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Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yo, and welcome in to O t B one O
four five ESPN Baton Rouge here live from Atlanta, Georgia,
twenty twenty five sec. Media Days. You got a new
angle here thanks to MOSCONA. Yeah, jacking with our camera pal,
he touch our stuff?
Speaker 4: You uh? We had this sweet back drop lasted ten
seconds before I started talking. It's all good. We got
these nice trophies behind us, so we do like did
we have these lights on yesterday? I don't remember the lights.
Speaker 3: Well, I think because we had the other lights from
the other side. They they were beaming down here, so
we didn't really necessarily have to have them.
Speaker 4: Got it. Well, if we look around, I'm looking left,
I'm looking right.
Speaker 3: All the other shows are on the other side of
the table. That's why, Yeah, that's why. Matt wanted to
do it. Ah, he feels like it's like his you know,
the alpha move to be able to switch sides.
Speaker 4: Well, we are in Alpha radio station, for sure. It's fair.
It's fair.
Speaker 3: When I think alpha, I think Hunt Palmer.
Speaker 4: For sure. You doing alpha brain. Yes, yeah, we all
got to have our thing. I hadn't figured out mine yet,
but we're getting there. You know what I missed the
most about being in studio figure this show out? A
Landra and oh of course land But I missed the whoa?
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Speaker 3: I said, a Landra and Titan, and you said, of
course a Landra.
Speaker 4: See, we love you, Bud. I didn't do that on purpose,
but that makes it worse. Whoo whoop. See No, I
missed the uh the show intro yos?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: I had a feeling. Or is a Landra and Taita?
Are they still doing it in studio? In spirit? Probably?
In spirit? Sorry, Elanda said, I get it. I'm your favorite.
I'll say just your name later on, say tuned. Well,
we're a team, We're a wolf pack, we are foxhold together,
we are we are. But yeah, now in our background
you can see what we were talking about. Yesterday. How
are we had a great view yesterday. We can see
all the trophies. Now we can kind of see the stage,
what's happening live here at the College Football Hall of
Fame and look over my shoulder. We got to figure
out if those are real oranges. We still haven't got
that answer.
Speaker 3: I want, like, I feel like they are they I
don't know. I don't know the process of aging for oranges,
so I don't know if it is.
Speaker 4: In fact, they'd have to change them weekly. There have
to be something in the budget. It's true to buy
a little s oranges.
Speaker 3: The only time I've covered I think only one Orange bowl,
and I know, like the day of the game, it's
truly real oranges. I can Yeah, I don't know if
they fake it.
Speaker 4: We got to get some answers because it would take
a lot. I would be shocked if it was. But
they look pretty damn real.
Speaker 3: Miss breakfast this morning, Bud, Yeah, I did trying to
get an orange in.
Speaker 4: I got some. I got some pistachios. Usually I don't
eat breakfast before the show, but since it is like
eight o'clock here on the East Coast, time felt like
I needed something. Thanks for the hat. You got it, dude?
How's it fit? Nice? That's that's a tough tough to
fit that head too, very tough.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. We went with some new summer colors this year,
little uh. Yeah, don't take any credit for this. This
feels like a lacy move.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she picked those colors out. It's pretty good, pretty good,
pretty solid.
Speaker 3: It is a very solid, very solid hat.
Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: All right, So, as I mentioned, Alburn, Georgia, Tennessee, TEXTA
is going to be here today. But before we get there,
let's take a step back in. We had a chance
to catch up with Gary Nussmeier, so we'll certainly start there,
and then I'll kind of go around and kind of
the different things I heard from different people when talking
about BK and WWIGS and Chris Hilton and just the
you know, the entire contingency there from LSU, I've had
enough Smyer. A couple of times I felt like he
was really confident. I felt like he was here with
a purpose, on a mission. It felt like he understood
I played really well last year. If I can just
tweak like one thing here, one thing there, I can
take my game to like the next most elite level.
And I really enjoyed the way he walked into media days,
the way he handled himself, not only with us, and look,
we know what it is like.
Speaker 4: He's probably gonna be a little.
Speaker 3: Bit more comfortable two former you know, washed up LSU players.
But I heard from everybody place it's a very safe place.
He understood that. We didn't ask him about you know,
interceptions against Texas A and M like others.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 3: Everybody that I talked with said that's a pro. Yeah.
