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IT Live (11/25): Kentucky Takeaways, A&M Rivalry Returns
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I thought Texas in the first half looked pretty solid, jumped up to a pretty good lead, then kind of like your reference here a little bit ago or just a second ago. A third quarter in consistency started to kind of get there, you know, you started to see a little bit of a, with that new bully, I believe, was the last time. Yeah, the quarterback. Hey, you know, you started to actually see some explosive pass plays with Texas as, that's pretty been alien for us, Texas fans, to be able to see that happen against us. But then the fourth quarter, we went back to, you know, being in dominant Texas team and really, in my opinion, this is probably the last few weeks has just continued to trend up in the run game. And this was probably the most dominant we've ever looked all year long. Yeah, 100% Eric, what do you think? Yeah, I mean, it was foreign to see Jadae Barron with an assignment bus and I thought happening in real time too, he got so greedy going to come down and make a play. You know, if that, if he goes to that receiver and the ball gets tipped up, Jadae's got to play on it. But I mean, that receiver was already taken out of the play by the other guys playing coverage underneath. So that was funny, Jelani McDonald, I think it was McDonald had an assignment bus that he made up for it with the Superman interception later. But my main takeaway, this is why I was, you know, I was trying to write an articles left and right in the morning because I was just so excited about the run game. You know, I love that physical domination, Trey Wiser, the only guy that felt like you needed to take care of the ball. You know, I think he earned their trust with that game a lot more. They fed him quite a bit. I love that, that one series when all they did was run it, what, 15 times? Just utter domination and put the game away. Yeah, third quarter was very weird, man. This team can get so out of whack mentally that it's inexplicable. I don't know how that happens. I mean, Jared Gibson comes in, it's like grandpa Simpson, me, when he comes in, puts his hat on the rack, fumbles the ball, turns around, grabs his hat and goes right back out the door. We didn't see him again. That was just a wild sequence with all the fumbles. You know, Quinn was obviously playing through pain, but that doesn't explain some of what was happening. So they got to figure out that they can't, they can't have those giveaway quarters when they play Georgia, you know, if they get to play Georgia again. But overall, love what I saw in the first half, Quinn was back to his normal self on some of those NFL throws. You know, we saw a lot of those in September, he had at least two NFL throws that Gunnar Helm touched down, had the group chat going wild, but it was good to see that. They just got to play more consistent. The defense had a couple of issues, but they played overall, they played very well again. So it's a good team win, other than that third quarter. Yeah, I rewatched it last night. I was like, what is going on, man? It was almost just like, it was such an aberration and so weird that I couldn't even get upset with it. Coach, we're just talking about our top line thoughts of the Kentucky game. What do you think? You made it come. Still having issues with it? Yeah. All right. We'll see you later. I'll say this, man. You know, you know, the game that this really reminded me of is a, it reminded me of the Washington game. How we fumbled twice in the third quarter coming out, except for it was just different circumstances. It wasn't as tight going into the second half. We had a bigger lead play with, but I was just watching some like, look at this kind of a drive sheet. I'm like, you know what? This, this doesn't matter. We didn't even, our offense didn't even see the field on the third quarter. I don't, how do you correct that level of fumbling, because it's not like they're not doing drills, right? Well, like, so that's what I was saying about yesterday, like coach choice, you got to be listening to everything and like, what, what do I do, you know, like, it's fumbling. That's one of those things where I like, you just, you just don't fumble. You know, like you just hold on, like, hold on to the ball, right? It's like, you know, they talk about the fundamentals. Steve Sarkeesian could teach you the fundamentals forwards and backwards. You know, that one blue fumble, what he barely broke the plane, I don't fault him there, man. There's, he had nothing to protect the ball again. He was trying to make a touchdown there. The other stuff, I think Drew Kelson had a good point on the, on the post game broadcast where he says, just the way he runs, he runs like a sprinter with the ball away from his body. It doesn't run like a running back with the balls tucked underneath, he got three fingers over the cone, you know, hand above the elbow, you know, keep it up high and tight. He runs more like a sprinter and the ball is exposed that way. And Jerry Gibson's, you know, what do you explain that for? He comes in, uh, the madness of Arby ensued and then he just fumbles right away as well. Yeah, that was the last, it literally arked in the air. It was the most dramatic way to fumble to just shut up. They've also tried the social shame, you know, make them carry the ball around all, all day or whatever at school and yeah, it's like, they've, I don't really know what you do. So it's a choice just being like, guys, I, I really mean it this time, knock it off. But I think that final drive was them being able to, uh, to have put a ton of faith in wise, put, put their nose down, you know, just beating the opponent. Yeah. So as far as the comments, you're going to have to pull up the actual live because for whatever reason, the past three days stream yard is not populating our comments to pull up. They're there on YouTube. So chat, we can see it. If you pull up the actual live and mute it, you can see the chat. But for whatever reason, stream yards tripping out and not showing us comments like the past three days. Okay. It's been a lot of fun. Uh, Mr. 512 hook them, Jacob hook them. And then Jacob also says, Nash out here doing the Lord's work condensing the game for us. And then Blake Bryant, that was against a good physical front from Kentucky as well. Very promising. I thought that they were physical, but I thought they like were really half-accident too. Like I didn't like Kentucky, those gaps were incredibly wide. It just felt like Kentucky was kind of phoning it in, not taking away from what we did. I thought we had an awesome blocking game, but that wasn't the Kentucky D line trying their best. They had, they've seen kind of reserved to their fate in that game, especially when you got to bench your quarterback, like they were just kind of like going through the motions at some level, but the new quarterback came in and got a game with shot in the arm, I felt. Oh, yeah. He did. I'll say you could, it remind like as much as I was a Shane Michelle guy back in the day, it reminded me of one Sam Lumber got put into the game versus one Shane, because the team was just flat when Shane was out there. But when Sam was out there, you could actually like you could see like the Texas players like that. They were just playing with more juice. Yeah. And he, he made, dude, he made even some throws. He didn't complete. We're nice throws. And like so much that it's a young quarterback, some of that stuff you don't throw as an older quarterback because it's risky. So he would surprise the defense a couple of times because they're like, wow, actually threw that with three of us around this guy, but he almost, almost completed it a couple of times too. So I think Kentucky quarterback has a bright future. Of course, Florida, we've got an interesting, a lot of young quarterbacks this season for us. But I think the SEC has some, some bright future guys that are going to be interesting. Eddie, Eddie here secondary got beat on some lazy defense on Texas. Texas will need to fix that for Saturday. Yeah. I don't think he was lazy. I thought it was a little selfish, you know, today trying to make a