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2:03It's the SEC squad and we have a seat for you. Perfueling to thin skin are prohibited. Squad up, you're part of the SEC squad. Well, it's everybody. Welcome into the SEC squad. Sit back. Grab your favorite beverage. And join us as we get you ready talking to another week of all things SEC. We're part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Now the number one sports podcast network. Let's welcome in our squad panel this week. We've got Chris Marler from Lockdown Gamecocks. We've got Corey Burton, Lockdown Vandy, Eric Kane, Lockdown Valls, Stephen Willis, Lockdown Ole Miss. I'm Chris Gordy, host of Lockdown SEC and Gents. Just about everybody is into spring practice now. Mizzou, kind of the weirdos. They got everything started early and they've already finished spring ball. They get it out of the way before spring break. But we did have the last trailers. We got A&M underway. We got Ole Miss underway on Monday. We got LSU underway on Friday. Ole Miss is underway on Friday. Whatever. Everybody's underway this week. So nonetheless, on day Friday.

3:07Listen, Ole Miss got its old quarterback coming back. All right, so they don't need to practice. Yeah, they're just going to have a spring ball. Let's ask the question, guys. What is the biggest question facing your team right now during spring ball? Cory, let's start with you. Okay. Well, is there actually a quarterback competition? I don't think there actually is, but they're towing the company line. But the wide receiver room and offensive line rooms in all seriousness are probably the biggest question marks because they have a lot of talent. But not a ton of experience and they got to try to figure out what those two positions look like. Yeah, of course, Jared Curtis. I mean, you know, it's all the high expectations on him. And can he come in and immediately be a freshman starting quarterback? But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of other different spots at Vandy's. Gotta make sure it's ready to go for SEC play. Yeah, I just, I described him as like Diego Pavia was like little Mario. Jared Curtis is Mario after he had the mushroom.

4:09Marley, the fire flower thing. Where he's in fireball, you know, because a dude can, yeah. Marley, a little, by the way, Mario lost his accent. I don't know where that happened. Marley, South Carolina, offensive line has been an issue. Some of the new additions you guys have brought in. But what's their biggest question right now? Well, you were going to ask me the question. I was going to say it and then you had to give the answer during the question. So super professional of you. Gordy, I appreciate that offensive line. Biggest question mark for sure. And I think health and the offensive line for sure today. There were, we're recording this on, I don't remember what day it is. But even today, chamber member mentioned their halfway through the, the 15 practices and Dylan Stewart is going to be probably unlimited action for the rest of spring ball. And he's not 100% they revealed that he also was 100% last year. I think between guys like him and then I would say, Jakarta's peak being out until the fall. Josiah Thompson being out and having to shuffle all these guys enough to find that. I think it's going to be the biggest question.

5:10Can they say healthy enough to be ready for the fall and then also figure out the offensive line? The other thing too is just the, some of the incoming like younger talent, not even from the portal that they brought in at skill positions like the wide receiver position. How much further along are they this year than they were a year ago? Yeah, I was going to say the, the interesting part with, with Dylan Stewart. I mean, he was so good as a freshman, it's happened so much, so much with guys. They blow us away as a freshman and so we raise the expectation. We go clearly they're going to outdo that again. He was good last year. He just wasn't the huge dominant force. Like you mentioned, they kind of came out and said, okay, maybe he wasn't 100% and he didn't have the Cal Canard opposite him as well. That was a big sack. Not only the SEC defensive player of the year on the other side. I think it was a pretty big issue. But I think also you look at what he could project to be this year and talent wise. Now he can be that Cal Canard and who's going to be on the opposite side of him? Is it Julian Walker, the freshman or is it the kid they got from Tennessee? Caleb Herring will say. Now, there's some questions for South Carolina, but if you take the defensive performance

6:13that they had a year ago, just that, we're not asking for anything crazy. Add to Kendall Briles and Lenore Cells together if that clicks, South Carolina is a problem for everybody in the SEC next year. Talk to him about Stephen. There's a lot of potential there, Chris. I, that was one of my favorite moves that South Carolina made was higher in Kendall Briles because I mean, it is perfect. It's a perfect match there with him and Lenore Sellers with what he wants to do and how he wants to attack with Lenore Sellers skill set. I think it's, you know, thankful that Vanny doesn't have to play South Carolina this year. Maybe wait till Lenore Sellers leaves and then get you back on the schedule. That'd be good. Yeah, for sure. And if you heard what what Shane Bamer said this week, he said the offense is totally different. He said everything's different. That way. Thank God. This is still a new offense. Everybody's having a learn. And so, yeah, I mean, I think we're super optimistic about what we'll see in Colombia this year. Eric Kane, I think I know where you're going to go, but biggest question for the Tennessee