New Heiseel, Rick new Heisel, he had him in the
series XM Room. He goes, man, your guy that is
a pro quarterback. He said, that guy is ready right now.
He said every question that I asked him in New
Heiseld coach quarterbacks, offensive coordinator, longtime head coach, Like every
question I asked him, he was ready to go with
the perfect answer, and not like in a robotic way,
but like yeah, ex'es and o's football talk stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's you can tell when somebody's faking confidence, right,
trying to project a little confidence, trying to project that
I'm good, Like, hey, these are the things I need
to say, because this is what a quarterback says, this
is what my teammates want to hear. But you can
also tell when it's extremely natural, and with Garrett always is.
And so even as a young kid, I could tell
by a style of play he was just like he
had a belief system. He had a confidence. He's like,
I'm gonna do it my way. I'm gonna play my way,
of course within the system, but like I'm a confident guy.
I'm gonna pull the trigger. I know I have a
good guy. I know I have talent, and so I
think everybody's seeing that out off the field right now.
So they're interviewing just like you say, Coach k new
Houses said it like he handles himself like a prob
because he's really, like deep down a confident player and
he and he has already proven that he's backed it
up on the field. So we uh, when we were
talking to him yesterday, I asked a question, I said,
when Garrett, Garrett, when you look back on the season,
when this when the dust settles from the season when
you look back on it, what it's going to be
your what's it gonna take for you to say that
was a successful season. And he made no qualms about it,
like they you could tell what the messaging is within
within that locker room, within that football the team meeting
room with all the coaches and all the players, because
they said, we expect to be in the SEC championship
and we expect to play for a national championship. So
I love hearing that, right, Yeah, I love to do
And they kind of like back away from saying the
names of things exactly, they say, yeah, we expect to
be playing for championships.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why people do that, because what Bolton
bore material? Am I gonna play any harder because you
said this in August or July? Right, They're going to
play the game the same way and not everybody get no.
Speaker 4: Dull like kind of answer. But but but it's always but.
Speaker 3: So many people run away from that mentality, and we've
talked about it, like I forget, I forget who I
was arguing with about this, But like I love the
fact that they're like, hey, this is what it is.
This is what it has to be, like we we
can't half step into this season and like, oh my gosh,
let's talk about it, like we wouldn't game at a time,
and we just got to get this game. And then
the next game it's like, man, no, screw that, Like.
Speaker 4: We're too good for that.
Speaker 3: We got to go out and we got to win
games and win games at a high level, get to
double digit wins, get to Atlanta, play for a championship,
get into a college football playoff, yep. Because they haven't
had that message before. And I'm not just talking about
this team. I'm talking about you know, the last however
many handful of years, like twenty nineteen, when Joe Burrow
went to Manning Passing Academy, He's like, now we're gonna
score forty forty five fifty points a game. Everybody say yeah, okay, Bud.
And then what they do. They went out there and
they did right. And he said it with his chest
out because he believed it. He knew he had been
there the year before and they won a Fiesta Bowl.
He understood how much they grew in that offseason.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 3: I like my quarterback being like I don't know who
in the world's going to stop us because we are.
And a lot of people can say that.
Speaker 4: A lot of people do project that out there, but
it's not coming from a real place. It's a guy
that's that you know, maybe never played before, maybe they
don't have the talent around. He's just projecting confidence. And
of course competitors are going to do that. If you're
a competitor at this level, of course you're going to
believe you going everything. But the confidence level, the way
he said it, you know, the way he talked just
a matter of fact, and because he's backed it up
on the field and been there and it is like
an unquestioned leader in that locker room, but also an
unquestioned top player in the country. Was was you know,
I was impressed by it. And you know, he also
with the big picture in place a matter of fact,
big we expect to play for SEC, we expect to
play for a national champion. Yip. But he also said,
but we're also very hyper focused on game one. Yeah,
so of course there's a big you know, they paint
this picture of what they want the season to look like,
but they also understand there's a right way to do it,
and we talked about the leadership on the team and
what has felt different, and pretty fast answer and said, well,
this is the most talented team that I've been on,
and so Tiger fans, we should be pretty excited because
we got a guy that has been with us and
is going into a second full time second year, is
a full time starter and is saying that this is
the most talented team. And for LSU, that's pretty strong.
