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IT LIVE (10/10): Texas vs. Oklahoma thoughts, key matchups, big game breakdown
Good morning and welcome to the inside Texas football YouTube channel powered by inside Texas.com. It's the Thursday edition of IT Lives. We got Ian Boyd. We got Justin Wells. Make sure you like this video. Subscribe to the channel. Help us get to 10,000. And of course, if you're not already over on inside Texas, use a promo code IT1. Gitch yourself two months of access for just $1 in our Jacob Woodward, would your roaster sugar daddy appreciate y'all for joining appreciate everybody for joining. And this is one of those fun days where almost everything that can be said has been said. We'll hear from Sark in about 90 minutes on his zoom. Doubt will get much clarity on quarterback. I think he'll rely on the, you know, availability report from last night. But at this point, Justin, it's just a, you know, it's just one of those days where and sugar daddy, you're the man. This is an anticipation building day, like nothing news really coming out. Nothing groundbreaking is going to be said. It's just another day where we're waiting closer and closer for that game to arrive. That's it. We're counting down the YouTube video days. We're 48 hours of content and shows and YouTube videos and all that fun stuff. I got to tell you, I'm ready for Saturday. I'm ready for Saturday. The build up is the anticipation. It's a lot. It's a lot. I'm ready for Saturday. Ian, Ian looks more ready for Saturday than me. I mean, look at him. I have two things for today on the show that haven't been said yet. One of them I've been wanting to say and I've not been able to get it in. One of my favorite things about the Red River shootout is the game opens, you know, and bands play their songs or whatever the quarter ends and the Oklahoma band or cheerleaders or whatever, they shoot off their little pop guns and then it goes every single time and then they fire smokey and it goes, boom, and it just feels like such a one up, such a topping moment every single time. It's awesome. It's like a pop gun. You know, they were in 60. Wow. Yeah. It's something like that. I think if I remember right, like they all are shooting blanks and I think smokey just packs four of them in there and then the sooner's just have just one. But one of the things that we'll talk about and don't worry, Brett Nelson, he's not here to take dump, but he's here to show why the path to victory for Oklahoma, especially on defense is pretty tough. You wrote about it over on the inside Texas this morning, again, if you're not a member, go over there. Use a promo code IT1, get two months for just $1 and you mentioned that the path to victory for the Oklahoma defense against the Texas offense is pretty tough to find. Yeah. I think that if I can dump on Oklahoma for a minute, their their offense is really well calibrated for college offenses, like stop the run, pressure the quarterback, don't give up single plate touchdowns, make him convert in the red zone. Even Venables has that formula down so dang well, truly impressive. He swarms what you do best, blah, blah, blah. As I thought about it, there's always there's always something that occurs to me like right before the game that ends up being really important. This year it was Paul noting that Danny Stutzman is like giving up is got when teams target Danny Stutzman in the passing game, they're like 10 for 10 for 100 yards. And completions on 10 targets. And so I was thinking about, I've been thinking about the game like, well, obviously you attack Oklahoma's corner racks, they're vulnerable, but Oklahoma knows that and their defense is built to try to mitigate that to the extent that they can. Could they mitigate it? Well enough to stop Texas, probably not. But maybe the better solution is actually to do what Sark has done in big games before like against Alabama and against Michigan and come out and spread them out and attack the linebackers, because the division of labor and the Oklahoma defense is supposed to be linebackers attack, corners stop the big plays. And when you attack the linebackers with those spread passing sets, you really wrong foot their whole approach. One of the curious things too, and you know, this is our guy, David Williams, mentioning this. And we noticed this. I think it was against, it may have been either the UN game or maybe even Mississippi state. They would do that five wide stuff, but they would have Gunnar Helm and Juan Davis on the field to personnel, I guess, the spring. We had talked about that formation, Joe, about having two wide, having two tight ends and a five wide on the field at the same time. You remember them going through that and we have reported that. That was always an intriguing formation to me. Yeah, because it's one of those things where you can, you have to match personnel first for the most part, right? I mean, that's what people in the box are looking and trying to be like, "Okay, you know, 81, 85's on the field, so bring it in these guys," and then you formation them out of it and into weaknesses, that's what offensive football does a lot. So that may be part of what they can do, but more on that defense, I think there's an expectation that that OU, it's called the front six, might be that strength of the OU defense. How does Texas go about getting after those guys, Ian? The, sorry, who? Getting after who? The front. The defensive front. Well, I mean, what we just said, so like it, what you just said is so important. If you play Davis in Hell, it becomes the front seven and their Sam linebackers are traced forward. He's harder. Ish. Yeah, he's an edge also. It's what the side didn't trace forward used to play defensive end. They put him in space sometimes now and it's like, remember the, remember the hager, remember hagers coming, the hagers coming package, where they like put them out in space, but then always before the snap, you would just end up racing into the backfield. Yes. Okay. Uh, Omasego, he's just a big lime, like a big safety or a small linebacker. Great athlete from Crandall. I watched him in high school. Great athlete. Doesn't know what he's doing yet, though, in like coverage. Right. Yeah. Michaela, who I don't know if he knows what he's doing in coverage and also he only just got healthy and has been practicing