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That's EyeFlyWorld.com. We're back J-4 at DP Austin at back on track now. We're going to go for about another 9-10 minutes. Obviously, lots have been going on. We got officially a new offensive coordinator, or unofficially officially, because he was the offensive coordinator at the end of the season, coming back for two more years. Dana Holgerson is going to be officially the offensive coordinator. We've got a new receivers coach that comes by the way of Dana Holgerson when he was in Houston. He's at the University of Kentucky. And then we have a new tight ends coach, which was a tight end coach. So essentially, we have one new coach. We have a new wide receivers coach. So for me, as of right now, there hasn't been a lot of transition on offense. You just have to, the biggest transition will be in the learning period. What will Dana Holgerson's offense look like because now he gets to install it? It could be half the old playbook or a completely new one. Time will tell and how he's able to marry his system or his playbook. Because he's not a system guy and I'll get into it quick. The difference between a system guy and a play. Dana Holgerson is a play caller and it's different. Versus a system, the cliff nose version is guys that run systems. I feel like they try to trick you. Okay, like Gus Mausano when he was at Auburn where they were running three or four plays and essentially, you know, when you're trying to sub and remember they couldn't do one for one sub. They sub because what they do is back then they'd sub mass up when they got close to their boundary side, which is easier than you got to run. A guy or then they get you 12 men on the field and you're up there. Boom, that's a system, right? Tricky, tricky, tricky, right? Now when you're a play caller, that means you won't call. You're going to set your playbook up based on what the defense is weak at or what you feel like you can take advantage of. So that'll be the biggest thing to see how that goes. Then defensively, obviously Tony White was the first one to leave. I think early Monday morning, right? Officially by the afternoon and then Terrence night and today. It was officially left. I'm assuming he's going to Florida State. So you lose two really good really good recruiters, the identity kind of the defense because he's been here from the very beginning and been able to, you know, make, you know, chicken salad out chicken doodoo, you know, and and is really kind of put his mark on it. And then obviously Terrence night and has came in and kind of, you know, with the whole death row thing and all that. And, you know, two quality dudes. So you do lose is it's not a, you know, it's not a addition by subtraction. Everybody's able to go and do what was best for them in their career. There might be dynamics that nobody knows about. I mean, you know, be frank, it's none of our business. They've chosen to do it. They wanted to do so now three man front versus four man front. I said it and I keep saying I used to be one of these guys because I played Nebraska at a four man front, but there was times when we actually ran three men front. I didn't know this, but we played. I came at a four man for three. So for people out there, there's four defense alignment. That's the big dudes, three linebackers, kind of real basic. And I got drafted to Buffalo that played in the three, four. So that's three defense alignment. So my three defense alignment were Mount Washington, big Ted Washington, six, five, about 350. Well, the best athletes I've ever played with Bruce Smith, who's the all time leader in sacks and then Phil Hanson. And then we, so then that's the three defense alignment and we have four linebackers, which were bigger guys, which is two outside linebackers, two inside linebackers, and I'd never played in the three, four before. So I went from playing in the middle essentially a gap player to backside be to essentially I'm lining up against the 320 pound guard. And I got to make, I got to make, I got to make money. Congratulations. You're congratulations. And that was a transition. And so then I'm like, okay, well, this is the three man front. Well, then I get down to Houston after four years in Buffalo and Dom Capers is the coach of DP knows who started his own blitz at Pittsburgh. And he runs a three, four. So I'm like, all right, cool. I'm used to it. And mind you, in between, I went back to a four, three with Greg Williams. I will tell you, Greg Williams, four, three was completely different than Charlie McBride. How's he for? Oh my God. Hey, it was the first time. Said, Hey, Greg Williams. The first time I looked at, uh, we say this thing called gut blitz. And so it's not just another name for Taco Bell. Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually it was giving us diarrhea. But anyways, he brought the free safety. I never forget. It was my rest of the piece. It was key on carburetor. He brought him from 18 yards away. And so the, the play was in the snow. Oh, it didn't matter when it was. That was that part. It'd be raining. Oh, he's calling it like there's no discrepancies with Greg. Oh, okay. I'm mad. I told you about Spike 40. That was zero blitz. He was the first coach. I thought coach concuss. No, he just crazy. Yeah. But he was just crazy. He was just crazy. But once you got a, once you got his method, it, you know, method to his madness. You were just fine. We were just running this gut blitz. So we'd actually go into, um, uh, out front. And so the, have the two linebackers would stem to it. We would rush and, uh, kind of try to influence the offensive lineman. Well, then the free safety from 18 yards would be coming on a gut blitz. Two defense alignment dropping in strong safety. Go. I mean, it was wild, you know, and so that's it. But did it work. It did at time. 