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Matthew right behind us. I think Commissioner Sanke just wrapped up.
And I always enjoy getting to hear Commissioner Sankie the
opening statement, like the opening address to Media Days. Commissioner
SANKI is somebody that I just have like the utmost
respect for and trust in that he is like leading
the league in the right direction. And I'll be honest
with you, like in all of college football, I don't
know if anybody that I would rather have leading the SEC.
And I know, you know, look, there's some things that
Sankie does that people from the outside that aren't in.
Speaker 2: The SEC don't love.
Speaker 3: But look, the school that we talk about, the school
that we root for, the school that we.
Speaker 2: Played for, they're in the Southeastern Conference.
Speaker 3: So I think Commissioner thank you is somebody that in
charge is going to do what's best for the SEC.
Speaker 2: So obviously we're on air, so we didn't get.
Speaker 3: A chance to listen to the audio yet have more
of a reaction to what he said on tomorrow's show.
But Commissioner Sanki man is somebody that I think is
exactly who you want charge.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, outside the SEC, other parts of the country,
they they don't really like the SEC.
Speaker 2: No, it's looking at you, Danny Kneal.
Speaker 4: It's for good reason because the SEC is every year
top to bottom is the best. And so yeah, I
mean there's no better place to lead it than Greig Sanky.
So looking forward to hear you know what he said,
how he feels going into the season, the direction of course,
anything new on the horizon for the SEC, anything like that.
Looking forward to kind of breaking down and look, we
got this a beautiful.
Speaker 5: Press conference room right behind us.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of excited about hearing Brian Kelly talk of
course hearing those thoughts, but just hearing everybody, all the
coaches speak throughout the week, they're messaging, are we gonna
get some good juicy gossip from anybody? Is anybody gonna
slip up? What's gonna happen? So I've ever set on
that side of a press conference certainly, So I don't
know raising my hand, I get like, I get a paddle,
like like.
Speaker 2: You're bidding on something.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So look, you're gonna go down there and if
you've got a question, you're gonna raise your hand. They're
going to bring you a microphone. There's gonna be two
or three runners in the they're gonna bring you a microphone.
And then they're gonna be like all right, and you'll
you'll have the microphone like in hand while the next
question is being answered.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, hey, you're up next.
Speaker 3: And so then when they finished, you're like, all right,
you're up, and you're gonna say, hey, Matt Flynn one
O four five ESPN, baton rouge, and then you ask
your question w NXX. Yeah, that's just the call numbers there.
You don't you just say one O four five ESPN
baton rouge. You can say louisianasports dot net if you
want to, I mean either one, I'd say go with
you know, one O four five ESPN Baton Rouge. I
don't know if you've heard of us, the number seven
mid market morning radio show. It's not that big a deal,
although it is. And then you answer or I ask
your question to get an answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, excuse me, Matt Flynn one O four five ESPN
Baton Rouge. Uh why why isn't your team started drinking
about how yep?
Speaker 3: Well, dude, come on, man of these teams? All right,
real quick, here we go. L shoot hydrated of course,
old miss hydrated yes, South Carolina no, Vanderbilt no, Auburn yes,
Georgia yes, Tennessee yes, Texas no. Okay, Alabama yes, Florida no.
Speaker 5: Never.
Speaker 2: What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: Mississippi State yes, Oklahoma, Semi, Arkansas no so five, Kentucky.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Six, Missouri yes if they if they only heard you say,
they're not in the SEC Texas A and M yes, okay,
so only six? Okay, so you've got ten of the sixteen.
I got six questions, so okay, South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Texas, Florida, Arkansas,
and Kentucky. Yeah all right, yeah, Kentucky has dabbled.
Speaker 2: I feel like, oh, you didn't catch your attention first time.
You do, get that one shot?
Speaker 5: Try it? Yeah, because I told you that. It's like
it's a different department.
Speaker 4: There's an Olympic at football and trying to That's why
I couldn't remember, right, But.
Speaker 5: Anyway, yep, but what we're doing.
Speaker 4: So I got six questions I can ask the six teams,
like what's up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, trying to lose.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be hydrated.
Speaker 5: You don't care about your team.
Speaker 3: So the fourth quarter coach that you preach all the time,
you really don't care about it because you're not hydrated.
Speaker 4: We got to ask the tough questions around here. Do
coaches really care about their players? Six six coaches, I
got a question six of them.
Speaker 2: I got the question, Oh, this is a big win
for you.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true, but Jordan Allen
inside of the chat says, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know if Flynn knows.
Speaker 3: But in twenty nineteen, the Hall of Fame had Flynn's
jersey in its own display box.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, that is true.
