do than PK does. So that's a little bit

of a hesitation there. With Wardell Mack, you just hope that he can eventually figure it out,

because I think out of those three, he's the one that I think has high ceiling, just from a

high weight speed standpoint. I like his tape the most, honestly, especially when you consider

early in the year. So that's kind of Kobe Black's highest potential in terms of the thing that's

going to benefit him the most. But I would say I think it's probably going to be Wardell Mack.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of all skills. There's a lot of all potential. I definitely,

I mean, I hate to like rank the guys, but I think you can make an argument for Wardell or for

Kobe Black. Again, for the reasons that you said with Kobe Black and coaching, you're probably

going to have this coaching staff, especially in the back-end, it's going to be, or his coaching

is on the backside, or going to be a little bit more in tune with maybe what he's capable of

doing and what type of, you know, type traits he physically has. As far as Robertson, yeah, I mean,

it's going to be an extensive playbook, man. And so all these guys, we're going to see if they can

all pick it up and who picks it up early. So my pick it up mid-season could be late for some of

these guys. And so maybe you see some early season struggles, which you saw from Georgia's

defense in this last season. You know what I mean? And again, you've talked extensively about

that extensive playbook and how thick it is and compare it to a lot of DCs out there. And

that youth in the secondary, you know, when at that point in the season for Georgia,

did you really start to notice like a big change? And again, this is completely different

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But I mean, it's still, you know, it's going to be a similar playbook. You're going to have a

lot of the same rules and concepts. What point did you really see that the life kind of come on

for the back end of that Georgia defense? Because I mean, you think you have a lot of points on

the lot of yards through the air early in that season and you know, even into S&C you play a

little bit just like a Tennessee game. Yeah, so I think I think one of maybe what I would say

there is I think you're almost the opposite. Like I don't think the playbook was dense enough

early in the year for Georgia. I think they were too simple early. I think because they were

they think that as a product of their youth. You go back and you look at that secondary last year

for Georgia. It's Janelle Aquaro, who was a I think a true junior, Dylan Everett true junior,

KJ Bolden was a true sophomore. Kyron Jones was starting for the first time and then it was Alice

Robinson who hadn't started all year. So you talk about 300-classmen. I do think that I'll

led to a playbook that really wasn't super expansive. Now that is somewhat of a concern. I think

Fort Texas next year is not only is it a pretty young secondary. It's also it's also pretty new

in terms of the playbook where yeah you can spend a lot of time in the film room and you can do a lot

of things on the whiteboard to tell the guys and you can you know work on your walkthroughs and your

half-line drills and all of the different stuff that goes into an install but I mean it's a lot of

stuff that you're trying to get in there. So I do think you could potentially see an early

the Texas defense early in the year really start off slow just because they're just because it is

a lot to try to install all this stuff. Now I will say one of the things that you'll hear a lot

from guys if you talk to people at Georgia was much champ wasn't in charge of simplifying the

defense. So it could be that you know Texas isn't going to install install as much as Georgia

traditionally would and that may help in terms of you know having the players play faster

and that gets Texas off to a quicker start because you know you're not installing as much so

you're able to really learn those key concepts get really good at them and just run them

but that there's a little bit of a double-edged sword there because you're not going to be super

complex you're pretty easy to play against. So there's a little bit of a double-edged sword there

and I think that's one of the big questions I'm going to have and I don't know that it's going to

be answered until you know September is in terms of what most champ is doing. Right I mean you'll

see a lot of what you probably plans to do in that Ohio State game but at the same time it's

going to be just a couple of weeks under the season. You're going to have SCC play behind you

and so it's not I'm not saying you're going to hold any bullets back. I'm just saying you might not

be ready to show the full arsenal yet like you saying Georgia was kind of limited in what they're

they're doing early in last season compared to years past and when Kirby has a group that maybe

completely understands and comprehends everything that he's trying to get done but yeah I mean I just had

to ask because again I think I agree with you I think you could see a Texas defense that you know

by fans expectations you get will most champion here you've got Collins Simmons you've got

some of these other studs on the back end and a linebacker you've had a regime battles and you know

all the talent and the edge room and you give up a few points early on and everybody's going to

point with fingers at will most champ if you like hold on like what's going on like so much deeper

than that and again that's that type of content you can find here with the pack and it's inside

