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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Coffee and Football presented by South Point Dodge. I'm your host, Blake Monroe, where I'm joined every day by Bobby Burton and Jerry Hamilton. Tell us where you're checking in from this morning, what you're drinking, get your questions in. We're going to talk about the Longhorns practice. So we got the press conference to talk about and we are 29 days away from kickoff, so be sure to tell us who Your favorite number 29 has been over the years.
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Years.
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We'll come back and revisit that. But first, let's, let's just jump right into it, guys. Of course, the team met with the media. First time that we've heard them speak in quite a while. Any takeaways before I play? A couple of clips.
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You know, I, I just think the guys that came out. Let's go over that, I guess. Jalen, Jelani, McDonald, excuse me, the senior, obviously from Waco College. Then we also had Ryan Niblett, another senior, and then hero, kanu, the transfer from Ohio State. He's entering his second year as a Longhorn. Those are the three that came before the media yesterday after practice. Look, all three guys, good representatives of the University of Texas. They're not going to say anything too outspoken. I think that's one of the reasons they get selected, in fact, to come talk to us. But it was pleasant and fun to see and talk to them and listen to some of the things. Hiro Kannu, in my opinion, was probably, I don't want to say the most forthcoming, but we were able to ask him more about other players and he was responding to that more in the, in the press conference. So we'll go over a little bit of that and actually hear from him on a couple of them.
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Yeah.
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So let's go ahead and play those. He was asked about a couple of players in particular here, Ian Drafard being one of them and Xena being the other.
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You know, 505 on a front squad. Like, it's nothing. Like. I don't know if any of y' all ever front squatted, but
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it be stuff like that.
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And we lived in the same rack, too. And I'm like, dang, dude, take the plate off or something. Like, you know, hey, dude is different. Like, he's definitely the strongest guy probably on this team, too. I remember playing Arkansas, I was like, dang, That's a big dude. I'm using, obviously, the nice words. I'm like, dang. Okay. I was like, this might be the biggest dude I've ever seen. I play against some big dudes, like just in high school guys, like Maximus Games. He was like. He went viral one time, you know, £400, 6, 8, 6, 7 or something like that. Dang. Ian is on par with that. So he's one of the biggest guys I've seen. But he got really sweet feet. He's fast, especially for his size. Like, he can move.
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Yeah, that was actually. I want to say this, Jerry, before that was actually. He was saying that they were. He was asked who the strongest person on the team was, Jerry. He said, Zion Williams. That wasn't Xeno.
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These mixed up.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You got to see it was actually Zion Williams, the true sophomore. Now, Williams has not been among the first guys in. In line as it relates to. To the defensive tackle position. He's actually a little bit behind some others, but very strong, naturally, according to Cardi, he was. He had a lot of positive things to say about Ian Jaffaard. He also talked about Murad Watson, and then he called Justice Terry guys a generational talent.
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Yeah, I'm gonna back off of that with him a little bit. That's really premature, to be fair, because now Texas fans will take that and run with it. Colin Simmons is a generational talent.
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Yeah.
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Well, I want to say this about what. What KANU said. Jerry. He came back and said, look, you could be a generational talent, but you gotta. You gotta make it work on the field before you can actually say anything. And so he. He qualified that to your point.
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Yeah, yeah. I. I think the thing we. We talked about when we had Ian Jaffaard's coach on is athletic stamina and. And Jafar. He's one of those guys. You know, sometimes we get go overboard with the size of a guy and don't think about that guy can still have athletic stamina.
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And.
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And I think that is the thing about Ian Jaffar that may be most impressive to me is at 375 to 385 to 395 pounds, he's got a lot of athletic stamina. And that is to me what makes him. That's the most important part of Ian Jaffaard as a player and as an athlete is that he could play for. He played 424 snaps at probably £400 in the SEC last year. That's a really crazy number for a guy that weighs. Weighed between 395 and 400 or whatever it was all season. And he's been very impressive since he got the Austin. I think he's a guy that maybe has even. And we'll see what he does. He's got. He's got the game experience. Right. He's put it on the board. But I think he's actually been more impressive than even the coaches thought when they recruited him, from what I've told. So I, I thought that. I just think he's so important to this defense. We've said before we did a video on it, he probably hadn't been talked about enough for how important he's going to be for this defense. And on Zion, naturally strong guy. You know, I went to Lufkin two or three times throughout his recruitment and his weight room numbers were very high there. So now you look at him, that natural strength and is a year into a college strength and conditioning program at LSU. Now he's at Texas 505 front squad is a mean number. I know that's a mean number. That's why he. He reacted to that how he did. But he's got work. Zion currently probably Bobby third or fourth at the zero spot at the nose guard spot. So as a player got a lot of development to do. And my thing with Zion is. Or is he gonna turn the strength in the frame into a very physical football player? Like he's gonna have to that. I think that's going to be his key.
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Yeah. I just think he's a year or two away from actually, you know, busting a grape at Texas. That's just my opinion. Despite his natural strength, Murad Watson needs to be discussed a little bit more than what we have at this time. Jerry. Alex January is a starter at Texas along with the injury. Farrard Hero Canoe is in that or KANU is in that same category, in my opinion. But you know, and we've talked about Justice Terry and his ability as a potential disruptor on the interior. The guy that, if you were to ask me who is definitely going to have a better year than he had a year ago in that interior, I think it's, I think it's Murad Watson.
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100 agree.
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He physically looks so much more in shape. He's quicker. We've seen him go through some drills. He's as quick as anybody not named Justice Terry and he's got the same kind of girth as a, almost like a Josiah Sharma, yet he's a little bit older. Yeah, I, I think, you know, that depth of the defensive line across the board and KANU said a little bit about it. Jerry, yesterday is, I mean, it's as good as it's got it's been at Texas. I'm not saying it's as good as the combination of Byron Murphy, Tavandre Sweat, Alfred Collins and Vernon Broughton. Yeah, that was a spectacular group at the very top. I think this group is deeper. I think it goes six or seven feet and that's the difference maybe in those guys. So I'm not saying, knock on wood, you don't want anybody to get injured, but they might be able to handle injury a little with a little bit more depth. All right. Hey, we've got Marcus Meyers coming up. He focused on the linebackers yesterday, so we're going to get to talk about that. We also have some video from practice yesterday, going to look at the receivers. But first, let's say thank you to our Friday sponsor of On Texas Football's Coffee and Football. That is our friends over at South Point Dodge. If you've been thinking about upgrading your ride, now's the time. We're talking big price reductions on RAM. 1500s, 2500s and 3005 hundreds plus Jeep Wranglers and Grand J Jeroes. Denny Burton is in the chat, by the way, right now with that Jeep Wrangler conversation. And here's the kicker On Texas football, listeners get 90 days before your first payment and South Point Dodge will ship your new ride anywhere you are. More than 600 vehicles in stock ready to roll for tailgates or holiday Trips. Check out southpoint dodge.com or swing by i35 in South Austin. Get to the point at South Point Dodge.