play. Yeah, I wouldn't say they were lazy. You even saw that with a Malik Muhammad to him one place. Yeah. You could literally see him start to go, Oh crap, I need to get back there for that. Yeah. But as you see in picks, baby, we got the what the Trayvon digs disorder. We're tied for number two in the nation. Yeah. Let them, let them have that, that game against Kentucky and, and it'll, it'll, don't refocus them for sure. You know, Jay Barron, you know, the second he caught caught inside, he knew it. That's not a guy you even need to go coach up and tell him what he did or all. He knows it before, before anybody, um, don't be all right. You'd like to see those mistakes in a game like that, then the higher stakes games they have coming out there. Every game from here on out is a huge stakes. Well, hey, and you know what, if we're in a position where our best cornerback, a bad game is one reception for 43 yards. I'm going to take that. I'll take that. Yeah. I like that. And he didn't even get, that was to Barry and Brown, man. If the quarterback would have put that not near the sideline variance score in there. So also Jada got lucky there too, I was able to catch up. Did y'all notice when I was rewatching last night, they were going after Gilbo a little bit. Did y'all notice that? Yeah. It also made a nice play on the, uh, Barry and Brown target. Yeah. On the sideline one where he, he smacked it down. He didn't PI, but they were picking on Gilbo a little bit, which I thought was interesting. Yeah. There's not a lot of places to go, but nobody to pick on, uh, uh, Gilbo's been good this year. He's had, I think, uh, that was maybe one of his rougher games. Mississippi state was not, uh, to his standard, but for the most part, Gilbo's been really good too. You know, they've been, but the whole secondary was just kind of an aberration. It kind of caught me by surprise. I was like, whoa, what was that? We haven't seen that the entire year. Yeah. So like gosh said, if you get beat and it's 43 yards, that's, you know, you're not going to, it's not, now we're dwelling on for too long. Well, I think Baron too is like, didn't realize that the young quarterback doesn't realize that he's Jada Baron. Sometimes when you're a good corner, you can be super lazy because you look quarterback's just going to not throw your way. Well, a freshman quarterback doesn't know who Jada Baron is. And he's throwing that. And I think he's surprised Jada a little bit, uh, with that that was interesting. You know, one thing that I really liked was that they're, uh, they're run told, not some of this is also aided by a bunch of sack numbers, but, uh, Jamari and Wilcox, he busts out an 18 yard run first run of the game. And then he has 50 yards total for the, for the day. So defense that, you know, it was that the first, the first really drive that, uh, Kentucky had, you could tell like in the middle of the drive, it was like, Hey, we need like, we got a bigger stand. We got a better standard here. 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I'm going to say it's Vanderbilt, man. He's been dominant. Yeah, he's, he's been on a heater since Vanderbilt, uh, and he was playing well before that. We kind of knew it was a time, only a matter of time before he broke out, but he is technically sound on playing these running quarterbacks. And guess what? That's going to be massive this week. Uh, Trey Moore's, uh, discipline playing these quarterbacks that run, uh, he's, he's been awesome. He's been awesome. Baron Sorrell. Very good game. And then Colin Simmons maniac. Um, Ethan Burke, you know, he got, Ethan Burke got up field a, a time or two, uh, gave a lane for the running back or the quarterback to, uh, run out, found a receiver in the flat. He's got to play that, uh, tighter, can't create that lane. But for the most part, the edges played extremely disciplined and aggressive at the same time. You don't know. It's usually one or the other. Yeah. And I'm, I'm so happy for Trey Moore because early in the year, like it for people, that was one of the frustrating things was to see fan some, see some people go, you know, where's Trey Moore? He's out there. He's playing. Like if you're watching the game, right? He's like, he's this close to just getting a couple sacks or, you know, he's making impact, but it's just not showing up in the box for, he's causing interception to get thrown to somebody. But then these last few games, man, he's just been, it's just been getting put all together. And you're, you're starting to see the guy that, you know, was kind of advertised to us. Yeah. And he's, his confidence too, man. Like on that roll out. He didn't bite on bully. Like when you rewatch and just pay attention to more of his get off a super fast, he's incredibly aggressive in the run again. He knows what he's seeing. And now he's starting to get some of the concrete sacks too. So more like we said, since Vanderbilt, I think has been, yeah, that's what I was just thinking since it's Vanderbilt, yeah, he's been like on fire and a dominant force. And then I was watching again, Colin Simmons, dude, like his get off is, I mean, so many times I'm like, man, is that off sides? I'm like, no, he's just able to time it that well. No, it literally can't get better. Like I'm like, I was doing, I was doing a video for Kieran and like, I'm, I'm. I got so mad because Adobe, I had, I had the windows automatic refresh for like the restarts you compete. I lost the project. And I was like, I'm not going to, I'll just, I'll just read it at the end of the year, but I was looking. I'm like, holy crap, the amount of times that Colin Simmons is he's sitting still. And then the next, like, so the ball, the ball, same still ball moves. That's the first frame that you see Colin Simmons with, I'm like, you literally like all my computer, you can't like a 30 frame, it's 30 frames, right? Yeah. You literally cannot, you can't, you have to go frame by frame to even see if he, and he's not getting off sides. He's just, he's timed it up to the little exact frame that the ball is being moved. Yeah. And like that's just like such superhuman level stuff that we're going to see. Colin Simmons is a very special talent that like, I was just like that, that's why you see tackles look like they haven't played football because it's like they're, they're literally trying to run out there for trying to drop in their pass, pass set. They're like, why is he over there? Yeah. That's such a huge advantage because then there, then their technique breaks down, you know, and then you kind of got them on their heels. You can do what you want with them to be a power comes to bear more. Yeah. He's, he's just hands good a couple of times in recent weeks as well, you know, knocking down the tackles hands and fighting them off. He's, once he, once he refines that technique with the natural guess, he's going to be unstoppable. And, you know, I've been comparing them to Will Anderson since he was in high school. Will Anderson went third overall. I think we're going to see something similar out of column. We might. If arch man comes back for a second year, we could, we could easily see a situation where arch goes number one, Colin goes number two. Yeah. Quarterback. So I think, I think arch will play two years and then you'll have lagway coming out. Maybe Rayola. Uh, that's going to be, that's going to be interesting to see maybe Nico. Uh, so call, yeah, Colin, but Colin's going, I mean, if he just keeps developing like this, we know it will cause he works. Um, yeah, he's going to be a top five draft. Well, and then not only that, but like this is defense event is one of those NFL positions where that they get paid, they get paid for the long run too. So yeah, it's the opposite of what's going to happen with Anthony Hill, although his, his ability to get after the pass is going to boost his draft career, but you know, they, they've diminished the value of linebackers, which hurts Anthony a little bit. Colin has the opposite effect where they, there's a priority for him. Um, but yeah, Anthony and I wrote this morning, they need to give that guy some running back carry so we can get some novelty, uh, exposure across the nation. The two way player, uh, you know, just to blow up his