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Welcome in to Talk the Dog, the show where we find a bone to pick and a take to give. These are not hot takes. These is dog takes. Can I talk that dog?
D
What's up? Really like that?
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Brooks
Let's shut up and grab some tape. What is up? Ladies and gentlemen, we are back in time for another loaded hour here on the Film Guy Network. We finna talk that dogs still got the hips over there. Still got some ankle dexterity.
D
I try.
Brooks
Not a boy doing the stretches. Doing the yoga. That's good stuff. Hot yoga, regular yoga, hot yoga.
D
When you can. I mean, studios are so exciting.
Brooks
I've never done it.
D
Sucks.
Brooks
I would imagine it's tough. All right, let's talk that dog. Coaches sound off on Gunner Stockton. We're going to talk about that tonight. We do have an Auburn preview for you guys tonight. What can we learn about Georgia during the first two games of the season? Breaking news. I don't think I'm going to be there.
Craig
No, you're not going to be there for the whiteout?
D
Nope. Oh, he's missing the one.
Craig
I think so. You know what I just realized?
D
What?
Craig
Me and you, walk and talk.
D
It'll be our first.
Brooks
So someone did ask me about this the other day. They were like, are they still gonna do walk and talk?
Craig
Oh, we'll do walk and talk.
Brooks
Are y' all gonna send it to me for me to tweet it out or are y' all gonna tweet it out yourselves and ask me to retweet it? How's that gonna go?
D
Don't know.
Craig
That's a good question.
D
We have not gotten that far, but we. There will be walking talks. Do not.
Craig
Don't you worry.
Brooks
I do love that people like that, but I hate that people are like, you know what my favorite thing you do is the walk and talk. And I'm like, dude, I do 65 hours of content. And the favorite thing of mine is the 60 seconds of work that I do leaving a game that is a total half baked. Take that. I have no idea what I'm actually talking about because I haven't watched the film.
Craig
You know what? Maybe we stumbled into something. Maybe the content we put the least amount of effort into is what. It's what does best for us.
Brooks
I don't like that revelation. I do not like that revelation at all.
Craig
I don't either.
Brooks
We got first round talk. We're gonna talk about Georgia Bulldogs that could end up working their way into the first round, apart from the obviouss going into the season. And we have, as you can tell by the title of tonight's video, early fall camp winners. All right. It is still, still anonymous coach quote season.
D
I think it's. I think this is its last stand.
Brooks
You Think so.
D
I think this is it.
Brooks
I think we'll get another edition of this during the season at some point there's always that pre championship weekend. Remember because that was when the lad Makoni can't even fit into his jersey quote came out right before the SEC championship game.
D
But that's like most a good amount of team seasons has ended like by the time you get through the regular season like you're already looking and MFers
Brooks
just be yapping towards the end of the season for sure. MFers are yapping right now. So what they've been yapping about Kirby.
D
So Gunner Stockton was.
Brooks
By the way, I got coaches coaches yapping tonight too.
D
Good.
Brooks
So go ahead.
D
So Gunner Stockton was the subject of these yappings. I think that ESPN did an entire source or article based on just what different coaches are saying about quarterbacks across the country. And obviously Gunner Stockton being a quarterback for one of the more prominent teams in America was on this list. And some not glowing reviews were given from SEC coaches. The first quote, he runs it better than you think. He's really smart, pretty accurate. I don't think he's got unbelievable arm talent but pretty good. Okay, okay, next quote. And this is the, this is the second. There are only two. He's a great college quarterback. He's tough. So he can get some bull yards and take some big hits and all that stuff. I really like him. He's a really good player. I don't know if he's an NFL specimen but he's a great college player. Valid.
Craig
I think that actually is the perfect synopsis of Gunner Stockton if I had to give one.
D
Yeah, I mean it's. He is not a NFL quarterback we believe but by God, when Saturdays come. I don't know if there's many other quarterbacks you would want leading your team. Sure there's guys that probably have more arm talent or probably bigger names or bigger bodies and or better builds but I very happy with the fact that number 14 is my quarterback.
Brooks
All right, I got some. You want them?
D
Let's hear.
Brooks
Yeah, I think I got five. Here we go. Winner. Great frame, quick release, accurate passer. Best in short and intermediate, but can still get to the verticals. Just can lack some juice at times. More mobile than you'd think. Tough game isn't too fast for him. He can process but I do think he can break down after his second read at times.
Craig
So this is interesting because the quick release part which is something that side eyed that one.
Brooks
And then also I don't necessarily Agree.
Craig
The lacks juice. Lacks some juice at times.
Brooks
I think he's talking about as a passer.
Craig
Yeah.
D
I think he's talking about like arm strength from that.
Craig
But I think Gunner has a pretty good arm strength.
Brooks
Yeah. I think you throw it through a
Craig
brick wall, that dude could rifle it.
D
Yeah. Maybe in the, the deep ball area.
Craig
Maybe. Maybe.
D
I, I don't know. I mean, it makes like any coach I feel like is going to give like there's nothing spectacularly crazy about Gunner Stockton, but damn it, he wins.
Brooks
Oh, man, the Bobo haters are going to love this one. Good player has been really productive. Don't know if they play to his strengths as much as they should. Good player, but nothing to ride home about.
Craig
Well, then my question to that person would just be, what do you think his strengths are?
Brooks
I think toughness and running the football.
D
Yeah.
Brooks
Having had conversations with this football coach about this previously, that is what he was referring to. I know that.
Craig
Okay.
Brooks
Well, by the way, these are, it should go without saying these are all people outside of the building do not coach for the University of Georgia. So.
D
But it's also funny. It's like you saw like everyone talks like the big hits Gunner Stockton was taking. If I'm a coach, if I'm Mike Bobo, if I'm Kirby Smart and I'm on the film, if in the film room on Sunday and I see my quarterback taking those hits on the run in the passing game, I'm not giving him 11 carries a game because he can't take all of those. Like it's, it's incredible watching him get like, look like he got shot by a 50 cal and get up. But at the same point, I don't need you taking two or three of those a game.
Craig
I would also say too like considering, and I think that they're better suited this year than they were last year. But considering what Georgia does have in the running back room, I don't really know that I need Gunner Stockton to be inserted too much in the run game but still want to utilize him because it helps. It helps your run game even more when you show that he is a threat in the run game, which everybody knows at this point he is.
Brooks
Also, we're 18 months into the experience of Gunner Stockton being the known starting quarterback and we still don't know if he has a suitable backup right now, let alone last year. Last year if he got hurt, their whole season was blown to smithereens.
D
Absolutely.
Brooks
So that was part of the reason why I don't think they quote unquote used him to his strengths as much as he should. Another coach said, what's up?
D
I was saying, yeah, I mean, like, he doesn't need it like, as much as everyone says, like, oh, he can be a Riley Leonard type thing where we're just going to run him into the ground if we need to. Like, first drive of the national championship where he's got eight carries, he can barely breathe, and his old linemen are carrying him back to the huddle. Like, you don't need to do that to Gunner Stockton because we don't know what's behind Gunner Stockton. If Gunner Stockton's out, you might have some trouble just because of the. We don't know what the quarterbacks are behind him.
Craig
You just get another one?
