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us five stars. Jump thep with desert gone ahead and give us five anyway and gifted so on today's episode of The Sooner or Later Sports Show presented by insert blank, Me and Coop's got a lot to talk about, like the SEC media days and the media poll came out, plus the all conference teams. We're also gonna dive into a few other topics like you know stuff, and we'll probably wrap things up with can the Sooners make a title run? As well as why the Bluetobe ratio says

we can't cope? Happy Sunday, my man?

busy week. If you didn't check it out, Me and John did a lot of stuff over all lockdown sooner as I got to do some absurdly lucky interview from Richard Johnson from CBS Sports, Jordan Rogers, ESPN, Jim Naggy popped up and I mentioned it in the video of one of the videos. I did other recaps, but I kind of give some of y'all the story. They haven't got to check it out yet. I don't know how it happened, but like I somehow got lucky for him

to pull up. So we're me and John's at the table, So our table's all locked on just podcasts in general. And it's Oklahoma Day and we're me and John's hanging out prepping and waiting for BV to go up there. We had finished our interview with Robert Spears Jennings and so we're like, all right, you know, get stuff together, go downstairs, listen to BV do his intro. Because we did the RSJ interview like an hour before they were actually going out there. Mike how shout out to him.

The guy over at the sid over at ou shout us. He just said, yeah, we're gonna let you interview him. We'll do it early at the closer the holding room. Cool, got that done. Coop went back to the table, chilled, and we'd look up and Jim Naggy's walking around. I'm just like, I didn't realize he was in town, but it makes sense, you know, yeah, SEC media day, so you know, I was like, okay, he came with the

team or whatnot. And so he's walking around. We're our table is right next to uh Jake Crane and the folks from Crane and Co. So we were sitting right next to them, and he's headed over to them to do an interview. As he knows them. And then so John gets up, shakes his hands and just introduce himself. L whatnot introduce us both. He's like, hey, you know, we just want to introduce ourselves. You know, we'll price you around, you know, if you have time, we'd love

to talk with you. If not, no worries. And he's like, I'll come back around. And I'm like, sure you are. Yeah, yeah, appreciate it though. Appreciate that, you know, the niceness, right, the nice gesture and everything. So he says this, and I I'm like, yeah, So you know, I sit around there. He he chit chats with a Thingstoia and uh and I think it was I think it was I think it was Eddie. I can't remember Eddie of Colton Sully somebody. A few people will talk to him. And so he,

you know, he chit chats with him. He's like, yeah, I gotta go do a couple of hits and I'll come back over here. And again, in my mind, I'm like, you ain't coming back over here, all right, So I like, I sit around for a bit. That's not the wait. And I'm like, all right, bv's about to start. I'll give it ten minutes and no, I'll go down there. Because we knew BV was gonna go for a while. It wasn't a situation where we expected BV to not you know, BV. I think he was a little longer,

uh exactly, and you know, I appreciate it. So I was like, all right, I'm gonna go upstairs. So I went downstairs, sat next to John. Got the last ten minutes of BV talk, plus the questions and stuff. So I'm sitting there listening and everything, and then he finishes. They disperse and he's like, we got about ten minutes before the players come into the pods and sit and I'm like, all right, cool, I'm gonna go. I'll go upstairs,

get some stuff and come back. Dog. I go up there, I sit, and one of the other guys out of the whole group of people, he says he's gonna come back to He's sitting right by me doing his interview. I'm like, oh, shoot, he came back. I set up real quick, just in case. As soon as he's done, he walks up to me and he goes to my seat and says, uh, that's where I sit. And I'm like, oh, yes.

You know, it seemed like the the MATERI hype his is starting to reach a national scale, and it's pretty crazy just you know, the amount of people it looked like. You know, there was the there was the arch manning going up to Paul find bomb. That was a pretty funny, uh, pretty funny exchange.

few seconds there. And so a lot of good you know, a lot of good people wanting to kind of learn a little bit more about Jeometerier. I like some of the questions uh, you know went towards our Mason, R.