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all right pack i want to go back to the other side of the ball the first thing that you mentioned

here tonight uh in it mostly uh you know i mean a guy that i was really excited about getting

in the portal from stanford head over for you know 500 yards had a couple of big touchdowns i

liked that he could win it you know it it was a stanford it was against some some db's that i

thought might have played it a little soft a couple times but he not necessarily 50 50 balls but

battled to win balls um in the air i just really smooth as a route runner then it gets hurt

you know you miss early in the season it was in an offense that needed another wider seeker

for sure but then also you miss out on the time to really get that in-game rapport with archmaning

i thought it was a shot in the arm immediately when he came back for florida now again um you can

again we could talk about that game forever you can pick on stark for drawing up maybe too many

deep concepts you can obviously pick on the offensive line you know you can pick on arch maybe

they're dinner the game for forcing things a little bit nobody was really without fault in that one

but ima moseley it felt like it was just running wide open the entire game and um again there's

times we got the ball to him times we did not but how much has he been a fit from the addition to

cam colman and then from the late season kind of you know rise of ryan wingo what type of yardage

you know for season wise are you expecting out of them in the moseley and where do you think he's

mostly going to help this team is it third down and moving the moving the six is he going to be a guy

that we can really trust in that scenario is it going to be a redstone target um what's up with

your thoughts on uh mr m moseley yeah so i imagine he moves back to the slot which i think

is going to be a real real benefit for him uh if you go back and you watch him as stanford

he's almost exclusively playing out of the slot and then you watch him last year and because of

deandre more he was playing out as a vizier the x more often which really not not where he's best

so i think that helps him a lot getting cam colman allows him to then play in the slot which

will help him quite a bit because when you're in the slot you're playing a lot of guys who aren't

grading coverage right if nickel was really good in coverage you likely be a boundary or field

corner if and if he was really good in coverage he's probably not he's probably not playing as a

nickel because most nickels in a lot of defenses especially right now nickels are run first players

they're typically force defenders they're typically guys that are you know applying the d gap forcing

the ball back inside they don't typically have an immediate vertical responsibility so when you do

get into pass downs a lot of the time you end up with pretty favorable matchups in terms of who

the nickel is um so that that's really big for him i think that's going to be really important

from uh just a who cam colman is you know i do think it opens up a little bit more space from 10 to 20

yards just because you know cam colman's going to do a lot of work vertically whether that's with posts

or goes or sluggos or hitching goes or any form of double move just he's going to take up a lot of space

vertically and if he has a really good year if he does well we kind of expect him to do it's likely

going to be you know it's likely going to be a lot of double teams going to him especially when

you know they get in three by one formations and it's cam colman to the boundary you're going to get

a lot of good matchups in terms of teams are going to be doubling there so now i'm at mostly if he's

the two or the three he's either playing against the nickel or a linebacker and you know you tend to

like those matchups or it might be a safety but team is rolling down a safety to him but again

you typically like that matchup you're not exactly you don't typically ask your safety is to play

a lot of true man to man coverage and so when you're seeing man or you're seeing some form a

man match coverage whether that's two or seven you're going to be in a good spot with him at

mostly and then if they're in zone i think you know that's already where i think he has good feel

four zones i think he knows when to settle down i do think he has to next year he really has to

do a better job of attacking the football i do think there's times where he waits for it to come

to him so you know that's one of those things you got to clean up but outside of that i think this

is a really big move for him and then uh about like four or fifty to six hundred totally yards

it's kind of a harder one to say just because again you do have um you do have cam colman and then

you have Ryan Wingo you got Ryan Wingo you've got cam and then you know you've got you've got

freshman not not won't be freshman come season time but you got youth underneath him that's

game ready and then you've got a super stud freshman coming in that you know you you can imagine