He's been there for five years, so he's seen some
extremely talented teams and for him to say that we
got the most talent this year not bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you're right like being focused on game one
because you have to be, but like within that, it's
not the cliche. We got to focus on game one
because you can't go you know, let's just start one.
Speaker 4: To know.
Speaker 3: I hate stuff like that, Like I'm like, that is
so passive, that is like non alpha.
Speaker 4: That is the most beta energy ever.
Speaker 3: No. I love the fact that on their tackling dummies
right now they got Paul Prince, you know who has
a Paul print on the side of their helmet. The
Clemson Tigers BK sat right there in front of us
on that stage and said, no, no, no, on our stuff.
We got Paul Prince because Paul Prince is Clemson, and
that's who we want to think about, is Clemson. We
want to hit that path thinking about Clemson. I'm like, hell, yeah,
let's go sign me up for that, don't sign me
up for well. Man, we just got to put one
front foot in front of the other. We just got
to keep moving forward every single day. Like I want
to hear that this team needs a little pisson, Benegar,
and I think they got that this offseason.
Speaker 4: Yeah I did too. It's uh, I think the leadership
on this team from top to bottom of man, look
at look at the guy, our guy with Weeks yesterday,
his interviews walking around here are just it's like the
energy he brings with him, just like I'm walking down
the stairs with with with Peter Burns yesterday and I
you know, we talked for just a second, but it's like,
you know what, I've listened to you in your interviews today.
Just talk to you. I think I might die for
you right now. You just that kind of guy. Yeah,
do you mean to take Peter out right now? Because
if you asked me to, I'll do it. This got
bothered you exactly, but I'll bounce for you.
Speaker 3: All day and dude, he has that, and so I'll
share like a personal message. So my big boss at
Series XM, who does every media day, pro college, whatever,
runs NASCAR, does a lot, right, So he's been around
a lot of like dudes. He wrote me, said, what
weeks is that?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 3: What a great representation of your school? You damn right
he is. And I'm like, hell, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4: Hell do it?
Speaker 3: Car me up yesterday to have those guys roll through there.
I didn't get a chance, so I got I got
Wit downstairs and just a private conversation which I'll disappoint
you in a little bit. We had nus Meyer up here.
I didn't get a chance to catch up with Hilton,
but I know Matt Scom said.
Speaker 4: He got him.
Speaker 3: He said he was really good for ten and a
half minutes, and sometimes to get ten and a half
minutes out of a college player is a long interview.
He said he was confident. I saw him get up
on the podium. I saw it this morning, he owned.
He's like, which game outside of the opener are you
most looking forward to? He said, old miss, because there
was a pass that I dropped in the end zone
a couple of years ago that if I catch it, we.
Speaker 4: Win the game. I'm like, I love that, ain't running
from it. Yeah, that's a good interview. That was a
really good answer that I saw that this morning. It's
actually and to have that to paint that picture for
yourself as motivation. We all get motivated different ways. We
all get motivated by, whether it's success or family, friends, money, disappointments,
whatever it is, we all have something that we have
to be motivated by. And to see him say, all right,
last year I was hurt, so I didn't get to play.
But the time before that, the two years ago, I
dropped a pass in the end zone, they could have
won the game. So that's the motivation he's taken with, yep,
and looking forward to it because because you know, we
didn't know how he was going to be answering questions
and conference. Just like you said, like that as like
a newbie interviewer myself, Like, that's what it's like terrifying
if I get a college kid that's like I asked
him a question that I've like thought of for three
days and he's like, yes, period, that's it. I'm like, Okay,
well what's next.
Speaker 3: I had four or five of those yesterday, so yes, continue.
Speaker 4: That's on your answer. Please, well, I think of my
next question.
Speaker 3: That's it, man, I don't want to say the player's name,
but I went from a player that was that that
was two three word answers and would shake his head
and say yeah after it, and I'm like, oh, that's it,
which is fine, Look whatever, nothing, you know, everybody's nerves
and different things. And then right after that, I had
Diego Pavia Electric Electric.
Speaker 4: You were waxing poetically about him last night.
Speaker 3: Two S words and then F word and real quick,
real quick. I mean no, I'm talking about like we
got in and he was out that gate, and I
could see why people would follow that guy into a fire.