Brooks
No, no. I just got an email from the SID department. It says Expecting at 11:30 tomorrow. Expecting Glenn Schuman, Mike Bobo, plus other assistants.
D
Interesting.
Brooks
So my guess would be Kirk Benedict and Todd Hartley.
D
I will be there.
Brooks
Todd Harley's my favorite coach to listen to at a press conference, bar none. He. He brings the absolute juice to that place. Another coach said, quote, he's an above average SEC starter. Top six in the league.
D
Okay, yeah, that's. I'm fine with that. Six is like. Are you saying he's six then? Probably.
Craig
If you're not saying top five, it probably means you're saying he's sixth, which I arch.
D
Fine. Trinidad, you can name John Mateer. Who are there.
Craig
Maybe they're still high on Lenoris.
Brooks
Maybe they mentioned Trinidad.
D
Yes.
Brooks
Price still high on Lenoris.
D
That's four.
Craig
Maybe they like Sam Levitt.
D
I mean,
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Craig
Yeah,
Brooks
you can't laugh that hard as something to have it off camera. Dude, I didn't.
D
I mean, come on.
Brooks
You can't do that. You can't do that.
D
It was a natural reaction.
Brooks
Yeah, but the audience is completely left out in the win there. Good, good tough player. Good player. Not sure what. He's great at football. He's a great football player.
D
Delivering in the moment you need. There was never. There was.
Brooks
Nobody mentioned that, by the way.
D
There was. And I don't get like it. Maybe that's just something you don't pay attention to when coaching and looking at schematics and mechanics and all these things. There was never a moment on Saturday where it felt like from the moment he touched the field where it's like, you know what? This moment is too big for Gunner Stockton right now. I mean, he was down two scores in Knoxville, Tennessee for his first SEC road start and found a way to win that football game. He's like, I don't have to continue going over the reasons why. Gunner Stockton has already proven like there is never a moment that's too big for him. That's what he does great. And frankly that that's one of the more important traits there is because you can be the most accurate quarterback, you can be the most talented, but you will find yourself down in games and you will find yourself in high pressure moments. And if you can't deliver to your best at that point, you're not a great quarterback.
Craig
Well, I remember, I can't even remember who wrote it, but I remember reading an ESPN article and it was like putting college quarterbacks this year in other categories. And I think that, oh yeah, Gunner Stockson got put in the Drew Aller category because didn't show up in the big biggest moments, like in the biggest games, you didn't show up.
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Craig
I don't think people realize just how good Gunnar Stockton was in the second half. But in the fourth quarter, specifically last season had the highest completion rate of anybody in the country last year in the fourth quarter I had like a whole bunch of stats in this article basically saying he is completely misunderstood from a national perspective. And I think people really over like because I think this is probably what happens like if you don't watch Georgia on a regular basis because you're not a Georgia fan. I think probably what you assume is, oh, Georgia was in a bunch of tight games last year going into the fourth quarter. Well, it's because they're able to run the ball. Like they're just really good at closing out games, defense, run the ball, chew clock. That's why they were able to plot some big wins. But if you actually watch the games, it was Gunner Stockton showing up in some massive moments in multiple games last year. And yes, were they able to lean on the run game? Absolutely. They, they certainly improved in that area from the 2024 season. But it was Gunnar Stockton making some timely plays down the stretch that really allowed Georgia to put themselves in positions to put the game away.
Brooks
I think at least one of those coaches hit on that with the winner aspect of this. Obviously what he was alluding to. Guy wins football games and does it late, which is football games.
D
Correct me if I'm wrong, the most important trait in any quarterback.
Brooks
Yeah. Like how big are you in the big moments?
D
Accuracy. Fine, that's important. Ability to read defenses, that's important. But if you are a winner and if you can play your best when the moment requires you to I would take that over A perfect prototypical build for quarterback who you know is just average like this.
Craig
It's.
D
It's why Stetson Bennett is the legend he is because when you needed him to and Those from the 21 to 22 season when you need him to he delivered like the mailman delivers. Was a quote because of the way he played in big moments.
Brooks
Make sure you're hitting that thumbs up button. Liking the stream. If you haven't already, please do so now. Early fall camp winners, let's talk about it. I'm going to run these things down and then you guys can pick up the scraps. Amen.
Craig
All right.
Brooks
All right, let's do it this way. First and foremost, Craig Dangerge going to play this year. Good play this year. Going to be an impactful football player for you this year. As are the the following freshmen. Zakai Helton is a known Kaden Prothro is a known I just talked about Craig Danger. I think Kamari Brooks, friend of the show is going to play a lot this year as well as is Tyree Boogie Green. I think Boogie plays a lot on special teams and then late in the season kind of has like a Dinkins type role at some point. Still somebody's job. But it looks to me like the older guys are siphoning through the safety spot right now and we're just trying to get Boogie onto the field at some point. Bo Walker, per sourcing and this is all made available on patreon.com forward/burst. Aw. By the way, Bo Walker, per sources has entered quote unquote must play status.
D
Great. And I think that you saw kind of a glimpse of that in the Mississippi State game. Then unfortunately he suffered that injury. But there were signs that Bo Walker was really making some impressive strides last season of hey, this might be a really, really viable option. RB3 come 2026. Maybe it's playing in that way. Obviously we don't know what the the depth chart looks behind Chauncey Bones and Nate Frazier, but it's encouraging to hear nonetheless that there's multiple names fighting for a three spot as opposed to we don't really know who it's going to be.
Brooks
You know who else a big winner through fall camp? The scouting and recruiting department. Okay.
D
Yes.
Brooks
Because Terrence Pinnock, a football player that they flipped from Coastal Carolina is going to play at some point in his Georgia career. And I think when a lot of people heard that late in the cycle they're like, oh, Georgia's just grasping at straws no, that's a dude. He's going to play football at the University of Georgia. Chris Peel, an uncommitted football player out of Roswell High School.
Craig
Nick Peel.
Brooks
Nick Peel. Sorry. Chris Peel was a while.
Craig
Former db.
Brooks
Former DB Nick Peel is going to play at the University of Georgia at some point down the road, I would imagine. And then my mentions have been blown up with people talking about Trey Shields. Pump the brakes, you Jeremy Bell fans. Pump the brakes. Okay, here's what I was told and here's what I believe. Trey Shields was a football player who played one year of high school football.
D
And.
Brooks
And he has already shown through fall camp, didn't play in spring, got here in the summer, has already shown through fall camp that he's a good football player, he belongs at the University of Georgia. And that by alone. That alone is an absolute home run by the scouting and development department. Like the idea that they found a guy that played one year of high school football and he's good enough to at least look like he belongs at a Georgia football program is great. Stop asking me if he's going to play the show. I don't think he's. I think it's a little bit too much considering what they have in that room already at the wide receiver position.
D
Yeah.
Craig
Always good for one of those, though, during fall camp and spring practice as well, of getting really excited about a player that was under the radar. Hear one inkling about him is like, this is it. Here's another one. We got another one. Like you might have.
Brooks
I still get asked about Jeremy Bell still to this day. They're like, all right, is Jeremy Bell going to earn some playing time?
Craig
I mean, they are kind of. I mean, they're. I don't want to say they're at fault for that one themselves, but I mean, that dude does kind of ball in the spring games. Like they kind of do it to themselves with that one.
D
Yes.