7:15Vols. Yeah. Marlar, we're recording this on Wednesday, not opening day in the bay. And the Yankees put up five over the Giants in the second. So biggest worry here in Knoxville is Tony Voxello going to Fayetteville here pretty soon. But no, it's quarterback. No doubt. Again, Stephen got his veteran quarterback back in Tennessee, didn't so. He's going to start a true freshman like Vanderbilt and Jared Curtis, but with Faison Brandon. Or it's going to go the right shirt. Fresh from Iowa, George McIntyre Ryan Stobb is here. He started a game or two over the last couple of years of Colorado. He's not really in this competition. It's, you know, George or Faison so far. I mean, we just get to see barely anything. I mean, they look great in shorts and helmets and when they put the full pads on, we get to see them throw routes on air. And I mean, they look, they look like all Americans there. I mean, everybody's saying the right things right now. But like we just don't know and we're not going to know until they scrimmage, I guess would be today they scrimmage and, you know, we'll get to hear some, you know, how they performed after that and everything. But quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, I mean, the offense overall for Tennessee

8:16returns so much you feel really good about the weapons and offensive lines surrounding said quarterback, but quarterback is the most important physician in all sports. So you can't be really bad there. So we'll see what happens. I think I'm a little worried too. I mean, just staying healthy, right? I mean, we saw Dave, Dave and Hobbs, the D line men, he's going to miss the rest of the spring with an injury. And I think I'm just jaded with Tennessee on the, the Jermod McCoy, you know, the, all the DB injuries they had last year. It's like, man, I just, I just want to see him get out of spring healthy. Like Jermod got hurt training at his home in Texas in January, like first of January, like just the crappiest thing in the average. He gives and got hurt there in the opener and Tennessee was playing Tennessee went out and got Colton Hood as a, you know, just an insurance policy and turns out he's going to be a first round. I mean, that turned out pretty well. And you know, Ty Redman, who was forced into action last year, corner is a true freshman. They got picked on a lot earlier in the year. I think he's going to be one of the best corners than the SEC that you're one of the top perturbing corners in the SEC. But yeah, like I've got, I mean, everybody's going to talk about the quarterbacks.

9:19No doubt, I mean, I've got some question, big time questions about like the entire defense don't give me wrong, right? But the defensive line, you lost so much from a group that underperformed last year. And how about David Hobbs? I mean, Tennessee's having to count on him and play a ton of snaps and he is never healthy. Nathan Robinson is never healthy. And so yeah, again, like spring's great. No, spring is not what it used to be. We don't get to see anything. We don't know what's really happening. But, you know, we'll see what Josh Hybel says and Barely says in front of the microphone tomorrow. You know, or just get a heads up about it on the quarterback position to either one of them. How far they can they throw an orange and are you either one at rocket shipbuilder? Now, the one is a rocket shipbuilder that's really unfortunate because the last one was really, really good. Yeah, who cares about throwing the orange because the quarterback that did that was, was not very good. But hey, this is why again, like I, I just don't worry about Josh Hybel in quarterbacks. I'm sorry. Like, you got Aguilar off the waiver wire and he led the SEC in passing last year.

10:20Joe Milton accounted for over 3,000, 3,000 yards to the air like any through an orange 90 yards. Yeah. It's just I, Joe Milton is the prototypical has all the tools, but just can't play. And he like Josh Hybel got to play like I, I just, I understand their serious questions and I've gotten more than anybody. I'm still not really worried about it. Maybe that's on me though. I don't know. Traditionally speaking to a high full offense, just the way schematically it breaks down and the ex to those and how he, the splits he has the offense. The biggest thing is the, the easier it is to spell the last name or pronounce it of his quarterback, the more success they have tend to have. So and these are stay longer, too. So I'm excited for George McIntyre, my favorite beetle and things on Brandon, so it should be great. Yeah. He could use another hooker there. By the way, Aguilar. Hey. Hey. Let's go. He's going to believe that out there, Cory. Sorry. He led the SEC at 99 yard pick sixes, too. So that's he did. Yeah. How about, how about we just not put the football through the air on the goal line playing

11:20Alabama? Probably a good idea. Yeah. That's fair. Steven Ole Miss, whatever the hell they get started with camp, what, what's their biggest question? Well, we assume the question. No, everybody's going to talk about the offensive tackle position and we're going to go over that. I'm not as him for the next couple of weeks. But the one thing that I'm interested in, especially in the routes versus air portion of spring practice is John T. Cook. He has to find consistency. He was one of the most electric players I've ever seen coming out of high school at under armor. It was amazing. He went to Texas and kind of just fell flat, got kicked out of Washington, went to Syracuse and there was the electricity again. Is he going to bring that to Oxford, Mississippi? Because one of the most consistent players on the football team was Caden Lee. He's no longer there. You have to replace that. You can't just be do-salexander and the other players that are going to go on. John T. Cook has a big role to play on this football team. I like that. I would say it's the wide receiver remiss.