profile, but Anthony's going to go in the next season as part of the highest profile player in college football on the defensive side, obviously not on the offensive side, but I don't, I can't think of another defender that'll have a higher profile next year than Anthony Hill. And he had another monster game Saturday as well. Dude, he used a psychic attack on Brock Vandegrip. He didn't even touch him. That one where he went to a gap and he just went down. Yeah. That's when I knew van, it was over for Vandegrip. I was like, yeah. He goes like this with his hands and just like weighs down the bowl. He doesn't actually have to hit people anymore. He just has to run really fast at them. And then there's been a couple of times where he just sat him down, like having to buy the shoulders and place them on the ground. So let's just do it this way. Well, I think what happened was they saw, they saw a freshman at the Hill sumo Russell Bert, not so, uh, Suplex dude to the ground and they're like, you know what? I got, I got business career. Just as businesses make, you know, that it has one of the biggest separations between his off field, happy, go lucky personality and his field personality. Well, honestly, that's, well, isn't that like one of the best ways to, to determine like an actual, just like psychopathic killer, because like it's like, it's like, it's like, it's one of the funny things. Like you look at Indomachus, right? He's out there like stomping on dudes spaces. Like he's like, looks like one of the nastiest people you'll ever meet. And then like off the field, he's just like everybody that talks about him. They're like, oh yeah, he's like the nicest big player in the world. And you're like, that guy? Yeah. No, no further than Derek Johnson, man. He's an absolute terror on the football field, uh, was the man between the tackles playing for the Chiefs forever. And then off the field, he's as nice as it gets. I mean, just cordial, happy guy. My favorite thing, my favorite clip of anything Hill is the one from the recruiting. I think it was like the all American game. He just absolutely lays it dude out. And he's like, oh, sorry. Like the, the microphone. Basically like guy hasn't hit the ground yet. He's like, Oh, my bad. My bad. I'm sorry. Oh, man. Dude, he's funny. Before we keep going, y'all, let's hear a word from Andre, the lawyer. This video is brought to you by Andre, the lawyer. If you're injured, trust the team that secured millions for their clients and help thousands of Texans with their injury case, car wrecks, slip and falls, 18 Wheeler accidents on the job injuries and wrongful deaths. Don't let insurance tell you what your claim is worth. Hire Andre, the lawyer to fight for you. Principal offices in Dallas, but they serve Texans throughout the state. So don't wait and call Andre, the lawyer today at two, one, four, four, four, four, eight, eight, zero, eight. That's two, one, four, four, four, eight, eight, zero, eight. The contact information is in the description. All right. Let me check out these comments here. The only ones we're able to pull on StreamYard, unfortunately, is from Twitter. I don't know what's going on with StreamYard. Have you used StreamYard in the past couple of days, Nash? Uh, no, I, okay. I, I try and do a rule. I'm, I'm stubborn. I like to do things like free and also so I use Discord or whatever. That's how you do it. I wouldn't say I just want to know if you're going to that problem. Michael Hargis, Nash, Texas, clips, best Texas YouTube channel. Kentucky fans were so done with Vandegriff after that self-sack. Yeah. When I was doing the analysis, I didn't do a video last week, but I still do all the analysis just so I know what I'm talking about. And, uh, man, Vandegriff is not a good quarterback. No, no, it really makes you wonder why they started him over, Bully. Yeah. Like what did you see or what, what did you not see? Yeah. You could, that's why let's, you can see some of these games. They just don't have the quarterback to win. They just, I mean, they cannot, they can't beat Texas. You know, once the lag wave was out, Florida had zero chance of winning. Yeah. Um, Kentucky had very, very, very small chance of winning. Just that it's impossible. Texas cannot shoot itself in the foot enough times to keep it, uh, keep these teams in the game. Yeah. And they're still what they haven't scored 20 in SEC plays still. They only scored seven actually on offense. So yeah, I heard people, they were maxed. I didn't do the breakdown and I'll tell them privately in the, uh, in the DMS. I would tell them, I'm like, we're going to win. And they're like, they're like, no, man, you can't guarantee. I'm like, we're going to win guys. They can't, they literally can't score. I mean, look, this is, this was one of those games that I think a lot of Texas fans like had set in their heads as this is going to be the toughest game because of the same draft game. Arkansas. And yeah, it was, it was the track game. And I was like, this is Kentucky. Yeah. I mean, it's like, that's hard. That argument made sense coming into the season. But that was before we had any date on Brock Vandergriff. You know, I watched that Georgia game. Oh my Lord, man, you know, it's, uh, watched a couple of others. He's just the best thing that guy has going for him is that he can run a little bit, like he's just not going to threaten the field with the arm. No, zero passing attack. If you don't have zero, if you don't have any passing attack, you have zero chance against Texas because then they can, it's too easy for them to defend the run. So it's no chance to win. Um, and a lot of the Texas has the advantages going into this next game too. Maybe not to that degree. I mean, obviously, you know, reads a lot more dangerous, but Texas has done really well with these one read athletic quarterbacks. And if your best abilities run a little bit and like Homer said, you know, you're getting knocked down without being touched by Anthony Hill. That's on. I mean, I would do the same thing, but I'm also not a quarterback at that level. But he, you can see how much they trust. They don't trust their running back past protection because they had a guy on Anthony Hill and Vandergriff was like, no, I don't think we really do have a guy on Anthony Hill. Uh, let's talk A&M, man. This is so exciting. Um, I was not at school when A&M. I, I missed the cutoff, like right there. Um, so I did not see any A&M when I was in school. I actually have never been to a Texas, Texas A&M game. Nash, I'm sure you have grown up. Nope. You haven't either. You're a season ticket holder. You get them later on in life. I, I, my first year of being a season ticket holder was a stage occasion, but, uh, for real. Yeah. No, I went to like a few games with my dad growing up. I mean, I was a huge long one, kind of just like growing up, but most of my memories of the Texas A&M game were, uh, watching the Thanksgiving. With a bunch of Aggies in my family. Oh, yeah, I forgot you had Aggie. Eric, how many times have you been? You've never been. What is going on here? I thought it was going on. So my town, Belleville, Texas is a very, it's a fairly country town. That is the country town and a lot of Aggie fans, a lot of the movements, uh, like me, were UT people, a lot of movements from, from Houston area. And so the natural rivalry between the friend group exists. So Thanksgiving was always hanging out at somebody's house. Um, and try to keep it calm, whether you do have the house, you know, split one side and then the other. Uh, but all it would be an excuse for all of us guys to get back. Obviously you see your families and stuff like that, but then we'd all get together as some beers and, uh, you know, catch up and see other years, but during the game, it's, it would be intense. But yeah, I, I preferred just that, you know, get to see my boys again. Um, but no, I've never been, uh, I think the last time I was in Kyle Field was was to watch Gary Gilbert play a playoff game. So that was a long time ago. Yeah, that was they, uh, I'm excited, man. Are you going to, are you going to be at Kyle Field? I'm not going. It's my wife's birthday and I'm not, I can't, I can't subject her to that on a birthday. We're going to have a family and friends over for her birthday, but really for, you know, that game too. Yeah. Yeah, that's, uh, I'm excited, man. I know I make fun of that. I make fun of the atmosphere because my logic behind it is like the atmosphere doesn't mean anything if you consistently lose at home. The atmosphere has to be a winning factor, you know, for me to like call it, say, it matters. I don't like being loud is not enough for me. But that being said, this week, I'm putting that argument aside, because I think it's going to be absolutely insane. Hey, they beat, they beat Alabama. What year was that? 20, 21, 20, 22 at home, 21. I think I think that this year, my, like this is going to be as most as close to a neutral site game in Kyle Field as they're out will ever be. And I mean that by, like with this being such a, with this being so long, like, you know, long departed of a game, Texas, Texas fans have been itching. And this, this will honestly kind of go both ways. If the game was on DKR first, uh, this would be kind of the same thought fans are truck fans from both sides are going to want to watch this game, right? And like I've heard from a lot of Aggie fans who are like, yeah, have some, right? Like I'm, I'm, I'm taking that money and run, but, uh, they're getting mad at each other, they're like launching conspiracy theories of like on the boards of like people selling out ticket blocks and that UT's bought all the student section ticket. Just a bunch of nonsense. It's, it's hilarious to see like the wild stuff going on, but like it's just, it's going to be really, it's going to be like, to me, the crowd is going to be close to as 50, 50 as we're ever going to see in Kyle Field. Uh, this is just going to be, I don't know, this is going to be a wild game and wild atmosphere with, uh, I think it's going to be, I think it's going to be 80, 20. Um, I just not that many, I can't see that many Aggies, uh, you know, giving up their tickets. I did thank Billy Litchy for letting me buy his tickets, but that was just a joke. Um, I don't think 30, 70, if I have to put a number on it, but I'm saying as this will be as close to as you'll ever see. It's going to be, it's going to be a wild, wild scene. Um, yeah, I, I mean, I've been looking forward to this week for since, since it was announced that Texas is going back to the SEC and it was inevitable that this game would be renewed. Um, you know, the match ups, once you get passed on a pomp and circumstance, the match ups favor, Texas like they have in pretty much every game so far this year. Um, A&M has a path to victory, but it's going to require a lot of help from, from Texas. Yeah, I think the only way it plays that A&M has the advantage is run defense versus our rushing offense. Other than that, pretty solid. Now, A&M's a good team, like everything's like in the thirties and forties for A&M, right? So like everything's solid, not elite anywhere yet, but also the only way plays that they're super sketchy is defensive explosiveness. They're like a hundred and thirtieth in the country and giving up the big play. And they're in the hundreds on running and they're seven. So they're 70th in the nation as far as explosive plays goes, uh, just in general, 20 plus yard plays, four gate given up. That's versus Texas with the third best explosive play offense. And on offense too, there are 83rd in nation with 45 versus the best explosive play defense versus Texas. They don't have any dynamic outside threats. And it's the same, it's the same thing versus real. I ain't really honestly the, because yeah, they do have, they do have the advantage with the defense, but that's really kind of a, I don't know how much I think that's more of like Texas, just not being a good rushing team than giving them the advantage, but they have the. That doesn't take into account recent trends either. If you're going on a, no, I mean, if you go over the last couple of days, the last couple of games, Texas has probably been a little bit better. But, uh, they, they probably on paper, like this is the closest that they have to having advantages, the rushing offense. But as we've seen from the Texas defense, this, this Texas defense, especially also against rushing quarterbacks has been really good this year. One of the things going to be interesting, like we said, like rushing defense for them is better than our rushing offense and yards per rush. They're like 31st and opponent yards per rush. I am interesting if, if we're trying to run on early downs, do they end up getting us behind the sticks? Cause this defense is fourth in the country and standard downs. So they're constantly getting people behind the sticks. Uh, yeah, the D line, their D line has, gives them a path to victory. They're D line with, um, you know, maybe Quinn's ankle is, is worse than we think, uh, especially with a week, you know, he's playing, it's one thing to play through it with adrenaline, uh, as it tightens up on you throughout the week. You know, maybe he's not, maybe he lacks, uh, the necessary mobility and their D line has a good game against the Texas offensive one. There's a path to keep this a low scoring ugly game. I do not expect it to be a very high scoring game, but I just don't see how they're going to consistently move the ball. Now they're running back is good. Uh, uh, uh, Amari, uh, what's his last name, Daniels or Daniel? Yeah, he's, he's a good player. You know, they lost the number one guy who was really good. Um, yeah, he was good, but they just don't have the perimeter threats. So, so again, Texas could play the pass. Honestly, really take away. Reads first read, um, keep him boxed in like they've been doing all year long with their edges. The edge play is going to be huge for Texas yet again. It's like the tail and green game is important there for how to play that. Yep. Yep. Tailing green. Um, yeah, I just, you know, I don't see how A&M is going to consistently move the ball, but I do expect their defensive line to give Texas an equineer some trouble too. Well, another, another thing too is like, I think Marcel Reed is really not going to be able to live in the passing game. How he's been living the last couple of weeks. He's, he's an athletic guy that gets on the pocket and, you know, that's where he kind of makes his plays. And when you're talking about some of these athletic edges that are like a trade more that's playing, that's been playing really smart and sound recently. Uh, that's, I mean, that's going to take away like 0.5, 0.5 seconds on your average time to throw. And that for a quarterback can almost be a lifetime. And, you know, lifetime for Reed too, he's one of the highest in time to throw. Yeah. And he's like, he's, he's, he's above, he's above three years. He's above three in every single game that he's played in. And it's not because he has an amazing offensive line. It's just set in a amazing, you know, just set in a pocket that he can sit back there and draw, draw pictures all day. Uh, yeah, Marcel Reed, I just, I don't think he's going to be able to have this, like, if he has success passing, it's going to have to come from a different way that he's gotten it the last four weeks. Yeah, super high average depth of target. So young quarterback head hunting, right, trying to throw deep the whole time. So that's going to add time in the pocket. And on top of that, he's second in the league in time to throw. So with our pass rush, he has great pressure to sack avoidance, right? Like, you're still not going to, he's still going to somehow get out for most teams, probably not versus us, but there's going to be opportunities to get sacks and get in mind the sticks. Does your next investment opportunity include eight trillion dollars in private wealth and 300 plus connections with wealth management firms all in one place? Invest in Dubai, the world's fastest growing venture capital ecosystem and a global wealth hub with access to Dubai International Financial Center. 