for this game. He should know what he's doing. He was playing big safety his whole life. What's he playing edge for Oklahoma now? No, he's the, the big line, the four, three linebacker, four, three, linebacker, and they're not a nickel, um, so yeah, I mean, you do that and you get them and even then you can attack any of those linebackers, Stutzman, Lewis, Carter, whoever, um, in the passing game. And then, uh, you know, screens. Sark always has a ton of screens, RPOs, surely we'll see a bunch of that. Sark always likes to maintain balance, even if his idea is, hey, we're going to play 12th personnel, but we're going to just spread the ball around and throw it. He'll still mix in a couple power runs just to make sure that they don't get, uh, too nosy, you know, in either direction. Is this, um, Justin, we saw, I think that the offensive line is a, I can't remember what they call it, like the mid season watch list for the, the Joe Moore award for the Texas offensive line. Is this one of those games where you think long horns may lean on that crew, lean on that five to try to say, Hey, you know, we're, we may not test what we think is the strength of the defense, but we're going to pass and try to attack the weaknesses. I think so, but also, you know, Sark is showing a penchant once he gets a lead the second half, he wants to run the ball. He's not going to overthink it. Now, if he wants to go, he'll go aerial as long as he wants, but once they get to the third and the fourth quarter, we saw that against Alabama last year, we saw it against Michigan this year, he will, he'll put, he'll turn the governor on and he will start to wind down. That's why this offensive line can be so valuable because if there's one thing Texas isn't burring up the world and it's running the ball, well, they don't necessarily have to right now. They're still doing it effectively. They still get about 140 a game. They're doing fine with it. I think that's when you lean on the run, that's when you lean on, on, on running the ball is in the second half with a lead because that's when you're going to need to do it. Hey, Texas notes shows they can score quickly, they can score in bunches, but the best way of this offense, the best, you know, pattern of this offense is their ability to, Hey, we got the lead now. All right. It's time to run the ball. It's time to choose some clock because that really is the essence of a team. You're controlling the line of scrimmage and I think ultimately that's what SART tries to do. They're going to lean on the run, especially if they get a lead in the second half. Their ability to lean on the run, this may be the, if they do that, you know, the, all right, let's say Texas is up 16 somehow, which would mean what? A touchdown. Two point conversions, I like that way of thinking, but honestly touchdown and three field goals, which doesn't seem like it, but let's say it's that. Let's say they're up 16. We have seen this team run the ball when the opponent knows it's running, it's going to be run against once and it was against Michigan, but by that point, like the, the Texas offense had kind of built up a lead and we knew the Michigan defense wasn't, or the Michigan offense wasn't going to go anywhere. This will be another big test of whether Texas can run the ball on a stout front that knows when the run is coming. That's what I really want to see because I have a lot of faith in what the Texas skill players can do, the passing offense, even Quinn, you or that type of thing. But like with this running back crew and with an offensive line, that's only really had to like run the dang ball once this year. Uh, I'm really curious to see how that Texas offensive line is able to open up stuff within the run game. Um, before we keep on going, got to get some love shown to our sponsor today that sponsor is Andre the lawyer. 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And, you know, even though Casey Thompson didn't appear on the injury report, we've heard that he's like banged up or something like that. He also is who he is at this point. So Justin, over under, on two and a half quarterback scene in Crimson and Cream on Saturday. Under, under, uh, you know, that was the question that thought nobody was really answering. You know, if Oklahoma, if something happens with Hawkins, do they go, who do they go to? Cause everyone just kind of started talking about, well, Casey Thompson is the next one. And I kept thinking, why in Jackson Arnold, the backup, the guy you invested everything into, why isn't he the backup? It's your right. He probably wants to save that red shirt so he can use this year again next year and understandably. Uh, but I think it's still under, you're not going to see three quarterbacks for Oklahoma play unless something really bad happens and I don't anticipate that. I do think you could see two. I think two is in the realm of possibility, but three, three is just pretending somebody is really going to get hurt. If it's two and a half for both teams, I'm taking the over if there's like three ways you could hit it. There's like Hawkins gets benched or injured. There's Quinn gets benched or injured for arch. This Texas is blowing out Oklahoma so they get the backups in late. I think those are all three plausible. So if it's both teams, I, I'm going over if it's both teams. Yeah, I thought if it's Oklahoma, no, but if it's both, I can see. If it's Oklahoma, it's got to be the one and a half and if it's, if it's a big lead again, does, do we see arch? Like you said, that's, that's something we could see. If it's like 2022 again. The one thing about the whole Jackson Arnold situation is that, and I know we, we talk about this like Texas is a 14 and a half point favorite, but like for all the flaws, for all the issues, Oklahoma is still born one. Like it's not like they're a bad football team. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. Stop it. They're not a great football team. They're often sucks, it's garbage. But on Saturday, they're going to play the best that they've played all season. Maybe. Maybe not. If I make, if I'm a coach and I'm just thinking like you're going to give up on a four and one team, but that's the way quarterbacks go these days. So I do, it stinks, I would be against it, but I understand it. Kurt, how big is Hawkins? Do you think he can take the punishment? They try to run him a bunch in? He's decently solid, but not, he's not Ellinger. I mean, I think they'll just do whatever his body can take and then, and then pay off the bill tomorrow because if you win this game, then nothing else almost even matters the season you already have here, your big ticket, proof of concept. Did y'all notice that I can't remember if it was Eddie or George on the, when they sooner guys came over and did the Q&A on our board? One of them noted something like Jackson Arnold and Notre Dame. Somebody asked about that whether that would be a good, is that where he's, like, is that where he's going to go next? Because it's something in there, like, I would look at Notre Dame. And so I'm wondering, like, if you're Jackson Arnold, presumably, and then IL payments come in bunches. So Oklahoma is like, look, Jackson, you're going to play or you're not going to get paid. If you shut it down, you're not going to get these remaining payments, right? That's how I assume it would work if they can manage it. But then, so then for Arnold, it's like, okay, can I recoup that by going to my next school? And I think if he goes to Notre Dame, he can recoup and thus say, I'm just done. Y'all keep whatever left you owe me, or I'll find it out in court or whatever, just doesn't think so. I think that there are, you're not telling nobody, you're not turning down any amount of money you've been promised signed to, none of that's going to happen. If it costs you a retro, if it costs you a retro, that's why they have an agent. And remember, they're not pay for, this isn't pay for money, you know, imagine it, but like, it is those contracts are not signed and executed with pay for play in mind, technically, you know what I mean? They can't not pay him, just because he's not playing. He was not going to take a pay cut, just to preserve a red shirt. You know what bad Mojo, you would put into the coaching realm, if you were to jack up a guy's eligibility, we talked about, this question was asked a couple, like last week about how would the Jackson Arnold situation affect Oklahoma's ability to recruit quarterbacks. You start screwing with a kid's eligibility, you're going to be digging for two stars in the class of 2026. You cannot throw that kind of mojo out there, you cannot throw that kind of thing in the world. He's going to get what he's going to get, he's probably going to get his red shirt preserved. I'm with Ian, like, hey, does he want to negotiate it? No, no, no, he wants to get his money that he's been owed, trust me. And he will, because that's the way business is going. Thenables can't afford to backhandedly screw that up, cannot do that, buddy, you won't last, you won't get another good quarterback. I tell you what, if I were a head coach, I would do anything in my power not to pay somebody that quit on my team. Hey, that's the price you pay, because now you pay. Yeah. I mean, that's ideal, but that may not be practical. Yeah. I hear you. Ian, you quit. Yeah. Hey, I had the same problem with the referee at my son's flag football game on Sunday. He didn't know if a kid fell down, if he's down or not, in middle school junior high junior varsity college in high school, if you fall on the ground, you're down. The only lead that it's legal is the NFL, the referee didn't know. So I said, maybe you shouldn't get your paycheck today if you don't know what the rules are out here. It's the same situation. Did you pull a sunny dikes? No. To answer this question, OU lists Hawkins at 61196 to compare the Andre Moore to 60195. So kind of about that same size. Can't wait to watch the greatest OU quarterback of all time, Michael Hawkins Murray throw for 661 yards versus Texas, maybe the game plan can Hawkins hold up as the question, especially since they have like no healthy frontline wide receivers got another good one from wheels and levers. Andy, you think Venable rolls out the flyover? No, because a couple reasons. One is that it doesn't have a great role for Armase and Thomas. And I don't think that's like when you're facing gimmicky Tennessee, maybe you're willing to bench Armase and Thomas for big chunks of the game, but when you're facing like play action Texas and SARC, you want your best pass rushers on the field as much as possible so that yours isn't just sitting there watching Isaiah Bond run a double move on your crummy cornerback rotation. So I don't think so for that reason. Also, SARC has faced the flyover defense for like three years now or something. He's got all these answers for it. He knows the efficient ways to run the ball against it. Josh Hypel has proven that he doesn't. Josh Hypel needs to come and like pay SARC to do a consulting visit or something. They've been lost the last few games, but SARC knows what to do. And then also the thing with the flyover is you have to be pretty sturdy up front. And I don't know if Oklahoma is pretty good up front, but they do a lot of their work by like getting numbers up to the line to protect their defensive line. When you watch plays where their defensive tackles have played well this year in their scheme, but if you watch plays where teams have actually successfully got like a double team on somebody, they're just getting driven off the ball. And it doesn't stand out that much because Vinnables is so good at scheming to protect his guys. But I think SARC just runs them over if they try that. It could be famous last words on my part, but I doubt it. They didn't do it last year. So this one can go to both of everybody. What does this game have to look like for Brent to be on the hot seat? I mean, another 49, nothing. They did give them an anomaly extension. I don't know if the money changed. I think the years changed, but I don't know if like the money and buyout changed. It did. The buyout changed because they added two years of guaranteed money. But it's not enough about that bad. This has to look like two years ago, did I feel like I don't even think it has to be that bad for Oklahoma fans to start really coming at Vinnables? If you get handed your butt handed to you Saturday, I don't care what it. I don't think it matters. I think a 10-point win is going to have sooner fans going, "Yeah, we're probably a year or two behind where SARC is going right now. We're probably a year or two behind what their program is doing right