Speaker 4: Do you think so he dropped it the two S
words and enough word? Do you think he knew going
in there? I don't think he is. He didn't care.
I don't think he cared. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: He didn't like, he didn't stop talking, he didn't change it,
he didn't sit up in his seat any differently, and
he was talking about what the cool part about it
was he got fired up talking about his team and
then he lets go yep.
Speaker 4: And that's another thing. So people can project confidence when
they're not really that confident. People can use curse words
either really well or you can you can tell they're
trying to be that guy that uses furse words. Cool. Uh,
Diego Pavia seems like he's a guy that can use
him very well.
Speaker 3: He did, yeah, and he used him for motivation and
he motivated me.
Speaker 4: Are you ready? So if we had to, if we're
in a if you're in a room, you got wit
Weeks on your left, Diego Poppy on your right, shots
were fired. Who you jumping in front of wit Weeks? Okay? Yeah,
but you think about it. No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Like he's the only one, Like there's no think in
front of whit Weeks, you know. But I get I
get all the hyper out of Diego Papa.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's like, wait, how can you be so awesome
and talk with such a big smile with an accent
and have that much energy in everything that you say? Yeah?
Oh man, I think Garrett as far as going to
win to the husband this year, like, yep, you may
disappoint you. What I know, I know what you're gonna say.
So and like, we have to let the listeners go
because I know they're wondering off air.
Speaker 3: I went up to Wit, I said, hey, Bud, I
got one question, one question only, have you seen Barcita Blues?
And do you know who Jonathan mox And is the
disappointment on his face when he knew he let me down.
It hurt me, not as much as it hurt me.
He was, he was the guy, He had the best
betting odds. He was not a single soul here that
knows Varsity Blues.
Speaker 4: Not even the people that should know it that are
a little bit older, that are our generation. He promised
he would watch it though, Yeah he promised. So nuss Meyer,
you let me down. With weeks. He let me down.
I still love y'all, but maybe a little bit less. Now.
We'll get it back, We'll circle back. There's gonna be
something y'all can do to make it up. But it
was truly shocking. And not only did he did Garrett
say he didn't hadn't seen it, but he looked at
us and said, wait, that's not my generation, is it. Yeah?
Speaker 3: I was like, oh yeah, no, dang, get chill out, bro, Yeah,
chill out, dude, I do also before we move on,
because we probably won't talk Vanderbilt anymore obviously after yesterday
and they were here so over in our serious XM room,
we have a grip strength like meter, like an official one,
like electronic. It gives you right, and so we've been
having different players going there, a different host and the
players was shockingly low actually, some of the grip strength
that we had there. Uh and you know, we got
dooring in there and he's doing it.
Speaker 4: It wasn't great.
Speaker 3: So I'm feeling good, Dusty the board checking out like
we're feeling good, Like we're the leaders in the clubhouse right,
Like we're feeling good. And so the players come in there,
they're like twenty below us. We're like, we're the one
forty seven. They're getting like one got the old man
strength we do. Let me tell you something though, we
were like in clerkly. If you don't know, he played
fullback at Vanderbilt. He comes in and we're like, hey,
do you want to Before we could even finish, he's like,
give it to me. He gets in the stands and
he gets that son of a gun and he square
and just pulls it. You could hear the plastic cracking,
crushed everybody in the room, crush them, players, host other coaches.
Speaker 4: They just look look yelling the high and walk off silently.
Speaker 3: Basically, I'm saying, whatever the over under is on Vandy
because of that one moment, take it, Take it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would. There's really no better betting strategy that
I would take it off that for sure. Do you
think he's got a gripper like.
Speaker 3: In his office, No doubt, like the old school Yeah yeah,
like the one that's got the phone on it.
Speaker 4: Yep. You're a big Clark League guy, big Clark League guy,
and if.
Speaker 3: You can make Vanderbilt relevant, you're doing something.
Speaker 4: So they have one of your favorite head coaches in
the SEC, they your favorite quarterbacks and SEC. Are they
going to be your team of the.
Speaker 3: Year as of today? It's still missoo as of today.
But let me tell you something. They're sneaky. That test
of strength and the words that came out of Diego
Popy's mouth, they're they're climbing, They're climbing the charts.
Speaker 4: I mean, I would think that they just based on
that alone, I know we got to give the Missouri
their chance. Give you.