Craig
Because Jeremy Bell is a good football player, but there's also other really good football players.
Brooks
Ekeniagboco is a home run good. A home run.
Craig
So they got two home runs so
Brooks
far in that class at the offensive line position alone. Zakai Hilton and Ekin Yak Boko.
D
Does he force his way into that eight?
Brooks
He's already in it. He's already in the eight man rotation. He will. He will play week one with the. With the quote unquote ones.
D
Okay.
Brooks
When Gunner's out there in the second quarter when they're up 35 to nothing and they're running the Football. Eken Yagboko will get burned.
D
Okay, yeah, so, so he's, he's almost forcing his way into the six now.
Brooks
No, the six ends at Jaw Jackson.
D
Okay, so he's still not correct starter material yet, but by God.
Brooks
So in other words, within three weeks of the season, he might have pushed somebody out the door.
Craig
In other words, what you're saying is if Ernest Green or Juan Gaston went down in a game as tackles, it would be Jaw Jackson first and then it would be Echanog Boco for now. Yes.
Brooks
But they are, I think internally, because they're a big ceiling football program too, because they know they're going to, they know they're going to play well into December. They hope to be playing well into January. And you do have to forecast, hey, by January, this might be our best option. And the best option might be Ernest Green playing right tackle and him playing left tackle and Juan Gaston playing guard. Whatever the rotation is, you have to forecast that for football players that are this immediately talented because you have no earthly idea what they're going to turn into six months from now.
Craig
Right.
Brooks
Seven months from now. Especially when again, the ceiling on this football player is tremendous. I mean, we saw that the difference between his junior and senior tape was night and day in high school. So that type of stuff is only compounding during the fall camp periods and spring practice periods. Who y' all got?
D
I went in a direction of more players that really boosted their stock, but we had high stock on them already. Everything I've heard about this guy is that he's gotten even better, which is great because from year to year it sounds like he's continuously improved his game. Nate Frazier seems to have added another wrinkle, another layer to his game that makes him, gives him the potential to be one of the best running backs in the SEC this season. I'm very excited based on everything I've heard coming from camp and spring and all that stuff, I'm going to put
Craig
this guy as a winner just for the fact of he is actually out there competing and he looks like he's going to be a really good football player. Justice Fitzpatrick, I mean, you talked about the other night, Brooks, of just how insane that injury was that he suffered his senior year of high school. Didn't see. Like, when you see that, you're probably all right, that's going to be a guy that in year two, we're going to see what he's made of. Nope. Fall camp. He's here. And it looks like Georgia got themselves again another really good football player in their secondary.
Brooks
Yeah.
D
I mean, I think that he deserves to be on this list just from the fact that he's coming back from the injury that he suffered as quickly as he did. I mean, that was what, December? That he blew his knee out and he's already pretty much fully back.
Brooks
He didn't. I don't think he took too many reps Sunday.
D
Right.
Brooks
But no, he's. He's out there in a. He's not in a non contact jersey and he's out there running around, which.
D
That's what I'm saying. Insane.
Brooks
Insane to even like when we had media availability for him to be going through indie drills and cutting off that knee. Goofy.
D
Insane.
Brooks
I think one source and I talked about it is like we are not from the same plan. Like Planet Genetics. Genetically we are not, we are not the same as that human being. He's. He's cut different, he built different, as the kids would say.
D
He is built different. Another player that I have on this list, I don't think people appreciate how hard it is to come in, lock a spot down on defense and it be yours. Your first year of the transfer portal and everything that we've heard about Khalil Barnes is that he's done just that. He is a professional through and through. Yeah, I get it. He started three years at Clemson. That's another program that has, you know, really, really good prestige. Being able to come into Georgia like Tyke Smith didn't even do this before his injury. He had not locked down a spot. Khalil Barnes basically, from everything I understand was the second he stepped foot in Athens was all right. You're the star. We know what you are. You are, you are our guy. And I think that is. He's a big winner for that.
Craig
I think that Terrell Foster is a winner. I think that that is absolutely should be labeled as a winner of fall camp.
D
I have that one too for the
Craig
idea and maybe we have the same idea, maybe we don't. Behind this.
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Craig
Like for me personally like. And this isn't a knock against Terrell Foster because as we just started talking about, like sometimes you find players that weren't highly ranked, maybe weren't ranked at all. Georgia gets them on campus and they turn out being way better than their ranking was and Georgia finds a hit there. But the fact that it's not just that Terrell Foster has managed to find snaps on this football team, but it's the fact that he's continued to hold off guy other guys, other really talented football players to find snaps for him on this field. Like we know about Chris Cole and Raylan Wilson and Justin Williams is next in line there. But there's so many good linebackers in that room and the fact that Terrell Foster has not only stuck around on this roster, but the fact that he's again earning playing time there, that's a winner for him.
D
And I would say for that reason, George is kind of winner in fall camp because a guy like Terrell Foster has made Justin Williams a whole lot better. I mean he's probably made Chris Colbert. He's. But he was there before him. So like the impact that guys like that have on the rest of your team from a leadership standpoint, from an effort standpoint. And by the way, it sounds like he's made a couple of really good plays this offseason. I think Terrell Foster is absolutely 1000%
Brooks
a winner from and looks high bald headed. So that's a win. Because most of us men don't so good on him.
D
I'll be there one day.
Craig
That's also a win.
Brooks
That's a huge win at least.
Craig
I mean he does every, most of the time you see him, he does have a helmet on.
Brooks
So I had a, I had a football coach back in the day that said basically like going into games we thought we knew and now we know. He probably thought he knew he'd look I bald headed and now he knows and that's a good thing to know.
Craig
You know, nowadays you can just AI yourself bald and get an idea of like, hey, how's this gonna look? Yeah, just saying.
Brooks
Yeah, but you don't really know what your scalp looks like till you shave it.
D
That is true.
Brooks
You might have credit card slide on the back of your head. You don't even know.
D
Hey, that's all right.
Brooks
That's all right.
D
Ain't nothing wrong with it.
Craig
Not saying I have one, but just saying. No shade to anybody that does.
Brooks
Chat's asking about Jaden Riddell. I wouldn't even call him a camp winner. He's an off season winner. That dude's been winning since the last game was played. That dude's been winning.
D
Here's one I want to float out.
Brooks
Float it.
Craig
K.J.
D
bolden's kind of a winner from the, from the aspect of the end of the 2024, excuse me, 2025 season. Our perception on KJ Bolden was really, really good. Safety has another layer to add to his game heading into fall camp. And this is all just projections and then, you know, mock drafts and everything. But KJ Bolden is safety one on everyone's boards. Like he is probably a first round draft pick without what we feel like is reaching his full potential. Right. I think that makes him a winner alone. Maybe not from a hey, he got so much better in fall camp. It sounds like he's playing at an elite level right now, but from the aspect of this entire, you know, six, seven month offseason period, you have been built up as safety one like you are. It is your job to lose as a first round draft pick now.