now." And that's going to be the talk. Trust me, that will be their talk for the next month. I don't know if this game matters so much for Vinnables because he has the... I need to fire the offensive coordinator, get out of jail free card still to play. Good point. The last card of an embattled head coach that he's preserved till now. But I do think that if they get blown out by Texas, I think the rest of the season is what determines Vinnables' fate. Because if he can't whip this team into a bowl, eligible team, then at that point, I think that he's in real trouble. And that's going to be a bowl. The bag is over under a year. So they've got four wins already. They need to find two more. Number 18 in the country, they're going to a bowl. It may be the holiday bowl, but they're going to a bowl. I don't think that's a given at all. They're going to beat Maine, then they've got to beat South Carolina or Alabama or LSU. You don't know. We don't know what LSU is. The third. Or Ole Miss on the road. They've got to win one of those in Maine or Texas to get to bowl eligible. They probably will, but it could be a close thing, especially if Hawkins gets split in half in the Cotton Bowl. Now they lose that quarterback, but then again, if they lose Hawkins early, how do you not go back to Arnold? Oh, they do. They go back to Arnold. You have to. Seven and five, eight and four, six and six. I think that's the more like the order of likelihood at this point. Thanks. I would put six and six higher than eight and four. They got to win four more games to get to eight and four. That's a lot. Hey, we have different thoughts on it. This is a good one. I don't know how much we have talked about this. Are we downplaying Hawkins, never playing in this game, especially it's a true freshman? This is Quinn's third and our buddy George asked me, it's like, do you remember how many Texas true freshmen have played, you know, started at quarterback, Sam did it in 17. Who Shell did it in 16. I don't think there was a true freshman though, was he? Yeah, he was. He was. He was. You're right. You're right. He was. I think before then, there's definitely not one this century because it went like major to sin. It was a whole to the mess. Major was a red shirt freshman. Yeah. And even like Peter Gardier, four and oh, he started his red shirt freshman season. So like, I, I, I'm trying to remember if there are Texas, whether there was like talk of who shell being like, oh, is he the first true freshman to, to start in this game? And that was, you know, eight years ago. But this is big because Oklahoma just doesn't do the true freshman quarterback thing. That's big in this game, especially just when you compare it to where Quinn is very likely to be. Yeah. Listen, this is, this is new territory for Oklahoma that we've been so used in accustomed to Bob Stepp's usually having a pretty good quarterback, Lincoln Riley, having great quarterbacks to now Venables kind of meddling with their freshman quarterback. So this is, this is new territory for Oklahoma fans. They don't, they probably don't like this. If I was a sooners fan, I would hate it as a matter of fact, but you play in a freshman quarterback. This is a big deal. And here's the thing. And I think we talked about this last week. He doesn't know what he doesn't know. And so I think some of that being naive actually helps because you, you won't know the swell of intoxication once you go across that midfield. Once you get under the field, once everything starts to build up and, and you know you're about to start playing, you won't get to that point yet. So I think Hawkins is a kid that, man, if he just plays with his, with his hair on fire, he'll be just fine, but like playing a true freshman, it's just, they don't know what to anticipate. Again, he doesn't know what he doesn't know, but it just could go either way. The kid could be a pariah for the next two weeks, or he could be the big, the biggest thing in Norman for the next two weeks if he has a great game. And this is another thing for Texas. They're playing a guy that's a little untested. Now granted, he's only had a few games, but it's, it's definitely the situation you want to be in if you're a Texas fan, because one, when yours understands what this game means. Two, we've seen him thrive in it. It's definitely the match up definitely, you know, falls into the Texas category. But with Hawkins, I'm just, I think it's a dangerous thing with him being a freshman quarterback because he doesn't exactly know it yet. He can come in there with the most confidence and actually if he completes a few balls downfield, I think it's going to be an interesting game going in as they have. So so my take on this, I don't know who's going to play the ball, but my take on this is not so much about Hawkins, but about what I'm about to throw under the screen. Jaden Gibson, Jalil Peru, Nick Anderson, Andrew Allen out, Dion Burke's questionable. Who knows if he's going to play like, Hawkins is, is a good quarterback, you know, probably end up being pretty good there. He has nobody to throw to like. And so that game is going to be put on his shoulders in a way he's probably not used to in an environment. He's not used to. And like, I think it's just going to be tough sledding mostly because they just have nobody to throw to. They're going to have to get really creative and run in the football and ask him to hold up on it. And that doesn't lead itself to I mean, Sartre has talked about how there's explosive possibilities in the run game with Hawkins, but it's tough to find when you're looking at that injury report right there. What I say, Ian, I said on the live last night, like, there's a reason one of my favorite Nick Saban quotes is cover one is the best coverage in ball. And this may be a decent time to roll that out. Yep. We were talking about blitzes that could happen, you know, some because we know they're going to bring a couple of different blitzes. But do you really need to? If you're a four man front, they're in front is getting pressure. Do you really need to bring other guys? That's something that I think Texas has been able to use to their advantage this year being one of the least blitzing teams in the country. That to me is going to be a big factor. Those big boys up front can rattle Hawkins. Now you're talking about an actual blowout. Yeah. The