Didn't seem like there was there was much bulletin board material. The guys were you know, like I said, were trained up pretty well. Uh, but there's a little bit of a you know, cat that eight the Canary type of a situation. And in Matier seems like he wanted to h just wanted to really really say a lot more than he did. It seemed a lot of confidence. People just want to get in here and get get to going.

in a season in twenty twenty three. So we played a lot of young players and in this year was very much similar to that, which you could tell you could tell a lot of the youth was there. You could tell a lot of youth in the way people were playing well at the same time. Yeah, pretty exciting to see that we're able to play young players and

be comfortable with it. I mean, you know, we know how bad last year was, but the fact that you were able to do that with you know that, with a lot of young players and that defense be able to do that, it's a pretty darn good thing. And I did like that BV was you know, pretty complimentary of you know, Jackson and others. Like you said, the other players, it's something similar. I like the fact that they they handled it with a lot of grace. They

didn't have to go out there and take shots. They felt no need to because you know why, Like, what what value do you bring?

then you know, but that defense just you know, continued to show, continue to show, continue to show, and and you know, it's it's it's it's crazy just to look at There was a one point where I think he was talking about the Alabama game and he looked out and there were nine freshmen on the field, and so you know, you look at that and you're just like

woll I mean, that's that's only great experience. And if you can't, I mean, obviously nobody wants to go through a season like we just went through last year, with the injuries and with the the rotations, you know, nine different starting offensive linemen. I don't even know how many different combinations played at one point.

how many of these things? I watched the old Miss game middle of the week, you know, pretty late, and it was crazy how they were talking about with h with their their I think it was wells was doubt and it was just nuts how they were like, you know, how much does it affect your team when you're you know, number one wide receiver goes down and you know, I know you fans were like, I mean, give us a break,

you know, what about what about your top six? And you know there were no wide receivers in that game that you know, I mean, I guess are slected to start at this.

dude is sold on this team. So go ahead and under and believe him when he says this. He's probably the most not only connected but also cautiously optimistic people that I know. He does not gas anything up, but he's been saying get in the water. I'm getting in the water, buddy, I'm in there. But question for you, Coop, this has been asked of be like crazy, and I'm trying to figure this out. It's everyone's asking him and

players about him now calling the defense. He's gonna go do something that he didn't do before, which is be the quote unquote defensive coordinator while so they head coach. While at the same time this isn't the first time this has ever happened. I ask you this, Coop. First off, what side of the ball do you feel like is the most important side of the ball is the offense of the defense.

You know on your own side. So if you if you knock the opposing team's offense off their game plan and you get a chance to set up your offense for they're full, you know on sught of plans, then that's where you're going to run.

the most important side of the ball. And I say that because what you typically see is is that whenever someone gets hired, they're typically most schools, teams NFL on college are typically hiring more of the quote unquote offensive geniuses, the ones that are figuring out how to get past these defenses, which, granted, we're seeing that more and more.

And I think it's funny that a lot of people are saying, oh, you know, you know, even though a lot of people are questioning BB calling the plays on defense when we have do that call the offensive plays all the time, Like I don't understand, Like it's say, oh, he must be failing because he now he needs to call his defense. No, he's really good at it. That's something that he's been very good at in his entire career.

That's similar to why you have your offensive guys. You have, like most recently, Lane Kiffin has given up the play calling duties. I think it's like a year ago he did. But Clark Lee over at Vanderbilt ran his defense last year, but he just gave it up to one of his internal guys. I actually expect BV to do something similar. That's for another conversation. But billion Apier still runs the offenses at Florida. Josh Hipel calls the offense at Tennessee.

Sark calls the offense at Texas, right, Jimbo Fisher when he was there at A and M. It's not a good example, but at the same time, he was calling the plays there, right. But it's fascinating how very common it is on the offensive side of the ball, and no one truly blinks an eye much, but when you hear about a defensive guy doing it, people get like nervous. So it makes me feel like even though teams hire more offensive dudes because they're looking for people to outdo

a defense, they think defense is more important. It's something that requires someone to be fully dedicated to in order to be successful. I thought that's a fascinating concept. As everyone was asking BV about calling the defense this season, and.

choice went away, he was his second choice. And in watching some of the and god bless the folks who put all the games out on YouTube, because I kind of just happened into the eight Texas Tech game and guess who was calling the defense against that high flying, just disruptive team that just came off of a you know, a win versus Texas. It was bren Vinables. Bren Vinables was the defensive coordinator. They absolutely stifled that entire you know, sexist Tech offense that day, and that sets you up.