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Thank you, Bobby. And it looks like Marcus is ready, so I'm going to bring him on in. Good morning, Marcus.
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What's going on, fellas? How Y' all doing?
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Always good to hear from you, Marcus. Always good to hear from you, my man. Hey, Marcus, you were watching the linebackers yesterday? Almost, Almost exclusively.
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Yeah.
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A position that you've played in the past. Etc. We were talking about Rod, Jerry and I on yesterday's post practice update. We were talking about how this group is smaller than a typical linebacker group. They, they got, they, they're going speed, clearly, with Rashid Miles, Ty Anthony Smith and Brad Spence as your first three. That, I mean, no offense to Leonga Lafau or Anthony Hill, but they were bigger, more prototypical type guys. Texas is going with smaller but quicker and faster. Did you notice that in watching them work out yesterday?
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Yeah, definitely. I mean, for, for sure. The top two that you called there, right, And Rashin Biles and Ty Anthony Smith. Brad Smith, you know, is probably more of your prototypical linebacker size. And one of those guys and, you know, you see him get off the bus, it's like, okay, he's really well put together. And then some of the younger guys are actually the ones that are, you know, bigger and more of your, you know, traditional size, but they can all run. They all move really, really well. And of course, we were only getting to watch them do drills, so there wasn't any, you know, true lining up next to one another and, and even doing anything on air from a 7 on 7 standpoint or anything like that. They were really just doing like, bag drills and a lot of, you know, kind of punching a blocking dummy and shedding that kind of thing to make sure you're keeping your body square to the line of scrimmage. And so, you know, it was really good to see those guys. But, but Brad Spence had some good size to him. I would say after, you know, after that, it would probably be a, you know, pick your poison depending on the, the, the lineup and that kind of thing between Crier and Atkinson Kosi Apollo really jumped out to me as well. I didn't realize how long that young man's arms are, but, you know, he gets down in his stance and his, you know, his fingertips are almost touching his shins. And so it's, it's, it's pretty impressive to see some guys like that move around, but they definitely can move really well. You know, Rocky Cummings has some really good size on them as just Marcus Boswell. I think maybe the only one I couldn't really catch an eye on is, is Darius Snow. And that was likely just because I'm not accustomed to looking for his number. But for the most part you know, they, they look like they can run really well and I think, you know, when you look about, look at what is going to be in front of them, there's a lot of space eaters that are going to be there. You know, kind of a rotation of Ian Jaffa and Zion Williams, Joshua Sharma, you know, those type of guys and then just the other defensive tackles that they have in front of them. So I think they're going to know, do a lot to try to keep, you know, those, those faster guys freed up and able to kind of see ball, hit ball.
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Yeah. You mentioned Koso, Paula. I, I was told that he had yeah, over the summer that he's maybe the best blitzing linebacker prospect of the line at Texas. And that's not the takeaway from the player Rashim Biles is. But I, I, I've also heard that, that he already sat some moments in 11 on 11 in the bubble and what, where he, where he's actually from, what I've told has been very impressive thus far was playing off the ball and blitzing from the inside backer position. He's off ball. I mean he plays that overhang linebacker and he's really good there. But I think when he got to Texas, Texas thought he was just going to be an outside guy playing off the edge. But he's proven that he can handle also playing off ball linebacker. So he has Texas very excited and to Bobby's point and we'll see. He'll play some this year for sure, but there's guys in front of him. But the future is very bright with Kosiok, Paula, so I'm glad you brought him up. Marcus. The other thing we talked about yesterday with the linebackers is arguably the best returning linebacker in the SEC, Xavier Atkins at Auburn. And he's 6 foot about 215. So I think times are changing. Everybody thinks about the SEC as 6, 3, 240 pound linebackers across the board. But Xavier Atkins is kind of proving for the people that kind of wonder about Rasheen Biles and Ty Anthony Smith size that you know he was the most productive linebacker in the SEC last year. He was first team all sec. A lot of schools like Texas were hoping he was going in the portal by the way, and he didn't go in the portal and now he's back as a first team all SEC linebacker this year along with Biles. So I think times are changing a little bit. You're seeing more of those guys in the NFL too, Marcus?
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Yeah, absolutely. And I, you know, it's it's one of those deals, too, when he's rushing. The password rusher, because of his length and his wingspan, that's something you can get your hands up even if you can't get to the ball, right? And that's, you know, where you see a lot of tip passes. I know, you know, back when I was playing before B. Rob fully spun down. That was one of the advantages to him being a taller guy, is he had a long wingspan. And then, you know, again, when you talk about the different kind of permutations of this, when I was watching them, you know, both Kosi Apollo and Brad Spence work primarily with the linebackers. I didn't see them flipping over, you know, down there with the pass rushers or anything. So they're making sure that they have that, you know, set up well. You know, Bobby, the sheets that they were passing out to us over there yesterday as well, I had to go back and take a look because I was like, man, some of these guys got some size on them. And it's kind of interesting where, you know, you know, you have your Rasheed Biles and Ty Anthony Smith that are, you know, kind of in more that smaller LB role. But then they had Brad Spence listed at 249 and, you know, Crier listed at, I think, 241. So, you know, between those two, you have some of those guys that can move inside, can be thumpers when, you know, you're trying to, you know, make sure that you're, you know, stopping the run well in obvious run situations. And so, again, I think they have a lot in that room that they can kind of maneuver. And then Tyler Atkinson, you know, certainly looks the part. You know, he's filled out pretty well to this point. I don't think he's quite at 220 yet. I think they had him listed at maybe 218, 219, something like that. But you can tell that he can put a little bit more on his frame and be able to move really well without it, you know, hurting his athletic ability or anything. So I'm excited about the LBs. You know, it's maybe not the deepest core that we've seen in the past, but just from a standpoint that some of those younger guys, you might not expect them to contribute on the defensive side of the ball immediately, but I also think that they'll be really good on special teams.
