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The Krewe | 2025 Georgia Football
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Jim and John are joined by Jon Smith and Hunter Jones for some off the rails Krewe conversation.
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Introduction and Podcast Updates
00:00:00
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Jim, you can edit some of this out, but we're talking a lot about golf, but, but Dwight, the moment when Dwight picked up one of John's golf clubs and says, John Dunlop doesn't even make golf clubs anymore. anymore Like, what are you, what are you hitting out here?
00:00:16
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Welcome to My Gotta Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I are joined by our friends John Smith and Hunter Jones. We get caught up on what's been going on in the offseason, and as you'd expect when we get this crew together, it goes off the rails.
00:00:30
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00:00:46
Speaker
Now let's join the conversation in progress.
00:00:52
Speaker
Start us in, Jim. do How do you start this show? where what i do i mean, all I hear cold opens every time I listen. So is there actually like an intro to the show? I'm going to record it later. The best was that like the, I think the first time, the the first time we recorded which, you know, like, like, Hey John, you i do you want to a podcast? Like the week of the game?
00:01:11
Speaker
ah Like it was literally like, we just hit record and started talking for a while. And then like, I think we like picked a point where I think that was where we started. So perfect it's not too much different.
00:01:22
Speaker
So if you're listening and you've made it through the cold open and and that banter. ah This is the crew episode. We've got John Smith, John Tweet Sports, Hunter Jones with us, i picking it back up in the off season.
Personal Stories and New Roles
00:01:35
Speaker
i was looking. we at least we didn't do quite as long of a hiatus as last year. Last year we went from like April or May to like August. So ah this is like our second episode already of this summer. So i think we're we're having a pretty good. But John Hunter, welcome as always.
00:01:51
Speaker
Welcome. Welcome, boys. Welcome to the crew. I am thrilled to be here. uh hunt the jones uh hoping that he can stay awake because uh little true man has injured his mobility stage and hunter has been chase hunter just chased him around all day is what i hear but um pretty accurate yeah it's all downhill from there as soon as they get mobile The good news is is you're still in zone coverage.
00:02:18
Speaker
That's right. Yeah. Hunter, there's going to be a time in your life. Okay. I have two teenagers. There's going to time in your life when you'll think to yourself, man, I spent all that time just wanting them to walk and talk. And now just want to sit down and shut up. It's just going to be amazing when you get to that place. So enjoy it We've got ah our second going for driver's license tomorrow.
00:02:43
Speaker
So two mobile, very, very mobile ah teenagers. So it's wild. It goes by fast. Enjoy it, Hunter. Enjoy it. What's that saying? the The days go by slow, but the years go by fast.
00:02:57
Speaker
Yeah, that how but sounds accurate. Words of wisdom. Somebody told me that's a day at work. I can't take credit for it. Uh, which on that Hunter, we do have, uh, this is, we got new, uh, new job going on.
00:03:11
Speaker
We do. I, um, I'm now the assistant principal at St. Martin high school. It's a seven day high school, highest classification in Mississippi. um it's actually my alma mater ocean Springs where Megan is the cheer coach and where she teaches and where I used to teach. It's their biggest rival.
00:03:31
Speaker
If we're reckoning it in Georgia terms, if Ocean Springs is Georgia, ah St. Martin's, Georgia Tech, and they are actually the Yellow Jackets as a mascot as well. so Yeah. It's been it's been hard a hard pill to swallow for me to see the new school gear, but that's okay. We can live with it.
00:03:49
Speaker
Yeah, agreed. don't need the don't need the Don't need the bumblebee. in the ticket yeah Just don't take it personally, Hunter, when you send pictures of yourself in the yellow jacket school gear to the to the text thread and I either don't respond or thumbs down or whatever. just It's not you.
00:04:07
Speaker
It's that stuff you're wearing. but let's just go ahead Let's just go ahead and just say that we're all going to thumbs down it, but he's going to know what it means.
Football Season Preview
00:04:17
Speaker
I can handle that. I can take that. Nice. So what are, I don't know, what do we need to be, what do we need to be thinking about? ah You know, we're pretty good ways through the off season. then We're at what, under 40, 43, 44 days, right? From kick. We, as of, at, as of the time of this recording, Jim, we're at 40 days until Georgia kicks off. So when people listen this, we will be under 40 days oh depending on when they listen, but.
00:04:46
Speaker
it is It's coming on fast, boys. And here's my only question to the group, okay, is are we going to lose to anyone else besides Texas and Alabama? Because I've been told that like those are those are guaranteed losses.
00:05:03
Speaker
um Right. yeah i feel blind set We're going according to some media pundits. Yeah. yeah I might be one of those media pundits, but oh send it just send it to Kirby.
00:05:16
Speaker
Print it out. seven and five um No, we are coming on fast. and i'm I'm excited to chat, to talk some ball. And I'm also, you know, I i i think for me, like this feels like the first off season where Georgia's, you know, mean, people are going to get pissed that listen to this, that if you're not a Georgia fan or if you are a Georgia fan and, and you know, um,
00:05:40
Speaker
and you haven't been tuning in paying attention, but this, I mean, I do feel like Georgia has, is actually being doubted. I know the media members picked them to finish second, whatever, but like when you hear, when you hear people talk about Georgia, this is the first off season I can remember um in a while where you hear people talk about Georgia with kind of that, like little bit of a little bit of a leaning back instead of leaning forward and a little bit of like ah more questions than answers. Right. And ah it's interesting. It's interesting to hear. It's interesting to hear and to and to see for sure.
00:06:13
Speaker
My, my working theory on that is that, um, I feel like that we're at a a period in the SEC right now where there's just ah so many questions at quarterback across the conference that it feels like that we're being doubted so heavily because of the question marks that we have at quarterback. But the other teams that also have the same questions, like, for example, Alabama, Alabama,
00:06:38
Speaker
um even even Texas to a certain degree like there's there's not a whole lot of data points out there for a lot of the incoming starting quarterbacks so like do you think that that that has something to do with it I'll take that. i think for sure I think for sure. I think what's happening right now is I i think Gunnar Stockton, I think two things. One, the run game being so bad last year.
00:07:02
Speaker
Yeah. The worst run game production for Georgia in 20 years um being so bad. And then, yeah, I mean, 102nd in the country. Like, we can go ahead and say it again. It's like ah insanely bad.
00:07:15
Speaker
Yeah. with the run game being so bad and Gunnar Stockton, you know, only starting because Carson back got hurt and now he's being thrust, you know, I mean, let's just be real. Like he's being thrust into the, he he was thrust in the last year.
00:07:29
Speaker
um Couldn't win the playoff game. even though I don't think that was on him, but he's being thrust into the situation versus some of these other guys, right? Or the natural, like they're the natural successor. And I think Gunnar Stockton likely would have been a natural successor anyway, but because of the way that he has become QB one, um i think there's a lot of doubt there, but because when you look at guys like, like Arch Manning is a good example, right? Like he was going to be a successor to Quinn Ewers, no matter what.
00:07:56
Speaker
Um, Austin Simmons was going to be the successor at Ole Miss was going to successor to Jackson dark. Like all these guys were, they were the guy, like they, the people were talking about them last year, um when they would come in the game as like the next QB one of their team.
00:08:11
Speaker
And people weren't talking about Gunnar Stockton that way. And I think you put those two together and that's the issue. ah that's where the doubt's coming from. But I think most of the doubt, honestly, is, is even less about um the quarterback. i mean, some of these quarterbacks are getting benefit out.
00:08:25
Speaker
Austin Simmons getting benefit out. Archman and clearly get benefit out. um Even, you know, guys like Marcel Reed get the benefit of the doubt. He, he started a ah few games for Texas A&M last year, but like that was a guy that wasn't QB one at Texas A&M for most of the season last year.
00:08:39
Speaker
Um, Those guys are getting the the benefit of the doubt, and Gunnar Stockton isn't. And I think part of that is just because of how god-awful Georgia was at running the football last year.
00:08:50
Speaker
Can that be remedied this year? And do we put it more on the running back room last year versus John's friend Stacey Searles?
00:09:03
Speaker
I mean, it's the offensive line for me. Like I need, i need a little bit more from the offensive line, but it's hard not to look at the depth issues that we've had over the last couple of seasons with guys like Branson, Robin Robinson, Roger Robinson that are getting hurt. And,
00:09:18
Speaker
You know, you hear all this hype in the preseason and then they get hurt and it's like it just hasn't really panned out. It's like the worst case scenario of like having Sonny Michelle and Keith Marshall on your on your roster and they both get hurt.
00:09:32
Speaker
You know what I mean? Like imagine if Sonny got Sonny got hurt when when Keith the Marshall got hurt. Right. Yeah. I. yeah i um I know I'm talking way too much, so y'all please like jump in. but i'll just say like for i the Hunter may be asleep. I'm not sure. and yeah yeah Hunter, come on.
00:09:50
Speaker
need your opinion, Hunter. i'll I'll give you one last nugget on this. um I think from from from what I know about football and from talking with some folks um who are close to the program, Georgia's screen game last year was was trying to be the solution for the run game.
00:10:08
Speaker
And the reason people, you know, Mike Bobo, another screen, another screen. The reason they did that a lot was to protect the running backs. Cause you had that room was beat up. Even Trevor ETN. i mean, he was injured a lot last year and even some games where he was playing, he wasn't, you know, he was 75, 80%.
00:10:23
Speaker
seventy five eighty percent And so I think, um, you know, Georgia fans look at that as like, Oh, another screen, another screen in reality. It's like, no, that's just, that's a running play. That's our version of handing the ball off this year because,
00:10:37
Speaker
um because of the injuries in the running back room it's like get the ball out quickly get it out to a skill player that's not a running back you know and and protect those guys um a little bit to try to get some longevity into the season so that was the bigger issue if you i i haven't done any um we can get our buddy dog stats to do this if you look at like you know, throws behind the line of scrimmage.
00:10:57
Speaker
If you factor in all those, how many attempts were they? What was the yard per, you know, completion for those screens? And you put that into the running game. It's probably, you know, not as bad. If you say that's a run play, it's probably not as bad as 102nd in the country.
00:11:13
Speaker
um But, ah but that's, it it was what it was. Yeah. On paper, on paper, that's how it shows up. Yeah, like alllthough i mean all the lateral throws to Dominic Lovett, basically. that he dropped I saw an article. I can't remember if I saw an article or a video or something. Like I said, i haven't been really in the the football sphere with the whole job thing going on and everything. so But I saw an article recently where they were talking about how Gunnar Stockton's not getting all this hype.