Speaker 3: We think Eli's got a bigger grip strength Clark, I
don't know.
Speaker 4: Uh, I think that me being a former quarterback, I
would crush crush him at the grip thing, which isn't great.
Speaker 3: You can come down and uh we'll test it. I
don't know if I want to or not. You got
this thing forearm. So Lane Kiffen came in and he
was he was like looking at him, like, hey, because
Doring had left. I said, Doring wanted to do a
competition with you, but he had to leave. He had
to go do some TV stuff. Do you want to do?
Speaker 4: He's like, I don't know. Man.
Speaker 3: You see Doring guy. That guy all he does, he's
a meat head. All he does his work. It's like
I do hot yoga. We're like, all right, well, like
here's how.
Speaker 4: You do it.
Speaker 3: So I squeeze it and I got like a one
forty six and these oh let me see that, and
he grabs it. He looks at the one forty six.
He goes, take our picture. He pointed to the one
forty six and send.
Speaker 4: It to Dooring. It's like, gotcha, beach.
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, that's a heavy play smart very
I mean, he knew immediately. Let me see it all right, yep,
and then let somebody else do the work. So he
beat Doring smart even though Doring crushed him. Doesn't know no,
absolutely not good. Well let him think that Lane Kiffen
has much much better grip strength than he does.
Speaker 4: I think Doring went back to the weight room to
about midnight last night.
Speaker 3: When Doring wasn't close to our number, he started doing
hand stretches throughout the rest of the show that you know,
like these these old deals here. And then he got
on the chair and he started to like do a
little like getting it ready, four arm stretching. Yeah, it didn't.
It didn't work all right, getting the brakes on twenty
three minutes in, So I guess we'll go ahead.
Speaker 4: And uh, well, I mean you got to get ahead
of the chains.
Speaker 3: If you don't get ahead of the chains, you'll never
get a first down.
Speaker 4: And we had to talk about the grip strength test
for eight minutes. Duh.
Speaker 3: It was in my knock. It was in my document,
my document. All right, more ot B when we come
back here live from Atlanta.
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which one are you most excited to hear from today?
Speaker 4: Ooh, I would say Texas. Yeah. I think this guy
named ark.
Speaker 3: Ark Manning Ark Manning, Yeah, sophomore, that poor soul is
going to have rushed. So I know since Moscona turn
the cameras around, y'all can't tell there's these little things
in the corner, right do you? Like? You know, some
people go to the main stage, but there's you know,
people off to the side as well, And like Nussmeyer
was off to this side and he was like ten deep,
I mean, just all the people's all the peoples. There's
not enough room down there for what I think probably
Arch is going to get cause I'll be down there.
You're gonna go down there? I don't know, I might Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Really just want to have the opportunity to say, excuse me,
all right, you play for? Can you tell me your name?
Spell it out? Uh? Position? And school you play for? Yeah,
I really want to say that. Yeah, but why don't
you wow? Because it sounds like it's gonna be about
twenty people. Dah, it is gonna I do feel bad.
I mean I don't feel bad for him, don't get
me wrong, but like he's gonna get crushed today. Yeah,
and rightfully so they're they're sid and all the people
around him have got their hands full. Yeah, keeping everybody
at bay. They're gonna be like security guards today. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know I've got him a little bit later on.
Obviously they're the last team today. We won't get him
on this show. I've got him later on off campus.
You can ask him about Varsity Blues.
Speaker 4: Yeah you better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's now because wit let us down. He
now are probably the only other He's the last hope.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Somebody could surprise us up. Oh I
did say Blake shape and might know. I think, like
you look at this, there's somebody on here that would
surprise us. You would have no clue. Maybe it's Jackson Arnold.
Maybe so it's not what weeks or get mine. I mean,
I'm not gonna say it's an indictment on the season,
but it's a character flaw for sure. Yeah, we're gonna
be honest with each other.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The three players at Texas is bringing Anthony Hill junior linebacker,
stud Arch Manning, Arc Manning, if Arc, maybe you want
to uh, Michael taff senior dB.
Speaker 4: I love his story.
Speaker 3: Guy walked on from the area, kind of bet on himself,
turned down smaller schools, and he's turned himself into a
really good player, multiple year starter, a guy that they
certainly are going to count on in the back end.