Speaker 3: That is a big win for you can we uh,
can we bury dog a picture of this?
Speaker 5: Ye? Why wouldn't anybody let me know?
Speaker 2: I feel like, would you have would you have known
what they're doing?
Speaker 4: No, but I would have liked you would think if
that actually happened, like something would have come across the
socials that I would have seen. Yeah, so I don't
know if I believe it, somebody proved me wrong.
Speaker 5: That would be sweet, though. Why wouldn't that be a permanent.
Speaker 2: Fixture just to be inside the chat?
Speaker 3: Not half the league using liquid v We don't say
the full name here.
Speaker 2: That's not half. I don't even know if they use that.
Speaker 3: There's only six teams out of the sixteen that don't
use it, so ten are hydrated through my high Florida
Florida doesn't count either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got Gatorie Like that doesn't even count.
Speaker 3: So really it's it's ten or fifteen and Matt would
never allow them to be hydrated, right yeah, uh huh
huh for sure. Well, I just I just say that
based off you, like in the way that you talk
about Florida when we're off the air.
Speaker 4: I'd like to I like to act like a tough
guy when it comes to that. But if they called,
you know, we'd probably talk. We probably have. I'd probably
get some.
Speaker 3: Samples, a couple of pallets of my high you'd say, you, yeah, like.
Speaker 5: A tough guy.
Speaker 4: I you know, here with the microphone talking about it.
Speaker 5: But you know business is business.
Speaker 2: Gonna sell me at you would not be mad at
you again.
Speaker 3: LSU, Old Miss, South Carolina and Vanderbilt all here today.
On day number two, it's Auburn, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas.
Day number three Alabama, Florida, Mississippi State and Oklahoma. And
then day four to finish it off. Surprise it didn't
at least one more heavy hitter in there. But it's Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri,
and Texas, A and M today, like right out of
the gates.
Speaker 2: Feels like a pretty big thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with LSU National Championship aspirations, Old Miss playoff aspirations,
South Carolina the same, and then Vanderbilt like you were
talking about earlier, like the league's better when Vanderbilt is relevant,
and they are, they're relevant. That like when you beat Alabama,
when you take Texas to the very end, you take
them to the wire, you beat a good Georgia Tech
team in a ballgame, a Georgia Tech team that took
Georgia the game before that to eight overtimes, and then
you actually handle that Georgia Tech team who had all
their players, Haynes King, all the Jamis and Joe's pretty
much were playing in that game. Like when Vanderbilt is
this relevant? Like today, I think is the biggest day.
Speaker 2: Because I mean you've got star power everywhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 4: I mean you got yeah, you got two guys that
are on the top problem and most lists that you
see at least in the top five for the Heisman
preseason Heisman list and Leonora Sellers and Garrettsmeyer. Of course
we'll see Arch tomorrow. Be exciting for that. But yeah,
big day. LSU just leading the way, leading the pack
here at SEC media to day as well as they
will be leading the way in the SEC this season.
So yeah, we're starting it out hot right now a lot.
I can't wait to hear what Lane Kiffin says. That's
always just must see TV. So hopefully we get some
stuff out of these guys. But yeah, like like you said,
Clark Lee has been kind of stalking around here all morning.
I know you're a big, huge fan of Clark Lee
what he's done at Vanderbilt. Hopefully they can keep it up.
And you brought up them handling Georgia Tech last year.
I mean we are both both you and I are
pretty high on Georgia Tech going to this season. I
think they could be a dark horse potentially for a
playoff run, an outside playoff run. So we're big fans
of them. Haines King what they've done over there. So
to be able to put the feathers in their cap
Vanderbilt put the feathers in their cap last year, really
gives them some solid ground going forward, just you know,
not only in confidence level, but on.
Speaker 5: The recruiting trail.
Speaker 4: So excited to see and and sec where everybody's better.
It's a better league everybody. Every team should be more excited.
The better everybody can be. And so when you got Vanderbilt,
who has been the punching bag for so long, you know,
every now and then they got a guy that comes
in and they'll have a pretty decent season. But when
you have them coming into a season where it's a game,
you got a circle and you got to be careful
of and be like, all right, this is this is
not an automatic victory. This is you know, these guys
have the feathers in their cap and they can beat us.
And they got a quarterback and they got a good
head coach and they're going in the right direction that
makes the league better. And so that's what we're excited about.
We want good games every single week. I don't know
if everybody does, but we do.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 5: We do because we're meat heads.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I enjoy it. And like, you're going to play
all three teams that are here today. You're gonna play
Old Miss at in Oxford, You're gonna play South Carolina
at home, You're gonna play Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Speaker 2: Those are gonna be you know, difficult games.