00:11:46
Speaker
And they they put it on. i think we're kind of alluding to it here. um If you're the quarterback at Georgia with Kirby Smart as your head coach, it's going to be more about the other 10 guys out there than just the quarterback.
00:11:59
Speaker
And when those other 10 guys aren't are up to what they need to be, it's going to show more on the quarterback, but it's not all on the quarterback. And they were talking, they used it to make a point about Todd Munkin and how, what made him so good was that even though it was ah supposed to be, they said they put the offense in a box.
00:12:20
Speaker
He figured out how to do what Kirby wanted in that box, but still be creative and make it work with a ah quarterback who was a unknown. mean, that's a minute, you know, and, um,
00:12:33
Speaker
Everybody, they were saying everybody dogs on Bobo, but basically Kirby is going to do what Kirby wants to do. And it's not going to be about quarterback. It's going to be about the other guys on the field. i saw i saw an eye roll.
00:12:47
Speaker
I roll mine a little bit because I agree to a certain point. But Todd Munkin also had Brock Bowers. He had Darnell Washington. He had Kenny McIntosh. He had James Cook.
00:13:00
Speaker
He had Marcus Rosemey-Jackson. He had Ladd McConkie. Well, he had all those guys, but you know people say, well, it's about the other guys. you know herrby Kirby's going to control you know the quarterback situation. Kirby's going to control. Todd Munkin literally like had all these weapons, and so at the end of the day, Stetson Bennett,
00:13:21
Speaker
incredible there were there were times like that Ohio State ah Peach Bowl where the guy just literally like put the team you know he's like we're not losing this game Alabama fourth quarter yeah Alabama national championship fourth quarter that kid was a gamer um but at the same time I mean it's like When you've got all those guys lined up, it's it's it takes so much pressure off of the quarterback. And so I think sometimes Kirby, when people say, well, you know, Kirby controls this or Kirby, you know, blah, blah, blah. It's like, no, curb Kirby's job is to make sure the team is in the best position to win.
00:13:58
Speaker
And when you don't have like all of those weapons, he probably does, you know, kind of over optimize to try to make it as easy on the quarterback as possible so he doesn't have to do um as much. And I think we saw that last year. And what happened was, you know, when Carson Beck decided to do whatever he was doing last year.
00:14:18
Speaker
the the Ole Miss game and you know mean like Alabama and I know some of that wasn't on him some of that was receivers you know dropping the ball or whatever but like when your quarterback is throwing 11 interceptions in five games or whatever it's like dude like okay cool like like you're you know I mean there's only so much you can do it you're trying to make it easy for him you're trying to do stuff and and it's just not just not executing and that's I think last year I think that's where it really goes wrong and that's where people really get spun up Do you think when do you think when you talk about last year and like the things that we didn't accomplish that we wanted to accomplish and expected to accomplish like, you know, I look at i look at you talking about the the tools and assets that quarterbacks have to make it easier on them like let's not forget that.
00:15:03
Speaker
Not only did he have – did Stetson and Todd Munkin have Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkie and Kenny McIntosh and all those guys, but he also had Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis behind them. Like, it's hard not to look at the defensive side of the ball as – Impacting things as well. I mean, look at the look at the game against Notre Dame where we were.
00:15:24
Speaker
I felt that Gunner did everything that he needed to do and our defense just didn't show up to stop them when we needed them to stop ah to stop an offense that really wasn't doing anything super special.
00:15:37
Speaker
um So, yeah, you know, we have all these weapons on offense, but it's hard not to remember that we also had like an all world defense on those years and you got to look to the defense to stop what the offense is doing and that relieves a lot of pressure on the quarterback to.
00:15:52
Speaker
yeah i mean Yeah, I mean, last year's team, I think it was a couple of things. And ah I guess what's interesting to me is some of the commentary Kirby kind of opened with at SEC Media Days this year, like talking about how deep and like last year's team was and like how this year team is so much younger and all these things. I thought that was kind of, i don't know. i guess I guess you could like statistically say so or whatever, but I thought that was, I don't kind of like Kirby talk.
00:16:18
Speaker
I felt like, um, but again, like back to the quarterback room, like, like John Smith, you, but we talked about last year, like you talking about, um, like the Carson Beck, looking at the line sidelines saying, what are we doing in the sec championship game? Right. And like, but when was that going to change? And we were going when were we going to see him take on the leadership role? Like we saw Stetson, like, eating like Stetson Bama, um, you know, has the ball after we took the lead in that championship game. And he's going down the sideline. Like,
00:16:49
Speaker
you one, uh, one drive to win the game. Like they're going to score one drive to win the game. I never saw that from, from Carson. Like I saw more of that in Gunnar Stockton running over the guy from Texas and the SEC championship game in the entire sideline, just like jumping up, you know, and supporting him. I saw more out of him in two games. And I would, I mean, not to poor mouth, you could, you could certainly say Jim, you're saying that cause he transferred and maybe I am, but whatever. But like, I saw more out of Gunnar in two games and I saw that Carson Beck in two seasons.
00:17:17
Speaker
Yeah, the only time I saw that of Carson Beck was when Georgia – I don't know if we were down or if we were tied with Tennessee, but Carson Beck – Tennessee. Yeah, he made that run and he got hit. Yeah, that's fair. made that run on third down to get a first down, and he got up and he did like the – Yeah, yeah. The throat slash, you know, whatever thing.
00:17:33
Speaker
Yeah, slime the pot. Yeah, and did the first down, you know, thing, and then he proceeded to just pick Tennessee apart and – you know Georgia won by double digits. and and that But that was the only time. and you know I think um that was my concern going into last year. and I said it in in the offseason last year was in the SC Championship game you know when when Georgia ran a play there, everybody blaming Bobo. and i just watched Carson Beck the camera goes right on his face. walking on the field and he says, what the F are we doing?
00:18:02
Speaker
And he's shaking his head. And I'm like that, that body language right there is like, dude, like you, that is not a quarterback that is like, that is not a starting quarterback.
00:18:12
Speaker
You know, it said some Bennett. mean, we, we heard it from Kirby. We heard it from Munkin where they said like, he's a competitor. He's not easy to coach. Like you saw it. if If you go back and find Michigan in the, ah the college football playoff in 2021, when Kirby was trying to get,
00:18:27
Speaker
um a field goal or something at the end of the half, you know George blowing out Michigan and sets a minute, like something happens in the time management wasn't good. Kirby comes out, he's clapping his hands. He's his face is blood red.
00:18:38
Speaker
And he's like yelling. He's right in Stetson's ear. And Stetson's like pointed the scoreboard, arguing right back, like giving it right back to him. And like that for me was like, okay, listen, like this is, it's a big boy football.
00:18:50
Speaker
And at the end of the day, it's, it is. Yes. The coaches, you know, it's like, The respect of the coaches and whatever, but like, you got to be confident enough in yourself and in your game that if something's going wrong, that you were like communication with between players and coaches is so important. It's like, du no, this is what I'm saying. is what I'm doing. This is why I did that. This is what like, it can't be shaking my head, looking down the ground. What the F are we doing?
00:19:15
Speaker
And then we saw it show up last year with Carson Beck, like when things got tough, you know. um And, yeah, I mean, kudos to him for the way they fought back um against Alabama, like the way – you know i mean, he he had some moments for sure. Yeah.
00:19:30
Speaker
but But at the end of the day, it really – What might have been – Yeah, it really, for me, was just – it was pretty clear that he – and I'm sitting here poor mouth and too. But it just pretty clear like, you didn't have that – you didn't have that chutzpah.
00:19:41
Speaker
You didn't have that, you know. and And, again, you don't have to be a rah-rah-rah guy. You don't have to be the guy that's over there. you know, Stetson Bennett wasn't that. He wasn't the guy that's over there, you know, all the time, like, you know, dabbing people up and getting everybody up. But in those moments, we saw it with Jake Fromm.
00:19:59
Speaker
We saw it with – um I mean, shoot, we even saw with JT Daniels. Like when he went in 2020, when he came in and, you know, started the rest of the season, it's like in that ah Peach Bowl when Georgia came back and won it with a field goal at the end. Like we've seen it with guys where it's just like, all right, cool. Like I'm the quarterback of this team and I'm taking control and we just didn't see it last year. So I think Gunner has that.
00:20:20
Speaker
I think Gunner has that in spades. And I think a lot of people are going to be very pleasantly surprised. A lot of Georgia fans pleasantly surprised. At what Gunner is going to bring to this scene for sure. I agree.
00:20:31
Speaker
he's also He's also from Georgia, John, so let's not forget that. That's true. and georgia boy very important Very important. It's very important statistic that you be from the state of Georgia as a Georgia quarterback.
00:20:43
Speaker
And he's like the first one in August Stetson. Will Stetson, Jake Fromm, DJ Shockley. yours is that Yours is the netty. You got Buck Ballew.
00:20:56
Speaker
And buckal blue yeah Buck We never won a national championship without a quarterback from the state of Georgia. Although I think when we talked about that with hate for the Hasties Hargaret history, he was like well, technically we didn't really have a quarterback kind of, sort of back
UGA Sports and Historical Artifacts
00:21:08
Speaker
in the, but yeah. we check yeah Jason Chuck, which by the way, ah maybe, um John, you actually had a Hasties Hargaret in person. Hmm.
00:21:18
Speaker
We did. We hit the we hit the Hasties Hargert history um live and in person. He has he has a roadshow going on right now, which I believe he's got some more stops along the way and some of the further reaches. But he happened to to hit up Cobb County here in Marietta. John, I'm i'm a little disappointed didn't see you there.
00:21:38
Speaker
Literally could have probably walked there. but um Literally could have. When I saw your pictures, I was like, why didn't why didn't I just walk over there? Because I I walk right by that library probably three times a week when I go and walk a few miles around the... Yeah, because it's right across from the from the graveyard or yeah the cemetery.
00:21:56
Speaker
yeah um Yeah. it actually that That actually kind came up. I was actually tech laughing to Jason that he's he set up shop right near where the Cobb County genealogy like library is, right across the street. You could see it through the window, the the cemetery across the way, which is kind of funny. Yeah.