Texas has some type of package for and they show it early and try to get him on the field and

figures that figure out exactly how much he can help the team in 2026 so it's going to be fine but

at the same time you know like i i almost feel for the guy because you know you're going to have

fans calling for every name below him and you're going to have guys wanting him to go to Wingo

and uh cam colman on an every down basis they're going to get theirs and i think him that's

going to get his as well be a big part i like him as far as the chain mover goes i think he'll be

really reliable in that situation you talk about you know pay me a picture coach back you know

Texas is facing a third and four let's say this um so we'll let's just back it up a little

bit because he's completely fine running on third and fourth pretty much any any side of the field

but let's go make it third and sixth we've got colman to the boundary you're going to three by one

so you're we're anticipating double there what type of concept does Sarg draw up to the trip side

what's the guy cam over there doing is he completely just trying to occupy that corner back in

safety or whoever the second double is um what what are your thoughts there what would you do

so i'll start with how i would defend it and then i'll say here's how i would attack that

okay so one i'm probably playing a double on colman um called a cone so

safety is reading the relect the release of colman if colman releases outside

he's working frontside if the corner is if the if colman releases inside it's a double

um so i'm running a cone there and then to the back side or to the front side really

you're probably playing some form of you're probably playing some form of uh quarters

i don't want to say except that's third and sixth i might

i don't know this is where like it's a little bit of a cop out but it's just where you know

game planning matters a lot knowing what routes teams are running because i mean there's like

17 different calls you can make here i'll just pick one and i'll say maybe they're running

seahawk because we talked about it two Saturdays ago so if you guys don't know what that is you guys

can go watch that but if they're running seahawk the thing that beats that is two on a shallow so

you know running some form of drive concept or levels concept where the three is running a dig the

two is running a shallow the one's running a post because really what's likely to happen is the

safety the safety drops down or he drives down on the dig the two he's going to get open on

the shallow because the star is outside leverage on him so Emmett Mosley is the two in this case

he's going to have good leverage on the shallow and i think that's actually a good route for him

i do think he's better after the catch than people giving credit for if you remember the Georgia

game he had a play where he went for about 40 yards on a low shallow it was a little bit of a bus

to play where manning gets to maybe his third or fourth read throws it to Mosley gets it about

the 45 when they were backed up at their own five so running to running to on a shallow and then

you run the post with Wengyo at one and really because the safety bites down on the dig

if Mosley is able to get inside of the corner you know that's a good that's a good read for arch

so that would kind of be the concept that i think you'd want against that but

you know kind of a long way to say it depends yeah no kidding man i knew that was going to be a fun

answer uh again just curious how you feel about him um stark in general i think you know

obviously he's got a lot of tools in the bag man but techs is still going to have to be efficient

on the money downs something we struggled a little bit with you know i was here really last year

a little bit is being very generous to to that offense because we were really really bad um again

germane bishop we brought his name up a lot on the show everybody excited to get him around

what type of touch usage touch volume would you give germane as you kind of use them into this

offense obviously people love to bring up you know his size can he play at you know what

160 pounds what will he be like in august um what type of way do you think he can put on you know

for one in that amount of time but still be his self as an athlete but then to get into what

how how you'd use him early in the season and what you think sexist might ultimately do

yeah i mean you hope you can get him around 175 minimum by the season i just don't think you can

play a guy who's less than that because for one there's not a chance you can ask him to block

and if you can't ask him to block kind of eliminates a lot of run concepts that you want you really

can't run outside zone because on a lot of outside zone plays you're cracking you're asking your

slot to crack someone whether that's the safety or a linebacker especially when you get more to

condense sets when you get into more condense sets you know you're asking your you're asking your

receivers to block and you can't ask a 175 pound receiver to block anyone he tries to block a

linebacker that's 240 it's more likely that that linebacker shoves him six feet back so you can't

ask him to do that so if he's you know 175 180 you can at least put him out there on third down

or as a gadget player i do kind of think it's it's kind of tough because until he's until he's

big enough to be a good blocker anytime he's out there you just got to kind of use him as a decoy