Speaker 3: And again, like the theme for me this week is
the teams that are typically over the last couple of
years at the top. So we look, I mean almost
won a lot of games, right, they hadn't gotten there
and else she's still had success against them, but they've
won a lot of games. Okay, So you take a
look at Old Miss, you look at Georgia. Tennessee makes
a college football playoff. Last year, Texas makes the playoff
the last two years Alabama's Alabama UH look, you could
even throw you know, some other schools in there, you know,
maybe maybe Texas, A and M. But you take a
look at some of the top ones, like certainly the Georgia's,
the Alabama's and those Titan Texas.
Speaker 2: They don't know what they are quarterback now.
Speaker 3: They think they have an idea Archie many think they
have an idea, but he's played three games. Alabama doesn't
really know what ty Simpson's going to be able to
get it. He's not here, which I think is big.
George has only seen gunnerstock in half of an SEC
championship game and then a bowl game against another Dame.
Speaker 4: He did some nice things, but he looked like a
young quarterback that just got thrown in there exactly.
Speaker 5: So they were lied.
Speaker 4: They were able to throw the change up up and
use his little bit different skill set to create some
big plays, but we hadn't seen him have to go
and dice somebody up and game plan have some people
game plan on him for very many games. So it's
a it's a huge question mark for them from the
perennial powerhouse that they are to go in there with
a question mark at quarterback is certainly a little bit
different for them.
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Speaker 2: Here live from the College Football Hall of Fame. Very
excited for our next guest.
Speaker 3: It is the new Senior Executive Director, Drew Fabianich, who
joins us. Now, Drew, we are glad to have you
on the show. Glad to have you a part of
the Senior Ball. It is an event that we go
to here on this show every single year. In fact,
I do two shows, one for each company I worked
for at the Senior Ball. So it's one of our
favorite events to go to. Excited to have you involved
in the game.
Speaker 6: Hey, thrilled to death to be part of it. Thrill
to death be part of you guys. I mean too,
have I met you met Matt last night? We actually
talked years ago when he was coming out. I mean
you wouldn't remember because you talked flipping probably three hundred scouts,
you know, during the time when you were getting you know,
coming out, and then met you two down to the
Senior Bowl years back.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So yeah, this is good for me too. I'm seeing
a lot of familiar faces. I just saw Mitch Bardhardt,
I mean the guys, he's been radio on TV for
sixty years almost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean so college football told you college football,
I know, yeah, well, Drew. So one of the things
that that I've talked about with the Senior.
Speaker 3: Ball so many times when I've you know, just had
the experience in going there, was what it did for
me in my career. So for me, I was going
from playing tailback at LSU to having to show that
I could play a different position in the NFL. Like
I knew that I could have a chance to do
some tailback stuff, but I knew my life was going
to be as a fullback, and the only way that
I had the opportunity to prove that was to go
down to Mobile and compete and switch positions and get
into three point stance once again. And so like, the
opportunity that game gave me got me drafted in the
third round because they had to see it. And so like,
that's one of the things I love about the Senior Bowl.
It's just competition and competing and the best of the best,
and you get an opportunity to go show, like in pads,
not the underwear, in pads, what you can do on
a football field.
Speaker 6: Well, the keyword you said, best against the best. Yeah,
And I think that really really important, especially when you're
you know, working in personnel with the NFL. You know,
I go back all the way to Parcels when he
came in, you know, be like, Okay, we're watching this
left tackle. He go, Hey, who's the best guy he
lined up against? Well, some guys don't really play against
anybody real until they go down to the Senior Bowl.
I mean, just depending on where you're going, where you've been,
I mean, you know, God bless one double A what
is it? FCS? Now, you know, it's hard for those
guys to actually show that they can compete at that
level unless they come down to the Senior Bowl. And
it is the first piece of the draft process. And
like you said, it's not the underwear Olympics, it's it's
real ball, you know, And I think that's the most
important part playing in the game. And we kind of
talked about this. I think the last time one on
one pass rush, defensive drill, ninety percent of the time,
defense should win, you know, one on one receivers you
know DB's receiver, I would win ninety percent of the time, right, yep,
it's almost on air. I mean really, so let's get
into a game and then show that you can play.
I mean, you got your teammate, Philip Rivers didn't have
a great week. He was the MVP of the Senior Bowl.
I mean that helped him propel his career. You did too,
I mean because again, hey, what's he playing. You know,
he's not an eyeback go be, you know, is he
really going to be a fullback? It's like Michael Robinson,
same thing.