00:22:16
Speaker
um But yeah, he had a lot of he had artifacts there. um Some things that I hadn't seen before. Let's see some of the highlights that I saw. Jim, remind me of the tennis player that I sent you guys, the polo. Oh, yeah. epi Epic, epic, like, what was it, 80s? Yes. Was it 80s or 90s? Michael Pernforce.
00:22:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. Yeah, mean he he he went, like, he was on the pro tour and everything after George. Yeah, ah but he great, great polo designs from from that era of UGA tennis, I thought was pretty cool.
00:22:47
Speaker
They also had the they also had a logo from 1911 on like a banner that I guess that you'd like pin up from at a student dorm. um They had some championship rings for gymnastics, which my daughter was very interested in. She's like,
00:23:02
Speaker
What are those? um Let's see. ah another ah Other cool things that they had there that i recall were they have the, if you if you remember Ugga 2, they had the collar from Ugga 2 that has like ah all the big spikes.
00:23:18
Speaker
um Nice. I thought that that was really cool. um Had some original tickets there. he had had a leather helmet, but not like the OG leather helmet.
00:23:28
Speaker
um Had some ticket stubs where my kids were kind of flabbergasted at how much it cost to go to the games at one point.
00:23:38
Speaker
So yeah, yeah, it was it was a good little time. he said I think he said that he had... ah He had a pretty good pretty good turnout there, it sounded like. um And so he said that what he's found is that he has a lot of repeat folks that have come out in the years prior. So if you haven't been to stop, it's worth coming in shaking hands with Jason. Jason is great. He'll explain everything to you if you want him to, or you can just pop in. There were some double dogs that were there with us.
00:24:07
Speaker
we were taught we got We got to talking, and there was a couple other alumni that were there. And so... um It's a good little way to you know take a look at some of the UGA's sporting history and hopefully parlay that into coming in and checking out things live and in person. You can actually go online and look at some of the some of the artifacts that Jason has, um and you can kind of schedule a time and literally go in and see them.
00:24:33
Speaker
you know some of the Some of the things that he had that my kids were interested in were the the gloves from Keeley's or Sonny Michelle's gloves, Keeley Ringo's armbands from the national championship.
00:24:45
Speaker
I think they they had a Kirby visor that the kids were asking about. um But yeah, i took I took my girls to go and check out the Hargert library at Keeley. at Switzer Library in Marietta. So it was good it was a good time. Thanks a lot, Jason, as always, for what you do for the university.
Golfing Tales and Masters Lottery
00:25:02
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I know when I may have mentioned this in the last time we talked, to but ah just in case, we did a campus tour with Lily back in the spring. And I ah reached out to Jason and made a Hargert Library stop. And that was her favorite part of the tour, which wasn't on the official tour. So the the extra tour with Jason was her favorite An underutilized asset at the University of Georgia is Jason Aestey. Yeah. ah And then you guys had a had a golf outing recently, like some in-person time.
00:25:32
Speaker
We did did. We did. you Before we get into this, I know Hunter Jones ah chases a little white ball around every now and then. I know Jim is recently playing golf.
00:25:43
Speaker
Where's everyone's golf game at this point? Like what's the was's what's the status? So I've been trying to get better. um i think my round that I played this past weekend perfectly sums up my golf game.
00:25:56
Speaker
ah So i like my goal, like I was working to be able to break 100. So I can do that now. So now goal is break 90. I've not yet broken 90. I played Saturday. I shot a 40 on the front.
00:26:09
Speaker
So that's my best nine holes I've ever played. One would think that I would then follow that and say, and I achieved my goal of breaking 90 for the first time. I did not.
00:26:20
Speaker
I shot a 52 on the back. 17 and 18. I bogeyed both. seventeen and eighteen a triple bo you' both It was like a horrible finish. I blame me in the heat. It was so hot out. um that's what I'm going to say. I'm sticking to it.
00:26:32
Speaker
but so that's kind you threw an interception on the goal line, Jim. Yeah. So like I am capable, capable of hitting good shots. I am not consistent. That's kind of like, yeah, I would say that's exactly my golf game too. Can you hear me? I'm sorry. One of my headphones is dad. So and we got, um, yeah, we're going to it in inconsistency is it kills me. Uh, it's because I don't play enough.
00:26:52
Speaker
Um, i't I don't get a chance to go out there as often as I would want to. um But I've gotten to the point where, you know, I'm pretty, I am pretty consistent with my driver, you know, and I feel like that's like the one that everybody's like, oh, you know, anybody can go out there and hit the driver, but you make your money with a hundred yards and then, you know, and that's, you know, my most inconsistent part is I can have the perfect tee shot and then,
00:27:20
Speaker
It's a 50, 50 shot. If I'm going to duff it or if I'm going to hit it exactly where I want to hit it. um And then I've gotten a lot better with putting what used to kill me as putting. I would, you know, I can be on the green and two and then three, four put, you know, so I've gotten better in that regard, but it's right now for me, it's the second shot.
00:27:42
Speaker
um If I, if I can get it, um you know, chipping, I wouldn't say that I really chip anymore. I've kind of got a little in-between bump and run that I play that I feel pretty comfortable doing.
00:27:57
Speaker
But it's that second shot after the tee shot where, ah especially on like a long par five, where like I've got to pull something else out and hit it another 150 plus yards. yeah I might do it or I might hit it.
00:28:13
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a yard in front of me that's the worst that's the worst yeah well well john powell and i we had uh had a golf outing with our our buddy dwight shout out dwight for the invite um went up to royal lakes yes country club flower branch uh it was a it was nice um our tea time was at 1 p.m and it was about the temperature of hell's front porch um in Atlanta in July.
00:28:40
Speaker
um And my mistake was, i so I had played um Friday, and then I had gone to the driving range on Saturday. And I had just recently really gotten back into golf, um trying to get my my swing back.
00:28:54
Speaker
And Sunday, i it was hot, and John Powell had me drinking Old Fashions before we even got out on the course. and so You it.
00:29:05
Speaker
JB is trying to get me drunk. um But, ah but yeah, we had a great time. I didn't hit it. Didn't hit it very well. Hit a few shots that, you know, you hit enough shots that makes you, you know, come back, but exactly really had a really good time for sure.
00:29:19
Speaker
Yeah. is It was a good time for sure. um I think that, I think Dwight had some choice commentary of, of how amazing the course was.
00:29:30
Speaker
Yeah. It was effed up, I believe. Yeah. He said, he said, he said, this, this is a really effed up course. You guys are going to pulling your hair out. um So that was the introduction to the course.
00:29:42
Speaker
And, ah and it was ah the second hole was basically a par five with like a very, short very thin landing strip fairway.
00:29:52
Speaker
And on the left side, it's like trees on the right side. it's a big hill with houses. And so you had about like, I don't know, 250 yards of that. And then you had about 100 yards of water to like this like little small green. And so it was like, you know, the second hole was was just straight, you know, as you you drop in it.
00:30:13
Speaker
Third hole, water all to the right, little then fairway and then trees, you know, to the left. And what I love is Dwight kept saying. Yeah, you know, after this hole, there's not any more water. There's water, like, on every freaking hole.
00:30:27
Speaker
It became this became the running joke. Yeah, literally. It was like, after this one, and then you get to 18, the last hole, and there's like ah thin fairway and there's water all to the left and then you had to hit over water i was like alright even the last hole there's water so so I have a question haven't played enough courses up there to know but I feel like i cause you know my father-in-law is a really big golfer and he goes all time whenever I've been with him we always go play courses like up around the Alpharetta area or even you know up further up north um and there's not a lot of water
00:31:05
Speaker
on the courses that we play. But down here, every single course has a lot of water. Like ah most of the courses down here are actually like themed around like the marsh and the bayou.
00:31:17
Speaker
So you're dealing with a water hazard on every hole. yeah Yeah, there's the most courses ah that I play on, at least there's not there's there's always a couple of holes of water, but there's not much water.
00:31:29
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the the in the course's defense, I'm defending the course here. It was Royal Lakes, plural, country club. You know, it's like you should have known. It's like, OK, Royal Lakes sounds like water.
00:31:44
Speaker
Yeah, know we had a great time. it While we're on the subject of golf, how many of y'all got the yeah tradition of getting denied your master's tickets today? So I haven't gotten an email yet, which I don't know is if if that's good or bad.
00:31:58
Speaker
I didn't get an email. um Andrew Carraway texted me his screenshot of his denial and I was like, I got excited for a second because I haven't gotten an email yet. I haven't gotten the no, so maybe I'm getting the yes. and Then I went in and in my account and it was like, no, sorry, your application didn't.
00:32:17
Speaker
Oh, I need to log Yeah, so you can just, you can just log in. So yeah, it's it's a tradition like no other. Yeah. Well, got, I got the yes, so. Oh!
00:32:30
Speaker
I didn't. i like I should have just said I got the no, but I just, yeah, no, I actually got lucky. so We're all collectively hating you right now. I just want you to know that. I'm happy for him. because it's I mean, I'm happy for him.
00:32:44
Speaker
if you've won the lottery you know If you've won the lottery, which I have, yeah feel there You know that feeling feeling. Yeah, I've been before. This is the first time I've ever actually gotten ah approved for per tickets, but I've been before.
00:32:58
Speaker
with I've never won the lottery. I've been, but I've neverve but i've never won. Impressive. Good times. i mean, it only took like eight years in a row. and feel It feels shallow for comparison because a lot of folks are like, it's taken me 30 years. I've never gotten it.
00:33:15
Speaker
uh yeah my golf game is uh it's there it's there i think to quote jim like just try to play with the same ball the whole time kind of thing i realized that i realized playing golf with uh with john and dwight and um was it brandon that we played with y'all who by the way absolutely blew the doors off that course brandon shot a 71 like we're out there like we're you know Like we're trying to break a hundred and Brandon's out there shooting 71. So nice.
00:33:45
Speaker
Yeah. I realized that I have an equipment issue. So I picked up a secondhand set of clubs. They were not great. Dumb love does not make any more golf clubs. So I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, Jim, you can edit some of this out, but we're talking a lot about golf, but But Dwight, the moment when Dwight picked up one of John's golf clubs and says, John, Dunlop doesn't even make golf clubs anymore.
00:34:14
Speaker
Like, what are you hitting out here? um that was a That was a great, great moment. but a that's too I like hitting the driver. i can chip. i can putt.