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With an ankle man, I don't know if it's not a MRI, man, but just for, like, typical running injuries and stuff, like it's still going to be bothering him on Saturday. It's just how it is. Like Eric said, when the adrenaline wears off is when it's going to be sketchy. And I don't know if they got him booted or something, but you're going to want to mobilize it because ankles, you can mess up again really easily, just by stepping too hard. So it'll be it'll be interesting to kind of see there. But some people have asked, you know, do you go with Quinn or Archie go with Quinn? I mean, like, look, yeah, I like Quinn because he's like. I don't think people understand how much of being quarterback is just being able to operate the offense efficiently, getting the offense into the right play, you know, getting guys move into the right spot. And a lot of that comes with experience and just kind of, you know, getting general field, the just also the offense that you're playing with time. Not saying that Archie isn't really paying attention or anything like that, but, you know, it's just, I feel like it's going to be different when you're standing on the field as one of the 11 guys. But, uh, yeah, I got a lot more experience. And that's, that's where his advantage over archmending is, is simply an experience. But, um, you know, he earned that the he, uh, you know, there's, there's a privilege to being first, uh, that Quinn has. That's why he's a starter now, but there's a big privilege for arch following Quinn and, and, you know, Quinn being the point man of putting, building this, helping build the program as opposed to coming in when everything's already in place, like Archie'll have it, at least for the most part, now they've got to fix them off at the lines in the off season that, you know, there's some issues that, uh, you know, reach back in the roster. But the program is in a whole lot different shape than from when Quinn used first took the reins. I mean, I'm going to love the theories of this week because it's like, it's the only guy that's ever going to really have a true idea of how good Quinn is to go as the doctor, the doctor coach and Quinn. No. Yeah. It's Quinn's going to play regardless. I mean, there's just for draft stock, you have to play A&M. It's the last one. That's the, he'll play it in a wheelchair if he has to. Um, that pass Quinn had to bond where he feathered it between the two defenders with a thing of beauty. Not a lot of people can make that throw. So that to me is the no pun intended, the quintessential Quinn throw, like that we've seen for me is the ability to layer in the intermediate that we saw, like that's what when you see Quinn throw those, you're like, okay, that's what I'm talking about. He had that, the pass to helm and the end zone was a dot like Quinn made some really nice throws last week before we got cursed in the third quarter. You know what really, what really kind of like, because, you know, this has kind of been like a thing in our group chat about, uh, Quinn years in the deep ball for the last couple of years is, but it killed me because I'm like, man, I felt like that I felt like he had some of his better deep balls in that game. Uh, yes, like, and I'm like either the defensive back is just making a great play or they're just not getting called for PI. And I'm like, man, like Quinn has got to be sitting there going. What the hell do I got to do? I think accuracy was good, but I thought he was a late on a couple of those. I thought he was just a tick late on them and allowed the DB to make a play. Uh, it was a lot of 10 yards ahead. That was the one where I was like, this is these were catchable. And that's where I thought it was a big difference. Right. Yeah. It was, uh, because yeah, the post was catchable. The one to bond where he fell down in the sideline. I thought it was catchable, the one, the window. Yeah. Yeah, I thought he threw more catchable balls, because normally we've seen it. It was just like, they're like 10 yards ahead. The receivers don't eat. They're like, come on, man. That, uh, the throat to the throat of gun and helmet was pretty nice too. That was a dot. We got a $10 chat here. Sorry, Dennis with the software. We're not able to pull up our UT comments here. Unfortunately, but I'll pull it up. I'll just read it. Eric, first game since Oklahoma State 04. My 11 year old girl pointed C4 out to me from section four, row six. Where's all the Kenny Baker can't recruit talk? Oh, man, they went a little dormant on us. Yeah, we're, we're a far cry from, from the spring, far cry from June. Um, you know, fans just have to let these guys get their feet wet, do their, do their work, you know, he, um, he had to come in and evaluate the guys he wanted. He's starting, you know, way behind on the relationships, uh, Johnny Nancy started way behind on the relationships. I think that, I think that affected Johnny Nancy's class as well. Uh, but once they get caught up and of course the Texas has the priority on it, you know, Texas has known that they needed to go big on defensive tackle class to cycle. Um, you know, it's nice to have Texas, uh, you know, the full might of the school behind you as well, but man, this class is awesome. You know, Sharma, I think is probably the top guy on the board, the entire board got him, uh, Charles as gifted as anybody got him. And Bochew has an Alfred Collins sort of, uh, starter kit got him. Um, one more would be nice, uh, and then they'll hit the portal again. Gotta do that with losing, uh, you know, low lay Alfred and Vernon and Norton. Um, but yeah, I think, I think people were selling Kenny Short because they weren't giving him any enough time. You know, we saw the, the previous cycle with Chris Jackson, Chris Jackson came in the same time, doesn't know anybody, uh, doesn't know any of these recruits, doesn't know the people, it's not a, not just the recruits. You got to get to know, you got to get to know coaches, trainers, family, uh, who's in the circle of trust that's going to help the kid make the decision. You have to earn those people's trust as well. There's a lot of people to know it's not just going in and meet Ryan Wingo. You need, you need to meet the whole fan and earn trust. It takes time. Uh, so we're seeing them do well. A lot of these, uh, recruitments that take longer, uh, to play out because it gives them more rope to, uh, to actually meet everybody and earn trust. So yeah, I have no, no, no problems with Kenny Baker. I think he's also helped himself out quite a bit by Alfred Collins having a very big year. Alfred Collins is the number one ranked, um, you know, at least by PFF defense attack on the country, I believe. Uh, so he's playing a very good ball. Vernon Broughton's having his best year. Lola is having a bit of a rebirth. Um, yeah, after breaking out early in his career. So Baker's really helped himself out. I don't think we're going to hear much chatter that, but you know, pretty much any narrative, the fan narrative always gets blown, blown to pieces. Uh, you can almost just always go, uh, the inverse of what the fan narrative is and feel confident. We saw that with, you know, Terry Joseph and Blake Gideon, can't coach, just show member, show what can't recruit, choke, can't coach, choke, turned out. Well, um, P K needed to be fired after year one. Um, you know, Sarks and every, if you went eight, if you go 13 and 12 in your first two years, you don't have it. He's not the guy. Come on, man. Uh, it's about judging their competence, competencies, um, you know, apply in context, wherever you can. That's why we, we, we spent a lot of time trying to get to know every little last detail we can, uh, cause all these are puzzles, give as many pieces as you can. It's easier to put the puzzle together. I love, I love how the staff has gone about a continuity, like Steve's Caucasian has been very accountable in the way that he's, you know, just gone about his time here at Texas. He, he's, he's consistently said, look, I know how I'm very confident in our ability to go, you know, build a game, build a winning program right now. We, we may be five and seven, we may be eight and four, you know, but hey, the, the good stuff is coming, right? You just got to trust in the process and he never wavered, right? When Texas has a 113th ranked pass defense, he doesn't go out there. He doesn't go fire Terry Joseph. He doesn't go fire Blake Gideon. And what do you have the next year? You have the best pass, best pass defense in all America. Uh, he doesn't fire a PK after we have probably one of the most abysmal run defenses I've ever gotten to watch in the Texas, on, on Texas uniform and next year, next year we followed up with an amazing one. Yeah. He realized that these positions were out of talent deficit. The roster was out of talent deficit because he was dealing with the same problem on his side of the ball, you know, he's like, you know, he got the benefit of the doubt being the head coach because he gets to prioritize his guys first. That's why they had to go huge on that 2022 offensive line. Uh, they went big in the portal, you know, getting Quinn, uh, you know, like we said, safety was really the last position on the roster to, to truly get overhauled and when they overhauled it, they really overhauled it. And now all of a sudden it's a team strength and that's no surprise. It's not a coincidence. So these guys were always good coaches, but, you know, even good coaches need the right pieces. Yeah. I mean, it just feels like with previous staffs, we wouldn't have been, we wouldn't, they wouldn't have even had the time on, on campus. So you didn't get to this point. Yeah. Sorry. He's number one, his number one strength is he's a problem solver. Whatever the issue is, he goes and solves it. Now that doesn't mean a new problem. It's kind of like whack-a-mole. He fixed one and another one pops up. Uh, we've kind of seen that, uh, in the past, but every time one pops up, he knocks it right back down. It's like the, it's like that kid spilling milk every time he leaves over the killing of the spills. Uh, we have a super chat, but before we hit that one, Jacob, let's hear about Laura Baker, the best realtor in the world. Hi, I want to tell you about Laura Baker. If you're looking for a new home in the 512 or even at this point, let's face it seven, three, seven area code. 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Um, a quarterback, a running back that would excite everybody. Um, they're not in the portal yet. Uh, Jeheem Otis, I mean, obviously they need a detackle. Um, you know, they would have to have a very good understanding. And you know, SARC banks, those guys still have internal information on all these guys that are on Alabama roster. Uh, so if they make the move, that'd be great. Obviously he's leaving Alabama. Um, and Texas or Oregon schools like that. Oh, how state are going to be the, the top contender. She's not going to, you know, there's only about three or four schools that could even afford a guy like Jeheem Otis. So, uh, you know, I expect Texas to be very active, but he would have to, you know, if they feel comfortable about how he, uh, fits in the culture, you know, we're kind of past the days of SARC taking these risks, you know, they turned down a kid this past cycle that they didn't feel, uh, what's a good fit. Um, actually a couple of guys. Um, so if they feel like he's a good fit, they'll go for it. Um, but they're not going to reach either. Now that is one position where they're more inclined to reach just because your options are so much more limited than, than a water receiver or running back or whatever. But, um, haven't heard anything too tangible yet. Um, but the portal's going to get absolutely nuts here in the, you know, a couple of weeks. I don't know. Did any of our risky players that work out, did any of them work out? Um, I can't, you know, not a mistake, we don't have to name them, but I'm saying like, I don't mind naming a Jai Hall, you know, it's a little, but he didn't stay. I'm saying if like someone did successfully stay, I don't want to name them. But yeah, I feel like all of our, it feels like all of our reaches, uh, we're not solid. And so we kind of learned that lesson pretty quick. Yeah. The roster's in a lot different place than it was when he was taking, you kind of understood it at the end. I said the same, you know, fans were getting excited because they saw a Jai Hall's, you know, one time five star status. I'm like, like this guy's got about a 10% chance of making it, but you understand why, because, you know, the, the, the, the roster talent was so much poorer than it is now, but detackle, they are, they are in dire straits and, you know, you got arch manning for one year guaranteed. I think it's going to be two. I think everybody behind the scenes thinks it's going to be two, but you can't squander any of these years with arch manning. So that, you know, the fact that you have arch manning should give you compliments that they're going to do everything they can to address defensive tackle. The goal's not going to be to win 10 games. The goal is going to be to, you know, make a spirited run on the playoffs. You know, there's going to be no stone on turn when it comes to improving the roster. Every position outside of quarterback is going to be, you know, might be addressed. They've got a lot of need. You've got a lot of articles over on it recently. I recently wrote about offensive defensive portal needs. That's based on some of the conversations I've had. Also, I don't think, I don't know, sir, if Jonah Williams is anything that we think he's going to be, I don't think we're going to need too much help with safety. Well, the problem is that safety is it's such a cerebral position. You're seeing, you know, Jelani McDonald will have as talented as Jelani is and Jelani and Jonah are not as different as people will think. Joe, Jelani is a freak. Jelani is one of my favorite football players on the same. These cerebral positions are always going to be a concern. Like Anthony Hill wasn't even really ready to play off ball until midway through his freshman year. I'm really excited about Elijah Barnes, but it's probably going to be a similar story where how soon is, are you able to play, you know, when you're up the middle center, not D tackle, but center quarterback. And not running back linebacker and safety. It's the game comes at you a whole lot at a different speed. But yeah, Jonah, Jonah will play a lot as a freshman. But I don't know if you're going to see him. They got to get TAF back. I mean, I assume TAF is coming back for the same reason we saw on Saturday, he's a spirited tackler, but having physical intent is not the same as being physical. So I think, you know, they got to have him back. Makuba's going to be a loss. But hey, they're at least back. Who's that? Derek Williams. Yeah, but we're not going to know how how, how, how good he's going to be until August, all because you never know, like Jonathan Brooks. It took a while to get better. Yeah, Derek Williams, you're going to, there's got these injuries happen at a time where, you know, Texas is going to be flying blind on what to expect for them going into next year, but safety is going to be in a good spot. Talent wise, TAF and Jalani are going to be the best duo in the country, assuming TAF comes back in Makuba. If they want to go portal, Makuba is going to give him a great story to tell. He was a bit of a reclamation project after sensational freshman year at Clemson. He kind of got lost in the shuffle, comes home to ATX, you know, started puts you at four, four picks now, four picks in a relatively limited snap count. Uh, it's quite impressive for, you know, but they're going to be aggressive at portal. The names, uh, the names I've heard that are looking to go in, uh, that I'm sure Texas would have interest in would, would, uh, would excite fans, but still ways to go on that. Um, and it's, it's always delicate to talk about too. Cause there's a lot of kids ready to play to, uh, going into next season. You know, the fun new world of NIL, man, and roster management. Ooh, yeah, I don't mean, I don't either. All right. So Ashley asks, if we lose to Texas A&M, which is not possible, but in that alternate reality, um, are we still in the playoff? You wrote a piece about this. Yeah, I wrote a piece yesterday, um, it was well received. You should go check it out. Uh, I think it was free. Yeah, go. Yeah, it is free. Go over to inside Texas and just, uh, hit the news tab and it scroll down. And you'll see, you know, it's first things first. Um, yeah, Texas is in the losses of, uh, Ole Miss that melt down in Gainesville. And, and, uh, you know, Alabama's no show in Norman assures that Texas will be in. Uh, but you