12:21A whole, I mean, we know do-salexander was good, but, you know, Darryl Gill ratio feels of it. It's just a lot of new guys and we've become accustomed to this for Ole Miss because it feels like it's a whole new wide receiver remiss every year. Every single year. Yeah, but it's just all about who's going to emerge and who's going to be that guy, you know? One weird question in this receiver room that Ole Miss over the last 15 years, there's always been that big wide receiver. They've always had that. This year, they're going to be relying on a freshman. Now, he was a five-star freshman, but he's going to be a red shirt freshman on the outside, potentially Caleb Cunningham starting at the exit. He's that big player. Is he the tray Harris? That is something I'm interested in. But like I said, John T. Cook and Caleb Cunningham and them on the side of the field. They are just really good. This offense with Kiwan Lacey and Trinidad Chambers going to be very hard to stop. Well, we know Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weiss will put him in great positions, so joking. Or the person that ran the offense from 21 to 23.

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15:26SEC squad roll along here and gents. Well, first one of our folks, thank you for making locked on SEC and all of our shows. Your first listen of the day, thank you for making locked on the number one sports podcast network. And are mine or you can get the first month of the every day or club when you use our code March, you will unlock ad free episodes and entry into our private listener group chat where Chris Marlow was saying you weird emojis. And feed us locked on podcast.com. Like every day. All right, gentlemen, let's sit on some of the other teams. We hit on all the teams that you guys cover. Marlow's in a unique spot. He was actually at LSU practice the other day. So Marlow, give us a thought on what you think the biggest question is for LSU going into the season. It's his team. It's for you. What's that? But where is LSU on the pecking order? I'm just I'm just curious. Shut up. Okay. Lane Kiff and my biggest question for LSU is how much Tanner can Lane Kiff and get before

16:28the season starts? Because that man is based it looks fantastic. I think the biggest question for me is how quickly can he get into jail? I saw the first five periods of that practice. I think Sam Levin is obviously going to be your quarterback. I think the big thing for me is who's going to be the backup because we see this time and time again. And I'm looking through here. I think outside of I was out of Corey, it feels like every quarterback, they're every well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's only South Carolina that's that's had to have a backup quarterback play significant in like time over the past two years. But for the most part, you see like around the SEC, very good point to see them. You see these backups that have to step in at some point during the season arch two years ago with Quinn, you know, and like obviously the stuff with Alabama over the past couple of years, like there's every single place has had some issues with like the health through the 12 game season. I think it's only going to get worse with a nine game conference season. Sam Levin is already coming off an injury. Who's going to be the backup quarterback that's going to be putting that offense in good hands?

17:28And is it going to be the kid from Elon who I think has the best arm out of anybody on the team? Or is it going to be who's saying Longstreet who I accidentally type out human Longstreet on my first post from spring practice? So I think that is like all the other side of the biggest question for them is they're going to get a lot more valuable reps in in the spring because of the fact that Levin is going to be out and so limited what they're doing. But who is going to be number two in that death chart and see if he's going to do something similar? Like we saw last year Ole Miss. I was going to say like Levin and you said right there. I mean, my understanding was Levin wasn't was going to do anything in spring. Right. What an opportunity there to see what you got behind it, right? Because again, it could be your one play away. I mean, here at Tennessee, man, knock on wood like Tennessee's not had, I mean, Niko was out for a half one time. I mean, Niko was questionable going into the Georgia game, but he missed two quarters. I mean, Tennessee's quarterbacks, ending got hurt at the end of 22 with one game left. But Tennessee's quarterbacks have been this whole lot of time, but I mean, you're just one play away and it's all three quarterbacks are new, correct, new to LSU.

18:30It's a new system obviously. There's a lot going on. So you know Sam Levin's going to be the guy regardless, can Sam Levin step into any offense and probably thrive. So just kind of figuring out what you got behind him. And remember, as somebody that's been through the lane, Kiffin experience before, Jackson Dart got knocked out of the Georgia game in 2024. Obviously, Trinidad Chamble has took over last year, Matt Correll missed a sugar ball. The back up quarterback usually plays a game in the lane game system. I think that the other big thing too, I think is that offensive line, like we listen, every team that I cover professionally, apparently, is just destined to have the worst offensive line imaginable. And South Carolina has been bad. Obviously, she was really bad last year. How are they going to be able to protect up front? And I think the bigger thing for me is they brought in the staff with a lot of really high quality staff members, play callers, like recruiters, developers, all that kind of stuff.