00:34:26
Speaker
I like hitting my wood, but um but, you know, the woods fairway game, but irons, I struggle with irons. Well, there was one there was one time that I appreciated that he brought, that JP brought ah a four iron and a nine iron to the tee.
00:34:42
Speaker
Like, I mean, let's just... We're going to bring up a four iron and a nine iron and just see what happens. Like, what we what are we going to but losing just grab Just grab something. just grab something and go, man. I love it. love it Hey, as long as it goes forward.
00:35:02
Speaker
Absolutely. Exactly. No shame. Oh, that's amazing.
Charity Events and Social Clubs
00:35:07
Speaker
I know. I kind of like the golf episode. I got a podcast. Yeah. Well, ah one quick shout out and then we can move on from golf to blood loss, battle, and breast cancer. um I played in the...
00:35:19
Speaker
Bulldogs battle breast cancer cherry scramble at the Georgia club with some of the Georgia players. I was paired with Drew Bobo shout out to Drew um starting center of your Georgia Bulldogs and ah rodeo and Don who are ah Morris Hall tailgate legends.
00:35:36
Speaker
That was our team. And had a great time out there. Shout out Bulldogs battling breast cancer, Dwight, Jay, and Teresa Abbott. um All the folks who are involved in that. It was incredible.
00:35:49
Speaker
um Also shout out, you know, Austin Chambers and player personnel folks who got the players there. was just, it was a really, really fantastic day. um Two o'clock tea time, which again, front porch of Hades. Yeah.
00:36:05
Speaker
That was your fourth day of golf, though. Fourth day in a row golf. You're playing a tournament. Yeah, fourth day in a row of golf. And, you know, I think what was what was great about that tournament is I was like, man, 2 o'clock? And our buddy Dwight said, when the players are coming, our tee time is whenever Kirby Smart says our tee time is. And so 2 o'clock.
00:36:27
Speaker
I feel like that's some, that's some like, ah conditioning magic there. Kirby's trying to. get a deal Well, they they had, yeah, they had all done their, they had all, they'd all had a workout that morning and had, had done, they had done max on power cleans, I believe is what they were saying. So they had been, yeah, they'd already been lifting weights and running and all that stuff, you know, earlier in the day and then came played around the golf in the heat. So.
00:36:53
Speaker
God bless them. oh to be Oh, to be 18 to 22 again. Yeah, seriously. like All right. I'm going to, I'm going to pull us back towards football, but we're not going to quite be there yet. Almost. ah John, tell us about what you got going on with Bulldog bourbon social club.
00:37:08
Speaker
Bulldog bourbon social club. So um we've, we've had this ah kind of loose idea and and community of the bulldog bourbon social club for the last couple of years. It's mostly been at tailgates and on the social medias.
00:37:22
Speaker
um But we're launching what I consider the official, official launch of the Bulldog Bourbon Social Club this week. So we're going to have our own little ah our own little community site, um some great, fantastic, updated merch, flasks, some...
00:37:40
Speaker
um like thermal skinny can koozies for your high noons and those types of things. And then a little, a little eight ounce or 12 ounce tumbler, like Yeti tumbler with a lid for your tailgate sipping along with the Bulldog Bourbon Social Club hats.
00:37:56
Speaker
And the whole idea of this is um we're going to have a space where we can have, you know, things like virtual and in-person meetups. We can, you know, kind of connect with other members of the club. We can talk about Georgia sports. We can talk about tailgating bourbon, whatever.
00:38:11
Speaker
you want to talk about. um But ah merch and all that stuff, proceeds go to Bulldogs Battling Breast Cancer. So we're partnering with and nonprofit. It's, um you know, something that I think is really, it's a fun idea that we've had for a while. And shout out to all the folks who have been ah supporters. We're excited to get that launch this week. um And then we also have um some fun giveaways and things that we're going to do throughout this season. um
00:38:42
Speaker
Some things where we sponsored like sponsored golf flags um at some of the blog battling breast cancer ah charity golf events. And those, we have those flags framed and signed by players.
00:38:55
Speaker
um And so those kinds of things will be, things will be given away to folks who are members. So nice Go follow. Yeah. Go follow at dog social club. um You'll see if you follow any of us on Twitter, you'll probably see tweets and posts about it this week. But yeah, at dog, D-A-W-G social club.com.
00:39:14
Speaker
It's going to be a good time. Awesome. Awesome. Looking forward to it. ah I enjoy wearing my hat. I already had the hat. Now I'll have the side ticket as well. I got to get Hunter Jones the hat. I think I've told Hunter, I like, I promise it's going to be in the mail. I think probably on number four of telling him that. So yeah,
00:39:30
Speaker
We'll get you a hat. I wasn't going to was just going to let it ride. Hunter, for what it's worth, I was at his front door and I was like, hey, did you one of those hats? He goes, oh, yeah, forgot. I said, I got in the car with him before we went to play golf. was like, I'll get you a hat when we get back to the house. We get back to the house, unload all my stuff. I was like, man, had a great time. He's like, hey, do you have one of those hats? I was like, oh, yeah.
00:39:52
Speaker
Still almost forgot. ah But we'll get you a hat, Hunter, and um and we'll get you a hat. a tumbler because I know you like the little Yeti style tumbler stuff.
00:40:04
Speaker
We'll get you one out there too. Looking forward to bringing that thing to the tailgate. It's going be a good time. sure. but sure All right. We can go back. We can go full football Hunter. you're You've been like me and have been kind of a little like out. What, what is your, like, what's your question of like, like, what is it that you like getting back into the the swing of things? I can't get rid of the golf stuff.
00:40:29
Speaker
Uh, getting back into that. Like what, what is that you're wondering? What, what do you feel like you need to get caught up? Um, how are the vibes? Do I need, yeah, I need to get caught up on everything, but, um,
00:40:41
Speaker
the The big thing that I yeah want to see this year is, are we going to be able to run football? Because I feel like everything just kind of stems out from that. And that's something that's been a staple of all the the great Georgia football teams that we've seen here recently, especially as they all can pretty consistently impose their will and run the football on the other team and we just we weren't able to do that last year and so that's the thing i want to be looking for but as far as and the vibes don't know who said the vibes I'm ready to get back into the routine of you know college football being on on Saturdays and getting up to Athens um gonna be a little tougher this year though now that I've got Friday night obligations working out high school but uh I'm gonna be there for uh
00:41:27
Speaker
Texas, Alabama, and Ole Miss for sure. so and you And you've got a toddler in tow as well. That's right. Truett's going to make his ah Athens debut this year. He's a little older.
00:41:38
Speaker
yeah And he, y'all, just wait until you see him. He is like the star of the show wherever he goes. He's definitely got his mom's personality, not mine.
00:41:50
Speaker
Have I have I told you how much Ella loves Truett like Ella like he is like the like the baby like this. So i risk the other day I was like you had sent me a picture and I was showing it to Ella and she's like freaking out.
00:42:05
Speaker
And and like ah Kim was like what like, what are you guys looking at And she's like, it's Truett, mom.
00:42:13
Speaker
Greg Greg's going to have some competition for the mayor of Athens when Truett's in town. Yes, for sure. Yeah. So, yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to is, you know, just just getting back up there. Because, I mean, i went to – think went to two games last year. and you know, we've got the season tickets and two out of – that's not a lot to get up there. But it's just – it was really hard with them being little. And now that bigger, getting into a better routine, we're going to be up there a lot more. So I'm looking forward to just the whole atmosphere and seeing everybody and being back on campus.
00:42:44
Speaker
So when's when's the first game? Because we all have to like, I mean, screw you. We need to see Truett. I'm thinking the first time we're going bring him is probably going to be Labor Day just because we both have we both have off of school on the following Monday.
Georgia Football Team Insights
00:43:01
Speaker
So Labor Day weekend. And I actually have Tuesday off too. So it's going to be hot. He's not going to really go to the game, but we'll bring him around the tailgate and then he'll probably go with Grandma.
00:43:13
Speaker
And mom, because I don't think mom's going to be very interested in going into the Porch of Hades ah game against, I don't even know who the first game is against. Marshall. that's how Marshall. Yeah. Yeah, she's not going to go to the game. and sure it's not go go But we'll be at the tailgates, I think.
00:43:31
Speaker
Okay. Okay. I, I do. I plan to be there for Marshall. Um, that's I'll, I'll be there for most. I'll be there for most games. Uh, not sure about Austin P. Uh, actually moving an L back into school that week, but, um, generally should be there. We'll look, we'll look forward to that.
00:43:48
Speaker
Get to meet the true man. I think we've, I think j JP is frozen again. Internet issues.
00:43:54
Speaker
that's checking well but ah I don't know. I, I guess I, I feel like, you know, we can know, feel a little bit better about the run game with that offensive line, considering John, that you were paired up with drew Bobo in your, in your foursome. So like, I feel like, you know, as far as omens go,
00:44:10
Speaker
I feel like we've got some pretty good omens going the good omen. It's a good omen. um I can tell you it's ah yeah, the the players are, are very excited. The offensive line is very excited to, ah to prove a point this year. I, I don't think any of them will attribute, would attribute anything that happened last year to coaching of the offensive line for what's where I'll just say that.
00:44:31
Speaker
yeah I think it was definitely um a little bit of a a personnel issue and a little bit of, um you know, it's just, it's ah at some point when you're running backs, I just looked, it was funny going into the Tennessee game. We had um Trevor Etienne, Branson Robinson, Roderick Robinson, and Cass Jones all on the injury report.
00:44:54
Speaker
um So, I mean, when you literally, it's like, it's Nate Frazier and then, Freshman, right? So it's Chauncey Bowens and Dwight Phillips Jr. is like i mean And so um I think last year there was there was a lot that was attributed to just literally like trying to protect the health at running back um that caused them to have to do things that you know they probably wouldn't have otherwise um had to do and so i think um for my conversations i just think vibes are high i think uh i think this team um is very much uh looking forward to proving a point um of running the football and hopefully we'll we'll have a little bit better luck with help in that running back room this year is there a newcomer that we should be excited about in the running back room i guess who of the newcomers maybe should we be watching for most
00:45:45
Speaker
I like – I mean, i' i like – we'll see. He's not a newcomer because he's he's he's been around a little bit. But like Dwight Phillips Jr., I'm excited to see how Georgia uses him.