or if you're gonna you know try to get him the ball it kind of becomes a tendency there

so to me i think it's got to be a little bit you got to find that sweet spot where you've either

got to do things to get him out of the blocking scheme which is kind of hard if he's going to play

in the slot and he's going to be and your and starts going to stay with being a mostly condensed

formation guy that becomes really really hard otherwise you know putting him in motion and using

as a decoy maybe doing some stuff with rocket sweeps and then giving it to him or giving it to

giving it to a back or running triple option off of that i think that that's kind of your next

back option but it's it's going to be pretty gadgety early just because right now you really can't

ask him to do much more than that because like half a banner receiver is being a good blocker

yeah i mean in stark asked a lot of his slider series at you know two block and so again he

he appreciates a demand physicality out there i was thinking 180 you know so we're in the same ballpark

there again i know that he's going to put on some weight don't know exactly how much you know

that he's going to see the football don't know exactly how much but i do agree that it'll be in

and i kind of get a gadget form you know early on in this time of texas maybe mid season you know he

gets to a weight they feel comfortable giving in the ball maybe shown that he has you know what it

takes to get out there and contribute as a blocker in an offense but definitely curious and

interested to see how they use a germane bishop but one thing i'll say is that and i hate to say

it because i'm going to sound like i'm a niblet hater because i was saying this like a month ago on

here but yeah we also need to see bishop on special teams i'm with you i'm with you kick return

return from day one um i think that when we've had ryan niblet on offense we've been very very obvious

in what we're trying to do um in the last couple of years every time we've got him on the ball i could

if we've used him as a decoist and pretty poorly because the things we've done to him it not exactly

worked his excess obviously has come last season in the kick return game i just think there's

a big difference in the type of athletes and the upside as a returner between bishop and ryan niblet

so again um and yeah that i mean that's a good point you know worthy was tiny out there and now

worthy had an ass genus to him that he could get by as a blocker he he was far from a good blocker

early in his career but the effort was there um and then you know bama had a slew of water severs

it starts time where they were they were pretty small as well but we'll see man um i would say also

i don't know that it was a good thing that worthy was playing at 150 as a freshman like

texas was very you know up and down offensively and i don't know that i don't know that you

well i spent that was also the big 12 where almost nobody plays defense and physicality isn't really

like a big thing uh the scc you win by being the most physical team in the conference

this is what georgette has been this is what alabama was under sabon it's very rare that you win

having 150 pounds skill guys even those bama teams with sarkeesian uh you're talking about like

jalen waddle or john matchy those guys are a lot bigger than 150 those guys are you look at

jalen waddle and you see him in person he's a really big guy you do that with your main bishop he's

not well well well stick man he's got he's got thick legs um again i think most people

talk about davonte smith i mean he was kind of on the one exception you kind of have to that um

but again he's and like they did a lot of things with him to avoid him blocking

yeah exactly that i mean and there were so many weapons in that offense um they basically do

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is in the description i will say i mean and i'm putting that comment back on there it is

it is nice to be in the spot that we're in at the water secret position compared to where we were

was sark came to town um imagine that room if texas doesn't flip Xavier worthy from michigan

um yeah and and again xx i mean i was a really fun freshman year but a lot of times man we

we had to force the guy i mean there was the cans this game i think yeah like 22 or 23 targets or

something else saying they're insane like that but all right pack let's move on here you know

we kind of talked about you know some underrated guys that we'll think we see on the side of the

ball is is there anybody that comes to the you know the top of your mind when we talk about guys

that are gonna make the biggest jump it could be anybody it could be archmaning it could be

constant it's gonna be anybody on the roster biggest jumps that you see for texas give me a

couple names if you have any yeah i think the first one that comes to mind is justice terry and

lance jackson i think those two guys are gonna really really take a big leap i think kate Phillips

too for the same reason that i think kobi black should take a leap i think you're gonna see

i think you're gonna see a much more db friendly system right i think every db wants to play

main coverage it's really appealing to their draft stock it's a lot more fun than playing zone