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I gotta ask you this. I mean, just the two that you mentioned at the start, T. Anthony Smith and Rashim Biles, we get asked about both of them multiple times. What did you see from those guys? Sark said that that Biles is our kind of guy made to play 40 yards downfield in take one of practice. What. What are your. What did you take away from watching those guys?
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A lot of explosion between both of them, really, all of them, honestly. But you can just kind of see in their movements, you know, there's a drill where, you know, Bobby, Jerry, even Blake, y' all are familiar with this from all the practices you guys have been out to over the years, whether it's high school or college. But, you know, you have the tackling dummies that are out there that, you know, kind of have the padded on it and it leans forward a little bit, and they were pushing it up. And you'll have a guy on the other side of it that's one of the staff members coming kind of looking one way or the other. Right. And so the thought is you're peeking in the hole and then having to shirt or shed a blocker. And so you see a lot of their explosion in that. And. And even though I guess you would kind of deem a Ty Anthony Smith or Rashim Biles is undersized, more of that Levante David type, they have really good strike. They. They punch really well in those scenarios. And so, you know, they just. They just look good, man. They look good moving around out there, but, you know, they're in short, so it's. It's hard to tell. I will say this, too. Something that I did try to kind of keep an eye out for that, you know, know, just. I don't know, it was just something for me to file away from myself was I didn't see a single knee brace on any of those guys. I didn't see a single shoulder harness. And while, you know, pads haven't come on yet, and I imagine by the time we get to the first game, that'll look a little bit different. It was good to see just at least for the first two days, that these guys are out there just completely running free for the most part, and, you know, not encumbered by any, you know, any kind of braces or anything like that. So it was good to at least see that, you know, know that's how they're starting out the season, because this is going to be the healthy, healthiest they'll be all year.
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We didn't talk to you yesterday morning, Marcus. Your thoughts overall on the team right now? I know we just talked about the linebackers, but your takeaways. You've been on the sidelines. You've been part of a Longhorn football team. Your overall takeaway from this roster, two
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days into it, I think, you know, as I'm looking at it, I don't, I don't see a ton of holes. The guys look really good. And I've, I've been a bit critical about depth in the past. Right. I'll have people ask me about, well, hey, you know, you have all these high ranking classes and you know, probably prior years, maybe not so much under the Sark era, but, you know, a little bit prior to that when they were kind of going through the dark ages. And I would be like, yeah, they sign people. But to me, it's not elite depth. It's not the depth that if, if a player goes down for whatever period of time, you're confident in whatever would back them up. I think this team has that. It's kind of funny. I was at Event last night and got a chance to run into Matt Tristle and, and his son Jackson were up there. And, you know, Matt and I were talking for a little bit and he was talking about how he's kind of, you know, he and Jackson and their family went around the country a good bit to see a number of programs. And he said, you know, outside of Georgia, he didn't feel like anybody else had rosters that look like Texas. Now I asked him, you know, did y' all get a chance to make it out to Oregon? He said no, but said, even Ohio State, and this isn't, you know, again, we know the game has to be played, but, you know, he said, even Ohio State, just the bodies that the program currently has are kind of unlike anything else in the country. And so from that standpoint, to me, I know, I've heard you talk about this as well at times, Jerry. Probably one through 85, they're much closer to like, I would say, 05, 08 style of team, maybe even 09. And in, in just in terms of how they look off the hoof and how they move. And so for me, that's, you know, pretty comforting and seeing, you know, even when it comes to the wide receivers, right, like, obviously, you know, we know kind of who the big three are, but like, Sterling Burkhalter looks great. Khalid Lockett has really done a lot to kind of not only revamp his body and kind of bounce back from injury, but he's, he's moving around out there really, really well. And so I think, you know, all in all, for every position group, you just See, guys that are just big, man. They're big and fast. I don't know if I've seen a secondary this big before. I mean, they're just like. It's like a bunch of pterodactyls running around out there or something. It's wild. They all have, like, crazy wingspan and all the things. And the last thing I wanted to mention, too, even on the DB front, man, folks gotta cut John Meredith some slack. This guy, he should be in high school right now, right? Like, because of everything he went through with the uil, he wasn't able to train in the same way. So there's absolutely nothing wrong with him. You see flashes of it when they're doing some of the ball drills. They're just being careful with them. Yeah, they're just, they're just taking time with them and making sure that he gets acclimated, and you would expect them to do that. But you can tell that he's a competitive guy. You see him soaking up, you know, kind of game from some of the older guys, and each one of them is spending a lot of time, you know, talking him through the coverages and that stuff, but he, he's not timid. He, he jumps right out there in the middle of it. You don't see him standing at the back of the line. So just, Just give the young man some time. I don't, I don't think you need him to be some impact player, you know, right away, but I would not be shocked if you see him making some plays on special teams by the second half of the season.
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I, I told some, I told somebody in a text, I can't remember who, texted me asking about it, because, you know, obviously I, I, he had his, his freshman moment, got sick that first practice. But I said, he's like an 80s player that shows up.
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Yes.
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In July, the old rules, and then they start practicing. He may be the only guy in the country like that. So that, that's the way kind of the how, how it's, how different his situation is than everybody else is on the team. He's the only guy that shows up in July. And he's here a week, late July, he's here a week, and he starts college football practice because he couldn't work out. He couldn't work out at North Crowley all summer because the eligibility, he wasn't eligible. So then he kind of took some time. He was, Went down to Florida. He was looking at possible high school. So he didn't work out with his DB coach there For a week or so. He was literally thrown to the fire, like, physically, because it had been a while since he'd been in football activity. But he's a. He's a rare guy. That's almost a. Because of the situation. He's like an 80s guy that shows up the week before practice. Now you start going, in the old days, everybody else was here at the beginning of the summer or last spring. And so he's totally different than anybody else. And. And you're gonna have your freshman moment there. You're gonna. You're gonna get. You're gonna have some. You're gonna get sick and probably puke once, right? But his.
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His.
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He's gonna be. He's gonna be a really good football player. He's just. He's such a smooth athlete. Such a smooth.
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Absolutely.
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You use the term pterodactyls.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Man.
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Rod, last night and yesterday afternoon, we were talking. He says it's the biggest secondary he's ever seen at Texas.