00:45:56
Speaker
um But that kid from Illinois, jo Josh McRae, probably Illinois probably was going to be you know running back one or two at Illinois depending on how they rotate running backs. But that guy – that guy is going to be very good. He's kind of, he'll be like a little bit of that one-two punch with Nate Frazier and Roderick Robinson as long as he stays healthy. It's like that's a three-headed monster. So ah Dwight Phillips Jr. is a sleeper pick. Josh McRae, I mean, he's, you know,
00:46:26
Speaker
He was a late transfer. he didn't He missed spring, so that's a big deal when it's pass protection and all that stuff when comes to run back. But yeah that guy's going to really, really good. yeah what about MVP of their bowl game, right? Villanois bowl game.
00:46:39
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, really good. What about Bo Walker, who I've heard is being described as cannonball that nobody can tackle? Yeah, i like I like Bo a lot.
00:46:50
Speaker
um Yeah. He's got a great name. Great name. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I, you know, I think I, yeah, yeah. I, um, I don't, I don't, yeah, I don't, I'm not poor. um I'm not poor mouth than anybody, not poor mouth than anybody.
00:47:06
Speaker
Uh, but you know, I'm hearing a lot of similar, i was very excited about Branson Robinson. I'll say that Branson Robinson was going to the guy that nobody could tackle. Um, so for me, it's, it's like, all right, cool.
00:47:16
Speaker
Yeah. Awesome. Let's, uh, let's get them on the field and and see what we can actually do. Uh, there's a lot of times in practice, um, depending on personnel groups. Like when you say nobody can tackle, well, are we talking twos, threes? Like who's who's tackling him?
00:47:32
Speaker
um Because he is a literally a true freshman. So I doubt he's out there getting run with the ones. um So, yeah. But I really like Bo Walker a lot. It would be nice to see two kids from Raven County knocking knockin heads because that's where Bo Walker is from Raven County as well.
00:47:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I guess. So earlier we were kind of talking through like the what was i don't know about like what went wrong, if that's read the right way to say it. But, you know, we talked about quarterback. We talked about the the running game, but then also just on the the defense, JP, you brought up, you know, it it wasn't the nothing's probably ever going to be the 21 defense again. But yeah.
00:48:12
Speaker
What about, what about on the defensive side of the ball? You know, like i said, Kirby kind of opened up with this, Oh, like we had so much depth last year and they were so, I said so much experience last year compared to this year. We're losing lot experience, et cetera, et cetera.
00:48:24
Speaker
um What are we, don't know. I guess how, how are we feeling on the defense being able to, don't say turn it around, but improve upon last year's showing, I guess what needs to happen for that to be true I would love to hear from Hunter and JP on this, but I want to say one thing real quick, Jim, Kirby,
00:48:42
Speaker
He's he did say 54 percent or two year second year players are younger, you know, all this stuff. Yeah. In August of 2024, Kirby Smart said we had the least amount of depth of players who are ready to play winning football than we potentially than we've had since I've been here.
00:49:01
Speaker
Yeah. yeah i mean, that was a direct quote. Yeah. The least amount of depth of players ready ah that that can play that are ready to play or capable of playing winning football.
00:49:12
Speaker
yeah um So he he was talking about depth issues last year, too, um for what it's worth. Fair enough. but yeah Yeah, JP, like what do you what do you think about the defense? like Hunter, what do you think about the defense? what it what do you I'll say this, and I feel like I'm trying to think back on last year, and I kind of just feel like a fever dream, to be honest with you.
00:49:31
Speaker
um But I feel like when things weren't going well defensively, i kept saying myself, we can't cover anybody. Like we can't stop the Pat. Like when we know it's coming and they're going line up and they're going to throw it, it was like they would get it every time. I feel like I found myself thinking that a lot.
00:49:48
Speaker
So I'd like to see, you know, Kirby smarts kind of like cornerstone defensive backs. Right. um It's always been something that we've always had that big guy out there, the big, hitter, the guy that could cover everybody.
00:50:01
Speaker
We just didn't have that last year either. um People were getting first downs on us in obvious situations and was just like we couldn't stop it. Yeah, but it's a that's a fair assessment. I was going to say, for what it's worth, I'm looking at the depth chart here and I'm looking at the secondary. I feel like this is probably one of the strongest secondaries that we've had in the last couple of years in terms of just overall talent that's out there.
00:50:31
Speaker
I mean, you talk about, we got Ellis Robinson, KG Bolden, Dillon Everett, Daniel Harris, you know, Aguero, who's been, feel like he's been on the cusp here for a couple of seasons now. He's had some injury issues, but like, you know, you look at some of those, some of that secondary. And I think that I feel pretty confident about that.
00:50:50
Speaker
I see guys along the defensive line that, you know, Christian Miller obviously is going to be earmarked to have a good year. Jordan Hall, you've got Jordan Thomas, Elijah Griffin, you've got Jordan Thomas, Xavier McLeod like all those guys are hopefully going to be i'm I'm curious to see what we've got behind some of those guys that have been kind of you know Warren Brinson and those guys that were kind of have been around for what seemed like 10 years on the defensive line and so now we're going to have some fresh some fresh meat and some young meat along the defensive line that maybe is going to
00:51:22
Speaker
you know, make a run for it. Yeah. CJ Allen on on linebacker. i think the biggest question for me is, is probably going to be on the linebacking side of things, which is kind of wild to say, but the the linebackers, I think are, are questions for me, John. I mean, you, you probably know a little bit more about that than I do, but,
00:51:44
Speaker
um I'm looking at the depth chart and I'm not seeing a whole lot that sticks out to me when I'm looking at some of these names other than maybe a handful. Well, you've got um you've got two, three, think you have three linebackers in that room that were the number one rated linebacker in like country and the in their recruiting class. Right.
00:52:06
Speaker
um yeah Yeah, Chris. Yeah, but it's but it's you know, it is um it is a matter of, you know, obviously, like, what can they actually do? I will say this. um Good call on the linebacker, JP, because I I think the line this linebacking core has so much talent is one of the most talented rooms in the country.
00:52:25
Speaker
But anytime you see Kirby Smart and Glenn Schumann go out and get a starting linebacker from the portal with Elo Madozi, that guy who was a freaking one-man wrecking crew at Army, um anytime you see them go out and get a guy like that – kind of bolster a group, you're like, okay, he's going to be more, you know, probably more like, like an outside, you know, kind of linebacker um ah position. But ah that to me was like a big signal, like,
00:52:58
Speaker
Yeah, there's there's some a lot of talent, um but they need some experience. And so they went out and got that guy. But um I think, I mean, the names for me to watch on linebacker, I think the guy from Elo Mendoza, i think is going to be great from Army.
00:53:10
Speaker
um I think Quintavious Johnson is going to be a freaking stud. um Chris Cole and Justin Williams as well are studs. It's just a matter of, you know. um it's it's just going to be a matter of rotation, right? So you have enough talent.
00:53:24
Speaker
Do you have enough experience? Can you rotate those guys in and out? Kind of like a little bit of what you did in 2021 with Quay Walker and Channing Tindall and N'Kobe Dean and those guys when you would see sometimes just like all three of on the field. Sometimes you see one of them and they're with a couple of other younger guys.
00:53:41
Speaker
But I don't think – I think this defense is going to be one of the stronger ones in the last couple of years. ah It's not going to be 2021, but I think it has a chance to be – I think this defense has a chance to be the best Georgia defense since 2021, including 2022.
00:53:57
Speaker
um so including twenty twenty two let's Let's talk about the, we talked about the talent that's on the squad. John, you tweeted out something recently. i think it was you talking about like the blue chip ratio for the squad. And it's actually the deepest, like the deepest blue trip blue chip ratio that Kirby has ever had at the university of Georgia.
00:54:17
Speaker
Yep. Yeah. um And, and, you know, Georgia, it's funny. Cause like people were, people were talking about Georgia, like Georgia Kirby and Curry mentioned it. Kirby mentioned it right. It's like,
00:54:28
Speaker
Georgia lost there. The 54% of these guys are second year or less. But Georgia has the third highest blue chip ratio, which is, you know, the, the ratio of, or compared to the rest of your, your, your entire team.
00:54:45
Speaker
um Only behind Alabama and Ohio State, 84%. 84% of this roster were four or five-star recruits per 24-7 recruiting rankings. um And so, you know Texas, if you look at the SEC, Alabama's 89%.
00:55:00
Speaker
Georgia, 84%, Texas A&M, 82%. Then you have Texas, 78%, LSU, 73%. I mean, it's, you know, um Florida, 64%, Auburn, 64%, Tennessee, 54%.
00:55:13
Speaker
I mean, you you start looking compared to some of these teams. I mean, the talent is absolutely there. And the the thing that's interesting is um the positional blue chip ratio is what I always like to look at. Cause like blue chip, it's like, okay, well, yeah, that's fine. But Georgia's linebacker room, they're all going to be four and five stars.
00:55:32
Speaker
Like they're all, you know, it's like, so you're going like eight players that are all four and five stars, basically. Um, And that's literally the case. Georgia, the linebacker position on Georgia's football team 100% blue chips.
00:55:44
Speaker
um But also the edge position on Georgia's team, 100% blue chips. The cornerback position on Georgia's team, 100% blue chips. The defensive line, 80% blue chips.
00:55:55
Speaker
So the talent is all there. The offense, what's going to be interesting is ah the interior offensive line, 57% blue chips at Georgia. So that...
00:56:06
Speaker
you know, guard, center guard. That does not spark joy. Yeah, but I mean, offensive tackle, 82%. You know, tight ends, 83%. you know um ti ends eighty three percent Running back, I mean, But when you look at it, it's like that's the lowest blue chip ratio on the entire Georgia team is interior offensive line.
00:56:24
Speaker
so Interesting. Yeah. So I guess that I'll touch on – we've got a little bit of negative negativity. I'll tell you one thing, one position a group that is like – Jim, like slap me. i don't know if this is the first time I've ever said this. like I'm really excited about the wide receivers.
00:56:43
Speaker
Wow. Yeah.
00:56:46
Speaker
So we've got we've got some transfers that are that are incoming. We've got some guys that have been around for a while. Do we know what's going on with with Colby Young? like Do we know what the situation is there with him?