19:30Eric Wolford, in my opinion, the track record that he has had is the worst of the bunch. And then maybe I'm completely wrong, and maybe you got like Jordan Seaton will make him look a lot better. But remember, just a couple of years ago, when he was in Alabama, that was an offense that gave up 49 sacks in one season, which was more than like, I think the four teams, the four top ring teams in the country, Washington, Oregon, Georgia, and Michigan, the time they gave up less than that combined. Georgia had given up, I think, 16 or 13 less sacks combined in the three years combined than the Alabama to that one season. I don't think he is going to be some incredible developer of talent on the offensive lines of that. That could still be a big issue for him, especially within injury quarterback. And one thing that's interesting for Ellis, you're sorry about that, Chris, but every stop that Lane Kiffin has made before this one, there has been somebody on that art brows tree. Now there's things that you can say about art brows. But there's been somebody there to put in the system. This is the first time where he is putting in the system himself. That's right.

20:31I don't know what that means. What that means, but it might mean something. I think it's just right. Let's jump around because you've got nine other teams I do want to touch on Corey, give you Georgia. What do you think is the biggest question for Georgia this spring? I think just kind of maintaining that consistency, just kind of seeing how some of the new guys and new faces fit within Mike Bobo's scheme. I think when you look at the development of Gunner, stocked in how much more electric is he going to be in year two as a starter or year two and some change as a starter? And what does this team going to actually look like? Can they get over the hump in the playoff? First of all, like they get it, they get in the playoff when they're one and done. Can they find a pass rush? Can they find a pass rush? I mean, they returned a lot of experience on defense. So like that's something that I think they're excited about. I think there's some questions with Glenn Schumann and just kind of how they organize this defense. And I don't know if last year some of their problems were inexperienced and some of the gaps that they had in their defensive coverage, especially the pass rush was just

21:35inexperienced or not the right calls or but they've got some things to figure out from a pass rush perspective if they're going to three-peat as SEC champs. That's the biggest one for me is pass rush for Georgia. We were not used to seeing them have a lack of a pass rush. They've been a football factory for elite delinement and it's like, where's Jordan Davis? Where's Jerome Walker? I mean, they were missing that. I just don't know where it was going to come from and I don't think that they had guys that were big time playmakers or at least had that mentality last season. Maybe they've developed that a little bit and maybe they'll develop that a little bit in the spring but they've got to have somebody who you're just deathly afraid of. Coming after the passer. Steven, you want me to give you the other side of the egg bowl? You want to do Mississippi State? I can take it. They have been dreadfully bad over the last two years and you have a quarterback that struggles throwing the football but he is absolutely electric running the football.

22:37So Jeff Levy, what he has this year is basically what Oklahoma and Nebraska had in the 70s and 80s. If they get behind it's done but if Mississippi State gets up on you to where he can run that quarterback, they're going to be a real problem. But if you jump on them, they're not going to be able to catch up. Camario Taylor is, he's an interesting quarterback. I like him talent-wise, it's just them trying to figure out just kind of how he operates and what he does well and try to take advantage of that and try to protect him from what he doesn't do well as he tries to develop that part of his game. That's just going to be that, they got to figure that out. The problem is that they had his name, go ahead and see my bad. The problem is they put out a video of like the three best passes that he made during a practice and one of them was an arrow screen and that's a problem. That is. Yeah. Look, they were better last year, Mississippi State, it just, you lost a lot of what Brennan Thompson was awesome.

23:37He's gone. He's off to the NFL so there's a lot of pieces they have to replace from that team that was improved. Eric, before we grab a break, you want to pick one of your old East teams, I'll give you a choice of Florida, Kentucky, Mizzou. I guess I can talk about the Gators. No, no, Kentucky. Go. I mean, when? When? When? Old-stine's money. New coaching staff. New quarterback. I mean, Kentucky always gets a nice quarterback from the transfer portal. And then you know Kentucky needs to run the football as well as anybody in the SEC, haven't done that a couple of years. I don't know anything about Kentucky. They got C.J. backs to the former Texas running back. Okay. Yeah, yeah. He's there. Yeah. Saul. I mean, it's not. How will Stein can handle being a head coach for the first time? Yeah. I mean, that's the biggest question. That's the biggest question for a lot of these guys. I mean, I thought, for some reason, I thought you were going to give me Arkansas and I know that's not an East team. But, you know, I think Arkansas, I'm so intrigued about them, just because I don't think that what's going to be ahead of them. They hired, I don't know why they hired him.