And so I think that it is you know, we've seen the backside of it where your offense is really good and the defense is just an absolute sieve. And we've now seen what happens when your defense is good and your offense is just, you know, absolutely just stagnant as all can get out. You got to have the complimentary football.

now you've got so many guys across the board. I mean, that's what made Nick Saban, you know, great, as he would go out and he'd get these guys on these reclamation projects and bring him in. They knew how to run stuff, they knew what would happen, and you know, they would let you know, let Saban know, you know, what their thoughts were. And I mean that's the the reclamation project for Steve Sarkisian was getting to Alabama, going in there, getting trusted with that offense, calling a good

offense to go with a good defense. So you have to have to if you have any type of if you have any type of you know, hope that you're going to go out and do the things that you know this team has, you know, plans for You got to have, you know, a respectable offense and a respectable defense.

to twenty, and then lost to Oklahoma right afterwards. And the funny thing about that is is when you look at their entire breakdown on the season, they scored at minimum thirty five points in every single game except for against Oklahoma.

But you know, ben Arbuckle was a guy who was going somewhere big this season, and that was you know, there was talks in that, you know early that was one of the I you know, I don't know for sure if our Buckle was number one or number two, but he sure as hell wasn't number fifth option. And a lot of the reason why is you wanted to bring somebody who was going to be able to bring

some continuation. And then you know, that's one of the things that John Matier talked about this weekend was you know, he didn't have to come in to learn a new offense like he was going to have to come in and learn a new offense if he went to a North Carolina or if he went somewhere else. But having that continuation with our buckle having that continuation, and I only even I hate trying to even say his name, the quarterback coach.

frustrated because the offense was actually clicking. And so when your offense comes in, you know, that's only going to make the defense even better, because I mean the defense, I mean, you got to give it up to them last year for doing as well as they did going up against i mean, almost nothing all season long in practice, and so they they're their best. Their best I guess practice came on Saturdays. And so you've got you've got Drumetier, who is still.

The timeouts need to be a little bit smarter and all of that. But as it was mentioned in the comments section, Kevin Wilson's most likely your offensive head coach since you can have analysts on the field now and actually let them participate. That was one of the rules that changed when all of the nil stuff went down.

And so if Kevin Wilson's working with our buckle on making sure that the offense is flowing not only properly, but also make sure that timeouts are called properly and that focus is there so BV can do all the defense stuff while still being the CEO. Some coaches are heading back into that. Like I said, Clark Lee, he just recently promoted one of his defensive assistants up to DC now after he ran it last year, and you

saw how good Vanderbilt was. That was a massive turnaround because not only was the offense solid, the defense was really solid a Israel as well, getting Diego Pavia and his coach and Tim Beck. He didn't have to he let Beck do his thing and now he can CEO it and really help with making sure everything's organized. So that was a smart move on his part, which I

think Vanderbilt's gonna probably be a sleeper. We'll do a sec preview of who we think is gonna be where later, but let's talk some of the player comments or whatnot. Thank you out for pulling up hit the like butt new to the channel, subscribe rate review, give us five insert ad here in the future when the season starts. But cool so of course, materials the talk of the town.

But I really liked the Robert Spears Jennings quote that we saw from him when they asked him about the schedule, and he said when he said this, I was a little shocked hearing it because it was at the pods or whatnot, and they asked him basically, first off, what they're doing, and he said this to me and John, Well, their focus on defense is being better communicating. Didn't feel like it was up to snuff last year, but that's their focus because a quiet defense is a dead defense.