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I'm telling you, I don't know of a bigger one. Yeah, we always had, like, one guy, right? Like Cedric Griffin, right, when I was there. Or even a Michael Griffin, right. Like, he. He was a bit of a lot. I mean, it' secondary is like that, you know, maybe Grayson Littleton and Bo Masco, you know, don't fit that mold. But then both of them are solid, you know, like, they're filled out. They're not, you know, you know, little skinny, wiry guys or anything. So it's. I agree with Rod. Like, I don't. I don't think I was on a team that had a secondary that had the size that these guys have. You know, again, we maybe had one or two guys, but not seven or eight. And. And that's what, you know, this. This secondary provides. And so I imagine that's going to give, you know, Blake Gideon, Will Muschamp, and Mark Orfe plenty, you know, to kind of mix and match and do whatever it is they want in the secondary.
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But, Marcus, you mentioned the receivers a moment ago, and we actually have some clips. A little over a minute worth of clips. A little bit of running back, too. But get Yalls thoughts on this.
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I think that's Derek Cooper. Right?
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That's Cooper. I've never covered a running back from Florida that wasn't physical. And he's going to fall in line.
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K. Locket there. Locket will make another nice catch. Emmett Mosley. We talked about. I mean, no wasted motion. No wasted motion.
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We talked about explosive coming out of A cut right there, guys.
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Yeah, we talked about him being someone that will do. Will be keyed in on a big season. This is going to be Cam Coleman here. He's got. It's a deep ball. This is a deep ball from Arch. Actually, it's deep over. This one is away from Cam Coleman's body. Nice catch. That's a catch radius that we've talked about, Marcus.
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Yeah, you just got to get in his vicinity. There's Burt Coulter.
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Yeah, he misses this one.
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Yeah.
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But again, long, long guy. Right. Like he has a lot of a large catch radius as well.
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Yeah.
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This is Cohen Brown there.
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For people unfamiliar with Cohen, powerful explosiveness, just explosive power is what Cohen Brown has. Explosion, powerful speed. By the way, I was told that Lacy and McCutcheon had a unreal over route completion on day one in the indoor. Like maybe. I wrote about this morning on otf.com that maybe the best throw that any quarterbacks made the first two days was an over route that KJ Lacy made when they moved practice in 11 on 11 in the indoor. I mean, totally threw a rope in between the corner and safety and contested coverage that McCutcheon and. And he made the catch in traffic. Apparently that might have been the play so far amongst Cuban wide receivers.
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Let's take one, one guy to talk about here, if you don't mind, Jerry, because I think it's indicative of. You can write a guy off too early or over hype a guy too early and they have to grow into it. Let's talk about Kali Glockett. Okay, Kali Glockett was highly rated five star by some. Right. But when he entered Texas, he was super thin. He wasn't. He had never really done speed training.
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It didn't look like. No, he was not a track guy.
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It wasn't a track guy. And that first year, other than the game against Michigan where he caught the touchdown. So he came on late. Right? You guys, this is what we talk about. It's. We always talk about. It's not add water instant player. Yeah. Some of these guys are really talented. K. Lockett among them. Really talented. Just because you're really talented doesn't mean you're ready to go day one and you got to put in the work. And I think that Klocket is one of those guys that has clearly put in the work. I think he's faster in and out of breaks. He's got the catch radius. The only, by the only person that competes with him on catch radius actually, in my opinion is Cam Coleman on this Entire team. He catches the ball really well away from his body. I don't know that he's going to be in the top three receivers this year, but could I see him being in the top three next year and helping out a lot this year in, in parts? The answer is absolutely yes. I think that if, if I'm buying stock, I wouldn't have necessarily bought stock last year in colleague Lockett just based on what I saw because his body type and I didn't think he had much speed. Now I'd be buying stock and Khalid Clockett this year. So maybe, maybe I'm late to the game a little bit. But I thought he, I think he's made that transition and is making that transition from prospect to player. Yeah, everybody. That happens differently for everybody. That could be a year timeline for some people it could be three years for some people or it could be day one. You're a player with K Lockett. He's one of those guys, I think he's making that, that it's the second year.
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He's one of those guys that was a victim of a recruiting ranking because it makes, it makes everybody think, oh, this guy's an instant contributor because people had him ranked and he probably wasn't that highly, shouldn't have been that highly ranked coming out. He was very young. He didn't have track times. Right. His elite trait is timing the wingspan, timing going up and getting the football. Like that's his elite trait. He was also 17, he was a young senior. Okay. So when I saw him in person, I mean the frame just to be strong enough to beat press coverage against an SEC player right in the win down the field against stronger players, even though he has that elite trait, was going to take some time for him. He, I still say to this day he's got the biggest hands of any 62 wide receiver I've ever seen. 11 inch hand. 11 inch hands. Guys, I mean like that's a crazy number. That's like NBA basketball player level hands. So hand size, so. But he was one of those guys that was a victim of a recruiting ranking because it put unrealistic expectations on a guy who was 17 leaving high school that wasn't physically developed the way he needed to be. Strength wise, he's always going to be wiry, but just strength wise. When you're going into that world and you're going up against the Manny Muhammad in practice and then you're going into an SEC, into the SEC. So that's kind of where I think the 20lb weight gain for him, which means strength on a wiry frame has been huge for him because the stronger a guy gets on a wiry frame, it's like Marcus. The more confident they get in their ability.
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Yeah.
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And once you can get pushed around a little bit when you're 17 year old coming into college, but once you get stronger and your confidence grows, it's amazing what happens for a player. So I think the recruiting ranking got fans ahead of where he actually was. Hey Marcus, could you.
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I gotta do an ad read. Can you stay with us through the break or you got to get going?
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Yeah, yeah, I'm good until about 9:30. Man.
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three and a half.
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Oh, yeah, it's this one. Top five players off the bus. Oh, yeah, yeah, this is a good one from Texas.
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Number one is easy. It's Planet Fitness. Like Justice Terry just looks different walking.
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Yeah, yeah, Justice Terry is a pretty easy go to. So I would, I would agree with you there, Jerry. Justice Terry. Give me, give me Trevor Goosby.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Give me Zion Williams and Ian Draft and then probably a toss up between Brad Spence and Jamarion Carlton.
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Yeah, you like?
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Gosh, now see, now we're doing it. Or Xena. Like I completely forgot about Xena and
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he was gonna say Xena.