Craig
I mean, it's certainly a bonus to like have people talking about you like that going into a season now. I mean, we, we still have to back that up. Like we still have to go out there and actually prove that we are the best safety in the country. And KJ has all the talent in the world to do that and certainly has the capability to do that this season as well. Especially when you think about all the surrounding pieces. Like this is what should excite everybody about KJ Bolden this season. I've kind of talked about it a little bit, but now that we actually have some words that kind of back up this statement. Based on what happened in the scrimmage the other day, based on the reporting that you gave yesterday, Brooks, KJ Bolden is going to be able to play the freest he ever has in his entire career. Like, this is going to be the best ver like KJ got to do this a little bit when he was a true freshman because you had Malachi Starks and you had Dan Jackson and you had other great DBs around you that allowed you to play freely. But you're still a freshman. Like you're still maybe a little hesitant to do some things. You're still learning. This is going to be the best version of KJ Bolden that Georgia has ever gotten. And it comes in a season in which you have Khalil Barnes, you have Ellis Robinson, you have Demello Jones and whoever plays next to him, it's not going to matter. I think KJ Bolden plays best when he is going to be like this, when he is just not thinking. He's just cutting it loose, tackling like he does and making plays. He was a playmaker for Buford coming out of high school. I think you're finally going to see that because of what they have around him.
Brooks
I think it's a good transition into our NFL topic. I also think that you guys are big winners for fall camps because you got approved for all your credentials.
Craig
Sure did. Got a season pass.
Brooks
Hey, don't make a rookie mistake that I did last year.
Craig
Don't, don't, don't do a money spread with the credentials.
Brooks
I mean, this Is good. As good as gold, man. That's big time money spread right there. Yeah, don't do that. You'll get a very, very threatening phone call. Rightfully so.
Craig
Yes.
Brooks
You know, don't break the rules. Live and learn. Live and learn. So congrats to you guys. That'll be awesome.
D
Thank you. Thank you.
Craig
Looking forward to it.
Brooks
All right, Pro Football Network came out with their first NFL pre or college preseason NFL first round mock draft. Any idea who went 1:1 in that one?
Craig
Arch Manning.
Brooks
Arch Manning to the Arizona Cardinals.
D
Nonetheless.
Brooks
Sleeping on Carson Beck. Sleeping. Do you see? He had a no look throw the other day.
Craig
Oh, dude, I so badly wanted to tweet, man, this guy has one good game and all of a sudden. Got my swag back, baby. I'm different.
Brooks
I got my swagger back.
Craig
I'm different now.
D
And this is off topic. I'm sorry, Local hour fans, how long until we stop treating no look throws like it's like all. Oh, my God. Never really?
Brooks
Yeah, no, they're. I mean, even though I'm not going to say that they're. They're not that hard.
D
That's what I'm saying.
Brooks
As long as you keep eyes.
Craig
I think it's not the. Well, it also too like for instance, the Matthew Stafford no look past that went viral a couple of seasons ago. It's cool because it looks cool.
D
And it was in the super bowl in a massive.
Brooks
That was the one that was nuts. You're talking about one in regular season a couple years back. The one he had in. In the Super.
Craig
Oh, the super bowl was insane.
Brooks
Bonkers to do that in that situation.
D
Audacity.
Brooks
The gonads on that.
D
Yeah.
Brooks
Insane.
D
But like doing it in a practice, like, it's cool. It looks cool. I get it. It's really impressive, I think doing a Super Bowl. I think it's kind of like. It's kind of like crossovers in like the mid-70s where people. Did you see what he just did? It's like Mugsy Bones just broke an ankle.
Craig
Yeah.
D
It's like they're doing that every single night.
Craig
It's the equivalent of like doing a backwards pass in basketball practice and then your coach pulling you off to the sides like, hey, good job. You do that shit in a game and I'll pull you right off the court.
Brooks
When do you practice that?
Craig
Yeah.
D
Who.
Brooks
Who lets you know that you could take that shot? Well, Patrick Ewing shout right there. That was some great sound bites from him. All right. Who else could go round one, though, in this pro Football Network draft. KJL or KJ Bolden and Ellis Robinson were first round draft picks. I got a hot take for you.
D
It's a hot take. Yeah.
Brooks
You ready?
Craig
Yeah.
Brooks
Chris Cole will be drafted ahead of both of those guys. Chris Cole, a football player who's not in this first round mock draft, will be drafted ahead of KJ Bolden and Elias.
D
I have Chris Cole absolutely on my list and I think like, they're not the same player, but I could absolutely see them having similar trajectories where they don't really flourish until year three. And it's kind of. They are just an everything guy. I think Chris Cole's trajectory can very much match that of Jalen Walker where it's. Yeah, this is a really, it's a good linebacker for us the first two years, but just because of what our personnel and our roster looks like now we have to kind of push them and push ourselves as coaches to use him differently. I think Chris Cole can absolutely skyrocket.
Brooks
If Arvo Reese was a consensus top five pick, then Chris Cole should be a consensus top ten pick.
D
Yeah.
Brooks
I mean, that's just the way I think about this.
D
Well, it's, it's. Do you take it in different draft classes and all that thing? But you're right, like from a talent aspect, if the town is worthy of top five. Chris Cole is absolutely.
Brooks
RV Reese really played one season as a starter.
D
Right.
Brooks
Chris Cole is going to play basically two and a half as a dude. I mean, they rolled him out as a true freshman to play in the slot and cover.
Craig
Yeah.
Brooks
Against Texas against Hunter Helm. Gunner Helm.
Craig
Gunner Helm, yes.
Brooks
I felt nervous correcting you on football. Gunner Helm is correct, but this dude's been a freak since day one and he's getting bigger and getting better and he can rush the quarterback and he's got better off ball tape already than Arville did. I felt like, no, I don't like he's going to be a top 10 pick.
D
That's a hot take in the national sense because I don't feel like Chris Cole has really made the wow plays to be. Or has the wow stats become a commodity.
Craig
But now I will say this. It's popped up on my timeline a little bit so far. The NFL draft experts are already spreading the propaganda. They're already throwing it out there like,
Brooks
hey, just Pro Football Network hadn't got the spoon yet.
Craig
I guess not. But like other guys that I've seen on social media, it's like, hey, this Chris Cole guy, he's going to end up being the best linebacker in this class. Like he's going to have a stellar third year and he's going to be the best linebacker.
D
Yeah. So I. I don't think that's a crazy hot take. And I think it's. You're absolutely right that he will be a first round pick. Don't be surprised if he's the first first round pick. Georgia.
Brooks
Now I've already got this guy in the top 60 because I think this highly of him. But if Demelo Jones has the year that I think he's about to have and goes to the NFL combine at 6 to 205 pounds and runs 4, 3, 8, which is very plausible, look out. It might be a 31st overall selection.
Craig
Yeah. I mean, what's. What could end up happening though, Especially if both of George's DBs, that being Ellis and Demelo have like really good years and they both enter the draft. Like last year we got into the conversation of how crowded the top of the cornerback class was. You might get into a similar situation this year as well. I guess. Again, if Demelo and Ellis are really good, everybody knows about Leonard Moore. I mean, this could very quickly get crowded to the point of there's just not enough slots for these guys all to go in the first round.
Brooks
Yeah, but weren't there four corners taken in the first round this year?
Craig
I think so.
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D
Well, you're right that like the measurables alone like the the prototypical like great corner I think is Kamari Lasseter. He measured in under six feet. He was 186. Like to mellow Jones from a size aspect is way better of a prospect on field play to be determined. But if he can utilize his tackling abilities like Kamari Lassard and he can become a very much locked down corner, you're absolutely right. He could very well play his way and test his way into a first round.