00:56:58
Speaker
No, because it was like the he's cleared, but not, but the wording was off, right? Well, he wasn't like he's cleared to play. Yeah. Yeah. I think, um I think that's a Kirby's a hundred at this point. I think it's, it's a hundred percent um athletic department and Kirby smart decision.
00:57:16
Speaker
I think legally, I think the case was dismissed or whatever. And so it's just a matter of like, you know Kirby's not going to come out and say he's clear to play. Kirby's come out and say he is playing. um My guess, if I had to guess, he'll probably serve some kind of suspension and he'll be Georgia.
00:57:31
Speaker
He'll be back at some point. You got you got that Colby Young. You got Dylan Bell. We got Zachariah Branch coming from USC. um me We got Sokovi White, London Humphries. who we've We've seen the talent there on some of those guys. we've We've seen flashes. I'm excited to see what they can put together.
00:57:50
Speaker
And then you got the the true freshman, which I guess that one one name that is kind of lightened it up for me that Terrence Edwards ah tweeted out about was CJ Wiley making an impact next year, which kind of like, oh, okay. Yeah.
00:58:06
Speaker
if we've got a we've If we've got a true freshman wide receiver that's going to make an impact next year like that, I'll take that all day long. Yeah. Well, and then we've got the... the And then we've got the tight ends. And we've got the other Bell, Jeremy Bell, looked good in the spring game. i don't that means, but the triple threat of Bell's on the offense. Yeah. We'll see.
00:58:23
Speaker
Well, for I think for whom the bells toll. Yeah, I think, you know, folks are folks are talking about um a lot of these, you know, Noah Thomas, six, six to 10 Zachary branch, you know, and and a lot of these guys, but go back and listen to Kirby smart after spring.
00:58:40
Speaker
And the guy he was praising was London Humphreys. saying he was way beyond expectations. ah He said stuff like when he came, he wanted to be developed. He wanted to learn this ah offense. He understands that he can play multiple positions. Like he was raving about London Humphreys. So again, I think this, this wide receiver room is very talented.
00:59:00
Speaker
Um, I will say per players that I've had conversations with um it's almost unanimous. They felt like Colby young was probably the best wide receiver on this team last year and him losing him um after um losing him to suspension for, you know, basically after four games for the rest of the season was a big, big blow to that room. um But if you can get, if, if Jordan gets him back, you know if they don't, but let's just say they get him back. I mean,
00:59:31
Speaker
If you can put a 230 guy like Colby Young, line him up out there and then line 6'6", 210 Noah Thomas. And then London Humphries is a freaking burner.
00:59:46
Speaker
Zachary Branch is a freaking burner. um You've got you know Oscar Delp. I mean you just start creating – you you start creating a lot of problems for a defense if you can get those guys. And those are just the guys.
00:59:59
Speaker
you know just guys Then you have Dylan Bell that you can line up at multiple positions. Then you got Nate Frazier that can catch it out of the backfield and run with it. I mean – you start creating a lot of problems. So that wide receiver room is very, very good.
01:00:12
Speaker
And we haven't even talked about that our specialists had a clean sweep of the, ah what, like SEC, all SEC first team, right? Immediate days, I believe. so ah which So like serious question, Brett Thorson,
Recruitment and High School Football
01:00:24
Speaker
like good to go. Do we do we know anything?
01:00:26
Speaker
He's ready? he's ready Yeah, he's good. Yeah. Okay. Need the thunder from down under. Sorry. The booming onion. We need him back. Texas fans. Texas fans are punching air oh my gosh when you talk about special teams because every all they mention every time you show them a Georgia SC championship ring, they mention their field goal kicker missing field goals.
01:00:47
Speaker
Would have won if our kicker had missed field. Well, you don't have a clean sweep of the first team, all SEC special teams. That's right. hey they blew all their They blew all their Lamborghini money on on other players.
01:01:00
Speaker
They didn't have enough. They didn't have enough to buy a good kicker. the the right The regular season game was on SEC network last night and there wasn't really much on TV. I threw the game on, ah had it on and like Lily walked into the room and she looked at the TV. she goes, oh, cool.
01:01:16
Speaker
This is from the first time we beat them last year. i was like, yes. Hunter down there on the Gulf. what So I know it's Ole Miss and LSU, but, you know, and and obviously Ole Miss and Mississippi State. But does Texas ever, like, ever get brought up in conversation?
01:01:32
Speaker
Nobody cares. No, mean, everybody just kind of hates them. Yeah. but That's the extent of there. Well, that um that's here too. for what Yeah. i mean, LSU, we're pretty inundated with LSU fans here where we're at more. I'd say that's the majority.
01:01:49
Speaker
And, and it's a border state for LSU and they, they really don't like them. So, so let's, let's, let's, let's maybe pivot a little bit and talk about like sec type preview your, your opinions. Cause I'm curious, particularly from from you Hunter being down there, like it feels, does anybody else feel like the vibes are incredibly high for LSU right now?
01:02:12
Speaker
Cause I feel like I keep seeing LSU mentioned in the top three, four teams in the SEC. And i' i'm I'm just looking at everything like, why? don't feel I'm not feeling it.
01:02:25
Speaker
I don't know as far as on-field stuff, but I can tell you this. Where I live specifically in Ocean Springs, the vibes are very high around hire that LSU just made.
01:02:36
Speaker
ah Kelvin Bolden from Ole Miss. He's an Ocean Springs alum. And, you know, he's he's pretty good friend and he he's going to be a difference maker recruiting for LSU. and But you saw like immediately after his hire, they won a couple big time recruiting battles and he was kind of Lane Kiffin's ace in the hole of an Oxford.
01:03:00
Speaker
um So vibes are high here specifically because there's a lot of LSU fans and now they've got their hometown guy. Who's going to be, i think he's going to be the assistant general manager is what his title is. It's kind something they're going to get.
01:03:15
Speaker
So he's just kind of going to have his hands in everything. he's he' a good guy. and He knows what he's doing. so Yeah, all the titles are getting so weird.
01:03:26
Speaker
Get off my lawn moment with the general managers for freaking college football. It is wild. I'll tell you what, it's not going back. Might as well embrace it. Well, it's like the SEC shorts that came out today was pretty that's pretty good.
01:03:40
Speaker
yeah the I'm curious. i mean I mean, Georgia, you know, I think Georgia, the way that Georgia operates is different. Kirby, you know, intentionally like Georgia has, I'll say this, Georgia has role that is a similar role to a general manager.
01:03:57
Speaker
and assistant general manager, and you know but Kirby, he's not going to call it that or structure it that way because of the way that he is kind of the ah Bill Belichick when he was when Belichick was the head coach and whatever president of football operations.
01:04:12
Speaker
It's like... in New England that's kind of the Kirby smart model um but it's yeah but general managers I mean Georgia Georgia runs i mean all these people calling them general managers Georgia runs a similar playbook they just don't call it a general manager but that's That is coming, especially now with revenue share, with n NIL um deals being subjected to approval ah through this portal and all this stuff or this you know a platform that Deloitte has created, the College Sports Commission and all this stuff.
01:04:45
Speaker
like You're going to have to have somebody that is like vetting those, reviewing those, managing budgets and all that stuff to like actually like just that part of it. um And so you're going to see...
01:04:56
Speaker
you know, a general manager type um just, you know, cause you're having contracts and all that other stuff that's coming too. Yeah. I mean the college sports commission has already sent out the a letter to budget schools is basically saying like, Hey, like, no, you can't do, you can't operate that way. So like yeah the whole like collect, like you, it has to be a, an actual, like a, an NIL deal where the player is providing some sort of business value back to the the business.
01:05:22
Speaker
So I was just going to say that are going to get denied. That's what they're saying. I was just about to say, I'm looking forward to the first lawsuit that's going to bring in all this discovery, that's going to bring in all of the process that Deloitte is using to deny these things or or to approve them.
01:05:39
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. go have clear We're going to have clearinghouse scandals in the future. I mean, you hope it goes that way. I think discovery could absolutely go the other way. Discovery could go the other way where it's like, yeah, they're like, no, we looked at There was no, where's the business value? And then they go and like dig it up. It's like, oh this guy actually just was just going to write a for nothing. Yeah. And I don't, I don't want to get us totally off the rails here, but it's kind of related. It's something I actually, just, I encountered it today.
01:06:08
Speaker
like I was talking to some of my new coaches today about it because we all saw it on social media one of the local high schools down here was like it's kind of a thing at the beginning of the year they're like posting their new coaches or and some of their old coaches and they're what they're going to be coaching or whatever and one of the high schools that I won't name posted on their Twitter Facebook that they hired a recruiting coordinator not not a recruiting coordinator to help recruiting college like they're recruiting to come to their high school coordinator and they had to delete it and take it down and and then they put it back up the same guy they like put running back assistant running back code or something like that
01:06:52
Speaker
it was the internal memo that got posted Brother, let me tell you about Georgia high school football. Let me tell you about Buford. Let me tell you about Grayson. Let me tell you about Gainesville now. with that that They hired the guy who was the the successor to to Rush Probst down in Hoover. um Hired him in Gainesville, and he comes up there and starts raising all this money, and all sudden all these kids are moving into the district. mean – And Georgia now has implemented some transfer policy for high schools, for high school sports, basically saying like, essentially you have to have some kind of approval um or so it has to be like vetted if you transfer into a district.
01:07:36
Speaker
Yeah. you have to have you know some some some process but or they will or you'll be ineligible to play for that year you got to sit out of here yeah we have the same thing in mississippi yeah because you can't move anymore like oh i don't i live with my grandma in the other town like that doesn't work anymore yep because you've had so many of these schools um and uh and it's interesting because like I mean, why not? Like if you're, I mean, have y'all seen this?
01:08:04
Speaker
This is totally off the rails, but the the stadium, like Buford High School just built a college football stadium in the state of Georgia. And I know they have them in Texas high school football. I know, you know, it's different, but I mean, they just gazillion dollars on basically a college football stadium. And you have guys like, you know, Dylan Rayola is was a good example. Yeah.
01:08:24
Speaker
and moved from Arizona to move to Georgia, but he didn't move. He moved to Buford High School. It's like, okay, yeah, you transferred from out of state to come play at Buford.
01:08:36
Speaker
And I don't want to get like crazy with this because y'all don't know a whole lot about the education thing. You don't work in it like I do, but it it's kind of, you're seeing right now high schools are going with that Alabama model when they hired Nick Saban.