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He looks great out there. Yeah, yeah, so. So it'd be some combination of those, but man, a bunch of those. I mean, you know, we were watching a number of them when they were coming in. Even Nick Robertson, man, like, that's a true freshman that has had no summer workouts with the team or, or at least didn't, you know, start until much later than all the guys from the spring. And I mean, you would not be able to tell just looking at him that he's, he's a true freshman. That's what I mean. Like these guys, you know, I don't know if there was a slight shift in some of the lifting strategy and, and how they were going about getting ready for the season, but just the different body types that they have in some of the position groupings, they absolutely look like an SEC squad. You know, I mentioned Matt Tristle, but I ran into a buddy yesterday that's also an SEC official and he's gonna be end up refing the, the first game against Texas State. And he kind of echoed the same sentiment. He was like, hey man, I, I get to see a lot of this. And there's maybe one other roster in the conference that you know, from top to bottom, you know, looks the way that, that you guys do.
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So yeah, I, I was thinking of it. I, I wrote down Ian Draf ahead of Justice Terry. Just because you want, you want him to block the way, right? Like he, he, he makes sure that you, that's, he's the announcement, right? And then Planet Fitness may be he's your star that gets off fifth on the bus, right? And, and then all the, if, if you're a basketball squad, he's the one that everybody that starts going crazy for Ian Draf. Trevor Goosby I thought was a good one. I went with Xena as well. I thought that he just looks terrific. I'll tell you who else just in my opinion is one of those types of guys is John Tay Newman. I mean he's.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean he's young, but he's enormous. And then I love your pick of Brad Spence just point blank. I mean if you're a, a non interior lineman or non lineman, he's as rocked up as it gets, dude. Yeah, that's the bottom line. Yeah.
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There was, there was one other guy maybe not in the top five, but just someone I hadn't paid as much attention to just because early on he hasn't, you know, had a ton of reps just because everybody that's been in front of him. But Smith Orobo has a great body type as well. Like he's, he's really filled out. That's the other thing. A lot of these guys that at, you know, maybe once you get outside of receiver for the most part, you can't tell that some of these freshmen are freshmen. Like was very different than, you know, when I played. Right. Like, you know, we had the first couple of days where it was just out there, you know, with the other freshmen and then, you know, the upperclassmen Came in. If it was still set up like that today, a lot of these guys, you would not be able to determine that they were freshmen just based off of looking at them. They look like they've been in a collegiate weight program for, you know, a
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year already on rogue boat. I'll never forget, first time I went to see him at hastings, he was 202 pounds as a 16 year old. He's now listed at 238 and he missed his entire senior season save a game with that knee surgery he had. But he is a guy that I wish I. And I got a different phone now. I don't have the photo from the first time I saw him in high school. I wish I still had that photo after one more year when he's about 255 because he's gonna look totally. You would, you wouldn't think those will be this. That'll be the same human being a year from now to your point.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Some impressive looking guys. Just gotta make sure they put it all together when the pads come on.
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Marcus, thank you for joining us, buddy. We appreciate it.
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Absolutely.
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We'll talk to you again next week, man. Take care of yourself, all right. Take care of yourself. Just a genuinely nice dude, man.
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Great guy.
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Been a real pleasure getting to know Marcus more personally.
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Absolutely.
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Followed his career obviously as a reporter, but really nice getting to know him. Good guy to be around. Good, good energy, you know what I mean?
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Very happy he's part of on Texas football.
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Yeah, no doubt.
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Just good guy. We got some more super chats that we need to get to, but before we get to that, I want to play this clip because it's been talked about in chat and made its rounds around over media yesterday. But Ryan Niblet was asked about the fastest players on the team, fellas. And I want to give you his answer.
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Coin.
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Of course. Cohen's definitely fast.
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I'll say.
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Wingo and Warren.
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Warren Roson, how about you?
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I don't like to put myself in there.
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I'm very humble.
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So. All right, question y', all is, were you surprised by this list?
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No, not on Cohen. Because we've been hearing that, right? And you hear the behind the scenes, the miles per hour he hits and workouts. I think Cohen is deceptive because he's so rocked up. Right. So people aren't going to say, okay, that guy is going to be arguably the fastest player on the team. His track times were. The thing with some of these guys is because they all enroll early, you don't know how Fast. Some of them could get on senior year on the track. Right. Like, could Cohen Brown have been a 104 guy at £195? It sure looks like it when you watch him on a, on a football field lobby like he was 106 prior. But you don't get to see these guys run track as seniors because they're already off to college. So could he have been a 104 guy? It certainly looks like it on a grass football field. I'll say that
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I, I thought that the, the one that surprised me mildly was not Cohen Brown or Ryan Wingo. He was also a track guy in high school. It was Warren Roberson. Is he the fastest corner at Texas? Faster than Cade Phillips, maybe. So Cade Phillips ran in the state meet in the 200 meter, though.
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Yeah.
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Right. Long jump, 24 plus feet. So Warren Roberson may be faster over 40 yards, though. Yeah. And it should portend well as a gunner for Warren Roberson too. If you think about it that way, if he and Ryan Niblett are your two gunners, that would make a lot of sense on the punt team.
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And it tells you, I think that Warren Roberson is a guy who's gotten faster since high school because he was in that 10:9 range in the 100 meters. But clearly, I mean, that's, that's different speed. Right? I mean, he ran a 200 as well, but none of his track times jumped off. Like the actual. The crazy part is Nick Townsend ran a faster 200 than Warren Roberson in high school. I mean, that's a crazy thing about. But again, these guys aren't around for senior years much on the track. But Warren Roberson's a guy who's definitely gotten faster since he got to college.
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Well, let's jump into some super chats here. And speaking of speed, Jordan Barker, thank you for your super chat. With all the length and speed we have in both the secondary and linebacker corps, I envision a lot of turnovers, not to mention Simmons causing havoc.
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Yeah, you know what? I'll just say that Rashim Biles is going to be a key component of that. I mean, these are. Kesan said as much. Guys. I mean, it's really rare that a coach says I turn on a guy's film and all he does is make plays and turn the ball over. He's our kind of guy. Maybe that kind of. That phrasing or the way it was just said so matter of fact, I mean, Jerry, you were there. It wasn't like this was a unknown thing that he was revealing to the world. This is like it's just gonna happen.
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Yeah.