Craig
There's only two.
D
Oh
Brooks
Kamari had two things going against him. One, everybody in the NFL wrongfully so was like ah, he might have to bump into the nickel. He's 511. So that went against him as well. And he ran a 4 5. So those things alone were like oh my God, we can't draft what is about to be one of the best 15 corners in the NFL.
D
Ceci didn't officially run at the combine.
Craig
Maybe a pro day for him. I can't remember.
D
Yeah, but no, you're right. He was viewed as under and his lack of production was like oh, where's the interceptions here?
Brooks
It's like the coach, they didn't throw at him. They were smart. Avoid that guy. Go after the third round draft pick on the other side.
Craig
What about a case for like Raylan? Is it there? What is more importantly, what would he have to do in your eyes?
Brooks
100 tackles.
D
Wow. Yeah.
Craig
Okay, nevermind.
Brooks
I mean he Came back to college because he didn't have a top 90 evaluation, I would imagine. So to go from the nine, let's call him the 91st overall draft pick in last year's draft to becoming a first round draft pick this year.
D
Right.
Brooks
We got to make a massive leap and we have to be the best player on the field at all, at all times. Win the Buckus award, do all of it.
Craig
If he won the buckets award, would that do it? Would that push the needle?
Brooks
Like, even CJ wasn't around. First round draft pick.
D
CJ was the first round draft pick. The Kobe wasn't the first round draft pick.
Brooks
But see, like Jacob Rodriguez wasn't a first round draft pick.
Craig
Like, I don't think Raylan has physical limitations like CJ did, though.
Brooks
Stiff. He can be stiff at times.
D
Here's, here's what I'll say for as much as we give credit to the year three bump, which I think that Raylan Wilson had a bump in his production. Year three, the year four linebacker, and you know, it's not nearly as prevalent. They don't have that much like smile. Monday came back for a year four and yes, it was hindered by injuries, but I, I don't feel like year three and year four like there was another jump. Like we got the year three jump and after that was like year four is like smile. Money is a finished product playing college football. I wonder from it, maybe from a recognition standpoint how much better Raylan's gonna get. But I even then, like, if he's recognizing Blaze Barrett, he's got better instincts. I don't know if that's enough to earn a first round draft.
Brooks
I got a guy who's going 1:1 at his position.
D
Do we go for Georgia?
Brooks
He'll be the number one player at his position, drafted or signed.
Craig
Oh, go ahead. Let us know who it is.
D
Peyton Woodring.
Brooks
It's Peyton Woodring.
D
Shout out.
Brooks
That dude hit one. That was probably good from 64. Five the other day.
Craig
He's a secret weapon.
D
Dude and dude launching nukes.
Craig
And if you watch the most recent social media video from Georgia, he's got aura.
D
What is it about Georgia not only finding just boots, but somehow the most aura driven kickers constantly in college football.
Brooks
Yeah, I don't know. It's a secret that programs like Ohio State haven't figured out yet.
Craig
You know, it is funny how, like programs that have been bad at kicking have just remained bad at kicking.
Brooks
Yeah. Like you think you would address that.
Craig
Like this was something that it's cost
Brooks
you a national championship.
Craig
This was something that plagued Alabama during Alabama national championship. Like, and it just remained that it was just that was the case. Now I know that there was also a point in time where it's just like, we just don't give scholarships to those guys. We don't believe in that. And that's also a reason why that probably led to those situations. But, like, I don't know for what. Like, Ohio State has just been bad when it comes to kickers chat, saying
Brooks
kicker tape would be elite. All right, here's a preview of kicker tape. You ready? Good snap.
D
Good.
Brooks
Hold it. Went through the uprights.
Craig
Please ask an in depth question to coach Benedict tomorrow.
D
They already was Coach Benedict, aren't they?
Brooks
Yeah, ask him. Say, what's the. Because we have a meeting that we have to attend to tomorrow.
Craig
Please get. Ask him this. If someone were to start diving into breaking down film of place kickers, what should I have an eye on? What should I be paying attention to?
Brooks
Riveting.
D
If someone, Coach Ben, if someone were to say, special teams don't matter, kickers are, quote, foot fairies, how would you respond to that? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Brooks
I don't think I've ever gone that far.
D
I did not, I did not make up the term foot fairies.
Craig
I can.
Brooks
I didn't either.
Craig
I can 100% guarantee you foot fairies has been relayed on this show by you.
Brooks
You know, sometimes I just black out.
D
Sorry.
Brooks
I'm not responsible.
D
Don't worry. I will not ask that question.
Brooks
Network I have.
D
This is like a one, two combo. One of these players may be playing, in a way, Gabe Harris and Quintavius Johnson. I think that.
Craig
So I was going to bring this up specifically for Quintavious because I think he has the better chance of, like, going to the NFL combine and really showing out. Not that Gabe isn't really athletic and wouldn't do the same, but for instance, because I know what people would immediately say about a guy like Quintavius is, oh, I didn't have the sack production. He doesn't have the sack production. He's not going to go in the first round. And I know who I'm about to say, so I, I know I might sound a little crazy, but I mean, Mikel Williams does not have sack production either. But yet he went to the NFL combine and blew everybody away. Quintavius Johnson is not going to perform like Mikel Williams did the NFL combine. But I'm just saying there is a world where it happens in it's like, you know what? Quintavius Johnson ended up being the 30th overall pick.
Brooks
Wonk82. You're wilding for that comment. Absolutely wilding for that comment. What can we learn in the first two weeks of the season?
D
I've got.
Brooks
Oh, you got a couple more. My bad. I didn't mean to transition for you.
D
No, you're good. This one and me and JW were throwing this one out there. It's. It's a long shot, but the build is so great that. What if he has a nuclear season like this? Could Jaden Riddell play his way into this? Like what? Who.
Brooks
Who's the best tight end in college football other than Theo Johnson?
Craig
Traders Green.
Brooks
Trade as Green. Like so.
D
No.
Brooks
And look, I. I love Jaden Ridal. I think he's going have a great year. But they're not going to be three tight ends drafted in the first round. There's just not.
D
What if he's the first first though?
Brooks
He's not going to be. It'll be Theo Johnson or Traders Green.
D
That's fair.
Craig
What would it take though? Let's have that conversation again.
Brooks
Well, for Oscar Del, all it really took to be a second round draft pick was like one clip against Kentucky.
Craig
It was wide open. Oh yeah, that. That one clip. Yeah.
Brooks
And one clip against Kentucky and a bunch of great years of playing good
D
football at Georgia and I.
Brooks
And I know you're asking more like statistical production questions about what would it take. It doesn't take all that much when you're that traitsy. He is that Tracy. I would argue he is more athletic from a raw data point standpoint than even Oscar was. And Oscar was a 452 runner at 245 pounds. This kid's going to be a 449 runner at the NFL combine at 240 pounds like he is. He is all of that. But no, he is going to have a couple end arounds this year. They go for 45 yards and people are going to buy. What in the is this?