you have to do a lot more you're asked so it's a little bit more of an in eo bump to be an elite

shut down db versus being a great zone corner yeah i think so kate Phillips i think it's gonna take

a real leap i think one just the the measurable is one make you think that right he's six two

he's got freakishly long arms he's got really fluid hips which i think it's probably the most

important thing for a db's having really flexible hips being able to turn your hips and whether

that's with a speed turn or play out of half turns or be able to stay square flip your hips to

match what side a receiver breaks to and then turn your hips to run right you got to you're asked

to do a lot of things with your hips and he's got really fluid ones which is really important

there so i think this will be a good i think this will be really helpful for him

just as terry and lance jackson especially just as terry i think getting into more of the three

down mid front stuff where he's able to play as a four i i think that's really really gonna be

good for him in terms of the snap count i think his speed and is he's not super happy right now i

think he's about two seventy five you hope you can get him up to about two eighty five two ninety

sometime soon because you can play him at four i and you can move him to three tech and

just with his speed and power i think in terms of pound for pound i think he's probably the best

athlete on the d line which anytime you get him on the field more that's you know that that's

a winning combination lance jackson i think again for the similar reasons as just as terry i don't

think he's as twitchy i think there's a little bit more strength to his game a little bit more power

i think he's a little bit more technically clean as well so all of those are really i think all

those are going to be really beneficial for him especially as a four i where a lot of it's about

how strong you are and if you're someone who can jackson went up and create a lot of vertical

displacement and then fold into a gap you're gonna you're gonna have a really you're gonna have a

really good time i think lance jackson's got the profile for that um from a linebacker standpoint

i think i think tianthony smith's gonna really benefit from this i think from going from some of

the stuff that pk did from a run fit perspective to a lot more of the stacking that will must shape

ask them to do where it's vertical then go up i think tianthony's gonna have a lot more success

with that because you saw when texas blitzed anthony hell last year a lot of the times tianthony smith

was kind of roaming around right he was overlapping he was tracking the back and then folding into a gap

this is now asking him to do that even more which i think is really good for him so i think he's

probably a guy that i expect to take a leap um trying to think of who else i think terryk

milliams is going to be a lot better now with um blight giddy and that would be another name

i think that those feel like the names that most pressingly defensively i think are going to

really see a benefit from the must-shamp addition let me ask you this where would you rank texas

as defensive line room amongst scc defensive line rooms um so i would have them

behind georgia probably behind florida

and i behind all miss and that's probably about it

i think i i had georgia one almost to texas three four to four but uh

let's not know one two two four off from from your thoughts because i have a

respect your opinion more on the matter um you know again we we talked about a lot of these guys

you wait i have to add one more probably oklahoma they're probably in that same tier

i just remember that david stowen and all those guys i mean that'll clone the defense you know i don't

expect it to take too too much of a step back or are you thinking the same thing or do you see more

step back i think they're going to be fine um i think one i think they're really really talented

which helps i think they're going to be better in the back end this year than they were last year

one year older a lot i think that's really important but you know david stowen was fantastic

last year he's probably gonna end up being a top 15 pick um they lose armace and tomas and they

lose jane jacks not jane jackson but they lose um the i forget his name domnic Williams

but you know they're they're still bringing him to a lot back i do think they get jane jackson back

which you can buy that with david stowen that's probably the best two that anyone in the sec has

yeah i've got a lot of secretary jackson's game and he has a very impressive motor on him

um dick watch your thoughts on zina if you have any pack what what do you think it's he can

just take a big jump i mean i obviously he's he's going to be a part of the future as far as

that room but what do you see him doing particularly it's next fall

yeah i think it's kind of a weird one because if i'm not wrong he's about two sixty two sixty five

i that's kind of a weird way just because you know when you bump into three down if you're asking

him to play as a four i that a lot of the times you're taking on double teams and if you're two

sixty five taking on six hundred pounds of mass you got to have tremendous pad level and a

freakish amount of strength on you yeah so that that's that makes it tough in four down as an adge

i think he makes a lot of sense but you know i think just this terry and lanst jackson are more