24:38That's good. He was not good at Memphis. They just won. And like, when Arkansas fans didn't want that hired to be made, that's an issue. And unlike, gosh, unlike Mississippi State, where they just weren't very good, but man, they were competitive and they won a couple of games. Like, Arkansas just didn't give you anything to cheer about. And I mean, again, Kentucky unless you're playing Ole Miss, you know, you pretty much don't do anything. Yeah. So, I don't know. I'm running around stalking an ex-girlfriend. Yeah. That game you're talking about. Yeah. I don't know much about Kentucky this year. So, I think Florida's going to be okay. Florida's always going to have amazing talent. I think Florida's got a great coaching staff. I believe in some are all. If they can figure out the quarterback situation down there, which is kind of what Tennessee's trying to figure out, I think Florida can. I mean, that first over under was like, what, four and a half, five and a half, and they moved out. I don't know where they are now, but. They were seven and a half. Oh, God. Okay. Yeah. They didn't move that much. I don't think. Okay. So, that's more like it. If you can figure out the quarterback, you're not going to be that bad and you're one

25:41in my opinion. And Corey, you like their, you like their OC, right? Yeah. I tend to like him. I've spent a few family reunions with the old Buster Faulkner. Part of your ad. Maybe. Yeah. Part of your grad for, for Old Marlor there. Yeah. It's going to be interesting there with, with that and him picking a quarterback. He's not, even though Philo transferred to follow him, he's not partial to Aaron Philo. I mean, he's not. It's going to be a fair race, but, you know, I think Philo is going to end up winning it because I think he's a little bit more consistent and a little bit more accurate with, with, uh, with password. Tremel Jones is looking good, though, and he was a four star record. This isn't like some slappy that was just, no, no, no, no. I think this is going to be like the slimest of margins, whoever wins this job and it's probably going to, it's probably going to go back and forth to Philo to Tremel Jones, to Philo to Tremel Jones and how they, you know, how they report it and how you hear about them. It's going to be, I mean, this one's going to might be down to like week one. Yeah. And they better be careful because they could fit film up there and see what, um, Buster

26:43Faulkner did to, um, Haynes King last year running the football just, it's like everybody's going to like South Park try to lose. And by the way, Eric, you mentioned it, Will Steins walking into a great situation in Kentucky when Mark Pope just set $20 million on fire, um, they're probably going to support that program moving forward a little bit, but will they, will they, will they? Yeah. Yeah. That's the best shot you got. True. You know, they put into the, in the football this year was, it was still surprising. You look at their, their, their, uh, the numbers just, and Gordy correct me if I'm wrong, but I think off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure they had 29 guys they brought in. 20 of those guys are from Power 4 teams and or another day. And then I think 14 to nearly half of it also came from SEC teams. So they, I mean, they put together a strong class, um, it just, it'll, like you said earlier, it depends on like one, the schedule is not easy by any means. And then also, it's Will sign in year one as a, as a head coach. I, I, I, I get in trouble a lot of my own podcasts for South Carolina saying this.

27:44So I don't mind saying it for someone else and juicing them maybe, but it feels like it can't get worse. So that has been a very wrong on my show several times, but I will also say, I don't think you get worse for Kentucky with what they have with Mark Pope. And like it's just so, Gordy, I know you got to go to break up. I just want to get this, but we don't want to get shot in here. How Mark Stoops just fumbled so much these last five years? I mean, he, he was respectable. They had an MO man played great defense, really good in the trenches, ran the football well, you know, and then they started going out and get quarterbacks to the portal. And you had so many weapons last couple of years. And then they, they just all leave you and like again, you, you had some signature wins, but then you'd fall back down the earth. Like, it's, I'm not saying that they would have contended for a college football playoff spot or anything, but like Kentucky, Mark Stoops just fumbled, Mark Stoops had a lot of talent there to win. Not win big, but to win more. That genius, two years ago, offensively with Barry on Brown. And yeah, Mike, my point is I didn't keep Barry on Brown. Robinson, um, I think that, that, that thing was incredible. You know, they're left tackle, though, Eric Lance heard.