thing is is like we've seen basically every team that's played Texas with the exception of Michigan and maybe that was hubris, maybe that was confidence, a little bit of both. But every other team has said like, we don't want to try to block Texas for or try to force our defensive or offensive line, there we go. We don't want to force our offensive line at the block Texas for like three, four, five seconds. Mississippi State trying to do the, you know, the veer without too much shoot ball control. I'm kind of curious if that's the way Oklahoma goes just because there's no one to throw to and they're the ability for that offensive line. We've barely talked about that offensive line today to block Texas for Michael Hawkins and trying to throw to those receivers, it just seems like a losing proposition. I would blitz. I think Justin's right that Texas doesn't really need to blitz this year. But I would do it just because I want to wage psychological warfare on a unproven, just now healthy, not cohesive offensive line and a true freshman quarterback and a true freshman running back. Yeah, that's not the only that's not the only guy that's going to be a freshman running out in that field. One of their main ballcat carriers is a true freshman. I'm about to say Barnes a lot because of that, but sure, I would too. I would too. But I think they're running. Yeah. We'll keep hitting him. How's it going? Can we talk about how big this Red River showdown or shootout is this year and next year potentially big Texas wins in this game could banish OU in the darkness for a decade. It's all lining up for knockout punch. I don't know about that. This is OK. This game Saturday. Yeah. Like and here's the other thing if if Oklahoma decides let's say Texas goes to an O has you know two SEC Championship appearances this year just for the sake of hypothetical Texas goes to an O these next two Red River games makes it to the SEC Championship does what ever in the playoffs like that never is going to separate the fact that Oklahoma cares a whole lot about football does not have very many down years and invest heavily both with effort and with money to try to make sure they're at the top of the sport. Like they got burned bad by timing on the last go around terribly because Lincoln Riley said no guys I'm not leaving for the LSU job. I'm going to the west coast and he brought Caleb Williams with him and they they scran that was a difficult situation where Joe Castiglione did a good job just scramble and get a guy that fit how good is that guy we haven't seen and be fantastic. I mean 10 wins is great. It's worth praise still lost to bedlam didn't make the big 12 title game like I think. I think this is a step too far this this question in my opinion it it's the ball is in their court. The only way that Texas banishes OU into the darkness for a decade is if they beat them so bad that they trigger a panic move by Oklahoma which they don't tend to do right but they would this off season in my six and six barely scratch a bowl fire the OC bringing another guy they're going to have to bring in a portal quarterback that has to happen it you could see a lot of dominoes going like what what there's there's nothing in Oklahoma's history that suggests in the 90s they hired John Blake okay that that's why I said this since now in burger they haven't had they haven't been put into a corner where they have to where you would make a panic move well what's after switzer a gap like a 10 12 year gap of just going to get into whatever they had like the Gibbs was decent not great and they're like this is not as good we got to get better and then it was like shell and burger for a year and it was a catastrophe and then Blake is a panic higher and that was a catastrophe on his hips you know what Blake you know what Blake did for Bob Stoops he's not a ridiculous cupboard of defensive talent yeah ridiculous Bob Stoops showed up a defensive minded guy and he's like oh oh towards Marshall oh Rocky Calmus Roy Williams give yeah Derek straight from Texas backyard sugar daddy with neither good one if oh you doesn't make a bowl how bad's the fall off we we should know very well that you can still recruit well that wins truck you can sell the future you can sell the future you want to play a media do the Charlie Weiss thing hey you see my crap team out there you can replace that crap right you can recruit that way it'll be okay it the big thing is the big thing is like do what do they do it all what do they do with vinnables what do they do it offensive coordinator do they keep beating bow do they change their investment in the offense in the portal it will see how those things shake out they'll still get like a top they're not going to fall below like a top 20 class they'll still have talented players and Norman all right and if they if they get their NIL you know they get a few guys off the books I think that I think they could maneuver that a little bit yeah I about to get Arnold's money freed up and how long is demonic gonna be there that'll be a chunk right another year of paying that he was a two-year guy I think so your guy oh my god Ian do you think Nansen's influence will be more present in this game given his experience versus OU last year in the alma bowl that's a good question I'm choosing to believe yes do you got to give us a little bit more I if they if they go the route that I want where they're playing man coverage and they're blitzing and attacking and loading the box that would be more Nansen then I'd so like pks wouldn't do that but Nansen would for sure do it and yeah I'm choosing to believe that the Mississippi state game plan was a little bit of a smokescreen and that they're gonna play this it absolutely was listen you know what this game you know who is made for this game on Saturday we're gonna look out he is made for this type of game this dude is gonna break somebody in half and Nansen's gonna go yeah he did his job love that one got to go back to our buddy let's get some recruiting finally do you think if Texas could somehow flip Dorian Brute from Oregon that a trio of Caleb would Caleb Chester coach Jonah Williams Caleb Chester and Dorian Brute would be sufficient for the 2025 DV class yeah I'd do it you need one more but I think you could take one more and it doesn't matter if he's a safety or a corner or you just