talented so it's if he takes a jump and that's the reason why he's playing ahead of them that's

a great sign but on the surface just no no no extraordinary no exponential growth from him

i think it's hard to immediately say he's going to be he's going to really step up and you know

be a major contributor that's more in the fair and out let's go a position group that everybody

has question marks about maybe a little more confidence than they did a couple of months ago

but the options of line you can't say Brandon Baker you can't say gooseby who takes the biggest

step for texas is it one of the expected starters is it you know there's somebody behind those guys

on the left chart that you think steps up in the arms of job what are your thoughts there

so really good question because i think you know for your spots really right now and you almost know

five of seymour gets if seymour gets the flavor where you know kind of what it's going to look like

i think seymour is going to be a really pleasant surprise for a lot of texas fans i don't think many

people know but the football writers association of america had him as a second team all-american

they're the entire country right and that's across every country that's across every conference

that's not just in wherever western that's not just in cusa that's across every single conference

so that should tell you a decent bit about what people think of Lauren seymour

so i think he's going to be a pleasant surprise Brandon Baker i'm not i'm not sure i'll have to see

what it looks like at guard you hope in the spring he actually practices there that's kind of a

that's an important thing to me is can he actually get snaps at guard because if he doesn't

i think it's hard to ask a guy to go from the summer to the fall playing guard and for that to be

you'd really like to get three or four install periods worth of him playing at guard to really get

comfortable there so you would think you would think that even though you're going to have goose

be out and when you get to spring practice you would still stick you know somebody else

attack will just so that you could have Baker playing where he's primarily going to play

you know barring some some crazy you know injury to you know bad luck for texas

you you would think so right i mean that's pretty obvious but at the same time i guess we'll see

so no it definitely matters um yeah i think that's a hang up with Baker if he was still at right

tackle i think you would say like i think that would have been fair for me to include him in my

car original comment or question rather when i say you can't say his name but it's fair to say

that but when he's being moved to guard and you really don't know what to expect there but

is there are there any of the guys you talk about um jayden chat and you talk about the colman's

way of those guys that you know maybe you've kind of grown on a little bit as far as what maybe

win the maybe they can help maybe be an earlier than expected yeah truthfully i don't i don't

really have a take on either the colman's wins or um or any of those guys because you just

haven't seen them play right and a lot of them are really young too so you know from high school to

college there's a lot of development that needs to be taken place and you don't know what that

looks like so it's a really tough one to say i will say one of the guys that i think could

especially early or that i'm most interested in the spring is what does it look like with john

turntine uh what can he get up to from a weight standpoint can he get close to 300 pounds

if he can you know i might i might try to move him to guard and try to see what it looks like

give him a chance there because his movement skills are tremendous uh he's i think out of

everyone in the class of 2026 he might have the best pure movement skills of anyone across the

country at a line so you know that's a really good fit for a guard because you do a lot of pulling

with them especially with the power past stuff that texas does where they pull a guard to the

opposite edge right i think that's a pretty that can be pretty good fit for him especially in

outside zone where you know it's not so much about moving a guy three feet vertically right moving

a guy against their will it's can we shove a guy off his track so that way we can open up a little

bit of space for a back to back it's not about verticality it's more about horizontal it's more

about being it's more about horizontal movement and it's sort of being really athletic it's helpful

so john turntine could be a guy that you know if he gets up to weight and he gets a chance to play a

guard i don't know that i'd be surprised if you know he's in the to eat by august and pushing

forward potential starting spot if loren seymour doesn't end up getting the waver

if that's a big caveat there it's very in there but again it sounds like packs are very high on

john turntine as many were coming you know coming out of that recruitment man that was definitely

a big win for texas all right back i mean i think we've kind of you know we've kind of touched on

both sides of the football we've touched on the offensive line a little bit which obviously

a big question mark um talked a lot about some of the new guys that are coming in on the offensive

line but then also on the defensive side of the football um so yeah man thanks for taking the time

to do this i appreciate you you guys watching big appreciate all the questions my man all the

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