28:47Yeah, I mean, he's okay. Four or five star. Yeah, he was a four or five star, yeah. Mark Stoops and Dan Mullen combined to ruin my favorite joke ever. And that was the Atlantic's going to beat can beat Florida before Kentucky will. And that just got ruined. What returned Jets will touch on the last four teams we didn't discuss in the SEC. We're locked out squat show after this. It's tax time, but for a lot of us, the only doing taxes is a lot. I mean, Chris Marley used to bring like five backpacks of just paperwork to his local tax man and look, trying to book an appointment is not the most convenient. Sit in a waiting room, email him back and forth wondering if they even understand your tax situation. But this year you get a major upgrade into it. Turbo tax has in person locations nationwide. You can meet face to face with a real tax expert and your documents get uploaded straight to your turbo tax app on the spot. And just like that, you're done. Your turbo tax expert works to get you every dollar you deserve while you get real time

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31:53And I understand Nick Sabin's not coaching over there. And I think Kalen De Boer is a fine coach, but like not being able to run the football, not being able to get out the past here and play some solid defense. I mean, it was a CFP team. I understand that, but this is a massive year. And it all starts with quarterback. You're right. I think, you know, two guys that are that are pretty, pretty talented, but you can't pick the wrong one because if you go mediocre and kind of, you know, miss out on the CFP this year, they'll run it out of town. Marlar, I disagree with that. I think that is a perception because Bama fans have done enough stuff, like I don't know, burning down trees at your rivals campus to, to willingly and also very validly make them seem like crazy idiots that would run it out of town. The decision makers, I don't think, are as pressed to get him out of there if he doesn't make the playup. It's very hard to make the playup. It's also, I think that the way everyone looks at this, it's kind of him being judged against Sabin, which is kind of wild to me, because it's like, Sabin had 16 losses in however many years.

32:53He's just eight. And it's like, right, but like that's changed for the entire sport of cultural. I think the biggest thing for him and you're going to have to put him if you're being objective about this as the decision maker, you have got to figure out a way to make sure that you're looking at this from a two year window. If it goes horribly and they get blown out by a lot of teams, they end up getting, you know, thrashed by Auburn on top of bad season. They go seven and five with losses to everybody worth of crap and or six and six. Then yes, absolutely in a hot seat. If he goes nine and three or eight and four and misses the, the what he got the playoff with a roster that only has seven seniors on it. And a lot of young talent that you would think will come back because he's the only coach that was able to go through last spring and not lose a single player in that spring window. I think that you have to look at this from a two year standpoint. Now, I don't expect them to make a playup. I think they think it's set back. Is he going to get the quarterback situation right? I don't know the answer to that because the Austin Mac is a very talented quarterback. You guys don't forget. Let him to three pretty big points in the Rose Bowl. That was awesome.

33:54And he's a guy that came with him from Washington. That's like, he obviously believes in him enough to where he was like, what's your name? Julian Julian, say, say on, you're good. You can leave. You're good. Go to Ohio State and see how you do there. We'll keep Austin Mac. But he'll in Russell. I'll keep saying this. He's the highest ranked recruit in program history. Like, there's no, there's no world I look at and say they're going to hold that kick off the field for the entire season because you can't afford to. Otherwise, he's leaving. And then if you start getting off the field optics that start impacting the, his, his actual decision to keep her or keep him or let him go, then you're in trouble. There's no tonight. A I was going to say you also need a certain water seaver to, you know, actually be good again. Yeah, because that hurt him bad last year. Ryan Coleman Williams. Yeah, I think adding the name that'll, I think that brings the hands with him. Yeah, you can't deny the branding your company's in bankruptcy. Let's rebrand. Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, that's perfect. Work. Oh, no, you can't deny the talent of Keel and Russell.

34:56I mean, it's, he's somebody that just, I, I think it's going to be hard to keep him off the field. It's going to be difficult for Austin Mac to beat him out because like the things, the, the things that he does that Austin Mac can't do as well. I, I think that's going to be hard to bypass. I mean, and I think you're going to be willing to accept a few mistakes because you only have seven seniors on the roster that you're going to go with the more talent. You're going to go with the higher ceiling. I think, you know, with Vanderbilt, they're looking at something similar like it, you know, Blaze Burlevich is not as good as Austin Mac. But you guys have had a lot of programs. The, the, the situation of the two, the, the, the, the talent discrepancy is like, okay, you got this veteran guy that knows the system and, you know, he came with Jerry Killin and, and, and Tim Beck. But you have this undeniable talent sitting there with Jared Curtis. Like you don't leave that on the bench. That, that's kind of where I stand with Keel and Russell. You just can't, just hard to leave that talent sitting on the bench there.

35:58Well, one and one of the last two meetings, one and one. That's sure they're fine. I mean, it's thinking about that. That's real. That's a real thing. I think the other thing, too, is you've looked at the said Morton kid. I think he's going to be really, really good. The freshman five star they brought in. I would expect Williams, Coleman Williams will go back to a more similar thing and, and, and performance that he had in year one. I think he had a lot of off the field, just kind of mental stuff that he was going through last year from, from what I was told. I think the other thing, too, is you, you, people forget this because they have fans are idiots, like playing and simple. I, and I feel very confident saying that because I grew up in a family full of them. They're idiots. But they're not the ones that are paying the buyout and they're not the ones hiring the next coach. So the idea that gamma fans are going to grow restless with this really doesn't matter as much. I think to, to guys like Greg Bird and whoever's making those decisions, as it does the people on Twitter. And I, I think he's going to be fine unless it is a cataclysmic failure. If they run for negative three yards against George again, we're going to have to have some different conversations. Or causes him to jump ship.

36:59You're eight, four, nine, three. He's like, man, I don't want to be any longer somewhere else. Maybe he goes in Brando. That's his, his blank. You know, Chris, there's an office, there's a senior office of consultant. Uh, that's what the go for is that I think would be perfect. Okay. For, for, uh, let's, let's, let's turn the page. We got three T more teams to jump on. Uh, Mizzou Steven helped me out with them because Austin's, we know I'm on hearty was back. One of the best running backs in the country. But Austin Simmons going there to now be the, the, the guy, to me, that's the biggest like what is Austin Simmons at Mizzou. Yeah, all the talent in the world. He has one, one level talent if he can put it all together and him getting a security blanket as boy, Kaden Lee to go up there with him and a mod hearty is a really good bag. So you going into a situation to where you have a set RB one, you have a set wide receiver run, you have what you need. If they can block form, I think you'll put up good numbers because Missouri unlike at Ole Miss is going to run a little bit more pro style stuff.

38:02You just couldn't tell that because Bo Pribuid, they, they weren't running it with him, but they do have that in their playbook from time to time. And if I'm not mistaken, their analysts, the former offensive coordinator at Cumpson, um, on that side of the ball as well. So pay attention to that. Yeah, they've got, they've, they've got Chip Lindsey as their offensive coordinator from, from Mizzou and then they got Garrett Riley, who is considered a good offensive minor. And Eli Drakewoods is himself considered a good offensive one. So I like that combination of a bunch of, a bunch of big names there. And they got what chop, chop Harbin as well, right? Eric coming for coming over from Tennessee. So, yep, yep, edge coach and a sublime recruiter, a very good recruiter. All right. We got Auburn and Ann M. Who wants to take who? I'll take Auburn. Oh boy, I can take over. Yeah, Eric, it looks like Golisch. Oh, me, Eric, oh, yeah, Eric, you go ahead. You go ahead. You've been to Russia before.

39:06Excuse me. This thing on Alex Golisch is a, he's a, he's a, he's a, he's a feisty little guy. He is, uh, he's really, he's really smart. And I mean, his players love playing for him. But he's like the bad guy on the room, man. Like when he was at Tennessee and I'm sure he was like this, you know, his, when he was a head coach before coming back to the SEC man. He was like, he was like the hard ass on staff, right? Like Hypole wasn't L or B. Now, like none of the other offensive coaches was the bad cop. And that was, that was Golisch, man. And he will get after you. And he came in there and obviously there's a lot of turnover and all that. He brings his quarterback with him. What's that transition like to the SEC? I think it's going to be okay, right? Auburn always has so much talent, still has so much talent. But it's, you know, what, what Hypole had when he came to this league, was it's before they put the clamps on tempo, right? Year one, they went warp speed. Yeah. And they scored on Georgia on the first possession. I understand check the final score, but like Tennessee could jump on teams early that first year in 2021, right?

40:08And they went from having three in seven and one of the worst offenses in the country to having to talk to an offense in year one. I don't know what that transition is going to be that quick for Golisch because there is some restrictions on, you know, going tempo and all that. Plus they've added some iPads and all that, you know, hoping on with the young quarterbacks, the defense can happen as well. But yeah, it's, it's an offense that is built on the tight end. I don't know if they're tied in situation, but they got to have to first utility in the tight ends. They're going to run the crap out of it. Again, this is, you know, Marlowe and I've talked about it before, but everybody just thinks it's the, you know, it's the West Coast throw it all around everything. Tennessee runs the football as good as anybody in the SEC. And Auburn's going to try to do that as well. So I don't know, personal wise, I don't know what their defense is and all that. I just, I worry about goalish in year one because again, Tennessee really got to after it tempo wise and they're not going to be able to go as fast in your one like Tennessee did also the roster. I don't know that he's built the roster the way he wants it completely. So I think that factor also with him being his first year as a head coach in the SEC.