That was quote number one. I love that of them. So he said those, So this year we're emphasizing communication. But the second one though, they asked him about the toughness of the schedule, and he was like, I don't see it as tough. I see him as money games. Scouts are gonna be their agents are gonna be there, everybody's be watching those are the games is gonna be on TV. People will be paying attention to So this is an opportunity instead, So you look at this as

more of an opportunity than anything. And when he said that, I was like, oh my gosh it dude gets it. And he's becoming one of the vocal leaders there. What you think about RSJ and his rounds?

go from Baker to Kyler, that's two different leaderships. And then going right over to Hurtz, that's a different, you know, set of leadership. You know, you and a Ratler and that's completely different. Caleb Williams completely different.

things that he continues to do. You know, in watching some of these games over again, you know, there there's times to where you know, you see you see somebody slide out and then all of a sudden RSJ comes down and makes it play and you're like, I forget about him all the time. And so he's he's got the production there, he's got obviously the skill set is phenomenal, and when you have the defense that this team is

going to have. It allows you just to play within yourself, do what you're going to do, and he's going to be able to you know, focus in on what he's doing, focusing on his play. But then also you know, get in and it's not just being loud and being vocal and you know, ra on everybody up. Sometimes it's picking somebody up. Sometimes it's grabbing somebody and saying, hey, don't you know let that let that one go, like we need you now here. And those are the things that

people are going to be paying attention to. On your comments about him saying this schedule is just money games, I mean, yeah, you look at it as an opportunity and if the goal is gets the league, then you want to put up good film against good teams, and it's going to be you know, much better than you know throwing out you know, I saw a stat you know about a specific you know, X conference of ours and there were two national championships, both in like the nineties.

I think that was the last. There's only two national championships in the history of that conference.

this side of the ball. It's more than that every single week, you know, when you have the schedule that we have, because you know you're looking at some of the top draft picks a week in, a week out, who are going to be in the NFL Draft of this coming April, are going to be coming from those games. You know, when you're lining up against a Texas, when you're lining up against an old Miss and LSU, those things are going to happen.

was like, Okay, you get it. You understand the things that you need to do to help with that. You finished with nine sacks last season, and that's pretty darn that's a lot. You know, six of those coming in SEC play, so you didn't you know stat pad and uh, you know in non con which a lot of teams you know and players do you got yours in actual SEC plays when you get the bulk of your stuff.

So for him, that's pretty big. I actually liked that, and he talked of course, they both talked about Jeob Materion. We'll talk about him next. What you think about our Mason? Anything jump out to you for him?

you know, adding a few lbs. Want to be better at setting the run, you know, because he caused all kinds of havoc. And you know, I would say that last year didn't get in you know, an exceptional an exceptional amount of help from the other side. You know, the middle of the defense was really really good, but the edge part, you know, it was our mason and then a bunch of you know, happy helpers. And so I think that this year he's going to get a

lot more one on ones. But you know, the thing that's going to get him higher in the league is how well do you stop the run? Because even though the running backs are you know, not super value like they used to be. And you know that's why nobody's getting too stoked about, you know, running back recruiting. You know, new running backs in the you know, to your to

your NFL franchise anything like that. You you see that opportunity of you know, this defense is going to you know, with the complimentary offense, the defense is going to be putting teams in more of a spot. You know, that was the clear thing for the Alabama game. You know, a lot of our Mason's production is when it was a dead set, we know that they're passing the ball. Our Mason showed up all the time, and it wasn't

always getting there. It was forcing pressure, forcing up into somebody else, you know, forcing somebody into a bad raid, a bad coverage. And you know, so I think think that that's good, you know, him wanting to point out the things that he needs to.

about that? Because I know Baker Mayfield has recently made some comments about him as well.

you know, to the to the SEC media days. They did some and I shared it with you. They were doing some quick hitters with Jim nagging, you know, asking him a bunch of questions, you like the Mountain, what's your screen time?

to be uh you know, want the attention. And so you know, if if the production follows with that, this is going to be somebody that people are going to love as a fan and then everybody else is going to hate because you know, people are going to be drawn to him. You know, he has you know, he has production. He just you know, came off of a forty four touchdown campaign and so people that question of can it happen in the SEC? That's the question around him is can you do these things in the SEC?