Craig
And that's why I think that it was at least worth having the discussion because I think you could really build Jaden Riddell first round argument portfolio by the end of the year if it does turn out being what we think it will be when it like if he has three 45 yard plus end arounds and they look like they did in the spring game and then he adds on 400 yards receiving while also having like 200 something yards on the ground or something stupid like that. Like I think there is A path to where? Like if in a crazy world where it could be an argument at least,
D
and this may or may, I feel like this plays a factor. The fact that Brock Bowers was a tight end at Georgia very recently and comparatively speaking will do favors for your draft stock because, oh, what that play looks like. You know, when, when Brock Bowers did that happened, it shouldn't happen. I get it. But it will play a factor. The last player that I'm throwing a name out there, and I don't think this one is a first round draft pick, but if he has just a nuclear season, is there any world where Nate Frazier is maybe RB2? Or even if it's a really, really stacked class, RB3?
Craig
So my first thing would be, how healthy is Ahmad Hardy? What does his season end up looking like? Is he 100% healthy going into the NFL draft? If that's a yes, then you already have two running backs ahead of him. Like already you have Kewan and you have Ahmaud Hardy. Depends on the season that Jaden Baugh has, right? There's so many factors here that play into it. Like it almost is more important about what do other people in the running back class do as opposed to what is Nate Frazier going to do?
D
Yeah, I mean, it's a very stacked class. I don't think Nate Frazier will be a first round draft pick, but if we get to a position where it's like, hey, this guy might be RB3 and it just falls that way, like you could see him sneak into like a 31st or a 32nd pick possibly.
Brooks
All right, let's talk first two weeks of the season for the University of Georgia. They play Tennessee State and they play Western Kentucky.
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Brooks
Should handle those football games.
D
They should.
Brooks
So what are we going to learn? I've got. What is this? Seven questions that I hope to have an answer of by the time we break those tapes down. Because we will. We'll break those tapes down. You should know that by now, especially listening to the local hour. We are in the middle of up to something season. It's about to come to a close. You're going to hear some announcements on this. Moving forward, you should know that nothing is changing around here. No allegiances, no dedication to content is changing around here. Nothing is changing. And I know that gets a real sensitive topic around Georgia folks because y' all are worried that we're just gonna up and leave this place. News flash will never happen. Okay? We will always dedicate half of our time to the University of Georgia. You guys made this place. I've been very adamant about that. In all discussions with all companies, whoever came around, they were like, hey, what do you think about not, not even a debate, not happening. So we will always break down Georgia games. It'll always be on this network, so you have no reason to ever be concerned about that. And we will always have this here local hour for you guys to thoroughly enjoy. So don't ever, ever, ever worry about that. But, yeah, what can we learn about those first two games, boys? I think there's an obvious one, right?
D
Yeah, the first. The first question is, Georgia's gonna be up by a lot. They're gonna have the twos in. Who goes in first at QB2 and what do they look like? And for that matter, what does QB3 look like when it goes in? Because that is a massive question that's revolving around Athens right now, not only for this year, but for 20, 27 of, hey, QB2 right now is probably in position to be QB1, should that happen.
Craig
So I think the biggest thing that I would be paying attention to is not even like QB2 and QB3, but in my mind, if this is how it's structured for the first two weeks. If, for instance, Ryan Puglisi is the second quarterback out in the first week and he gets a bunch of reps and then Ryan Montgomery comes in and he's just kind of handing the ball off, doing the typical thing that QB3s do. And then the next week it's Ryan Montgomery who comes out second, and then it's Ryan Puglisi who comes in after that. That, to me, indicates that it's a tight race that they think that both of these guys could end up being QB2 for them this season, and they truly want to get a real answer on who it's going to be. If it's the same guy both times in both games that rolls out there, then that means they already have their answer and it's not as close as maybe as we thought.
D
I agree. I think that's something you definitely learn.
Brooks
Who's got pass rush potential?
D
That's my second question because I don't
Brooks
know who's playing tackle for Tennessee State, but I bet they're beatable. I bet they're beatable. God, I hope they're beatable. If not cause for concern.
Craig
Yeah, I mean, it was last year against Austin P where we really got a good look at Chris Cole as a pass rusher. Now, I know he didn't really capitalize on all of his opportunities last year, had some misses in the backfield, but that was kind of where you got the idea of like, who's going to provide life here? Oh, Chris Cole can do it.
D
I think that I'm not necessarily worried about what Chris Cole can Provide. I think we, we assume he's going to be your. Who's the next guy there? Who's the second guy that's going to be able to provide pass rush, who's going to give us some interior push that can force the pocket upon the quarterback's feet. That's more what I'm worried about now. Like, Chris Cole is going to be Chris Cole. I think that, that we have an expectation he's gonna be a really good pass rush.
Craig
I was just saying this is going to set the precedents for Chris Cole this season. I was saying last year this is where we saw Chris Cole as a pass rusher in these games of like, okay, what are you doing right now?
Brooks
I'm scrolling to the bottom of my photo album for some reason. It was all the way to the top.
Craig
Yeah, I'm sure if you just exit out of the app.
Brooks
Tried. Tried. Didn't work. I'm just making sure my video is downloaded like they're supposed to because we already got clips coming in from our Clippers. Just clip farming, you know, just out here trying to do my job. What are you doing?
Craig
I was doing my job and I was distracted by you doing your job apparently, which.
Brooks
Okay, leave me be, bro.
Craig
All right, I will.
Brooks
Let me work.
Craig
But yeah, just in general. Like, again, who's providing extra pass rush? Maybe we see like seeing some more. Zaden Walker didn't get to see him in the spring game this year. Like, has he added some more wrinkles to his game? Like, those are the things to pay attention to in that room.
D
Next question I have is, who who's going to be RB3 here and how are the running backs used? We. We knew the roles that they had last year where it was Nate, Chauncey Cash is your third down guy and then everyone else is kind of like Josh McCrazer short yards guy. We don't know who your short yardage running back is right now. We don't know who your hey, we need someone out of the backfield running back is. We don't know how Dwight Phillips is going to fit into the offense. We don't know what Bill Walker's gonna look like. We don't really know what the depth of is behind Nate and Chauncey. You're going to get a good amount of answers there.
Craig
So this the you talking about how Bo Walker is going to have to play this year. My mind immediately goes to that's a short yardage guy or that is a guy that you're saying no n he's
Brooks
he's going to get like traditional. We have to get him carries. Carries.
Craig
Okay.
Brooks
But yeah, it could be a short, short yardage answer. I think the short yardy's answer is probably Chauncey. Just big.
D
Yeah.
Brooks
So much bigger. But now with the way that Nate ran the football the other day, he's. He's got to get predominant carries and then everybody else is fighting for scraps is the way I would do it. But they might have different thought processes on their own team. They don't do that.
D
They haven't had a urb one. No one else since 2019 with DeAndre Swift.
Brooks
Yeah, I think my. One of my biggest question is how do they use Kaden Prothro? Because in the spring he was used as a predominantly a slot receiver during the G day scrimmage and then throughout camp. We've seen him actually working with tight ends a little bit. I've seen him take reps with the, with the slot receivers. How are they using that football player and where do they continue to use him as he gets bigger? I would imagine he continues to get bigger. I don't know how, but I would imagine he continues to get larger.
Craig
I guess another obvious answer is safety number two. Like, I think, I think the general.
Brooks
KJ's partner.