41:09I, I don't think it's going to be a horrible year, but like, I think if you get him early, it's even more advantageous because when they, when they figured out, they'll, they'll be good because his goal is just good. But it's all US of guys. When you said, I don't know if they can absolutely challenge for the American. Either way, they're tied in. They're tied in as Jonathan Eccles from USF. So it's like, you know, it's one time Tennessee commit who decommitted, it was committed to the sea for a year and a half decommitted and went down there with goalish because goalish is one of the goals. So the Auburn goals, are they, are they, are they, are they? That's right. That they, yes. They had, they had brought in 13 players from USF now. Let me give you a fun little fact. Yes. How many players Kurt Sigmetti brought in from JMU when he got to Indiana over 20, right? 13 from JMU alone. So what I'll tell you is that's a great number. And that's something you can hang your hat on if you're all going to get really excited

42:10about. But the biggest difference is that Indiana team didn't have to play a ranked opponent until week 11 or week 12. That's not going to be the case for Auburn. I think the most fascinating part about this is how important is the quarterback situation for them because Byron Brown is a really good quarterback at times. But he also, they would be two and oh against Bama in his starts against if he could just complete a deepball, like just like one. And so, but I think also the other part is that's a $30 million roster. And in this day and age, that's not crazy, I guess. And like this, like, there's, there's several $30 million roster around the power for teams and programs. But like, you guys have seen the roster, maybe I'm totally off base because a lot of it is, is talent that came with him. But like, is that $30 million roster that he brought? I don't know, I, I will say this. Um, Auburn fans are going to get to see competent offense for the first time in a couple of years. Yeah. By the way, watch intensity too. Like they're going to have a different attitude there. And that's something they need after, after the Hugh Freeze experience was

43:11who I was in the gospel music at practice. That was one of the players who did that. It was like, she's watching the Hill song. The Cody Polish and DJ Durkin. Oh, my God. Cody Sigler on the D line. That's told there's been eating this spring. So that's a name to keep it on the transfer. Cody Burns, former former Auburn Water Seever quarterback. And he was here at Tennessee with Golisch. He's the water seevers goes there too. There you go. I made a mistake as I was looking at my old 14 team graphic. We'll have tough Oklahoma, Texas. So we've got a minute each for Texas. Texas A to have an Oklahoma. I'll take Texas. My defense is going to be great at Texas. I just, you know, really a great DB play, especially. And, you know, Steve has been really good at, you know, organizing practices and really giving me runway to implement my system there at for the long more. So I think people are awesome. They're going to be really excited with what we have coming on. For open really wide, give me like a crazy look.

44:13Yeah. There's also much to do your job. Do your job. Do your job. Do your. But I need a whiteboard behind me that I can break. Arch is doing well. He's a cover for all season surgery. But he's came Coleman. Came Coleman's going to be a stud and there it's going to be a strong, strong group for Texas, much to the sugar end of a lot of people around the S is agreed. All right. Who wants A and M or Oklahoma? I'll take Oklahoma, you're two and John mater healthy, John mater with that defense because it's going to be good. If they spent any money at all and did any work and evaluation, Oklahoma is going to be very good. And also Owen Heineke played 15 minutes of a cross and the NCA is trying to take a year of eligibility away from him for that in football. And Chris Winkie came back at like 30 years old and played quarterback. Owen Heineke, Mississippi judge, Mississippi, whoever, whoever the Oklahoma judge is hearing this needs to

45:15realize that because that's egregious. That that's worse than what they did to try to that. There's no reason why that should have counted against his football eligibility. I also cannot wait for the Red River rivalry game and see a Parker Livingston does wearing the Oklahoma uniform. He's going to go get shut down. We got to end up that last one, A&M. To me, you guys, the biggest concern is new coordinators, new OC and new DC. Marcel Reed, I think, is going to be fine. By the way, I think I saw a million highlights of Isaiah Horton over that. I mean, they are acting like he is the next coming. What did Alabama let walk out the door till it's this guy go over to college station because they're acting like he's going to be all SEC wide receiver. But that could mean two things. That could mean they don't have anything or that could mean he's being unbelievably awesome. So you get $700,000 to be the third best receiver on that team a year ago and then go get a million to go do it out there at A&M with all them.

46:16Bow is swaying back and forth. Probably just worth it, I guess. They got Mario Craver back. They lose Casey Katsepsi on, but Isaiah Horton will slide in and maybe be their workhorse guys. So we'll see. But new OC and new DC always tough to lose both guys in an off season. Generally, one of them takes a step back that next year. But just that's going to do it. We hit on all 16 teams with questions coming out of spring ball. Thank you guys for making it your first listen. Remember to follow and subscribe to your favorite SEC team. We'll be covering your favorite teams every day throughout the off season. Don't forget. I'll have you covered with the entire conference with locked on SEC. And remember to become in every day. Head to locked on podcast dot com slash every day or use our code. March, you'll get a free month of the everyday club. It's tax time. And for a lot of us, the old way of doing taxes is just a lot. But this year, you're getting an upgrade into it. Turbo tax now has in person locations where you can meet face to face with a real

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