Can you bring that production here? And you know, everybody points towards cam Moore and him going down the a SEC and just lighting it up and really you know, being the driving factor behind that team. And so if that production follows, then he's going to be one of those polarizing figures in the SEC and across the country.

and we'll talk about that in a bit. But preseason All All SEC as well as where the media at Oklahoma set So first off Preseason All SEC listing, you got our Mason as well as jayde and I at the second team and then Ben Anderson third team. He's been like always raved about as the long snap or whatnot. But I thought it was interesting and this is what we actually expected that I was gonna get start to

get more and more attention. And it appears at the media that was there at SEC media days, they're they're all very high. I know the ESPN guys when I was chatting with them about it, they're like, dog, they think y'all got the most explosive back. Y'all may have the best back in the SEC. We seed to see him see him healthy. You gotta see him healthy. If he's healthy, he's probably the best one. I was like, fair point, Yeah, what you think who do you think got snubbed.

to say prove it before we do anything. And let's be honest. This preseason, all preseason, you know, this talk season. This is just the opportunity for them to talk. And you're gonna want to be in the postseason. And that's the that's the that's the teams that you're gonna want to be on. Plus you you also want to uh get the get the you know, get.

these stars. And you know, there's a lot of talk around you know it's crazy because you know, at the one side of my mouth, I say, it's like the you know, preseason, you need some of the preseason recognition in order to you know, loft yourself up in some of the national awards, you know, conversations because a lot of time guys are going to go back and you know a lot of these people don't watch the games. They they watched the box scores and they see those portions.

So if you're a stat stuffer, you're gonna get a lot more recognition than someone who makes effective.

was it. But then you know, Kennedy Brooks was the last guy that you know, you just you know, really feel like he was going to you know, you knew what you were getting out of Kennedy Brooks. And so I think that you know, a lot of people were excited about Xavier Robinson and coming in the season, but if at can you know, be healthy, that's a guy who is you know, a first round you know, a first round, second round type of a running back.

Kyl doesn't put backs out. That's that's that's what Kyle's known for doing. Find him California running backs and throw him on the field. They all seem to be really, really good. But yeah, I'm interested to see the health of or whatnot. Our Mason being second team that was expected. There's a lot of really good defensive linemen in the SEC this this season. I did. I was surprised about

Robert Spears Jennings not getting looked at. He was one of the higher graded guys in the UH in the SEC last year as a safety, so I was actually thinking that if anybody was probably gonna get looked at, it was gonna be him. So that was really that was I'm gonna be honest, that was a pretty much shocker to me. I was like, oh, okay, that's what we're doing, all right.

But you know, I think that that's gonna be one thing that when you have a you know, you know you're four deep and you've even got you know, a lot of faith in some of the young pups. There's a lot of safeties, you know in this conference who

who are going to be put to the test. I bet that there's going to be a good amount of running the run, the rushing yards by you know, I guess running backs in general over the past couple of years in the SEC has been relatively low because there's been a little bit more high flying attacks and so I think with so many new quarterbacks coming in, that's something that you're gonna see and so some of the

safety numbers may be elevated a little bit more. And also when that comes is what happens is you've got to be able to to pivot pretty quick when it's play action. So, you know, the best safeties in this league are going to be the ones that are going to be able to, you know, be a supporter in the running game, but then also get into coverage and you know, not give up any of these big bombs down the field.

acknowledge losers. So we move forward on from that next one. Preseason Poe was interesting to me though, Coop, So after you did the whole preseason oh you have yeah, I actually you agree with you sooner Cowboy Kip probably should have gotten a lot more recognition on there, but you know, yeah, so yeah, that's a crazy one, right, And Chuck, you're right Naggie with me when I chatted Wold Naggi about it till you mentioned that odd is healthy and that's

the exciting part. And this offensive lines will be real good, really good us like old school. But yeah, preseason Poe, and it's funny because you're here in the national a lot of the lot of the media at the SEC. They were really everybody's intrigued by Oklahoma. They want to see the bounce back. They want to see if the bounce back actually happens. And you know, granted, I totally get it, because the bounce back is the most important thing. We want to see if the team, you know, fixes

everything he needs to fix, Well, here we are. And when they did the polling, Oklahoma said it number ten, and but they got three votes to win the conference. What do you think about that?

allow them to have an identity on offense? And it's it's that And you know, I'm just going to go off of looking at production because there's no you know, John Matier has done it in a lower conference. He went out and he put the numbers up, he played the teams out in front of him. That was our buckle, and that was every single bit about it. You got to show up and you got to do what it's

going to you know what what you can. I think that the offensive line, it's going to be the basic basic situation as it was last year, is if the offensive line can go out there and uh, you know, be a formidable crew, then this team is going to be hell to deal with because I think that the way the schedule breaks out is it is very very very favorable. Where the where the buys are, you know, getting getting l s U a home at the end of the season, you know that game could mean a lot,

you know, for for for the conference. And so you also got to be healthy and listen, if you are one of the people who says, you know, we just got to stay healthy this year, we can't have a repeat of last year. That's never been That's never been a situation, you know in this team. I mean, I guess you could say maybe the nine season when you know Bradford goes down against byu Gresham gets hurt.

going to be. And that's uh, that's you know, that's a situation where you know, you guys got like Ryan foj and you know Fasusi, those guys are pushing folks. You got Jacob Sexton up over three thirty. You know you saw, uh, you saw Troy Everett looks like he is absolutely stacked. So I think that this offensive line, I knows that this is a year for them to prove it, and they're going to go out and do it.

And when your coaching staff is all on the same page, it's going to be it's going to be really nice, because that's another thing we're hearing is you know, with Latrell, God bless him and everything he does going forward, he just wasn't good at this and and so there is there's everybody's on the same page when it comes from the OC staff, the quarterbacks, wide receivers, the offensive line, all these coaches are all getting to get along and you're going to see that.

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built this a little backwards instead of forward. Was the we're the players, we're playing at youth now should have probably been playing in the second season. That's where we should have been having the players that he wants, that this team wanted. You probably ticularly want to play a lot of those young and not a couple of years back when he first got here instead of basically refreshing after the twenty three season like he did. But hey, what he's building though, gets you in a direction that

can help you to be competitive. And that's what leads us to this next conversation. Coop, who hm, how do I say this? Good lord? That is crazy anyway? Blue chip ratio. So Bud Elliott over by the fire, I start. I think you're pulling up. Hit the like button new two channce subscribe rate review give us five m Bud Elliott for CBS Sports two four seven rating site. Every year he puts together a list of the eighteen teams they can win a national championship, and the eighteen teams.

He's picked that eighteen specifically because no one outside of the eighteen has ever made it into the playoffs in their playoff era. Well correction, he said four of them have, and the four that have made it anywhere, they've all gotten blown out but he's pointed out that when it comes to his blue chip ratio, the blue ship ratio base on two four to seven's ratings, these teams are the ones that are capable of winning. Last season, Oklahoma was on that list, they were like seventy four or

something like that, seventy five. So injuries, of course, is the only reason why you don't get to move forward because you get hurt, can't do anything about it right off, right, Yeah, yeah, it's kind of hard to play when you're playing nothing but freshman. You don't win as championships with all freshmen. Basically in sophomores, it's no team does it usually as veterans. The older teams. Ohio State's an example of that, very much older. They lost a lot of players that they

still got their top deventsive players. So they should have a really this year this season, and quarterback is critical. But this though blue chip ratio, it's kind of crazy, man. So these the top the top eighteen is here's the first nine. Guess who's number nine there?

It is still about the Jimmies and Joe's. You gotta have, uh, you gotta have the you know, the players, especially in key positions, and you know you also have to have the coaching and you have to I mean, let's be let's be honest. There has to be a little bit of luck in here too, has getting through the entire season. You know, somebody gets rolled up on in the second to last week, and if you don't have quality depth

behind them, you know that that's tough. But also, you know, you take a starter who is a guy who's headed for the league, and if he tweaks his ankle and he's been able to come back two weeks later, you know, that's lucky. If it's six weeks later, that's that's unlucky. So you know, you being on this one obviously doesn't surprise me. You know, oh, he's been you know recruiting

at a high clip for a long time. And you know this this you're gonna pick your You know, most of the playoffs teams are going to be right out of this group.

of what. Let me see he has. As I look at this here in his top nine, only one team is swapped in and out from what Phil still has in his top four preseason top forty teams. And that's no Penn States on here. But everybody has Penn State as the number one team in the country, which I always think was funny. But Penn State's number ten on the list. They make top nine, but they're number ten. And in his top ten, Phil still has doesn't have LSU, but LSU is one that should be listed on there.