Can kind of play a little bit of everything. Played
both safety positions, he can in a pinch, he can
play some corner, he can play some nickel. Just kind
of a jack of all trades type guy. And he's
one of those you know, he's one of those players
that you feel like he gets you in the right
situation every single time. He can make every single play
as well. And they've got a couple of those at
Texas Now. They did lose a lot. He's a Westlake kid, Yeah,
that's sayings.
Speaker 4: He was teammates with Kate Klemnick. Okay, when they were together.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm pretty sure Michael Taff intercepted quinn Ewers when
he was I guess he's south Lake, right, yep, south Lake.
They played in the playoffs and they ended up being teammates.
But Michael Taff like came up with like the game
ceiling interception or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wonder if it was so yeah, Cade they
they faced off in the state championship, so it says here.
So yeah, he was part of the team at Westlake.
They went back to back state titles. Mister Taff, you.
Speaker 3: Got Tennessee coming in and now they're not bringing their
quarterback in Georgia.
Speaker 4: Is bringing Gunnerstock going to you? Everybody should have to
You should be forced to bring a quarterback. Everybody well
with their.
Speaker 3: Situation right in what it you know, how it played out,
and I am ali Aba being now UCLA and you
like pretty much make this trade you get from UCLA.
It's like like who's like what's it going to be now,
Like who's going to be the star? Is it going
to be agular? Is he just going to be the guy?
Like you don't bring him because maybe you want to
create that competition.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess so. I mean that's the only
reason to me is if you're trying to create this,
whether it's an illusion or reality in your system of
like we're going to compete, compete, compete. I'm not ready
to hand the keys to the car to just one
person yet, But everybody cares about hearing the story of
a quarterback, whether it's the quarterback or not, whether it's
the projected quarterback, just to like it's such a an
interesting story. He comes over like the whole quarter they're
trying to avoid it because they're the quarterback situation where
their guy leaving is a disaster, right, so they're just
probably trying to avoid any of those questions. There's he's
still gonna get it, but the kids aren't gonna have
to answer it. It's it's gonna be Joshhipel's gonna have
to answer it. But you know, I just think that
that's the story. Quarterbacks create most of the buzz and
most of the story, whether it's good bad, whether it's
just interesting here and like yeah, the where all the
places you've transferred from, like what happened? Now? You give
it and give a kid a chance to to talk
and be like, somebody's gonna take the first snap in
the first game, and I think you bring the person
you think might be it, and you know, and it
doesn't have to be like, all right, this is our guy.
We're definitely we brought him because he is our guy.
I don't know, I just think every team should be required.
It's not good.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not reality. I'm just yell from a self.
The only team that's not bringing a quarterback here today.
And again, you know, Joey Aguilar transfer from Appalachian State
to UCLA to Tennessee is going to be the expected starter.
They've got a couple of freshmen behind him, but certainly
not who we thought was going to be here.
Speaker 4: Whenever Tennessee lost in the Costs.
Speaker 3: Football Playoff, we just thought it was gonna be iamli Ava.
He is now in southern California, so certainly in switch
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Speaker 3: Windows Parry Welcome back in It is O TB one
four five, ESPN, Baton Rouge Flynn. You went into that
big room, you talked all that game, and according to Jordan,
you didn't even ask.
Speaker 4: A question I met. So I went and sat in
on South Carolina's press conference. Yeah, so I went just
to kind of get the lay of the land, see
the ropes. I know he's Jordan said, he's disappointed. Didn't
hear me ask any questions to nuts or anything. I do.
I feel like I need to bring these questions that
I have. I need to bring them to the big stage.
I need to bring them to the big room. So
maybe today, maybe maybe today, I'll go in there. These
guys so when they're when they're they start raising their
hand with like a couple minutes into the head coach
talking because they're trying to get their place in line.
I guess yeah that hey, And I swear like if
you ever remember back in grade school, when like the
kid really wants to say something, he's raising his hand
and like he's got to throw the other arm up
and like like this, Like I felt like that they
had to their shoulders had to have been getting tired.
I don't know if I could do that.
Speaker 3: You did call the mouth breathers yesterday standing it up.
Speaker 4: Maybe that was a little extreme. You can't stand for
three hours, your mouth breathers, Yeah, used to used to
yell at us for you know, missing a read and
throwing a pick. You can't stand up for an hour.