still want a chance at that by week, especially on a hobbled ankle with Quinn, uh, by weeks, you know, a month apart, always coming handy. Uh, and who doesn't want to play Georgia again? Uh, I know there's some battered fans out there that are probably already not looking forward to that, but I sure as hell want to see that. Uh, I know Sark wants to win it. You know, Sark's goal has been to win the, win the SEC. Um, and I think, uh, you know, that's, that's goal number one, uh, but he feels like to win goal, the big goal is got to, got to get that one first. So get that beat A&M. And who wants to, nobody wants to live on Twitter for the next year. If, if Texas beat A&M or if A&M beats Texas, we don't, what he wants that. Especially, especially if we actually do anything at relevents later on the year because an A&M will just, you know, defact of claim all of our accomplishments because they beat us. Yeah. Dude, Oh, you's been cracking me up. They're like, see, Texas, that's how you get a ranked win. It's like, we have two ranked wins. You have zero. I was like, well, we beat you. So we claim your rank wins. Yeah. There was Twitter was, you know, so Twitter now has like the for you and the ones you actually follow. So sometimes I make a mistake of going to the for you. Let's see if I don't go there. But dumb people Elon Musk puts before me. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So that's, that is a good, you know, looking. It's a, it's a lens into the fans, a fan mindset. You know, the world was ending the other day for OU. And now they think they're the cock of the walk. They're, you know, they're back. And they've got the same problems that they had two days ago, four days ago, four days before. And they're like, it's Bama. That's not, that's not savings team guys. Like they're, they're, they're going off a five years ago. It's like, dude, we beat Bama. It's like there were seventh in the country guys. Yeah, you beat, you beat. Did you see ESPN FPI still has Bama number four? They created an algorithm that doesn't, to measure the best team that apparently doesn't count for losses. No, man. That's wild. That Alabama team lost to Vanderbilt Vanderbilt. Oh, and Ole Miss is number six. Yeah, three losses. What the hell are they doing, man? Yeah, it's a number eight. And they wonder why, they wonder why ESPN, and here's all this SEC buy. So they're, they're. SEC power index. That's what, that's what it needs to be called. Yeah. Yeah, like it keeps in politics. Hey, look, I remember the broadcast when Test Story just went on that weird SEC rant where he was like, no one's like the SEC and the big 10 can't compete. And I was like, all right, I get that you're ESPN guys and you have the deal. But I was like, that was, that was just strange out of nowhere and clearly politics and it was funny. When I saw that on the every play, I thought about putting that entire rant in there. Dude, yeah. But, but I was like, man, Joe, like if you had done that maybe like just two or three years ago, I think people would have been like, oh yeah, here's this really just authentic rant about the SEC. Yeah. But no, not now. It's like, Joe, that was, that was a great attempt at a Christmas bonus right there. Yeah, it was like he was running for office. And then the funniest part of whoever was doing color or whatever next to him didn't even buy it. They just stayed silent and he had to go and anyways, here's the run. It was so awkward dude. Because even his partner, you're supposed to yes and and be like, yeah, yeah, dude. And then even his partner just stayed still so quiet, which is how they, how they punished each other for not saying the correct things. It's funny. It was a, that was super weird, man. Something about Megan. Okay, Eric, not sure what Magnolia is like, but an El Campo living with an A&M loss for a year is brutal. Yeah, now I'm in Montgomery. There's a lot, of course, yeah, I'm only what maybe an hour to call the station. So we got it. It's a lot of Aggies around here. Surprisingly, a lot of LSU fans too. But yeah, I definitely went to the local bar watering hole in my UT inside Texas stuff to watch the, the A&M game the other night. A lot of fun. Yeah, now there's, we're definitely, we're definitely in the minority UT fans around here. But yeah, who cares? I'm in North Texas. We're, we're all good up here. But actually we got to deal with the Sooners up here. Yeah, there's a lot of Sooners up there. I remember driving through like Sherman, you know, years back and it was all of you. Like, I mean, I understand we're close to the border, but you're still in Texas. It's so strange to me like, you're not, you pay taxes. Like your money goes to the Texas system, like all universities here. So it's so weird to me when you're like, you're from Texas, lived in Texas. You didn't go to school there, right? Whatever that counts you in. But it's like, why are you supporting another state if you don't have to? You know what I'm saying? Well, because they don't, because living in Oklahoma is that bad. There's literally that much, there's that much of nothing to do. Like, hey, look, there's a plane to my left. There's a plane to my right. Nothing but alcohol. But it's weird. It's weird when Texans do it. Like you're from DFW. You didn't go to OU, right? Like there's no tie there. There's no family tie or anything. And then you support OU. It makes no sense to me. I'm like, dude, support A&M, support Baylor. Support somebody in the state. Support SMU. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But literally support. It's so weird. I don't get that. Like when they're like, I'm LSU fan, no ties to the state of Louisiana. You have plenty of options in Texas. Pick one if you don't like UT. It's weird. We got any recruiting questions this morning? Honestly, not a ton. It was more of a statement of like, bring justice Terry to me. Yeah, I like the comment I saw. No justice, no peace. Yeah, that's solid. You can ask someone where I am literally the last person to be asking any recruiting questions. I like somebody. That's just not like literally they'll literally put a top 50 name in the chat in the group chat. And I'll be like, oh, is that dude good? And they're like, yeah, I guess. Right. That's the smart way to be a fan. Because it's all a recruiting nation. No, flip it now. Yeah, all it is. Well, yeah, that's part of it. But that, you know, when it works in your favorite, like Michigan was Michigan, I saw Michigan fans ticked off at some kid the other day for visiting at school. I'm like, you just flipped the number one prospect in the nation. You know, they said that kid's not loyal. I'm like, you just flipped Brice Underwood. Dude, the one, the one that broke me was Caleb on Trierson when he sent when he faxed two letter of intense to both schools. 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I don't care if you're from the Middle East, you can be a fan of Texas. And you know what? Oklahoma needs all the money they can. I'm okay with Dona and Jerry. No, it's uh, what do we have? The funniest one was Nast with recruiting. When we talked about a kid flipping, Nast didn't know he committed. And then we told him he flipped. He got mad within that three second. Great. I'm finding out the kid existed and then flipped. The Chris Farley gift was looking up and he smiled. Well, I was pumped and then I was like, it was an instant like, well, shit, this is why, excuse me. But I'm like, this is exactly why I don't do this, right? Like, I don't get involved because I just got happy. The recruiting ride is not for everybody. The one's like, the recruits that want to win the game, so that improves recruiting, rather than the ones that want good recruiting, so it improves the game. Yeah, I love, uh, like somebody, I forget who said this, but I wish I'd give them credit. But they're like, whenever you see a guy say, I'm 100% committed, that dude saw it as a rock. If you see him say, I'm a thousand, 10,000, 1,000, 1,000,000, 1,000,000. Yeah. It's so whenever the more zeros you see past 100, the less, the less committed he is. Yeah, no doubt. It's like the people on, uh, on social media that talk about how great their life is every day, their life sucks. Yeah, the good people, the good people with