But LSU is a top nine team in the blue chip ratio. But I thought that was fascinating because it goes all the way down fifty four percent down to Florida State. Typically, your team that wins it is usually in the seventies. I think it's like seventy and up. The only one in all of them that has won it that has not been in the seventies was Michigan. Two years ago. Michigan was fifty four in their blue chip ratio. And the one thing we know about Michigan

is they get a ton of recruits. At least they have over the years. That has kind of changed as of late. They've been winning a lot, spending a lot of that money, but their blue Ship ratio is not as high as you think. They're just over the physical dude. They get the right dudes to push people around. I think Oklahoma's going that direction as well.

up there in Michigan. You know, Ohio State has had you know, has a recent national championship too, but you know, for the longest time, you know that they were kind of the same thing as you know, Oklahoma's getting to uh you know, going going all the way and then getting getting dealt by an SEC team was always always a thing that Ohio State was having trouble too. And so now with the you know, you got some money to throw around it's it's more you know, I guess,

I guess all all all uh, all is fair. Now you throw the money out, you get you know, you get a player here there. Underwood is going to be a big time player if he can keep the weight down and you know you can put some you know, put some folks around him too.

You know, Perennial, all Americans are not all Americans, but Pro bowlers in the NFL I mean, you're going to have to stack up, and so it's you know, the only team that you see you throw a Texas A and m up there and they continue to have that blue chip piece. You got to also have those guys who are super super high rated across all the boards and they want to continue to get better day in

and day out, because it makes it. I mean, it makes no difference if you're a five star coming out of high school and you the moment you step onto a field in college, everybody that gap closed significantly. And if you don't continue to work, you know, you get the whole adage of the hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

about technology is that I always got some weird stuff populating. Anyway, back to my whole point on this is a lot of these teams. It's funny when you look at it, how many teams end up with seventy plus on the blue chip ratio piece and it just still doesn't lead to a championship. Perfect example. I mean, like, look at Oregon, right, Oregon's won. I think they're like consistently always up there, especially over the last what ten years? Fifteen years? Right,

they've been to a national championship. I think they actually been to a couple. I know they played Auburn when Cam was there. Didn't they play a second one?

don't have no titles. They have zero national championships. And Florida State beat Auburn in the title game that year, and that was the BCS Natty. Could have sworn Oregon went another time. I don't know how they did. They lost Ohio State, So you're right, yeah, that was one. That's what I was crazy about. Remember was it Auburn? Yeah, so you're right it was Cardile that Cardile Jones game. That was Oregon. So I was all over the place. My bad, y'all. They beat Florida State in the first

round of the CFP. So that's where I completely missed what you were saying. That's my bad.

And so this is an indicator, this Samet, This isn't the gospel, though, This is an indicator that you've got to have that, you know, because you can't run it there. You know, it's just hard for you to make it through a major conference schedule and then now making it through the playoffs.

did not include a single transfer. But this is the transfer rate and Oklahoma's rated at light number twelve if you include transfers fifty six percent, so they're at that michigan ish number. They're them in Clemson with Florida right there above them because of the number of the transfers

that they brought in. So I thought that was also interesting because you know, when you really look at a lot of your transfers are players that were not rated very high, but they were really good, and then they move up from whatever program they were to you know, a more elite programm in comparison, an opportunity to play. So I thought that was really interesting too. It was I thought that was interesting. But it's a good question

will they leading in the run game. I do believe we will have a heavy, heavy, heavy run game this year, especially because Mati is a runner. I mean, he throws very well, but he's a runner too.

is around the four hundred yards. You know he's gonna want to take it off and that's you know, there's there's difference in you know, uh, you know, designed runs and just scramble drill to where he's getting out and getting getting out there and going.

I think there were a lot of favorable situations that the coaching staff kind of allowed some success to happen. And that's a that's a tough place to go. But you know, I think that with the running game this year, I think that when you have a Jade not Jeometier, you have an Xavier Robinson, and then you still have Taylor Tatum and you still have Javante Barnes.

what other team did it too? When I look back on the blue chit ratio, I don't remember I remember seeing anybody that was under seventy percent keeping it a buck.