01:08:50
Speaker
Like football brings in kids and like it's a scary time in education when you're talking especially if you're like a smaller district where you're talking about having to consolidate maybe merge smaller districts because enrollment's going to go down people are people are trying especially this current presidential administration is all about having school choice and stuff like that like you're getting to a point where public education is going to be influenced by, you know, sports. Do you have a good football team? I want to go to that school.
01:09:25
Speaker
I want to move there and and go
New Rules and Game Strategies
01:09:27
Speaker
to that school. it's It's kind of that same blueprint that yeah Alabama went with when they hired Nick Saban and then their out-of-state enrollment like quadrupled or whatever and people just started wanting to go there because of football, but for academics.
01:09:42
Speaker
And you're seeing that a lot around here now yeah speaking of speaking of get off my lawn moments what's going on with the rules yeah so the that rules so there's like a the the rules changes the defensive line the defensive line that is the most egregious one so there's like it well there's like a so there's like a delay of game if they can't shift Well, so, but now there's some kind of clarification. You can shift. So you can shift. You can shift. So there's this thing. So you've seen it under Kirby smart for years called stimming.
01:10:17
Speaker
And it's basically where a defensive line, let's say you line up in, um you know, would say instead of gaps, I would say like left, you line up on the left shoulder of the tackle and then they'll shift to like the right shoulder. And what they're doing is they're just moving into different gaps and giving a defensive front.
01:10:35
Speaker
Kirby Smart, you see it do it all time. um And what's happened is with the stemming, you've seen false starts go up. And part of the reason that you've seen false starts go up is because it's it's it's tricky, but you'll see like, let's say there four defensive linemen, you'll see three of them move and stem.
01:10:54
Speaker
The fourth one will flinch like he's going to move, but he doesn't move. And what the what the officials have said is that fourth guy who's flinching when they do it in unison. So it's like coordinated. So when the defenders all shift, this guy just kind of like does this like he's going to shift, but he doesn't.
01:11:10
Speaker
And that's been drawing a lot of false starts, those types of movements. So what they've said is that. If you do that, if you if it's if it's deemed pre-snap action that's abrupt and coordinated, so meaning three guys shift, it's three guys stem, and one guy doesn't, but that guy flinches.
01:11:30
Speaker
If the offensive line jumps off and fault starts, then that will now be a penalty, could be deemed a penalty on the defense because it's abrupt coordinated movement. And um so clarifying, clarifying question.
01:11:45
Speaker
So if the three guys shift and the the fourth guy stays still, but somebody else jumps off sides, they're not going to call that penalty. Is that what that's what's tricky, right? Is like technically under the rule, that would not be a penalty.
01:12:01
Speaker
But if the referee deems that the movement was pre-snap action, not not stemming or or not a shift, if if they did something else that he deemed was as part of, let's say, don't know, let's say they kind of you know move their shoulders before they lift their hand or something. I mean, it could be, it's very subjective. That's the issue. And Kirby Smart said that. He's like, you're going to have to define what abrupt like movement is Yeah, you lost me where you said referee deans. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the issue. The issue is, it is, it is there. and There's no real clarification that there's no, they've shown a couple of like video examples, but there's no real like, this is the definition of, of abrupt movement or coordinated pre-snap action. So.
01:12:44
Speaker
Um, it's going to be a problem because like, it's going to be subjective at times. There's going to be a situation where maybe a guy lines up and he just like, you know, goes literally just goes to shift. My issue with all of this, you guys remember, I mean, there was a time in football,
01:12:59
Speaker
where you could do a hard count, right? And a defender could like, in some cases, even like jump, you know, there's like the neutral zone, right? Like you could even like jump, you know, but if the offensive line didn't move and you like snap the ball, like offensive line where they were taught to not move, no matter what the defense does, you don't move.
01:13:16
Speaker
Yeah, because, you know, the snap count. And so the offensive line already has an advantage. They know the snap count. So that's one advantage. The offense can also go in motion themselves. Right. So you can do so. So there's all there's movement over there.
01:13:29
Speaker
They have an advantage. um And now you're saying, like, if the quarterback comes up and let's say a quarterback does a hard count. Right. And let's say the hard count, let's say a defender.
01:13:40
Speaker
is down on one hand in his stance, and the defender flinches during the hard count. In the offensive lineman, if he jumps off, is that on – the guy flinched because they were a hard count, but is that now a defensive penalty?
01:13:54
Speaker
Yeah. Because you see that all the time with hard counts. You see guys that kind of flinch, right, because it's like quarterbacks like intentionally trying to draw them off. Well, if he does that in offensive line moves, is that now a loophole that says – Hey, if they flinch, just jump off because then it's going to be abrupt movement on the defense and that'll get us a first down.
01:14:12
Speaker
That's what I've been worried about. we're talking about unintended gray area where that's let's take advantage of it yeah that's a like lane kiffin would is going to kill that right like lincoln is going to say go hard count he's going to be he's going to say he's going to say go hard count if they flinch jump off like fire off in your in your stance because then he'll say nope that was pre-snap coordinated movement on the defense You know, that's the gray area for me. And that's, um that's why I think it's just ridiculous because the ah offense already has all the advantages, you know, that, you know, zap count, you can go in motion, you know, everything.
01:14:46
Speaker
And now you're also saying, yeah, yeah that tells the press, he's going to do it like this, the Monday before they play Georgia, like I'm going to do it against Georgia. I'm going to tell them that he's going to be that guy, like stirring the pot.
01:15:00
Speaker
Is it reviewable? I have no idea. I would guess no. I would guess not. Yeah, typically fault starts and um and offsides and stuff of that are not reviewable.
01:15:10
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. ah my My issue with it is like the stemming is one part of it, but then there's another element that's like the linebackers coming up to to blitz.
01:15:22
Speaker
Yeah. is that that that's also something that's been in the game for forever as well. Like, are you going to see that could become part of this? Cause like, I think one of the video examples was like a combo. Like they had the, the stemming on the, I think was either against Texas or Tennessee. I can't remember which one, but they they were the linebackers came up as the stem was happening and it created an overwhelming like presence on the, on the offensive line that was very clearly like drawn up that way. And, Like that's the kind of stuff that I want to see you like stick around for sure and not be impacted by the stupid role.
01:15:56
Speaker
Yeah. And my guess is,
SEC Championship and Playoff Implications
01:15:57
Speaker
you know, that's a good example of like something that could very well be if the, if the, if the stem happens, the linebackers come up at the same time or safety comes in the ball the way, all the way to the line of scrimmage and like stops and the offensive lineman jumps off ah for a false start, then that could now be a defensive penalty.
01:16:13
Speaker
Yeah. yeah So we'll see. what other What other get off my lawn things should we be looking at, Jim? you're usually the one that is keeping me abreast of these rule changes.
01:16:24
Speaker
Yeah, that that actually was the one that I wanted to bring up. um my My question is like year two of this divisionless SEC. Last year, the offseason talk that we kept having was like, man, does it is it better to finish third?
01:16:38
Speaker
You know, is is third the spot you want to be in? And so now we've we've seen it play out. what do you guys What do you guys think now? do you Are you like doubling down now? like Who won the national championship? Yeah.
01:16:49
Speaker
I know. Where did they finish in their conference? Yeah. Yeah. I, I, like totally devastated. Who played in, played in SEC, the two, the two, the two comp made, you know, big 10 and SC champion, the major power conferences, yeah you know, my opinion were first round exits, Oregon and Georgia.
01:17:08
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. I mean, and Arizona state was even, you know, it's like Arizona state was the first round exit. um You know, it's like, uh, and Boise state too. I mean, I guess, you know, whatever, but like the, the teams that want, you know, that played in that game, I guess Texas is is the exception, but like, well, but even then they didn't make the championship game.
01:17:28
Speaker
Yeah, and they and they went had to go to overtime to beat Arizona State. It's like you did – like, yeah there was nothing that showed me that there's a benefit to playing in the SEC Championship game last year. Josh is listening to this right now. He's like, um are you not entertained?
01:17:42
Speaker
Josh, I love you i love you dog stats. But, dude, go watch i mean he'll watch those home playoff games and tell me that it was better for Georgia to play in New Orleans in the Sugar Bowl than versus Notre Dame than playing, you know, ah Clemson or, you know, somebody else in Athens that first weekend.
01:18:01
Speaker
Josh will be the first one to tell you to play college college games on college campuses. Correct. And so you won an SC championship. um But again, in my opinion, it would have been better.
01:18:13
Speaker
It would have been better for Georgia to turn around and play SMU or play Clemson again in Athens and give Gunnar Stockton like that game, a home game in Athens, your environment, et cetera, going into the playoffs, like give that game to go out and, and be his first career start and give, give the team that game to be the, you know, game to like get the wheels in motion for college football playoff. I don't think Georgia was good enough to win the, win the whole thing last year, but i definitely think it hurt more than helped for them to, you know, sit around for a few weeks and then go play in New Orleans.
01:18:50
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, in Notre Dame got Indiana at home. and didn' if If you look at the time – um If you look at the time between – Ohio State is good is the best example.
01:19:04
Speaker
But if you look at the time, if you did not play – first of all, Airway says, well, if you win your Converse, then you get a bye. Every team that didn't play in that game got a bye. Yeah. The weekend of the Converse Championship game.
01:19:15
Speaker
If you didn't play in the Converse Championship game, that was your bye week. Yeah. So you already have a bye. um Number two, if you look at the timeframe between Ohio State's last game – in their first playoff game and Georgia's last, but the SC championship game and the first playoff game, it was like two or three more days.
01:19:34
Speaker
Like you literally got like, yeah, you got to buy, but you but you literally, it was like two or three more days of rest that you got. it wasn't, you know, yeah it's like you're getting an extra two weeks or something. And so it's, um yeah, in my opinion, ah it feels much better to finish third to not play in that It's so weird. or or am I mean, I think Kirby Smart, I think, I mean, it'll be interesting, right?
01:20:01
Speaker
um If this happens again, if Georgia, you know, you can fight your way through the season, you get to that game, what do you do? If you know that you're going to because he said, Kirby Smart said, he ran the fake punt with Drew Bobo, and they asked him about it in the post game.
01:20:17
Speaker
And what was his comment? Do you guys remember? He said, it's easy to call it when you know you're going to be in the playoff either way. Yeah, he says it's a lot easier to call it when you know you're going to be in either way. So when you think about this year and he knows he got his starting quarterback knocked out last year.