Speaker 2: Right, you know, he played what quarterbacks quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: Then yeah, so I think you're correct. And again I
try to voice this to agents. I try to voice
this to players that you know, playing against the best
is huge for your evaluation process. Huge.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the kid last year, the Zabel kid from North
Dakota State had a great week yep, right, and league
talk and we talked to all those guys, you know,
throughout the year he was like a high third, right,
he goes eighteen. Well, that ended up being twelve point
seven million dollars difference in a four year contract. So
tell me it wasn't worth his time to come down
and finish the practices and play in the game. I'm like,
let's get real. He yeah, I mean twelve point seven Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's that's a why.
Speaker 4: I mean, if that's not a recruiting message video for
why people should go to the senior ball, then you know,
I don't know what is. And so you talked about
you bring up the best of the best, and so
this is going to be your first year there. But
somebody with the experience in scouting and picking the guys,
finding guys at different size school, how what is your
process of finding the best of the best and narrowing
it down, and then how as the season progresses, just
how does that list start dwindling down where you choose
your guys?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, Mat, it's no different than how you
break it down when you're going out in the NFL.
I mean you start with a you know, a database
of maybe twenty two hundred players and just start whittling
it down saying is he good enough, is he going
to be draftable? Does he have a spot? Is he
high enough in the stack to actually bring him in?
And then you have to look at, Hey, some of
those guys may not take the invite. So instead of
having you know, twelve receivers that you're looking at, you
may have eighteen. And again that process we kind of
talked about a little bit last night. We're not going
to put out a watch list of eight hundred and
nine hundred players. We're not because again, feel like that
this is a prestigious, premier All Star game, you know,
in the entire country. Well let's treat it that way. Yeah,
and let's try to take the best players that we
can possibly find. And again we have scouting assistants. I
mean I look at tape, you know, Jack Gilmour watches tape.
I mean we kind of you know, go through that
throughout the year. As soon as that first board's done,
you know, as soon as that game's over with, we're
starting on the next one. Yeah, And we're already starting
to build it. And when I got there, i'd say
May fifteenth, threat around in there, I'll bet you was
halfway built already. And now we just completed it last week.
And now we're still talking about some of the juniors
that we may put on there that are kind of
gut cinches that they are going to come out. And
I don't want to offend coaches, but you know, I
think they know it too, because they're bringing some juniors
to this also.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: So I don't know if I answered every bit of
that question, Matt, but I tried to kind of hit
on all points.
Speaker 3: Also, a new title sponsor Senior Bowl, and pretty far
we're big car guy.
Speaker 2: Our listeners know.
Speaker 3: So our show is off the bench and we create
we have like a card deal that we're doing off
the break. I mean we are like in it, uh
were we might dabble in in card games.
Speaker 2: We'll just have that.
Speaker 4: So we were excited when we saw the new sponsorships
kind of tell us how did that sponsorship develop and
what kind of benefits you see?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, they were already a practice you know
sponsor over the last I think three years. And the
one piece about you know that is I think they
started to see value in they had a Panini night
and those guys went absolutely nuts when they got their
trading card and I was like wow, I said, this
is awesome. And then they got so much exposure just
on social for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Plus you know, the practice sponsorships of even like the dummies,
I mean, you know they you know, they had their
you know, branding on there, you know. But I think
most of it came from how they saw that the
value had increased so much just with that little piece. Now,
the title sponsors they actually sought and it wasn't like
we said, Okay, well you know this doesn't really fit. Hell,
yes it fits because it's sports related. It's it's personal
to people.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: I mean, for God's sakes, I would love to have
a trading card, you know when I was playing. I
mean now these guys, I mean are going to be
able to expose their brand even farther with Panini. And
I think Panini's going to actually push for all of
their clients to be playing in the game to increase
their brand too. So I think it's a win win
situation for everybody, and I think that we can make
it a benefit for everybody. And I think it's a
tool because again, what are they about now? They're about
the brand, So let's show them another way to expose
their brand.
Speaker 3: One of the other cool things about the Senior Bowl
and Matt you'll get to experience this this year. When
you go to Mobile in that time, you know you're
there for that, you know you're there for the Senior Ball,
and the city embraces everybody that's in there.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: I hate going to things and it's like, oh, there
happens to be an event in a city and nobody
really knows that you're there for that.
Speaker 2: But when you go to Mobile in that.