Craig
The general assumption, I think is people expect it to be Zion Branch to start and then they'll just continue to rotate guys in obviously. But I mean there's. There's a lot of names you can choose from a lot of good names, too. That's a really intriguing, like, that's a good battle and a good, almost a good unanswered question I have right now because I think going into last year it was obviously a question of who's going to play next to kj. And I don't think people typically loved the answers that were being provided. But I think that this year it's a whole different story of. I don't think you're really concerned about who ultimately wins that job at all. I think that no matter who the answer is there, you're going to feel completely safe.
D
Yeah, I didn't have this as a question. It's going to be answered for me because I, I don't think we'll ever get an answer to that question. I don't think that there is a, a body or a player that will take up the safety opposite from KJ position. I think it will just be who's there right now is Zion there is Jamali Riddle there is Kyron Jones there like Name the player. Are they There is boogie there. Like, I don't know if anyone hammers down that spot. Very similar. And I've used this comparison before to the way that the nickel position was used in 2021. They were rotating buys. Sometimes it was Dan Jackson, sometimes it was Latavius Brini. They had William Poole playing in the Natty like, it was. Whoever we have at that position right now that we feel like can play in this moment. I feel like that's what you're going to get, the safety position. It just so happens that a lot of those guys are seemingly damn good football players. It's not going to be a by committee because we have to, but a by committee because all of them can do different things very well.
Brooks
Is there a gamer at wide receiver?
D
That's what I want to find out, too, because we. We got our answer very quickly last year. Like, all right, Zachariah Branch is going to work out.
Craig
I don't really recall there being the Zachariah Branch, this is him moment in one of these games. It was in the Tennessee game for me, like, when he took that screen pass down the sidelines against Tennessee and defied every single angle. It was like, all right, this dude's different.
D
I think you're forgetting the check down in the Marshall game where he takes it like 50 yards down the sideline, outruns three people.
Craig
I definitely forget it because I don't
D
remember at all that that was like the first moment where I was like, all right, Zachariah Branch is absolutely going to be a guy for us. It happened in, like the mid third quarter, so. But it definitely happened. That was, I think. But you're right. Tennessee was like the national moment where it goes.
Craig
Okay, yeah, that's typically, like, you get confirmation of your thoughts. Like, this is the confirmation for Zachariah Branch that he is the difference maker. But, yeah, I'm sure, like, I knew that there was probably a moment that I was just overlooking in one of those games. I just couldn't remember it off the top of my head.
D
It happened in March. But for that reason, I would love to see one of these in the first two weeks at the wide receiver position, because maybe it comes the former Isaiah Canyon. Maybe C.J. wiley makes an insane play. Maybe. Maybe it's the tight end room. Maybe Jane Riddell and Lawson Lucky and all the guys make such incredible plays. It's like, all right, the tight ends are going to be what Drew drives the passing game this year. I just want to see someone make big plays in the receiver room. To give you an idea of. All right, this is going to be a guy.
Brooks
I think one of my favorite things about our channel is watching the lone soldier come into these chats and just try to fight the good fight. And the whole, the whole chat just gags up against him.
Craig
And it always happens at the best moment because it's almost always in the local hour.
Brooks
Almost always.
Craig
So we got all the dog fans piled in here and then there's a big ten fan that comes in or an ACC fan and they pile on and all the Georgia fans are just like, whoa.
Brooks
What? What'd you say? This guy's an idiot.
D
Do you remember the eras when, like, admins would kick those people out?
Craig
They did happen. Well, I think that was also like the transition time of like, this is a Georgia channel. It's like, all right, guys, we're branching out. We can't just be pushing everybody out.
D
I vividly remember, like Florida fans and Tennessee fans like talk, like just talking trash and they like get banned. It's like, no, guys, we need those views, please.
Brooks
Yeah, we pretty much have a free flowing chat around here. We just let y' all within. Within reason. Do kind of whatever you want.
Craig
Yeah.
Brooks
And we're okay with that. I, I think it's. It's good to have discourse. I mean, college football creates that. The, the amount of insanity that comes with college football fandom should have a place to breathe and this is a great place for that to happen. So more than willing to have you guys come in here and argue, that's fine. Just don't get too crazy now.
Craig
Selfish thing to be paying attention to, at least for me personally in these first.
Brooks
Where are you sitting in the box?
Craig
Nah, I pretty much know where I'm gonna be sitting.
Brooks
Right next to Mark Wiser, the goat.
D
Our friend Mark Wiser. It's usually.
Craig
It's not Mark, but almost always. Not all the way to the left of the second row, but like probably like 10 seats down. That's usually where we're seated.
Brooks
I poison them trees.
D
Paul, will this be our first time?
Craig
No, we had it for the spring game. Me and you both got us in the press box.
D
That's right.
Craig
This will be the first season that we get to do so. That's really exciting.
D
That's going to make things a lot more fun.
Craig
I enjoy the people I talked to during the games last year at Georgia home games, but it'll be nice to
D
have you and me do have fun in the press box. There are, there are many laughs had in the press box.
Craig
But the selfish thing that I really want to pay attention to in the first two games of the season. How many bodies is a Kai Helton going to catch? That's what I want to know.
Brooks
There is no limit.
Craig
No, just cut him loose, get him as many reps as possible, leave him in in the second half when those defensive linemen on the other side are just absolutely worn out, don't want to be here anymore and just let Zakai
D
Held and reign hell all over him. Are we going to get an answer as to how much Gunnar Stockton has progressed in these two weeks? Because going back to what we saw in the Marshall and I believe it was an Austin Peay game. It was kind of like he's not pushing the ball down the field but they're doing everything they need to. It wasn't that, hey, he's turning things down was a major concern until like we got to the Alabama territory. Are we going to be able to watch these first two games go? This is the most polished gunner Stockton we've seen. Or is it still going to have to be reserved for when you play defenses that have better talent?
Brooks
I think we can. We'll learn something about his growth. Weeks one and two. I think we'll. I think we'll learn more about. What Kirby alluded to at SC media today is like we're going to ask him to do more. We're going to ask him to be willing to do more and give him more offensively from his workload and the concepts that we're asking him to go through. Who's the returner?
D
Great question.
Brooks
I don't talk special teams, but who's the returner?
D
That's a fantastic question. And I, I said why? I'm kind of worried about this.
Brooks
Oh, man. Kirby had a great moment the other day during practice on Sunday. They were doing kickoff return and the guy, not the returner but the other guy that doesn't catch the ball. His job is to make sure that the returner catches the football before he goes. And so all the returners are doing a great job catching the ball. And then Kirby obviously goes over there to either Landon rolled in or London Humphreys, I can't remember who it was. And tells him to purposefully drop the ball just to see if Bo Walker's paying attention. And then he proceeded to tear into. You have one job. Your job is to ensure the catch. And now guess what? Other teams got the ball on our own six. Fired. Get your head in the game. It's like Coach, man, come on, man.
Craig
I pray it never happens. Pray it never happens.
Brooks
Yeah.
Craig
But I bet you if that happens in the game, Bo Walker gonna jump on that ball. He'll be ready to jump on that ball.
D
Is I think the glory glory subscription alone is worth getting to see Kirby live in an action. Oh, Mike.