get him in the portal later let's just oh for high school yeah yeah yeah and and I don't know how much they're gonna dig in the portal with they what they signed five corners last year I'm not sure they're gonna dig too deep in Muhammad comes back and I'm not sure they're gonna dig too deep they'll always go for a BPA always always but it's not an urgent thing with this right here it's a good question David you know I'm a big fan of Jonah big fan of Caleb Chester I like Dorian Brute I think he's a phenomenal athlete that has to sort of find his way at the college level I'm not sure if it's corner I'm not sure if it's the safety he's just a big kid he does not look like your stereotypical wiry corner he kind of looks like a young big Alabama safety to be totally honest I think it would be good but they want to bring in another corner they want to bring in a true corner a guy like Joe said they want they love the guys that can do both of the Swiss Army types the K Phillips types that one really burned because that's the type of kid they really want to replace to be honest with you and look there's there's a couple corners that they're talking to and you know that they're looking to flip that they're looking to make some hay in would this be sufficient yes only because of who they got at corner last year you got Wardo Mack and Kobe Black and all of those really good corners last year and I think they're going to build off that because those guys did make some have flashed a little bit but I don't think this would be the end of the class I think Texas wants one more true corner before they they button up the class of 2025 I'm trying to think just off the top of my head who they're losing barons going Makuba is going Gavin Holmes that's it I got you know some of those safeties can play corner Warren Roberson has played corner he's playing are a star and so it's it's it's it's I don't it would be sufficient I guess that answers the question it would but I to be in a blue is such a tweener that I would almost it if one of these corners you know I'm just saying hypothetically if a Devin Sanchez that would change this kind of a little bit but right now I think they would be happy with these three just because of who they got last year and don't they have coal for two years isn't cold or is cold one year he's got this year and next year and I think he's a kid that they may build off of he's gives it gives off a Gavin Holmes vibe you might get more from him in the second year than you might the first year I think there's just so good back there with young depth that yeah that that would be sufficient watching Jonah Williams play might be sufficient enough for the entire secondary have you seen his stuff this year he's playing like freaking Superman he is doing everything you could possibly do so go ahead Devin Williams get that big red soda let's get two more from Wayne Watson before we go through the the SEC slate a couple these are pretty quick got to think blue will come back next year with his challenges this year it said Baxter redshirt I believe with our 25 and 26 recruiting will fall perfectly in a timeline for the future yes said Baxter is redshirting I mean he's not going to play in four games so that'll be means he enters next season as a sophomore again blue well I think that kind of remains to be seen he's still got seven games eight nine ten games ahead of him and if he fixes everything he's still going to run like a four four he's still going to have probably some good play if he can fix those he has seen that picture that Texas fans love to post with be John Rose Sean Jonathan Brooks Keelan Robinson blue blue wants to be the last piece of that NFL picture like that's what his goal is and sometimes maybe if he goes this way like they go there earlier than they should but the goal for a lot of these kids is to play in the NFL he's seen that picture I think he wants to be in that picture real quick let me tell a story one time Texas had a super talented super fast running back that had a pretty good start to the season but had some fumble issues went into the Red River shootout played bad blamed it on being dehydrated and drinking too much Coke the night before and then ripped off an amazing run for the rest of the year ended up with like 1,500 rushing yards and is like going to be retired in Kansas City this Jersey Jamal Charles which game was he dehydrated no Oklahoma game which was 2007 the one that he wouldn't okay I know I'm trying to see what happened I mean there's it's probably legit no one doing small 17 carries for 79 yards in that game look if Brandon Foster could just cover Malcolm Kelly Texas wins that game that's what that game went that came down to any out of fumble yep 17 for 79 rushing yards in a fumble for Jamal Charles in the 2007 Red River shootout I bet y'all didn't remember that because what you know that 200 yards against Oklahoma State and a huge comeback win 100 against Nebraska 300 against Nebraska he went off and they got drafted so blue is not done it yet but it's not too late for you can get to a thousand yards rushing and say another you know four or five touchdowns in addition what he's got I think he goes to the NFL draft and the receiving that he offers he'll have a great case yeah he's gonna have a cake look it's one of those things if it's borderline he's going it trust me if it's just close enough I think he would go if they told him you'll go on the third fourth fifth round he would go do we know anything about Kern being questionable I was gonna ask the the the putt specialist myself that he had told me I can probably figure something like that hey I like this big foster guy I think I think the backup is Charlie Ferris and we'll see if how that goes it's not it's only to punt anyway so the backup Hunter okay they need to go back to this is this is what we know that Quinn can really be the guy we need to go back to Danny White days do y'all know who Danny White is I saw people talking about that on the board this morning okay oh really really oh that's amazing okay that that was the first that was the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys from the late 70s to the late 90s I mean late 80s and he was also their punter and it was amazing it worked fourth down let's go for it let's go for it get everybody set up and the punt return didn't know