Speaker 3: Time and the city does a nice job and the
people of the city like they embrace everybody, welcome everybody
and makes it feel like home because we're gone, we're
there for a week, right, and they make it feel
like home. And it's one of the charms I think
of the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't even know if you guys know this,
I didn't before I came. You know, one down there
there's over three hundred right paid volunteers, they paid to
be volunteers.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: Yes, their committee and there's committees set up in like
sixteen different areas, whether it's security, whether it's the mascot piece,
the fan fest, and they, like you said, they take
great pride in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean there's you know, the parade on Friday, there's
a concert on you know Friday night. I mean, there's
a Panini night on you know Wednesday, I mean Thursday.
We've got you know, the top golf deal with all
the awards and everything else. But you know, fast forward
like what you guys are talking about. Heck, in May,
we had the Hall of Fame, right, the Hall of
Fame induction. We had the charity golf tournament the next day.
I mean, we had the draft party. In April, you know,
we have we had a leadership you know piece with
the with m PAP and it was all the mobile
in Baldwin County, you know, high school kids. All the
coaches got to send one of their players to a
leadership conference. And then then we got Turkey Bowl. We
got flag football. I mean, the community takes this or
runs with him. And here's the other thing. And I'll
tell you guys this because I don't know how many
other quote All Star games you've seen, but this is
the only game that sells out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not even close.
Speaker 6: You watch any of the other All Star games, there's
nobody in the stands, right, you know. So that ought
to tell you how important it is to these people,
and that they showed me how important it was because
of these other pieces that they got involved in civically.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and speaking with you last night, I was
I was surprised to just hear you talk about full
time move to mobile and just the twelve months out
of the year. Yeah, there is work to be done
and things to be done just throughout the community. Different
sponsorship than fundraisers that y'all are doing throughout the year
for the Senior Ball. But when you look at just
the game in the week itself, tell me something with
your first year, what are your goals on, what's it
gonna look, what's gonna be different about the game? The
practice is everything leading up that you're going to be implementing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we kind of visited about this a little bit.
I'll give everybody the background of it. Well, the Senior
Bowl used to be the unofficial NFL coaches kind of convention. Yeah,
because they don't have any place to network. Well, once
they started doing formal interviews at night, Well those coaches says, nah,
I really don't want to go, and all I get
to do is watch them practice and then have to
interview all night. And I never get to network with
any of my guys, never get to see anybody, never
try to get a better job. Well, you know that's important, right, Well,
it's also important. The biggest thing to me was taking
that off the players and put it in the morning
to where they have some time in the evening because
I don't know about them. But when I went seven
o'clock to almost ten o'clock straight through and talking to
player after player after player after player, I was beat down,
and I know they had to be.
Speaker 2: We were.
Speaker 6: So now the evening's gonna be free for the players,
it's going to be free for the coaches, it's gonna
be free for the personnel. We're going to knock it
out in the morning and then we're gonna push practice back.
You know, about forty five minutes per Well, what it
does is that second practice one end until six o'clock. Well,
that gives the community, and it gives dads and the
time to bring their kids. Mom and dads, sorry about that,
mom's dad to bring their child out there to practice
and into world. They'll actually be able to see it,
because before it would end at four point thirty and
it was like by the time they got there, it
was like there goes the horn, We're done, and they
didn't get to see those guys practice because not everybody
can go to the game, you know, because the schedules.
So the biggest piece is that I'm changing the entire
schedule of the week, and I'm doing it to try
to improve the experience first for the players, then for
the coaches, then for the personnel, you know. And it
actually benefits community because now they're going to be outspending
money in the community. So that's the other piece of it.
But yeah, thanks for risk about that, Milcaus. Matt and
I've kept talking about that a little bit last night.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTB. Here live from the
twenty twenty five SEC Media Days. I think that's Brian
Kelly someone behind us if I'm not taking their shaft.
Speaker 5: Okay, how are your eyes? Do you think?
Speaker 2: Uh No, my eyes are good. I just you know
that very clearly, Brian Kelly.
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 2: It's very clearly.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I know the manuysms and so now I
see it. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean twenty ten vision. It's not a big deal.
Speaker 3: I mean I do thanks to Williamson before I did
not have it before.
Speaker 2: It is like, you know, the the old coke bottle glasses.
Speaker 3: You know the kid on Little Giants that has the
snot bubble yep, his glasses That was me.
Speaker 5: What hey, the one that does the intimidatidation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like how the noor Sellers wears rexpecs.
Are he dead?
Speaker 3: He kind of got rid of them. That was me
in seven eight year old baseball. And the only saving
grace that I had was Horace Grant was balling for
the Bulls at the time, and so like it wasn't
so bad. But my vision before I went to Williamson
was terrible.
Speaker 5: How thick with a spectacle.