01:20:31
Speaker
Do you does that change the way you manage that game? Does that change the personnel that you put on the field? Does that change the way that you approach that game knowing um that you lost your your starting quarterback um in trying to win the the previous one?
01:20:46
Speaker
jp Especially if you're going against somebody already played, I think. that Yeah, especially against Texas. You already beat Texas. You're in the college football playoff either way. and yeah anyway yeah What were you saying, Jim?
01:20:57
Speaker
I was saying you feel vindicated because you were like, we should rest the starters against Texas last December. i was like, you're crazy. I mean, I don't think that we will ever see a world where Kirby doesn't throw the ones out there.
01:21:10
Speaker
However, he should treat it like a G-Day game, but he'll never I don't think that he'll ever do it No, I mean, they'll they're going to change the format before that happens. Yeah, but I will say this year, though, I mean, think about it, guys.
01:21:21
Speaker
Just think about it. If you go into that game and you're, let's say you go into that game and you're you're a little banged up, but you're eleven and one Or, i mean, God, 12-0. And you're probably playing a team, i mean, maybe Alabama or Texas. I mean maybe you might get LSU, I don't know.
01:21:37
Speaker
Somebody else could pop up there. But, like, more than likely, you you'll probably be playing a team that you've already played. Yeah. Texas or Alabama, you know, it's like this, at least this season. Yeah. I mean, you just, you never know, but like, what do you do?
01:21:51
Speaker
you, you're 11 and one, you're 12 and oh, you're, you know, five or six in the country, worst case scenario, you lose that game and you host the playoff game. Like, do you, you know, I mean, I agree with you, Jim. I don't think Kirby's smart. He doesn't think that way because he's a process person, right? So it's like and mentality doing that throws your whole process off.
01:22:10
Speaker
yeah And you
Game Day Atmosphere and Social Aspects
01:22:11
Speaker
see it. You also see it happen in the NFL. I think there's a lot of statistics and data that show, you know, like the teams that rest their starters, you know, i before the playoff weekend, that you know because they're already in. It's like they yeah a lot of them don't have ah much success in the playoff.
01:22:28
Speaker
um Yeah. But. Well, they've also taken actions to try to correct that too. It's a question that will be debated for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. Well, and it also think about all the chaos it took for us to even get to that game last year. Right. I mean, a 10 and two, and then we had that crazy Saturday where like all hell broke loose and we ended up in there.
01:22:46
Speaker
Like, cause it looked like we were going to kind of end up in that third to fourth range. um And we were going to like achieve that. And then some people couldn't handle their business that one. Anyway.
01:22:57
Speaker
Anyway. Okay. now I'm, I'm, I'm with you. I'm with you. I saw like, I saw one of those like projected conference finish things today from somebody and it had Georgia third. And I was like, Oh, I think I'd be okay with that.
01:23:08
Speaker
It's a tough schedule. It's a tough schedule. ah we home Great home schedule. We get a great home schedule. Haven't we've got that home. We've got to protect that home win streak. ah So I'm really excited to see Megan gear.
01:23:21
Speaker
She was wearing a Georgia shirt today. I was like, are you wearing that because I'm going on the podcast? She was like, maybe.
01:23:28
Speaker
We see you. we see you, Meg. Meg the Jones.
01:23:33
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Love it. All right, JP, you got anything else to to round us out? I don't know. We haven't talked about move talked about the Bourbon Social Club, but has anybody had any good and you go to bourbon?
01:23:45
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John, what's what's what's what's new on the block right now, cocktail-wise? um What have I had that's good? um You guys heard of Dark Arts Whiskey House?
01:23:57
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I've seen it. I've seen it too. Yeah, downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It's ah it's a very, oh, there's Carter. um No, Dark Arts is probably the one of the better ones I've had recently.
01:24:10
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um It's, a I guess, a relatively new whisy whiskey project there in Kentucky. Yeah, I like that one. Okay, when I heard, when I couldn't see Carter earlier, I thought Hunter's audio had gotten messed up.
01:24:25
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I heard Carter in Kentucky. Yeah, I like that one. It gives you a real burn when it slides down your throat, you know? there That Kentucky one, you know? I love that Kentucky burn. I don't know where that where did that accent come from. but is this amazing It's I'm talking deep.
01:24:44
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okay It's my Georgia Southern Conference champs. All right, you're you're out of here. Sorry, Carter. and Sorry, Carter, you're gone.
01:24:55
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so ah yeah I don't have anything to do. So does all that? Oh yeah, party wants to Carter wants to make sure that you guys know that he shot an 89 at Cobblestone.
01:25:07
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yeah Sorry, Carter. He missed the golf. He wasn't here for the golf talk. Yeah, he missed the golf talk. That was your earlier, Carter. Keep up. Sorry, Carter. You missed it.
01:25:18
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Cool. Yeah, I think I was kind of perusing the listener questions. Honestly, I think we talked through most of it. Most of it the was a lot of seven and five jokes. I like Fletcher's question. Did you see that? It was like, would you rather ah would you rather have a mild tree nut allergy or a non-celiac gluten sensitivity?
01:25:38
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I don't know how to answer that question. A mild tree nut allergy? A mild tree nut allergy? Or non-celiac gluten sensitivity?
01:25:49
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Kim has that. Kim has the non-celiac gluten sensitivity. was about to say, i actually have that also. but But let's be honest, guys. If you're over a certain age, if you're like into your like pushing your mid 40s, like some of us on the show, you have a non celiac gluten sensitivity anyway. Like and you probably are pushing a mild tree nut allergy to like I think like you reach a certain age and it's like, OK, all the stuff I made fun of or whatever I've actually I'm experiencing right now.
01:26:19
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And sometimes you can just manage it with, you know, with Allegra and Tums, but sometimes it's right, well, I guess this is who I am now. Yeah. So, yeah, so I think Fletcher, I think I have them both as well. um If I had to pick, though, i I think I would, it would definitely be, i would go with the gluten situation because I just feel like tree nuts are just so, they're just everywhere.
01:26:45
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It's like, dude, if you have to care about, you know, it's like, oh, this thing was packaged in a facility that with tree nuts. It's like, it's just tree nuts are everywhere. um And also I haven't heard, I mean, I know,
01:26:57
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Could be very wrong, so please don't. I mean, please, I apologize in advance if if this has happened, but I haven't heard of anybody from gluten. It feels like tree nut allergies. It feels like those are the in the in the group that, depending on the severity, they could probably kill you.
01:27:14
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feel like gluten sensitivities are not... At the level of like, oh, if I eat gluten, I could potentially like i die. Die. Right. So.
01:27:25
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Yeah. and I would say tree nuts. Tree nuts treenats would be would be my vote as All right. Well, we can't mention Fletcher and answer his question without saying shout out Asa Newell, our newest Atlanta Hawk.
01:27:37
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Our newest Atlanta Hawk. Hawk.
01:27:42
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the The UGA basketball minute. UGA basketball minute. UGA basketball mention. We get that in a pleasure. Yeah. Cool. All right. Well, what the I was going to say, what what game what game are you guys most excited about from a tailgate perspective?
01:27:59
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Texas or Alabama? Marshall. For the next one. two four hundred a Alabama, but last time there was a late kickoff with a big team like that, things just got weird.
01:28:16
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feel like every time there's a late kickoff like that, things just kind of get weird. so Hey, we've exercised demons with them in the past away from home. We're going to exercise some demons at home.
01:28:30
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I'm going to go a totally different direction. I'm excited for Texas because it's in November. And if you're going to have a night game tailgate, I mean, September.
01:28:41
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I know it's the end of September, but it's so hot, man. Like, it's like... It's like some bad things can happen when you're taking all day. Notre Dame comes to mind when I think about the city that Alabama was going to be. It was hot. I was walking to the stadium and there were people passed out on the ground. Oh, dude.
01:29:04
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Yep. Notre Dame, um I was actually my, I have a cousin that's a good bit younger than me, um was a student at Georgia. And my aunt, we all, they set up a big tailgate with a DJ and all this stuff. And there was legitimately like people were passing out at the tailgate for Notre Dame.
01:29:20
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um So i just I just want some cool weather. So I'm to go to Texas for that reason. That makes sense. My only twist I'll add, and I think Hug Dog was talking about this the other day. uh, Alabama, you do have the Ryder cup going on that weekend as well. So you can have a little Ryder cup at the tailgate. Uh, and it'll be wrapped up for the day, uh, by the time you get the late kickoff. So that will be a good day.
01:29:42
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Well, it depends on who's on that Ryder cup team.
01:29:48
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Cause I don't want to sit there and boo, waste my booze on Patrick Reed all day. um I got to save them for Alabama. I can't be booing Patrick Reed all day. Fair enough.
01:30:04
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Good times. Love to have Keegan Bradley. pick a good team ah good opportunity for Hug Dog to make sure he he doesn't double logo. He can throw some some golf gear in there.
01:30:14
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sure he'll definitely He'll definitely have a Ryder Cup logo on.
01:30:19
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Sweet. Nice. All right, well, boys, always ah always a good time to ah to pull the crew together for a nice off-season episode. and And we got another Ole Miss game again this season, Hunter, so hope to hear from you again well. as well would Well, just remember, boys, get your reps, stay prepared.
01:30:40
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Pressure is a privilege.
01:30:44
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Hey, speaking of the, seems like the the the new, the new slogan is what was it? Fire, passion. And those are passion, fire, and energy or passion fire energy are new you DNA traits. That is not a slogan.
01:30:58
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He has added those to toughness, composure, resilience, passion, fire, a connection, passion, fire, and energy. Okay. Those are added onto the wall. Those are not, ah that's not ah the new, um,
01:31:13
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Assume nothing or better never rest. Yeah, that's literally ah they they added them to the DNA traits. I got say i was looking at your shirt, John. i wanted to say something. Pressure is a privilege is actually my email signature.
01:31:26
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I was emailing some teachers just now. We were on here and it popped up. and These teachers probably think I'm crazy because like I have my email signatures like Hunter Jones, assistant principal. And then at the bottom in like really big letters, it says pressure is a privilege, Kirby Smart.
01:31:41
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I'm like, who is this guy? pressure is ap jones off the top rope yeah amazing good times right boys good times as always jp see us out go dogs go dogs go dogs go dogs