Uh yeah, So today we'll see, we'll see. I really
want to be like, I really want to mispronounced Archie's name.
I really want to do well, you'll go viral if
you do that. Excuse me.
Speaker 3: Former NFL quarterback Mat Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were talking about it. Well, if we got
a chance to interview, should be like, you know, just
make it a big slapstick interview. Hey, I don't want
you to get like starstruck or anything. That I played
quarterback at pretty high level and you might not have
ever been around anything that's played in the NFL. But
uh as an arc right, yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be if you know, if he didn't
have twenty deep like you said earlier, there's a couple
of players that you know, I think we'll have a
pretty big crowd, even though they don't necessarily have the
hype of an arch manning. That is Gunner Stockton from Georgia.
It is Jackson Arnold from Auburn, and I would probably
say Gunner Stockton's gonna have one of the biggest crowds there.
We only had a chance to see him, and you know,
the second half of the SEC Championship game, he look
he led his team to victory. They went and won
an SEC championship game. He took a shot at the
goal line too. I don't know if you remember that one.
Speaker 4: He got knocked out for a second. Yeah, yeah, I
was like, hey, no, no, but yeah, you heard it up.
You're the backup, so that means there's there's no one
behind you. Yeah, so maybe just slide.
Speaker 3: I think Carson Mighty had to like come in the
game and like hand it off with arm for a
little bit, right.
Speaker 4: Right, you're right. So and then we saw him in
no concussion, No, not at all.
Speaker 3: We saw him in the Sugar Bowl against Notre Dame
and we were talking before we jumped on today. It
wasn't bad. Like he made some plays, it was off script.
I think that like that might be his style. It
wasn't like a hey, snap the ball, progression, go through
the read, deliver a pass. It was a little chaotic,
I mean, but again, like that might just be the
world that he lives in a young kid.
Speaker 4: There's probably not a lot of you know, actual uh
Georgia offense reps and practice throughout the season. This is
the end of the season, so he's the backup, he's
running scout team. He might get three, four, five maybe
snaps of actual Georgia offense throughout the year. That's that's
the life of the backup quarterback. You have to it's
all mental rep, mental rep. Mental. But then you got
you got a freshman kid, highly touted out of high school.
We saw it, extremely athletic, can throw the ball. Maybe
not like the most beautiful arm talent like delivery, arm motion,
arm tunnel that you've ever seen, but a guy that
just looks like a football player. Right. He came in
there and in the in the SEC Championship and through
the change up on him like we see it all
the time, like the change up being thrown with a
backup with a completely different style of play going there
and just it's like sometimes it just breathes a little
energy when something looks a little because he does had
that chance to get out of the pocket. And like
I said, you know they put in plays that it
was like, all right, we're gonna go are Reed's gonna
be one to two? Yeah, and it's not gonna be
like your beautiful progression top down to a checkdown situation.
And he made some plays and you know, breathe a
little little air, little energy into that team, and they
pulled it out. I mean, and I don't know if
they do that without him coming to that.
Speaker 3: So I was at the game, and so I kind
of witnessed this in person, and I like, I don't
know Carson Beck.
Speaker 4: I don't know if his team liked him. There's a
lot of reports.
Speaker 3: Probably I wouldn't, okay, But when that man came in
that game, the whole sideline, nobody was on the bench,
everybody walked to watch the game. They were so fired up.
And then covering the media day for the Sugar Bowl,
every guy that you talked with and like you said,
the name Gunner, they get this big smile and you
could feel that, and that is something you could feel
in that game. You could feel it in the playoff game,
and so he's got the ear of the team, which
is in my opinion, when you're a new quarterback and
you've had a guy like a Carson Beck who's this
big personality, big name, but you already have that, that's
like step one, Like you get step one out of
the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like he's gonna seeing him today, seeing
him talk, I feel like he's gonna bring a little
bit of that with Week's energy. I've never heard him talk.
I've never heard him speak. I watch a little bit
of that, and just hearing you talk about his team
on their feet excited just means like he's a really
likable guy and brings a lot of energy like you
as the teammates and a quarterback, because you're no one's
gonna get excited for you here unless you're really good
or people just straight up like you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I feel like he's gonna bring a lot
of energy.