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Because that's kind of who he is. So I would add in that turnover category, I would say that the question I have right now in the secondary, and I do, having been around the team for two days, if y' all ask me what is my biggest concern right now, it is not the offensive line. Although, you know, we got to figure out what's going on at left guard. I just think they have too many pieces. Somebody's gonna work out. Okay. I just. Something's gonna happen there. I think Jerry and I talked about this. They're in good shape. The issue is the secondary and they're introducing so many new parts this year and they're tested early.
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Yeah.
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So Brad Jackson, the Texas State quarterback, is an NFL future. NFL quarterback. That's your first guy out of the. Out of the gate. Then you have Julian saying, who completed what, 75% of his passes last year and has a receiving core as good as or better than Texas. Those are your first two guys. And so if I'm. If I had a. Okay. Am I concerned about anything right now, it would be that while the pieces are there in the secondary, I think I haven't seen the orchestration yet that I think can go and handle a pass heavy team that's going to just try to light you up. That doesn't mean they won't get there by. By time they play Texas State and, and Ohio State. It just means they're not there yet in my opinion. And I don't know because I don't know who's going to play that second safety spot and whether or not they're going to have the speed to cover the way that must Champ is going to want to cover. So I. That's the piece when you start talking about speed in the secondary. They have some. But they're not necessarily really fast at safety right now. So I. Anyways, I, yeah. Question too broadly or, or taking it a different direction than maybe you wanted it to go. But that's a personal opinion of mine that I have right now two days into to practice.
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Bobby, you know where I come out? That's been mine on all the shows all summer. Like I. You don't move a guy who is a. Your starting corner at the end of us at the end of the spring to safety if you don't have coverage concerns. Bottom line, at that second safety spot. Football, the sports don't work that way. You aren't moving a guy who is a starting corner to that safety spot where coverage is so important if you don't have concerns and probably major concerns to make that move. So that, that move was so interesting to me when we, when we broke that news because I was like, that's a show of concern right there. And that may. I think Texas has two spots in the second or to have to come through for them. And I do think this is the number one concern for me headed into the season because you mentioned the first two guys. This schedule is full of no matter what people think of these quarterbacks, guys that have experience that could have a hot day against you, wide receiver course that are really talented. I mean you can have really good coverage and have a long day against a couple of these guys this season. You could have really good coverage against Trinidad's Chambliss and still lose to him because he's going to dot the ball a lot and he might do it in clutch time. But to, to cause, you know that to answer the question about the turnovers, guys have to be in position to make turnovers. And that, that is my concern. I think this, I'm not concerned about the front seven. I'm concerned about having two secondary positions that are going to have to come through for Texas now. They have talent, but they have to come through for Texas. And I think it's, I think it's very important because of who you're playing this year that Texas has not faced a better group of quarterbacks. There's some really good wide receivers so you're going to be tested all year long, all season long, throughout the schedule. So you got to get those shored up or you got to start to have feel like you have answers coming up here early in the season probably after game one.
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All right, another super chat we have this morning comes from Justin Yarborough. Thank you, Justin. Appreciate you as always. And must chant it is must champs base front 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. And will Littleton see time at corner if there's not a nickel on the field? Great stuff, fellas. Hook up.
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He he's a base four man front with an overhanging linebacker. He'll move between odd and even fronts at times depending on his personnel on the field. Justin. So that's part one. Part two. Will Littleton seat time is a corner. He works out with the corners. It's interesting. So they have two nickels right now really? Because Wardell Mack yesterday we didn't mention this at the open. He was actually up above kind of not participating fully in workouts. He was limited. So he's obviously a nickel but the two nickels right now that I saw yesterday are Grayson, Littleton and Xavier Filsamy. Well what's interesting is Littleton actually works out with the corners in one on one drills and fils me works out with the safeties in one on one drills. Littleton could play corner and you could put Phil Semi at nickel but I, I don't think he'll play in base. If, if you had a four man secondary. I don't think Littleton plays. He may, maybe he moves to safety. Like I, I've, I've long thought maybe if you like Philsony better at nickel or at nickel maybe you could move Littleton back to safety. But he's not as big a run defender as as, as must champ necessarily likes. Right. So I wouldn't nes. I wouldn't move Littleton out the corner. I would say he might be your guy instead of being in the slot. If Phil, if you think Philson he can guard the slot he might be your second safety but we don't know that yet because he hasn't even played it down a safety to my knowledge.
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Yeah, like when they split.
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I am concerned. I'll just say that I am concerned about the secondary and figuring out who the best five are and then getting them going. That's, that's where I'm at right now.
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Yeah. And I, I, my thought on well after two media windows right when they split up the DBs, Grayson goes and takes reps with corners and not safeties. So it's just kind of telling. Things can change. You can cross train a lot of guys. Phil Semi who is the number two nickel goes and works out with the safety. So when they start breaking up that secondary, Grayson goes to the corners. Doesn't mean he always will but that's what we've seen the first couple of days. By the way, I wanted to say this Bobby because we hadn't hit on this as far as guys cross training up when the offensive line are up on the higher field and you wouldn't watch them. Yesterday Jordan Coleman is take. He gets takes what every third, fourth rep as a left guard essentially in drills. That's in 11 on elevens he has repped backup left guard already two days in the practice multiple times. So I want to put that out there that Jordan Coleman it's not just a drills thing And I wrote this this morning on texas football.com you can see it notes for myself, Bobby and the whole team. But he, he has taken some reps at second team left guard and live 11v11s already. So that to Bobby's point they're taking a lot a look at a lot of guys at left guard. I think they'll find their solution. But there is a competition there right now for sure.
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Gotta say, I wasn't expecting that to close out.
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Giddy up, Jerry.
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Helen, giddy up. I think they take Texas Tech fans too though. I, I gotta be honest. They're. They're in the commercial business.
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Sourceby's betting though, on that. Bobby,
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we got a super chat from Rocky P here. Rocky says, is there a player you think is a dark horse to be an all American or all SEC at least?
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Well, Steve Sarkeesian would say Jelani McDonald, but I don't think that's a true story anymore because I think he's in line for that kind of recognition at this point. Jerry, All American, all sec.
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I got the sleeper. He's not going to have the pass catching numbers, but if it's voted on by coaches, watch out for like a Massunas as a thing third team guy as a tight end because I think he's going to be a tremendous blocker and he's going to be on tape. A guy that they see as a difference maker when they play Texas. He's gonna, I mean he came to Texas considered one of the best inline blockers in college football. At that position.