what to do he'd go back he would just punch it he would pooch it he would punt it we should go back to if it all fails listen Quinn's a pretty good you know athlete I wonder if he could do that that was always a good weapon John Elway also did the same thing honestly in the 80s there were a handful of quarterbacks that could do that Doug Flutie was another one that was really good at doing that I wonder if Quinn can kick the ball just thought I'll let you start it over but still how long are you used to do that at Westlake did he really okay I didn't see that yeah i'm actually proud same to do everything Ian thoughts on this one um they have they can have a bunch of different 46 fronts we just put five guys on the line um they had I mean there's a lot of different versions of it they could do they did one against Mississippi State where it was like broaden and sorrel or Burke outside callons at nose but then more and Hill mugged up on the guards um they could do that Auburn had one where it was like tackles edges and then the Mike linebacker mugged up on the center and he would come and hit the center but then drop back and spy Hawkins which works really well so it's something something with the five down on the line I think but there could be a million iterations of it and I hope we see a bunch do you know who the uh Auburn defensive coordinator is Kevin Steele no worse DJ Durkin god you don't like him I have I think I have a very good reason for not liking wasn't he responsible for the kid in Maryland yeah that's why Texas played Matt Canada against when they were up in Washington early and over instead of Durkin um but we don't need to talk about that that was not a fun game we can talk a little bit about the SEC slate always do this on every Thursday going through it on inside Texas on the message board and here first up South Carolina at Alabama get right game for Alabama how does South Carolina find a path to victory That whole Ryan Williams I don't know well it's Sellers out or is he back I mean he played last week but then again I thought he got dinged up he's playing but he's not the same player yeah Sellers Sellers availability turns this into a relatively close game maybe to a blow out he's he's not your Vanderbilt the boar's gonna be wanting he's gonna want blood he's not on the injury report so like look he's not a bad court he gives them a chance he gives them a shot and as long as Dylan Stewart doesn't unload the clip on someone again I think they'll be fine but it's not gonna be close if Robbie Asford plays I don't know South Carolina scores but it looks like Sellers is playing should be fun to watch the South Carolina defensive front play against Alabama but we'll see what happens elsewhere this next game looks like an old big eight basketball non-conference game this makes no sense yeah Doug Smith the power forward for Missouri comes out to play Marcus Canby the power forward for UMass this would be a great game in the 90s in the final four like I have no clue why this is being played at UMass as well if you saw Missouri last week you probably have your answer yep that's true we've obviously talked a lot about this one oh god it just feels like a lot it feels like this game that's just oh that feels like too much for a game like this there's no uh there's been times when Oklahoma was favored by that much and lost or narrowly won but the difference is that they had Mike Stoops coordinating their defense and Mike Stoops was always good for like seven points on the margin for Texas so that there's no Mike Stoops to bail him out on the Texas staff one one thing is like and I don't expect Vegas to do this like if you're the the Vegas guy you're probably like oh neutral site okay oh my numbers say this and like we can always talk about you know expect whatever but like a better program does well and that's why we're a better program better team typically does well didn't happen last year it had and there are other times when Texas is the beauty of this game right but I think that's more of a occasional aberration than a feature and that says a lot more about Oklahoma in the past 20 years and it does anything about the game Mississippi State at Georgia probably see a similar game plan that Jeff Levy rolled out a couple weeks ago trying to shorten this one and not have to suffer a 33.5 point loss let me see having a hard time at start goal year one wait till he gets uh Jackson Arnold that'll do it I don't turn things around get rid of Van Buren yeah apparently he likes Van Buren so he probably passes on blowing half his and I old budget on uh Arnold yeah well it's not well you maybe you could get for this town you're competing with a team in the state that is your rival that is absolutely thriving in NIL so it let me might want some some good points some brownie points and if you could get Arnold in there or anybody he might want to do that or he may not be there very much longer the only get a few mulligans and start blowing and that cow well cowbell starts wearing you out stick with Van Buren I would stick with Van Buren what let Marcus free I'm a legend hey I'm a let I'm with Ian let Laura Baker find him a new house when he gets fired all right florida at Tennessee florida avoided the loss to central florida Tennessee barely uh Tennessee's coming off of a no they're coming off of a loss uh at Arkansas 15 and a half in kneeland at night I feel like this is bad news coming for uh Billy Napier I'm with you on that I think Tennessee I think they cover you're right I don't think florida will have installed the flyover so this florida made a decision at quarterback or is it back to MURTS they're doing the two quarterback thing yeah which hey tip your cat Billy you're trying to be a players coach I can dig it I'm a Billy Napier fan what if Billy Napier goes to Oklahoma is OC oh man there's there's not a lot of no yeah that that would be he could find a better job that doesn't have him maybe moving again you know yeah if I'm Napier I'm not sure I want I want my head coach to be better thanables Washington state's our buckle is one to watch Oklahoma win and doubt hire the hot shot young air raid guy who else even runs uh I'm trying to think if who runs pretty hell what if Norville went back there yeah isn't he good in good shape is the head coach uh let's see he's a Colorado state I forgot yeah but like exactly like we've seen a lot of different court head coaches leave for coordinator spots in the power five they are they're two and three and they've lost to Oregon state Colorado and they've lost every power five team they've played I don't know yeah maybe you might be on something give him a call people are mentioned in Brendan Marion in the chat I think Brendan Marion may need to do some explaining on what exactly happened at you and what his role was there's some PR there to be to be tweaked yeah but he might but that might be an option so about this game right here guys this game right here I know nothing about this game no one knows anything about this game no one can successfully predict this game I have no clue what's going to happen with either one of these two teams last year it was a points fest wasn't it like 50 47 something like that with Jaden Daniels and Jaden Daniels jacks and darts show Aaron Esmer is throwing that pill around that guy is getting his name mentioned in mock drafts in the first round for next year for good reason he's always had those tools uh I just don't I don't know who Brian Kelly is I don't think they know who that the identity is then that defense is still given up chunk plays well they got hill Perkins out of there so that that should help god you never thought that that would be addition by subtraction well of course Ian did because he called that if I had I'm not placing money on games much at all but like LSU is a three and a half point dog at night in Tiger Stadium it doesn't make sense to me I don't I people mmm jacks and dart may be a little overrated that's all I'm gonna say I think and I think the sharks know that put that moonties yeah well if they did they would yeah no they then they would have LSU favorite right uh I don't know this this is just a weird one I'm I'm telling you this game is all I'd like it like the winner is going to tell us okay this is who they are the loser is going to tell us okay this is probably who they are the thing is if LSU wins this game then Ole Miss is probably knocked out of the SEC title race in a year where they're trying to win the SEC title and I wonder what how Lane keeps that together not that it's going to fall apart but how he still says like okay guys we got to make the top 11 you know we got to get there I think this is going to be a this is the kind of an important hinge point for the uh the rebels and then uh last one Vanderbilt at Kentucky I think that might be a physical game Joe could be I got that Aztec blood maybe he looks a little more like I think he's got that conquistador blood that's what he looks like the people that took out the Aztecs um I feel like both teams are going to try to whatever the whatever this is I'd take the under I bet the under I don't know man Vandy just put 40 on Bama that's true but but Vandy held the ball for 40 minutes and both teams want to do the same thing here and here's and Kentucky has shown kind of what we had talked about in the preseason they can be tricky there's good athletes there they've got some guys there it's a decent team in spite of their head coach Kentucky can you don't know which one you're going to get but on certain Saturdays Kentucky plays as good as anybody in the SEC sometimes I like Kentucky here Alabama when I watched rewatch that game they could not fit the option right to save their lives it'd be like if this guy does this then this guy needs to do that and then those two guys would never be in sync Kentucky is not going to get that wrong so Brock Vandergriff game where he rushes for 120 yards so I like Kentucky what one thing about Bama and granted I've been kind of watching this from afar as you can see Arkansas Auburn A&M all on by I guess one question I saw about Bama was that people are complaining about Kane Womack running the four two five or something like that Ian have you seen anything about that uh what for against Vandy that's what they're complaining about yes because remember saving kind of ran the three four yeah it's not the problem it's the same it's not that they're in a 45 the problem is that the defensive end and the play side linebacker or the read side linebacker on the option play we're not in sync so there's always an open gap because it'd be both guys going this way or both guys going this way when it needed to be one guy gets this one guy gets one guy gets the dive one guy gets the pitch basically and they would blow it every single time and that's why they lost I think the other thing is that with Saban and we've seen Sartre try to get there I don't want to say he's arrived arrived on that front yet but Alabama under Saban never had let down games and if they did they still found out a way to win it takes a insane amount of effort week to week day to day month to month year to year to get a hundred however many people are in your organization playing at the level week after week after week and I think that's a lesson that uh that Kallen de Borde just learned the hard way with the loss to Vanderbilt it's tough football is tough hey they're tough they're tough on their their coaches at Alabama let me tell you okay you know de Borde loses this what 13th career game as a head coach or some something silly like that and you know what they're coming at him about his wardrobe they're Bill Belichick and that guy if you're winning bill can come out looking like a slob if you're losing oh got to be Bear Bryant got a button got to get that two down a half got it it's like come on guys de Borde's probably thinking what what well life in the south a little bit different what you get when your fan base is it is its own mean it's a little bit different than South Dakota and uh Seattle but I don't think I'm breaking any news there I think Seattle's wonderful this time of year I know but he wanted to uh you wanted to get out of there when he knew he couldn't get a little pay raise so with that we've gone through the SEC we've made our last thoughts known on this so if you're here make sure you like this video subscribe to the channel of course if you're not over on inside Texas already use promo code IT1 to get two months for just one dollar gentlemen appreciate a ton we'll see you next time on the inside Texas football youtube channel powered by inside texas.com
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