Speaker 3: I mean you see that that last trophy case right
about that, Yeah, speaking there's a little popemobile that he
rides around in. Yeah, the thickness of that that.
Speaker 4: This room behind us. We come in yesterday trying to
set up our equipment, trying to bring things here. You know,
to our surprise, nothing was ready. Tables and stuff not ready. So,
you know, shout out to Rivers. He had to get
it early, set up everything this morning and plug everything in.
But there's one thing that was real noticeable yesterday when
we got here, and it was the tables here for
the press conferences. They were all at standing height. Yeah,
And so we came in fully expecting all the reporters
that have to stay in here from you know whatever
it is, nine am, ten am, all the.
Speaker 5: Way through six six pm. They were putting them. I
don't know.
Speaker 4: They the SEC Media day has got like this health
kick or something. They want everybody to stand and we
were just kind of laughing at Can you imagine, like,
you know, there's some people that are in good shape here,
but there's some people that are not in the best
of shape having to stand up for these press conferences.
But we come in today and they got lazy. They
just got cold feet on the situation. They lowered all
the desks, so a bunch of lazy people down there
just sitting all day long.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine some of those old sports riders having
to stand up for longer than an hour?
Speaker 2: Though, No, what were you saying last night?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I forgot god, what was your line
last night?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were like, hey, why why didn't you see that?
You know, squat corner they're on cover too when you
threw it over there and you said, why can't you
stand up for three hours?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, why'd you overder this coverage? Blah
blah blah, Well, why can't you stand up for ten minutes? Yeah, yeah,
well you know, but anyway, we got to get laugh
yesterday thinking that they were gonna make him stand, but
they lowered them unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I would have liked to see it.
Speaker 2: It's all right, it's all right, it's okay.
Speaker 5: Why can't you stand up?
Speaker 2: Could you stand up for an hour?
Speaker 5: You bum? Yeah? Outh breather.
Speaker 2: I really wishing hear what the yells you had? Booboo
coaches saying, But it's okay, we'll have that tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh well, you got any way to open up this
window here?
Speaker 5: I can read lips.
Speaker 2: Let's see you down there, LSU.
Speaker 5: We're a team.
Speaker 4: Yep, we got it. It's yeah. Football is about this
big end zones are out there. We're gonna try to
score that end zone. Hey you over there.
Speaker 3: I don't know he's talking about nuts probably, Yeah, a
lot of hand motions going on down there. It is
l s U, old Miss South Carolina and Vanderbilt here
today right now. Brian Kelly getting kind of things started
for the co which is will be Leane Kiffin, then
Shane Biemer, then Clark Lee, and Clark Lee has been
making the rounds already.
Speaker 2: He said, he's been here since six am.
Speaker 5: He didn't sit down with us, but he's been stalking
the tables.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which like Clark, what are we doing? Like you're
a fullback, Like we stick together, like you're my guy.
He didn't see me.
Speaker 5: He's probably because there's a quarterback here now. I think
I'm soft.
Speaker 2: He really is.
Speaker 3: Like we were playing Vanderbilt, you know, l C Vanderbilt
in Tiger Stadium this year, and I, you know, walked over.
Speaker 2: I was like, Sam, what's up to him?
Speaker 3: And we sat and we talked run scheme and like
two back blocking schemes for twenty minutes before the start
of that game.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I guess I'll let you go. I gotta
go get up in the booth and you gotta.
Speaker 5: I gotta get off to you, coach.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you got going on today, but
I can't talk.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 3: I was eating it all up there because we were
talking about how now, because everybody kind of plays basketball
on grass like a little seven on seven feel and
throwing the football around. He was talking about, Hey, when
you play a team that has either you know, an
f be at a tight end or like a fullback,
He's like, ours is an AF It's not a fullback.
Speaker 2: But he's like, linebackers.
Speaker 3: Don't know how to take on two back runs anymore.
Safeties don't know how to take on two I'm like,
in my mind, I'm like, that's crazy what we talk me.
Speaker 2: He's like, think about it. They never see it.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: He's like, so like the linebackers that you and I
played against, that's all they knew. They knew how to
take on a blocker, stay in their gap, and also
shed and make a play. He's like, you run a
fullback at a linebacker right now, like he's in a buye.
He didn't know really what to do. He's so used
to having all this space. And I'm like, that's that's
a great point. I think about it. Michigan, how they
won the national championship. One of their best players, Max
Breedlove or Bretiston, sorry, is a fullback. And you look
at Ohio State and they had to fit they but
theirs was more twelve personnel, wasn't twenty one. But I
don't know, is it coming back? Is it in vogue?