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Bo Masco would be mine.
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That's a great one.
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I think. I'm not so sure and I, as much as I just bemoan the secondary, I think corners in good shape. I do with, with, with Kate Phillips and Bo Masco. I think corners in really, really good shape. And I think Bo Masco Actually, if you're asking me, me right now who the best DB is for Texas, I, I know everybody and I love Jelani McDonald. I'm not so sure Bo Masco isn't my answer.
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I, I think he is.
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So just, you know, I think Texas picked up a real gem in Bomasco in the portal. People don't realize it because he came from Rutgers, but he was, you know, what, Honorable mention, all Big Ten at Rutgers. It's like two people on Rutgers, entire squad, all Big Ten at any level, you know, So I, I think he might be really surprising to people in that category. Ty Anthony, maybe, But I think, I think typically one linebacker gets a lot of the love and Rashin Biles comes in with such ballyhoo and notoriety, he may be tough to overcome.
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By the way, the most important thing I saw through two days of open media window practices and heard from what happened in practices. Nobody was lost for the season to injury. Usc, Somebody mentioned the chat earlier. I had not seen this. USC lost their starting center to a non contact injury for the season. Things are going well every day. You don't hear that as a Texas fan. That's a big loss for usc starting center, non contact. That was a starting center for a reason.
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Sucks for that kid. Dude broke his leg.
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Yep. Terrible way to start the season.
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Yeah.
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All right, Sark After Dark here. What's different about this team versus 2025 and what gives you confidence that it can finish the game winning drives that the 23, 24 teams couldn't?
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Dude, they finished the drive, Bert. Auburn just couldn't hit the dang kick. You know, they didn't get in the end zone against Georgia, but they did drive it and get it there. He just didn't hit the kick. You know, I'm not sure I'm convinced yet or that I have confidence that they can do something that the other team can't. I would say that this team should be better in the red zone and short yardage than they were in 24 or 25 because they have a running quarterback or a quarterback that can be a running threat. And I think they have better group of running backs and different styles of running backs. So they, I think that they're going to be better in the red zone and short yardage this year. So I guess that does give me some confidence. But I don't, I don't, I don't necessarily. I'm not sitting here telling you this. They're gonna do it. You know, I want to see it just like you Guys do, personally.
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Yeah, I agree. I mean, look, as talented as the team is, you got to go get it done. I mean, you could point to teams in every sport. Duke basketball has been the most talented the last two years of college basketball, they didn't get it done. You still got to go get it done. I did the other thing in the red zone with this team. I think this may be the best group Bobby of 50, 50 ball guys Texas has had at wide receiver in the Sark area. So what that means to me is obviously it goes back to something Aaron Ross said on the show when we were talking about. He plays off of the big receivers and he presses the fast receivers. Well, when you're in the red zone, you can't play off a big receiver. You have to go mono a mano with that big receiver. And if you're inside the 10 yard line, the more guys you have that can go win the 5050 ball. When all else fail, all else fails, the better chance you have. And I think with Cam Coleman, he's one of the better 50, 50 guys in the country. I think Emma Mosley's really good when the ball's in the air because he's just physically and knows how to get his body in position. You know, a guy like Kalika Lockett can go play the ball in the air at a very. That's his elite trait. That's what he does best. All in the air. Body control, coming down with the ball. That that can be a hidden help in the red zone this year a little bit too, that I think Sark may have more options when it gets, when the field really condenses to just throw the ball to a point and have a guy that can go up and get it.
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Our next super chat this morning, fellas, comes from CJ. Thank you. CJ says tomorrow, Freddie Steinmark days away from ball number 28. Thank you for that. And we obviously we won't be doing 28 or 27 since we won't be doing coffee and football. But let's take a look at 29 guys. Two names on here and one of them we've talked about quite a bit today, that being Grayson Littleton, the other one of course being Phil Brown. But one thing that I noticed and Bobby, we were talking about this before the show started. There's a lot of guys that could have went on this if they would have just stuck with the number 29. Ryan Palmer, Josh Thompson, they wore 29 for two to three years. And then that final year made the switch to A different number. Even Cotton Aspire also wore 29 and then made the switch after his second year. I believe so. A lot of 29s, but only two on here that have stuck with it.
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They don't like the prime numbers, I guess once it gets in the 20s and above. Is that the. Is that the thought?
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No.
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Phil Brown's the. The pride of Commerce, Texas, if you don't remember that. Big Phil brown rushed for 2,000 yards, was on the whatever it takes team, was a key running back there, along with Adrian Walk Walker and Chris Samuels. Phil Brown also had a big kick return against Penn State up in State College. That kind of kick started that season for the Longhorns in the right direction. Grayson Littleton, Jerry probably one of the more pleasant surprises in recruiting in the Sark era. I. I think if you were to start a list of five pleasant surprises in the Sark era of recruiting, I'm not so sure Grayson Littleton wouldn't be one or two.
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You know what? You know what? I was gonna say. The one thing covering Texas, the one. One of the places I never thought I'd go covering Texas is Wiregrass Ranch High School. The move to the SEC changed everything for Texas and recruiting and the women, by the way. Yeah, that's north of Tampa. Wiregrass Ranch is just not a school I figured I'd go to. I'd be on the practice field that covering Texas. But the move to the sec, Texas recruiting, the Southeast, recruiting Florida as hard as any state outside of California probably, which is the west coast state that Texas is always going to recruit under Sark, but the willingness to go get in the fight at places like that, I mean, Grayson Littleton, decommits from Clemson, everybody had him circled to go to Michigan. Texas came in and offered him. He'd been on campus with a 7 on 7 team, to be fair, but Texas hadn't offered him. But for Texas to be willing to go into getting those fights now, I mean. And they ended up winning that fight when everybody thought the kid was going to go to Michigan, which is. That's been cool from somebody who covers this to. To go to a school that you didn't think you'd go to to cover a Texas recruitment. Wiregrass Ranch was one I would have circled as. Nah, probably not gonna happen.
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Somebody just wrote to me and said another name that wore 29, Joey Abusi in the 1970s. There you go, running back.
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All right, well, let's pick up with this super chat from Mulligan Moly. Thank you, Mulligan. I want to beat Ohio State by 20 plus. Don't we all? And I think the atmosphere is if. I think if the atmosphere is right, it could happen. What are your thoughts?