Speaker 4: We'll see. We will be the judge of that, I
guess once you start talking about that. In just my mind,
and this kid, he's winning the name game too. Gunner
stocked Gunner Stocked in incredible. Yeah, he could be a
little an old gunny and he's from Tiger.
Speaker 3: Georgia, which I didn't know that was a city. That's
a city.
Speaker 4: Apparently like that. Don't fact me, fact check me, fact
check chat GPT on this one. Tiger Georgia started Rabin
Rayboon County High School.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, you were the third best player at dinner
last night out of four.
Speaker 4: I'm proud of you. No, it was not the their best,
it was a third. What was so, most influential player
at their college.
Speaker 3: Most important to their squash something or something like that.
So we were at dinner last night and Peter Burns
is trying to explain chat GPT to new Heiseel that
was an experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was experienced, and so he's going over it.
Speaker 3: And then it was me, Flynn Doring and Dusty de
Vorchek and Peter being Peter, he was like, Hey, give
me these guys one.
Speaker 4: Through four, who was the most important to our team?
Speaker 3: You weren't last.
Speaker 4: Jacob was one, Doring two, yeah, which you know it
makes sense for the you know, doesn't take a lot.
I was three the vor check four. Yeah, it hurt Dusty.
I think they did. Also did interject and say he
would put Dusty at one. He's tried to help him out.
He tried to help him out. Yeah, like if you
have got four you like yeah whatever, Yeah, Dusty like
that tracks. Dusty wanted to get into three point stance
and have like a what's done with dinner? Yeah he was.
He folded up. I'm ready to go Oklahoma and drill. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't know that they played at Oklahoma, but I
was thinking big cat though used to do you didn't?
Speaker 4: He did not know I did. He did not know.
He had no idea.
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I believe Hugh Freeze is probably going to get up
there on the podium here in a in a matter
of minutes. And Auburn's an interesting football team, certainly one
that you and I know, well, we had some great
battles with the Auburn Tigers and over the last you know,
however many years, twenty twenty five, thirty years, you want
to put on it. They've certainly been in the conversation.
But it's been a minute. It's been a minute. You
had Brian Harson, you gotta let go. He's still paying him.
Hugh frees has the same exact record as Brian Harson
had after two years. So you went and you tried
to get Hugh Freeze, who had great moments at Old Miss,
had some issues. Ghosts of Liberty has great moments at Liberty.
You feel like you hit a home run. We know
that place and their expectations and their crazy level is
like all of it.
Speaker 4: Like listen, that is not throwing you know stones, All
of us in the SEC have that.
Speaker 3: He gotta win, huh, Like he's got to. He's gonna
put like eight wins in this year, right, Yeah, I
would think so, I mean you got to show life
at least. Yeah, they got to show life this year.
They have to be a threat. And because they've at
times in the past couple of years, they're not.
Speaker 4: You know, I think it's one of those games where
you look at the schedule and it's like, all right,
I feel better about playing Auburn than most of the
teams on my schedule. So they got to be a threat.
They have to show some life, They got to show
some growth. Hu Frees brings in Jackson Arnold as we
think the probably the projected, the projected starting quarterback at Auburn.
He's here this week. Well we'll hear him talk today.
Comes over from Oklahoma. Started nine games, played in ten.
Started nine games last year at Oklahoma, was eventually benched.
Whether it's his his doing or not. Their offensively offense
was not great last year. Of course, they got a
defensive head coach there at Oklahoma. But let's dual threat
guy can do it with his legs, can do it
with his arm. Through nine games last year, had fourteen
and twenty one yards sixty two completion rate, which is
pretty good good. Twelve touchdown so not a ton of
touchdown passes. Three interceptions though, so took care of the
ball in that manner. Had one hundred and fifty rush attemps,
four hundred and forty four yards and led them last
year to a to Abama victory at one hundred and
thirty one yards on the ground. So can be a
threat if he takes care of the ball. But of
course got benched towards the end of the season last year.
Speaker 3: Got bench kind of came back, and I mean I
say it with the Saints all the time and about
to go to break here. He was throwing the uber
drivers there at the end of the year because all
his top weapons had gone down. We'll see one of
the better receiver rooms in the country there in Auburn, Alabama.
If he can change his fortune, and we'll talk more Auburn, Georgia,
Tennessee and Texas throughout the day. Like I said, Hugh
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