Brooks
I sat with a bunch of Discord members, and that's who invited him. Is t right? Shout out to Travis. I said with a bunch of Discord members, and a lot of them said that exact sentiment. When this came out, I was very suspect about whether or not I was going to join. And then they told me I could go watch a practice, so I signed up. So, yeah, it was a tremendous ploy. I remember straight from Ohio State, by the way.
D
Hey.
Brooks
Which is fine. Ohio State did this, I think, three years ago, where they were like, hey, you can pay to come to practice.
D
I remember walking home from classes and, like, the three to five minutes where you're in earshot of them at practice was like, the most fun you have. And half the time you don't always get something. But just hearing him lay into someone just like, man, that. That makes you happy.
Brooks
All right. So I've been covering the University of Georgia since 2019. That was my first season on the beat. I've got two topics. How has Georgia changed since 2019? How is it the same? Which ones do you want first?
D
I think we might only have time for one, but I want to hear how it's changed.
Brooks
We got plenty of time for the local hour. God forbid we overrun this. You know, it's changed from a depth standpoint in some spots, but I still think it's one of the deeper football teams in college football.
D
Yeah.
Brooks
So it really hasn't. But the quality of depth, I don't think is there.
D
Well, that's a. That's just a dichotomy of college football.
Brooks
Correct. I think that's Everybody expectations are completely different. When I first got onto the beat, it was, this is our year. Now, if it's not your year, you're pissed off. It went from, hey, maybe we win a national title to we better win a national title or else I'm firing the offensive coordinator. As a matter of fact, the defense coordinator sucks, too.
D
I think that was kind of always the mentality. I think it's. It's less hopeful now and more of an expectation.
Craig
Yes.
Brooks
Which, again, I think the expectations have changed. Certainly Kirby's approach is slightly different. He's the same guy on the mic. He's still getting after everybody's butt. But I do think he is a little bit more lenient. I do think he is a little bit more. Now, I would never use the words laid. Laid back with that human, but he doesn't seem as red faced all the time.
D
I don't want to besmirch coach Smart at all, but the. The Skull Olympics video they posted, that's the first time I was like, whoa, he looks old.
Brooks
It wasn't when he walked into the SEC championship game with the readers on.
D
I mean, no. But like, seeing him walk around with like.
Brooks
I feel like the day you crack the readers out, you've crossed over the hill. The day you walk in with them like this. Reading your. Reading your game script.
D
Yeah.
Craig
Oh, that's one of the most legendary pictures of Kirby.
Brooks
Oh, I know.
Craig
Looking at the phone with the readers on.
Brooks
Yeah. That was the first time I was like, okay, we're. We're aging.
Craig
Yeah, we've been here for a minute.
Brooks
Yeah, we've been. We've been staring at game plans a little too long.
D
I've never covered an SEC championship game, though.
Brooks
You fit? No.
D
Well, if Georgia.
Brooks
Well, yeah, you fit.
D
No.
Brooks
You gonna cover the SEC championship game this year no matter what?
D
I'm actually not. I got a wedding that day. Sorry, guys.
Brooks
What's up with you guys having friends and.
D
Yeah, it's that time of life, man. Everyone's getting married.
Craig
Facts.
Brooks
Fall weddings.
Craig
Yeah, you know, it's not.
D
It's not.
Craig
I mean, I don't have as stern of a take as most college football fans do about fall weddings.
Brooks
I got married in the fall. Well, you know, married October 19th.
Craig
I mean, this is my take is always. My take is always winter wedding. If the 1. If your woman wants to have a fall wedding, if that's what her lifelong dream was, this is the one day she. It's like, literally all about her. It is her day. If that's what she wants, that's what she gets, that's what she deserves. And if you got to show up for it in a fall, during the fall, so be it like that. That it is. Do I like it? No. But if that's the case, that's the case.
Brooks
Agree.
D
Like. And Also, it's a December 5th. It's a winter wedding. Georgia doesn't officially have a game scheduled for it. They probably play in it. But either way, I say that.
Craig
But I told my wife, no fall wedding.
D
I'll be very.
Craig
Wasn't a worry, though. She never wanted it.
Brooks
Just had piss on that dream. It's football season. I highly doubt he's successfully married. Just left him hanging.
Craig
I didn't see man, I was paying attention.
Brooks
Defensive schematics have changed a bit. When I first started covering Georgia, you were strictly mint front football team and now you are not. I also think that exposes a lot of people when they talk about Georgia defense. They're like, oh, they're. They're a mid front team. Not anymore. They don't play true zeros.
D
They haven't really been since like 23.
Brooks
Yeah. I would argue maybe even 20, 22.
D
They let Jalen play zero sometimes and I was just because, hey, you're gonna kill the center. But
Brooks
tight end. When I first got here, the room was I. Now it's ungodly every year. It's just like how, how do you have that many great football players in that room?
D
Thanks, coach Hartley.
Brooks
Yeah. So Hartley's done a tremendous job. How it's the same quarterback two through four is still the favorite player of the fans. Always. I mean the Bryson Beaver love right now is just a classic example of this. As long as I've been here, the second string, through third string, through four string quarterbacks is always the fan favorite.
D
Will always be.
Brooks
Yeah. And I don't think that's unique to Georgia. Their on field discipline, their execution rates, their ability to do what they're coached to do has never changed. And three fourths of the staff is identical.
Craig
Yeah.
D
That's crazy. That's insane. Yeah.
Brooks
So there we go. Hey, hope you enjoyed it tonight. Hope you hit that thumbs up button on your way out. We are done for the night. We'll be back tomorrow with another film study and another live show. I love you. More importantly, Jesus loves you. We'll see you next time.
Podcast: The Film Guy Network
Host: Brooks Austin
Guests: Craig, D
Date: August 12, 2026
This episode dives deep into the early storylines as Georgia Football moves through Fall Camp 2026: Who are the emerging players? What are coaches really saying about returning starter Gunner Stockton? The crew discusses anonymous coach quotes, scrutinizes projected first-round NFL picks from the Bulldogs, and outlines the biggest questions facing Georgia in the opening games of the season. Engaging, insider perspectives are balanced with banter and some classic Dawg fan culture.
[05:10 – 13:00]
The hosts read out and analyze recent anonymous coach quotes from ESPN about Georgia QB Gunner Stockton.
Coaches express respect for Stockton’s college production and toughness but question his elite NFL upside.
Noted strengths include: smarts, mobility, quick release (some skepticism from hosts), solid but not exceptional arm talent, and winner mentality.
Sample quotes from coaches:
Hosts generally agree: Stockton may never be a prototypical NFL talent, but as a college QB, he's exactly what you want—a resilient, clutch performer.
Notable Exchange:
D: "There's nothing spectacularly crazy about Gunner Stockton, but damn it, he wins." (07:50)
Brooks: "Guy wins football games and does it late, which is...the most important trait in any quarterback." (16:37)
[17:14 – 32:00]
Other Notable Winners:
[32:09 – 49:58]
NFL Draft Culture/Scouting Banter:
[52:23 – 66:07]
[67:05 – 72:06]
Mixes in-depth X’s and O’s football analysis and personnel talk with laid-back, humorous banter. The hosts pride themselves on authenticity—no “hot takes,” only “dog takes”—and fan engagement, referencing and responding to live chat and broader Dawg Nation culture throughout.
Perfect for fans who want: