Welcome to this edition of Inside the Program brought to you by the Inside Texas Football YouTube channel. I'm your host Justin Wells with me as always Eric Nolene. Hey, 24 hours E. In 24 hours we have a spring game. We have gone through all the spring practices and now we get the actual nitty-gritty good stuff weather permitting. Please, first off, like and lock this video. Subscribe to the Inside Texas Football YouTube channel. Help us keep climbing to get to that 7,000 mark. Also, come see us at InsideTexas.com. Use a promo code IT1 to get you two months of Inside Texas.com for only a dollar. That's 50 cents a month. There might be inflation, but not at Inside Texas. We're about deflation. We want to give the people what they need. Eric, let's just jump into it, man. This has been a fun spring. We've been killing it with the practice reports and now we get to dig into the fun stuff on Saturday. Again, weather permitting. Let's go through this last practice yesterday and just go through the positions and empty our notebook on what we saw Thursday or rather we'd heard about Thursday and then basically what we want to see on Saturday. I'm going to start off with quarterback play. I'm going to hand it off to you. Quinn, yours, Arch Manning, Trey Owens, go. We had a brand new bystander at practice yesterday and you always love a fresh set of eyes. You tend to hear the same things, the same biases, if you have the same source over and over and over. We had a fresh set of eyes yesterday. It was Letterman Day. We started to hear some things that were maybe a little bit different but very similar in some regards. What I love to hear about the quarterbacks was that, yeah, Arch and Quinn, they look pretty good, look pretty poised. This guy said that Quinn was making throws even against good coverage. There's nothing you can do about it. Last time we saw the DBs, that was the case with Mike Rapinix but you love to hear about Quinn who I think is about to take the next step and really blow up. I'm not alone in that assumption but I really think that Quinn is about to take off and maybe be in the Heisman race, maybe be in competition for that top five draft pick next year. It looks like he's poised to make that move but this bystander was really impressed by the throws he was making and that kind of goes with what we've heard throughout spring. And also of note, we don't expect Quinn, yours to play a whole lot Saturday. I think it'll be a couple series maybe and then he's going to put on the headset and get a juice box. It might just be one series. If you're wearing your Quinn yours jersey tomorrow, don't expect to see a whole lot of him. Once you have SARC's trust, you're not going to play a lot. That's it. You know, Jadae Barron has not had a very enthusiastic spring. He's just like a coach on the field and I think Quinn has that trust of SARC to where, you know, you're going to see a ton of arches. Now, if you're an arches man, you stand, that's fine. You're going to see a lot of him. It's not going to be indicative of anything other than the fact that Quinn yours is a starter on the team and he's had a good spring. And I'm actually eager to see a little bit of a Trey Owens. We've heard some good stuff from sources in the program about Trey and, you know, we were always a big fan of him at Inside Texas. So I'm kind of eager to see what number 15 is going to do with the pill on Sunday. My, yeah, a source yesterday said, you know, he's going to look a little mechanical, a little robotic at times, but he's going to make some throws that really catch you off guard and go, man, he's definitely got it. He's, you know, he's going to be a deer in headlights. He's just a true freshman. I remember last year where arches look like he was a deer in headlights. SARC starts stacked the deck against him. But yeah, Trey is going to make some throws that you're like, Oh, okay, now you get it. But he's, you know, he's going to be a little, he's going to look like a freshman, but you'll see the talent tomorrow. I think we'll see a lot of arch. And arch is going to impress. Arch is going to do some things. You're like, Oh, you forget that he's an athlete. He's an athlete. But again, you know, Quinn years is the starter. But it's going to be fun. It'll, it'll add a new element to the spring game. I think getting to see so much of the future. The running back position is next up. And that's a room that's got a lot of bodies. But it's really the Baxter and Blue show or Blue and Baxter. I'm not real sure the order of that just yet. But those are the two guys that I think are your top tier guys. Those guys are going to be sharing carries. I think we could see a lot of Trey Weisner on Saturday and also Christian Christian Clark and Jared Gibson. Kind of what are you hearing the last remnants of the running back room pre spring game? Well, you know, it's interesting. Jared Gibson got some carries with the twos earlier in the week. So I think we'll see a lot of him and Clark as well. You know, they're not going to, he's not going to play Jayden Blue a ton. I don't think, you know, Jayden Blue is, and I think even Baxter is the same way as there. They're kind of indispensable for what Sark wants to do in this upcoming season. So I do think we'll see a lot of Weisner. Weisner, Weisner, this is probably going to be a big time for him. And he's going to flash for sure. But we'll see a lot of the freshmen. You know, it's a deep room, talented room. They've had a good spring. The freshmen have impressed. They don't look like your typical freshmen. Not just from a physical standpoint, but they're sort of in the run game. So I'm looking forward to seeing the running backs for sure. Yeah, Gibson, Gibson's yoked. That dude is big, man. Yeah, I asked the buddy, I was like, you know, does he look bigger? Does he play big? And he's like, no, he plays big. So that's what you want to hear, right? I mean, a lot of times muscles are for show, but you want it to, you want it to, you know, effectuate downhill, you know, be assertive, run downhill with, with physicality. And he's been doing that. So that it's exciting to hear about, uh, about Bigson, Bigson, Gibson. There you go. And also it's going to give him, you know, durability. We've learned, you know, the heavier sometimes it tends to help them health wise throughout the course of an entire season. She's shifting a wide receiver. There's the usual suspects. Isaiah Bond, John Tay Cook, Ryan Wingo. This week, couple of sources told me DeAndre Moore and Matthew Golden had a good week this week. And so now you got five guys and we know how stark is with that short bench at wide receiver. Are those in your mind, the five guys that we could probably expect in 2024? And are there any names that you can expect to maybe see a handful of plays from on Saturday? Well, I wouldn't be surprised by a flash player too, by by Wingo. You know, Sark is, uh, you know, Sark loves when he has these new offensive toys that he can use, uh, in the playbook. And he's been talking up Wingo a lot. So he's going like, well, I better, I better cash this check and call some players for Wingo. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see a whole lot of Bond. I've heard, you know, I had a long phone call yesterday, as you know, regarding John Tay Cook. And, uh, you know, he's had a good spring too. Everybody thinks he's right on time, uh, poised for a big year. You know, I just think they're gonna whip the ball around. A lot of guys are gonna get a look at it. You know, we'll probably see some Parker Livingstone. It's a spring game, right? You know, they're gonna play a lot of the younger guys. The whole thing is, it's gonna be, hey, get the fans out. Let's have some fun. Uh, let, let a lot of the younger guys that have worked a lot throughout spring, uh, you know, get a chance to show what they can do. We're going to, it's, it's going to be, we're going to see the whole roster tomorrow for sure. Uh, I'm looking forward to Wingo. You know, you've talked about it in, in, in a couple breakdowns. Um, but yeah, I, I don't think we'll see a ton of bond. I don't think the, the need is there. Uh, I don't think we'll see a ton of golden. Uh, you know, I could be wrong. Um, but you know, it's a short bench, but it's a talented bench. The beauty also you said, sorry, likes to play with new toys for, for, for guys like us. I like to have new nicknames for so, during game games. So we got, we got Parker romancing the Livingstone. Oh, great movie. And we've got Ryan Wingo on a prayer. And so I think we've got something to work with. We're, we're like SARC. We like to be creative. We like to buy it from others a little bit to make it our own. So tied in. Not a lot to say there. Gunner, him, Amari and I black and everybody else. Any other notes or anything of interest? Do you want to add to that? You know, while Davis has had a really good spring, uh, I don't want to, uh, him to get lost in the shuffle. He's had his best spring. He's a, he's, he's a talented receiver. I mean, you know, we saw it in his very first spring, I think, uh, where he caught a ball over the middle and just shot up field and you can just see the burst and that athleticism is still there. Um, so I want to see one man. I'm a Juan Davis fan. I'm a fan of anybody that sticks in the program and waits their time. It shows, it shows a certain level of maturity. It shows a certain level of the, of the school and the program. Hey, this is the place I want to be. Uh, so I'm hoping to see some, uh, some Juan Davis and I wouldn't be surprised if he, if he makes a big player to because, you know, he's, he's a, he's a legit talent that just hasn't really had his chance yet. He definitely has that athleticism and that's like you said, you know, any guy that sticks around, you got it. You got to like that because he's, he, he, they're working, he's working to keep that position, to keep that scholarship yearly. Uh, we're going to finish with the offensive line because that to me, if that group keeps growing and maturing like they have over the last few years, that's going to be one of your strengths in the program heading into the SEC, the first year. The 10 spots is what they want to have down. You know, starting ones, one, the left tackle, the right tackle, then the starting twos. Um, we think there's going to be about seven or eight guys that they're going to rely on. And so, you know, let, let, what are things you want, you know, without us really going into a depth chart, what are guys, what are you wanting to see from like certain positions? Like for me, I want to see what Trevor Goosby looks like playing some left tackle and some right tackle because it sounds like he's the number three guy behind Kelvin Banks and Cam Williams, at least at this moment. I'm curious to see that. What about you? What are you kind of looking for from that bunch? Yeah, I just want to see those guys blow everybody off the ball. You know, if they're playing the first team defensive line or the second team defensive line, there were probably ones versus twos, you know, that Sarcs not going to want to give us too much. Um, just blow everybody off the ball. You know, that, that's the force multiplier in the program outside of coordinate quarterback in this 30 year is the offensive line. You know, that's going to make everything easier on the offense, you know, the run game, the passing game. Let's see them blow everybody off the ball with the, you know, give these talented running backs in space. And then I'll have confidence that, you know, the offense is going to do what we all expect it to do. We're going to shift over to defense and easily the most important spot on the team, on the defensive side. That's the defensive line. You've got Alfred Collins and Vernon Broaden. You know what you have in those guys. After that, it, it, there's, it muddies the water a little bit. There's some, there's definitely players there, but there's some, there's some things to be sorted out at this point, which is also going to be why we talk about the transfer portal here, just in a minute, because defensive tackles are, are definitely something that, that, that they're going to go portal hunting for and, and something we have talked about at, at nauseam. You know, after Collins and Broaden, what, what are you wanting to see from this bunch? And if I hear the word run fits one more time in a practice report, I don't know what I'm going to do. Yeah, I mean, the problem with that is, you know, we write these reports one after another. And the importance is that you, you have these themes, you know, everything that, that becomes a theme is something that you have to watch for going to the off season further, further into the off season. And then in August, we're going to watch it again. And then if we're starting to hear about it, if we're still hearing about it late in August, going into September, you're like, Oh, this is going to be a problem. This is going to be something that they have to figure out on the field. So I'm not going to use that term that you don't want me to use, but you know, that's something that we have to watch for, for sure. I think help is on the way via the portal. I'm not super scared about it. And I think also good coaching is going to be continued with Johnny Nansen and the linebackers. I think there's just, you know, I think Nansen is teaching the run fits a little differently than Cho did. And so I think there's a little bit of, you know, the new, the linebackers are just getting used to his coaching style. I'm not worried about it. Everybody thinks Nansen's a stud coach, detail oriented. He's going to get it figured out. The players are going to get it figured out. It's not something I'm worried about beyond defensive tackle. And then with defensive tackle, I'm not really really worried about it because, you know, again, we cover the portal very closely. And, you know, something that has been a positive note, the spring has been the edge play. It's been the one spot that really Sark wanted to upgrade. And they, it seems that they've done that in spades. You got the usual suspects, Baron Sorrell, Ethan Burke, which we've heard Trey Moore doing a lot of stuff. Colin Simmons, that's going to be a guy I think not only we want to see on Saturday, but fans really want to see, you know, donning that number 11. What is the edge spot? What do you want to see coming up, you know, from the spring game from that position? Yeah, it's a team strength. You know, they are they're getting pass rush on Thursday. You know, the Letterman practice, you know, Joe Cook wrote some good notes about it is that, you know, first second team edges are getting a pass rush. It doesn't matter if they're going against first team, offensive tackle, second team, offensive tackle. You know, they're getting in the back, in the backfield. I feel good about that group. You know, I actually feel good about them against the run as well. I think that's actually going to help out the the run, not the run fits. I don't want to say that, but, you know, it boxes in the run. It makes it more predictable. Well, I'm backers where nowhere to go. There, you know, the ball is going to funnel a certain place is predictable places. You want predictable run, not fits, but you want those predictable running lanes for the for the back, back seven to fill. I feel good about the edges. You know, they've had a they've had a really good spring, a lot of pass rush, good against the run. It's a mature group. It's a talented group. So I think that I think that position is right on time. It's going to be a team strength. Anthony Hill replaces Jalen Ford at Mike Becker. You got David Ben to coming back for a sixth year. That's a locker room guy. That's a guy that's progressed a little bit. It feels like every season after that, you know, I'm hearing Leona Lofal is a guy that we want to see. Nobody ever mentions Maurice Blackwell. I don't understand it. There are three linebackers the way they look at it. And then Leona, now that they love Leona. So I don't want to leave him out now. Right. I mean, him as a backup to Hill. Yeah, yeah, as a backup to Hill, for sure. Yeah, Maurice is going to play a lot. They love Maurice, the energy, the physicality's got more size. Yeah, you know, Ben has had a good spring. Anthony Hill's the best linebacker on the team. So we have to get ready for this reality where, you know, he's probably a three-year player, very talented, you know, coachable. He just, you know, every practice he's, every practice he comes out a better player. And he's a stud talent. So that's exciting. That's what you want to hear. It's what we're hearing about a lot of these guys, Ryan Wingo. Every practice he's better after it, you know, the quarterbacks. Every practice they're better after it. So get this, get this elite talent and develop them. And you start to have a really good team. Anthony Hill is part of that. We can't forget about Blackwell. This is a kid that loves the Steve Miller band because when they say call me Maurice, that's when a guy comes out and he's ready to go. That has to be one of the most overrated songs of all time. Don't hold that against him, Texas fans. It's early. It's early. We're going to continue. I'm going to knock that. Let's go to cornerback because we can't have that. We're going to go to cornerback. Manny Muhammad. We got Gavin Holmes. We've got Terrence Brooks. You got the young ones. What are you looking for in that position? Because I feel like Manny Mahomes by the end of the season is going to be a top three or four player in this program. Yeah. Yeah. Muhammad, yeah. He was the best player on the field last Saturday during that scrimmage. So I wouldn't be surprised if that was at the same case. I don't think, you know, some of these guys were just not going to see a lot of, you know, we'll see Muhammad. Don't get me wrong. I just don't think that he's going to play a lot because, you know, what's the point? You know, he's he is already one of the top 10, 15 guys. Yeah. Yeah. What's the point? And he doesn't need the reps because he's been he's been training like a pro since he was a sophomore in high school. So it's not like he's a guy that you're like, Hey, we need to see what he's going to do. We'll turn on. You know, I mean, I've heard good things about Gavin Holmes. You know, people said that he's a better player than he was last year. Terrence Brooks. He's a good player as well. I'm looking forward to see the young guys, the freshmen. You know, they got a couple freshmen in the program. You know, let's see what they can do. Give me some Kobe Black. Give me some Wardell Mack. Give me some red shirt freshman Warren Roberson because we know this guy can make plays when they put him off you. Well, I should mention that. Yeah. Roberson was mentioned yesterday with a source I talked to and said, you know, he had a quiet spring. It's like, no, no, you know, it's okay. Warren's doing better in the last few weeks. He's coming on. They love Warren. His upside is he's part of the most athletic DB in the program. And if you're the most athletic DB in the program like Texas, you're a legit athlete. We'll see very little of Jay Barron. How big has Jalen Gilbo been this spring at that nickel spot? Yeah, I wouldn't just say the spring, you know, I always love these tidbits where, you know, and this goes back to like Quinn two years ago. We're like, Oh, wow, the lights coming on for this guy. You were you led that charge. We're like, Hey, look, you know, he's taking things a little bit more seriously. We've done that before with with with other guys. You know, we knew to Von Dre sweat was was turning over. And so with Jalen and Sark Sark mentioned this a couple of weeks ago where it's like, Hey, it's good to have you back. And you know, there's a lot of negative space in in our coverage and not negative like we're negative towards the players like there's just nothing there. We don't write about the guy for a long time. And when you do write about him, then that means that he's coming on like there's there's actually the lights on this guy serious that he's ready to go. And we were talking about this in our text chains and all this like I'm trying to figure out, Hey, what's the deal? Why is why is the light coming on for him now? He just sees opportunity. I think, you know, you know, barons play in a more corner. Barons got a quiet spring because they know what he can do. The lights coming on because of opportunity. And that's that's that's usually that or money is a reason like I'm getting ready to go in the draft. I'm looking forward to see Jalen Gilbo, you know, it's he's he's always been a talented player. He came in, you know, the first month or two is on campus. Everybody's talking about the talent he is. So that's an exciting development. You know, you want to see that guy. We don't need to see Janae Baron. We know what he can do. Bring it on. Bring it on. Yeah, give me a safety you want to see. I mean, you know who I want to see. Jelani McDonald, give me give me a give me a safety you want to see in this bunch. Derek Williams, you know, I mean, I want to see you know, you know, I kind of led the charge on, you know, we took so much shrapnel, talking about how good TAF played versus Baylor election. That's where I felt like, Oh, wow, this guy is actually probably the best safety in the program. I want to see him is he bigger and faster because, you know, he gets so much, he gets the it's the back end compliment where he's, you know, he's the coach on the field. You know, I want to see is he bigger and faster because if he's bigger and faster, that's that's a pretty good player. You know, John Wilson, John Williams was talking about him, not too long about him. Like, you know, he's something to watch. So I do want to see is he bigger and faster. Okay. You know, but also Derek Williams, because he's he's just a different talent back there. You know, size speed, you know, this is like he's an NFL guy. He's a he's a three year talent, Mandy Mahomet, three year talent, Anthony Anthony Hill, three year talent. I want to see the three years talent guys play like it. I want to see a little bit of Makuba. I want to see what I want to see what Makuba looks like. I kind of want to see where there were, you know, his versatility. I don't think we'll see a ton of him, but you know, that remains to be seen. I'll tell you someone else who's a coach on the field. He's also a coach in the courtroom. That's Andre the lawyer. Listen, he's located in Dallas, Texas and he helps out injured Longhorns with car wrecks, slip and falls, 18 wheeler accidents on the job injuries, wrongful deaths. Andre is a proud member of inside Texas. And if you're hearing this, he wants to help you. Give him a call at 214-444-8808. Andre the lawyer, that's the guy you need. If you get stuck Longhorns, give him a call. He's going to help you out. Andre the lawyer at 214-444-8808. The best portion of the show is right now, and that's portal talk because it's all portal right now. And something you had learned a few days ago, we knew about the defensive tackles. We knew that they're going to go after a handful. But you're hearing now that they may go for that BPA, a best player available. They're all in on this 2024 season. They could be a little bit more active than we originally thought. What's the latest? And I'm talking Wild Bill Norton. I'm talking Jay Twau. I'm taking all these guys. What are you hearing? Yeah, I mean, they're going to be super aggressive. You know, everybody, Texas fans forever have had the fever dreams of a fully weaponized Texas. And I'm not going to say that they're going to get everybody they want, but they are being super aggressive. They understand that this year is a championship window. And so, yeah, I mean, we wrote the other day, they might take three defensive tackles. I don't know if it's going to work. Work out that way. But I feel good about Norton. I think Toya, they've got a good chance for him. The UCLA guy, some people think he's the best defensive tackle in the portal, even outside of Dominic Williams. They're going to be on Dominic Williams. I mean, it's, you know, that's why, to me, that's why I said earlier in the show that it doesn't matter to me what the run look like because it's going to look different in August. You know, they're bringing in guys, they understand that the hole in the program, they got to plug it. You know, it's that Sark inherited the best defense that the best position that Sark inherited was detackled. And that's not what he still has. And so they've got to fix it. They're committed to fixing it. They think they can win a national championship this year and they're going to go all in. Guys, there's one other thing you need to know. And that's Posse East on Saturday, 2900 Deval Street. Come see us. Inside Texas is going to be their rain or shine. After the scrimmage, we are going to be on hand. You're going to see Eric Nalene, Justin Wells, Joe Cook, a ton of inside Texas members and fans. You're going to see probably some players, parents, you're going to see a good mixture of a group. And we're going to have a good time. Eric, what's one thing these fans need to expect from us in 24 hours on Deval Street? You know, I mean, there's so many things that I can say in person that I can't say on YouTube or, you know, not yet. So if you, if a question has been weighing on your mind for all these year, why, why didn't this player pan out? Why don't you know, I'll, you know, me, Justin, we'll have those answers for you. Yeah, come on. It's going to be a really good time. 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Chapters:
00:00 Quarterbacks
03:55 Running Backs
05:36 Wide Receiver
07:37 Tight End
08:47 Offensive Line
09:54 Defensive Tackle
11:45 Edges
13:12 Linebackers
14:42 Corners
16:09 Nickel
17:35 Safety
19:25 Portal Defensive Tackles