good lives, they're, they're on non Twitter. Yeah, they're not on social media. They don't want to be as good as shit about that. They, uh, the, the recruiting that the 17-year-olds can pick up the recruiting jargon so well. Like, I'm solid to Texas. Uh, they showed how I'm going to fit in the scheme. I see what they're building over there. Like, there's like recruiting, uh, interview bingo that you can play that like they're going to get, like, I don't know how Eric and Justin do it, because you have to like pull tangible information, but real information and they'll get, because they'll stonewall you with these vagaries if you let them. The real information from recruits comes earlier in the process. That's when like January is the most important month to recruiting as far as I can tell. Like, because that's when they're open, they're honest, and you learn as much about them as possible. And a lot of times that stuff will come back, you know, and, but this is what he said before he knew, before he knew how to poll a ticket. Yeah. But then as, as time goes on, yeah, a lot of times, uh, getting quotes is just service to the readers. We're actually trying to get information from a number of other people. Um, yeah, you can't just go by what recruits say. That's, that's, you know, that's for the board, and then the insider notes are going to come, come later as we get them. Yeah. Um, they asked too about Cade Phillips. Any word on O Phillips? No, you know, um, yeah, he was, he was supposed to come in. Uh, I had a source on it. It said, you know, 60, 40 LSU that felt like if he did come in, that that dynamic might be able to flip. Um, you know, his dad, huge UT fan, but he's going to let his son make his own decision, which, you know, I'm on board with you raised your kid to make these decisions. Yeah. Right now it's just, you know, uh, Terry Joseph is kind of behind Corey Raymond as far as reputation. You know, I think Raymond has done a decent job of, of selling Cade on that reputation. Now, uh, context would point us to maybe that reputation is a little outdated. Uh, the, the way that Corey Raymond was able to recruit for out all those years and make a name for himself, that, that, that, that, that world doesn't exist anymore. Um, and right now Terry Joseph has the best corners in the country. However, Raymond does have that reputation and he's coached up a lot of guys that went, you know, went in the first round, second round. And I think that's what, you know, really has, uh, has Cade's attention. But good player, I'm not sure he's a five star, but definitely good player length athleticism. A lot of raw tools for Raymond to coach up. And we're going to, you know, Cade's going to be a really good example to teach us how great of a coach Corey Raymond is. Yeah, I feel like the Corey Raymond aura was like five, six years ago, you know, wherever it felt like the heaviest. Probably even longer than that, um, could be. Trying to think who was going to, I think his name came up as a Texas, uh, possibility because he had, you know, the writing was kind of on the wall at LSU for a while. But yeah, I mean, Kay, they've got, you know, Caleb Chester, first of all, Caleb Chester is one of the most underrated corners in the country. Um, you know, they prioritized him above Cade Phillips as a corner, uh, throughout most of the cycle. Just to give you an idea of the internal evaluation on Texas. And then Grayson Littleton was a great get. Uh, Cade's got a lot of tools and a lot of upside, great kid. I really enjoyed talking to him. Uh, you know, I think he had to make it, make that visit to, to have a chance of flipping him. However, because he was a commit, he was, um, very familiar with the school, has relationships in place. A flip would be very surprising to me, but, but not impossible. Do you fault Texas for recruiting Cade as a safety at first? Or do you not think he's a corner? Um, no, I think he can play corner. He's just so long and so athletic. Yeah, for sure. And I think from a physical standpoint, I think he can become a pretty physical corner. I don't think he would be a very physical, uh, safety. So I can definitely see corner. Um, yeah, I think, I think corner probably should have been the evaluation the whole time, but I don't fault them for having their evaluation and giving it to him honestly. In fact, I respect it, you know, they're honest with their evaluations because they don't, they know if they get you on campus for one reason. Uh, and then, but you thought you were coming for another. Then you're just going to be a ticked off player. It's going to be, you're going to, it's bad for the locker room. It's bad for culture. Uh, so that was their eval. And they, they ended up coming around to the corner. Um, but I think that did, yeah, that did hurt their chances a little bit, but you know, whatever. Yeah. Look, that goes into the accountability that I was talking about earlier, Steve Sarkees and where we have that continuity that we have now. Sark, he's gonna, he's going to tell you exactly what he, where you stand on this team. There's not going to be any secrets hidden from you. Yeah. And if you don't like it and you're going to, if you leave and you create a deficiency here or you don't come, or you don't come on the class or whatever, he's going to accept that. He's going to accept the results of what happens from that. And he's going to go and try and make the best team out of it. Yeah. Terry Joseph, Cotton Flax for being straight up on us with Jabbar Muhammad, when they're looking for him, uh, when they're pursuing him in the portal. Like, hey, you got to come in and compete. And well, I mean, what, what's he going to tell Jabbar that he's going to start over who was cousin? You can't tell him that, right? And then he's going to start over, you know, Janae Baron, they know that they're going to move Gilbo to, uh, to, to, to start at that point. And, and Baron's going to play corner more. You lie to that guys. You, you lie to these guys just to get them in the boat. Yeah. It's going to be bad for culture. It's going to be bad for the locker room. It's going to be bad for getting other guys a little later. Because these guys, these players, they talk to each other. Oh, they all talk. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Um, and then quick rapid fire. Any chance on Petajon. I think we put something out. Yeah. That was just a hard no Dorian brew. Not likely, but, um, haven't, haven't entirely ruled it out. Not likely. Okay. Zion. He had to visit for that to happen. Um, no, that was just Bo Davis relationship. The kid went where he had the best relationship and, and Bo, you know, Bo was finally set to recruit while at Texas, uh, had he stayed. Oh, no, man. Damn. That was, I was not, I would, I would not trade. You know, that's what Bo, Bo wouldn't have in bot you in the class. Bo wouldn't have charm in the class and, and Bo wouldn't have, uh, Martin Charles of the class. So it's a wash. It's a wash. Yeah. But I like Brandon Brown. Talk about, like, Brandon Brown and bear, man. Yeah, Brandon Brown team. But, uh, is Brandon Brown better than Martin Charles? I mean, it's pretty damn close. Yeah. All right. I think we're good. Here chat. I don't think we missed anything too major. Good stuff. All right. I'll be back on tomorrow with Paul. We're going to really deep dive into Texas A&M. You'll know that team inside and out, what they're good at, what they're not good at, uh, where Texas matches up. And I think I agree with Eric when he says it can be a likely, a low scoring game. Unless SARC breaks out this schematic attack, which is what, uh, I'm really, or what if, what if yours is 94.2%. That's true. If we have, we got to get the injury percentages right. They're in the lab right now, tweaking percentages. But it should be an interesting game, man. It's going to be fun. This week's going to be great. I'm really excited, man. We're lucky to have this back. And I just got an update from Quinn's doctor. 81.67% of the exact percentages. That's going to be rough, man. That's going to be rough. Fans, thank you guys. Eric Nash. Thank you guys. And then I'll see you guys again. 9.30 a.m. tomorrow. Hook them. [Music]
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