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And when he fought, I remember the day he met Alvin Walton, he went. I found. Yeah. He said, I've actually found a linebacker who plays safety and he'll play on every specialty. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, it depends on who the coordinator is. You're going to take on that identity. Um, you know, when I was with Greg, we ran for, we had four, three was what he's known for. We ran three, four fronts. We played three, four. We did it all because we played three, four before, so he's doing a little bit of both to kind of make the transition faster. And then, you know, one thing it dawned on me, and I will tell you this, you know, people worry about what front you played. I got down to the Houston, which is a three, four front and always obviously like to know who the nose tackle was. I'll go from Ted Washington and Pat Williams, both potentially, you know, Hall of Famers to Seth Payne and he played a little bit different. But we played three, four because we had Gary Walker and Corey Sears and the funny, the one I finally realized and it took about. I really took off that first year year about after the third game. When I finally realized that it was actually after the Buffalo game where I got almost got cut, but it was back was against the wall. When I finally broke it down and Dom, I met with Dom for two hours. He put all the defenses up like in a big, big whiteboard like this. And every single one, he cut it. He had a line in between and he's like, that's a four, three front. That's an over front. That's an eagle front. That's an open eagle front. And once I got that, he's like, I just got three, four personnel. Because I want my best, best athletes on the field, but we're running four, three stuff. And when we, when we go to Okey defense, then that's your, you know, button press type defense. And once I learned that and didn't worry about. Three guys there and all that. Then he didn't never about it or not. And then he broke it down a little bit further. He said, listen, when we go to nickel, he's like, that's four down lineman. It doesn't matter if the guy standing up. He's like, he's in a seven technique or a type five or six. He's like, why do you, he's like, why do people care? Whether he's standing up or not. And he talked about Greg Lloyd, Kevin Green, Lamar, Lathan, and a host of guys. He was like, you know what? I would have probably rather had those guys at the dirt or the hand in the dirt. He's like, but this is before they made it. He's like, Kevin Green is going to be a Hall of Famer. And he rushed after two feet. He's like, I ain't going to ask him to do something that he don't need to do. Kevin never wanted to put his hand in the dirt. He didn't need to. He was the best. Well, but he was the other thing. He said, I'm smarter standing up and he literally met. I just had better vision of what's happening. And when he got next to Sam Mills, that's when he was playing at a whole another level. Yeah, because Sam, he and Sam shared eyes. Yeah. And Sam was his, listen, I'm going to take this guy off for you. So you can go. Yeah. And listen, if you guys ever want to see if you don't, if Sam Mills was about five, nine, about two, twenty five. I'm telling he's to rock the tank. So, you know, whoever the coordinator is, the guys that they got to come in and obviously marry their system to the new guys that are coming in, the new guys in the portal and what you got presently and what it's four, three, three, four, four, two, five. I don't know what else is out there. And there's no, and you don't have a Nash. Or, or, or tie, but you weren't going to have them anyway. So, well, but that's the thing, right? That Dom had, I remember he went and got six foot eight, two hundred and ninety pound Mike Fox. Yeah. Because he said him and Jerry Williams. Yeah. And said, I just want you to eat a face. Right. Yeah. Well, you got to make it simple. Yep. But also Dom had Seth Payne, who's six, three, two, ninety five Gary Walker, six, two, two, ninety five. He seals, you know, and all different guys. So then he's able to take Carolina defense to Houston and marry it to the personnel. And that's all you can do is a, is a coordinator, no matter what you like to do. Um, and then when you can be multiple, that's the, that's really, really, really effective. Yeah. The Austin Army back there. See, yeah, coat. Yeah. I mean, back then, they had, they had a really good day. I mean, they were good eyes, man. Yeah, you really make the system, the players make the system. Uh, how much you, you know, you know, dive into it, believe in and execute it. Um, but yes, there is a little bit of difference. Um, I think it can be interesting times. But I think Tony White's three man front is different than the three, four. Yes. And so I think I just looking at it for three. It seems sometimes, almost like Nebraska was playing two down linemen, right? You would have tie in Nash down. And then tomorrow was kind of in between. Right. Uh, one of MJ Sherman, Prince Will, Cam Lenhart, uh, Wells, McGay. He owns the old. So it was like a two, two, two, five backer and then your five, your four DBs. Yeah, it was, it was a two, two, two, five. Yeah. In theory. Yeah. Um, just Jamari was a little bit bigger than MJ. It's like, it was like you were going descending. Yeah. Nash or tie, Nash, you know, kind of going down, but either way, it was effective. And whoever comes in, you know, the great thing about it, I think they have enough athletes that they can, you know, have a scheme flexibility. But what's flexible is us going to break. We're going to come back and put a bow on this bad boy on this national signing day. Transition day and hopefully moving forward in a positive direction day as well. J format DP Austin Norman will be right back. 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