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I wish Mo. I wish Mellow was here this morning to ask him the last time Ohio State lost a game by 20 plus. Does the chat have the answer? State got blown out. Maybe I missed an obvious one.
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Did. Did. Did Michigan take it to him like one of the last couple years?
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I mean, Connor Stallions had him in position too.
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Got it against Purdue 49, 20 on October 20, 2018.
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D
There you go.
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Almost a decade.
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How bad did Ohio State suck to get ran out by Purdue? Geez. That year, 2018 Ohio.
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I'm believing that was probably the. Was that. That could. That couldn't have been Urban Meyer, could it?
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B
That was when they had the kid that was committed to Texas and then ended up going to Purdue. What was his name?
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D
Let's see.
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Wide receiver. He's electric, too.
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D
Here's the crazy thing. Ohio.
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Moore. Rondell Moore.
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Here's the crazy thing. Ohio State was 13 and one that year. That was their only loss. That was their only loss was Purdue. I was like, that couldn't have sucked. I was joking about that.
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But did they win the national championship that year?
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No, no, no. Because they lost that Purdue game. They. They went to the Rose bowl and beat Washington 2823 in 2018. But man, that was their only loss that year. So the last time Ohio State got smacked in a game was against at Purdue and Dwayne Haskins threw for 470 in that game and they lost by 30.
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Dang.
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That's a crazy stat.
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He threw for 4, 7. Then they got smashed. I am with the Purdue ID said yesterday we're here to win championships. So there you go.
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Then said, if you don't want to win them, go to Indiana.
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D
Yeah, that was smart.
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Badjoke.com yeah, that definitely got bad.
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Take. I mean that. That's worse than a joke.
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Yeah, well, somebody's saying they lost by 28th to Bam in 21. And that was a CFP game. That makes sense.
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Yeah.
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D
Oh, that.
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That was the national championship game. Yeah.
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They got smacked there when the linebacker
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tried to guard Devontae Smith. That was not. That was not a good day for Ohio State.
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Yeah. Our next one comes from Rod Baber's helmet. Thank you, Rod Baber's helmet. Jerry, two years ago you said we struggled with Georgia because of the speed of their linebackers. Is this what Texas is going for with Biles Atkinson and Smith.
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Well, what I was talking about with those Georgia teams is when you threw the quick game horizontally, their linebackers closed the space so fast that, that I think and from a pass rush perspective that I thought Texas, Georgia had a huge advantage on Texas in that regard. Look, I think, I think it just so happened with this team that Rasheen Biles was there because when Rashin B. Went into the Portal, Bobby, we initially heard, ah, that one probably won't happen for Texas.
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Right.
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And it wasn't because they were recruiting Christian Allegro. Christian Allegro was an overhang linebacker. That's at Ohio State. That was Mus number one in the portal, by the way. See how he does this year at Ohio State. I think he's really good and underrated. But then there was the linebacker Kave from California that was in the portal and it was kind of him and Biles. I, I just thought there was initial thought that Biles probably couldn't wouldn't happen for Texas. I did sync that kind of happened that way. And Justin Criers are a gap thumper guy out of the portal. But it just so happens that Biles is on this Texas team and Ty Anthony Smith's on this Texas team. If you look at the freshman linebackers, Opal is 63235 and every bit of it. Rocky Cummings is going to be 63245. Atkinson is going to be the quote, undersized guy, probably six one in the low 220s. So I'm not sure they're going to re recruit that type of player every year. I think Bows is just a pretty special player, guys, and just kind of made it happen.
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B
Spank Boogie, thank you for your super chat. Listening to Sark all summer, now the players, it seemed to be a lot of divisiveness and selfishness on last year's team. Can that be a real problem?
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I don't think that was the case. I think it was young and immature. Not immature is the wrong word. But like Colin Simmons at media days this year, Jerry. You know, last year I asked Colin Simmons his goals for the season and he gave me individual goals. X number of sacks, X number of tackle. You know, that sort of thing. This year, win a championship was his goal. Win a championship and the other stuff will come. I think it was maturity, not divisiveness, personally. Younger team.
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And our final one for this morning comes from Dante. Appreciate you, Dante. He says, is Wingo catching the ball better this fall camp? He dropped a lot of balls in crucial moments. It seemed as though Mosley didn't Drop them.
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D
One we.
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Wingo certainly worked on his catching. I mean there's no doubt about it. And to Jerry's point, EMT Mosley is, is due for a breakout year. We think everything we've heard behind the scenes has been really, really strong. Mosley is a better natural catcher of the football than Wingo. Wingo though, I mean he's, he's fast and he's big and he runs hard. You're going to get him in the ball. You're. You, you have to. I'm not so sure as, as talented as Cam Coleman is. I'm not so sure that Ryan Wingo isn't more of an issue for defenses because he combines size and speed, vertical speed. I mean you have to guard him behind the line of scrimmage and downfield. He's got that kind of speed and that kind of run after catch ability.
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All right guys, well that is gonna do it for today's episode of Coffee and Football presented by South Point Dodge. Want to thank them along with Poncho prize picks Mint Mobile and Von Lane, all for sponsoring today's show. Of course, shout out to Marcus Myers for joining us and thank you all for joining us as well. Bobby, what do you have for folks later?
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Well, first of all I've got to tell you this. If you're not a subscriber to Ontex Football.com you should be. We've got so much news and information over there right now between CJ Vogel, Hank South, Jeff Howe, myself Jerry dropping notes on the team this morning. Really good stuff there. You guys got to be a subscriber. And also if you miss on Texas football videos during the middle of the day and just want to come talk with us and other like minded Longhorn fans.
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There is no better place than on
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Texas football.com and right now we're running a special $3 for three months. That's $3 for three months limited time only. You won't get an offer like this anywhere else out there. We also of course have recruiting intel, that sort of stuff going on. I do want to mention this and I forgot to mention it at the outset. Cole Hudson is officially back with the University of Texas football team. The young man got got agreed to a agree a settle with the NCAA yesterday. He officially rejoined the football team I believe around 7:45 this morning. So Texas has more depth on the offensive line. Congrats to Cole. I know that was a long time coming for him to try to get back in the burnt orange and white.
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Well, we hope you all have a phenomenal weekend. Of course, we'll be back on Monday morning. So for Bobby Burton and Jerry Hamilton, I'm Blake Monroe, and we'll see you then.
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Hug them horns.