Speaker 4: Well, that's I mean, there's so many ebbs and flows
in football schematics. I mean, you look at the professional level.
We broke this down the other day about the best
offenses in the NFL are doing a lot of under center,
which for a while was you know, the majority of
teams were like, at least a really good offen. This
high percentage was a shotgun, and a lot of the
best offenses are getting more towards that fifty to fifty split.
Speaker 5: Why is that?
Speaker 4: Because that why have we started to see the running
back come back, the importance of it, running backs getting
paid a little bit more at the next level because
forever general managers scouts they had to start, you know,
trying to beat what was prevalent. How do we beat
these spread offenses? How do we breathe these run first offenses?
Quarterbacks that can get out of the pocket do different things.
You have to you have to get a little bit
thinner at defensive line. You got to get faster, you
got to get speed. But when you start, you know,
when you start implementing that from a personnel standpoint, implementing
that game plan, offenses.
Speaker 5: Are all right, they're stopping us. What can we do differently?
Speaker 4: Okay, well we can get under the center and hit
them in the mouth, because these guys are not built
to do that.
Speaker 5: So that running back position.
Speaker 4: The prevalence of that is going to come, and you're
going to see it more and more over the next
the next couple of years, running backs getting a little
bit bigger contracts, running backs in the discussion for potentially
in discussion for MVPs, things like that, because offenses shift
and then the defense will catch up and shift.
Speaker 5: Then it'll go back and.
Speaker 4: It'll just be a it'll be a roller coaster up
and down of how people are drafting, how they're building
their defensive line and linebacker and so it's so interesting
to see and I would see that in college football.
It's going to start in the next couple of years.
You know, there's there's offenses. You got quarterbacks that have
never taken a snap on the center, like from high
school on. You're gonna start seeing that change. I believe
that's my kind of prediction over the next two three
four years in college football of them following that NFL
blueprint of all right, let's get back under center and
changing our offense and doing a lot of what Clark
Clark Lee was just saying linebackers they don't know how
to take on at fullback. They don't know like which
shoulder to hit, how to shed, how to how to
make a make a lead block of glancing blow and
then stay in your gap. Right, So those are things
that I think will change and hopefully the slap count
goes away.
Speaker 5: But yeah, football is just so excited.
Speaker 2: You love the worst. I should have asked slap too though?
Speaker 4: Has that everybody ever drawn anybody off side?
Speaker 5: Maybe? I don't know. The answer is no answers. The
answer is it's dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love.
Speaker 3: Like My favorite thing Gruden does is make fun of
people that do the clap count.
Speaker 4: His video was so good a couple of weeks ago.
He did it too. He puts, I can't remember the
put it with Jackson Dard a little bit because that
is not going to be what you do at the
next level, sir, not gonna you actually use your mouth
say words.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 4: You can use things that can draw the other two
outsides and a clap does.
Speaker 3: There's so many that y'all had to say, like at
the next level, Like we get to a lot of
scrimmage because a lot of times there would be two plays,
like even if it wasn't a kill situation, like there'd
still be like, hey, we know this play can turn
into that play, and I got to change everything at
the line of scrimmage and we got to bark so
many dummy calls as well.
Speaker 2: You and I have talked about this, but.
Speaker 3: How omahall when we were with the Broncos, it initially
was the next sound that I make after the omahall's
snapped the ball right. Well, then people got that, and
then it every week it was literally like omahol, this
week is going to mean this, and you had to
like remember this week what the omahall meant?
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, it's uh And you trained for that. And
you know, offense has always had they advantage because you
know what, we know what we're doing, we know what
the snapcount of defense doesn't of course, And I remember
ours in Green Bay was different types of snakes, so
like snake in the grass, so cobra or python or
sweet we could make the noise too, or like the
hand signal like a little snakehead or whatever. We knew that
was the dummy call. That was a cobra, so it'd
be like he could be like cobra cobra, like walking
to the line of scrimmage of the lineman.
Speaker 5: But then like get to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: And be like, all right, it's like, you know, one
of the offensive linem acts like he doesn't know what
the snapcount is.
Speaker 2: And Aaron's like, it's a one, dummy, it's on one.
Speaker 4: But they knew that he hissed at him on the
way out of it. So everybody, of course it's on two.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers hissing at his offensive lineman.
Speaker 5: Wait what it meant exactly?
Speaker 4: So yeah, he was always the king still as the
king of like drawing people off sides. And it was
a little We practiced it all the time. We practice
it so much. And I'd like to see the stats
on touchdowns thrown from Aaron Rodgers, on off side penalties,
on dead plays. I know, I got a couple, just
a little free play, little free play, cal vanden Bosch.
Speaker 2: All right, Calvan.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, still know if I would
like put his name on something, just in case he
might be listening. He was one of the ones that
was thrown off enough where he might still like have
a list like Billy Madison.
Speaker 2: Said he would wear.
Speaker 4: He would wear red eye contacts or wide out contacts
and just for intimidation, but he did jump off side
when I threw a touchdown to Jordy Nelson and he
came across.
Speaker 5: I got the pass off.
Speaker 4: But he hit that crease with his elbow in between
my shoulder pads and my helmet like on my neck,
and it was one of those like my whole body
just like crumbled and I like just crumpled to the
ground like an accordion.
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, Hey, one of Elshu's
early season opponents has a new conference.
Speaker 2: That they're gonna be playing game.
Speaker 3: We'll tell you who that is and which conference they're
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in one final segment here on this Monday
morning edition of OTB Live from the College Football Hall
of Fame in the twenty twenty five SEC Media Days.
Speaker 4: What question I got I've been thinking about this all day.
Speaker 5: Those oranges aren't real? Are they?
Speaker 2: Actually? They look they look real real?
Speaker 3: Of course, Flynn not describing a painting the picture for you.
We are sitting in front of a huge Orange Bowl
championship trophy. There's a Rose Bowl, a sugar Bowl, a
Fiesta Bowl, there's a crystal ball.
Speaker 2: We know a thing or two by that big deal
Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 4: Beach Bowl, lots of different just NCA trophies, some individual
trophies over there. I can't see the names of them,
but I feel like it's trophies I've never seen before.
Speaker 2: Yep, I don't know those fellas. Here some old timers
on those trophies, and I don't know who.
Speaker 4: There's there's a guy. There's a bust of a guy
that looks like Dwight D. Eisenhower somehow. Sure the trophy
I know that.
Speaker 3: I know the DoD DoD was Georgia tech a coach, right,
Bobby Dodge. Yeah, because they're Bobby Dodd. Uh Yeah, that
is Joe Burrow's name. I don't know what trophy that is,
but it does say, Sir Joseph Burrow looks like.
Speaker 4: A bunch of kids just having fun, planned and joined
the game. Trophy Well, like I said, that's a bust
of Dwight D. Eisenhower for sure, back in the corner.
I don't know why he would be there though. So
and to the left of us, we have the current champions.
We have a Ohio state jersey and helmet with a
champions on it, number one on the jersey. So I'm
assuming that's just the current reigning champs are there. And
I'd like to I'd like to hear, like how often
the the Hall of Fame changes what's going on? And
here we had some of the huddle actually say there
might have been a Flint jersey up here at one point.
We're trying to get photo proof, We're trying to get
some evidence. Jake was bragging that his jersey was up
here at some point with maybe somebody else's name on it.
Speaker 5: What kind of brings up a question, Yeah about eighteen? Sure,
what about it? What do we think this season?
Speaker 3: Who would I like for it to be? If I
get to pick on offensive defense? Yeah, wit weeks on defense? Uh?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: It hasn't been on a quarterback, yeah since the first Yeah,
so for like the first time it was Matt Mock
and then it's been every other position, including offensive line.
There's there's been corners and choice. There's been Lloyd Cushion
Berry was an offensive lineman. We've had Benny Logan as
a defensive lineman. We've had a slew of running backs,
including last year. Look, do you have an opportunity? I
wore thirteen in high school too. It's a little it's
two marks on the three to make it an eight.
Speaker 2: Go ahead. Look, that's like the ultimate.
Speaker 3: Hey, this is our guy. He's going to ride with it.
We're changing his number. He's already made a number change
in college. It's not that big of a deal. Put
eighteen on us miner.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the and I agree with you if he wants
to wear it, not that I like. I think eighteen
is a cool number. Like I'm you know, I've always
been against it. Obviously, who was fifteen? The cool people? Okay,
I want to know has anybody turned it down? I'm
sure there has been because some people like have their numbers,
their their number is a lot of times numbers are
very personal to a person, for sure. Sure that's there
for a reason, man, life, you know what right? I mean,
that's you know, it's a personal thing. So you've played
and had success for three or four years under a
certain number. You definitely don't always, but I know eighteen
holds this lore.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's I'm trying to think. The
only one I can remember was Devin White. Devin White
like he wanted to wear forty. That might be the
only answer there.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, I'll do some research. I'll get
back to you tomorrow. It's called a teaser, it's called
a called radio t So it's gonna do it for
us here. We'll see you the same time, the same
place tomorrow, and until then, enjoy your day and stay
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