Probably the closest one was probably because I think they've started really they started this back and when CFP started, so you had none of the teams that won the Natty since the Copsaboule Playoffs has started has won it outside of Michigan with you know, fifty something percent Before that, I think that Auburn team with Cam was probably the only one, uh because that team had I think one offensive lineman that took some snaps in the NFL, but they didn't really have anybody go to the pros that

that offense was literally Cam Newton and the Pips. I can't think of. There's like nobody else that I can think of there. Michigan is the only one that has done it. And again that was because they are a overly physical squad. They were a squad that would just beat the crap at everybody.

I would probably. Man, just looking through here, I just don't see because you got a lot of Alabama's, Florida, LSU Florida, you know, Southern Cali. You get back into the two thousands, and I mean, yeah, ever single one of those teams were good and they're right and we're good for a while.

was Michigan that I've calculated. Uh, this Clemson team was they I think they were pretty stacked actually with Watson and then Trevor Lawrence the number one player the next year, uh so went they went to the title game back to back years with Watson at quarterback, and then Kelly Bryant year was not you know, the best, and then Trevor Lawrence walks in there and they go undefeated as a true freshman.

a few times. Yeah. So yeah, it's you know, we'll see what Materier decides to turn into. He has the opportunity to prove and shut a lot of people up, and I hope he does. We know he's working. That's the only thing I know I'm concerned about is that we know that he is.

this year. You just don't you need him to make decisions. How many games did we you know, you look back at the Tennessee game last year, you know, are we in that game at the end if it's not for handing the ball back over play after play? You know, defense does a good job. And so it kind of leads to the question of I don't know if you saw it, Jay, somebody said, do we think the defense will be.

were just you know, just bawling out. Because I think that up the middle, you're going to be better than you were last year. I think David Stone is going to be better than what we were able to throw out there. With some of the losses the past couple of years. You still have Don Williams, you still have Jaden Jackson, you still have g Baby. Those guys are

going to continue to do what they do. If you can pair our Mason with a Marvin Jones Junior, a Danny Akoye, Taylor Wine, guys like that, it is going to it is going to be good. The things that I think that separate us from a top five capable defense is what does our zone coverage look like?

And if you compare, you compare, you know, a good pass rush, you can mix in the zone coverage and you can you know have a healthy gentry in eli. I mean, this is it's a top five defense. I have zero doubt in my mind that this is that's what can happen.

that steps up? And I'm gonna be honest, man, it feels like it's probably Kip for the linebacker room with a lot of Kobe McKenzie barking orders, because he barked orders this past season. You know, I've mentioned that before. That's the one thing that impressed me to most about him and got me excited is that he was barking orders the entire time. But then you go, besides that secondary wise, nobilly, but you got Robert Spears Jennings and Peyton Bowen. I think Robert Spears Jings is your de

facto leader there. He's the one who's going to bark all the orders out at everybody and say, hey, get your ish together and call everything out, which is to me, what Yeah, that's the thing that gets me going.

Brent Ventible's defense is how the linebackers play. And I think that's what's gonna be interesting in having three linebacker coaches, which I'm so glad that BV did that. He talked about having new coaches at slipping huge to have three, not one, but three linebacker coaches this season, Cooper, that's gonna be probably your game change is difference. So so I'm looking at this. I pulled up the numbers on it.

So when BV got to Clemson left Oklahoma, we had an SP plus defense and defense efficiency of four ten, defect was at six, discrs was at four. He goes to Clinton in twenty twelve, their defense is fifty fourth ranked, inefficiency fifty fourth to forty fourth, and NSP plus defense fifty eighth, average of about fifty season two moves up to nine twenty eighth range or whatnot. Third year they

were the number one defense in the country inefficiency. The year after that, in fifteen, they were number two twenty one FP plus, but they were number two in efficiency, which for this team. Now we passed the third year, the defense was ranked in the top fifteen inefficiency overall ten. I think the number ten at ESPN's efficiency, fifteenth in around the sp plus and a lot of the other metrics. I think d score had them at ten. But you had no offense. So of course defense is doing all

the work. Year after he goes to number two and it's consistent, and that's when they had a quarterback replacement. That's when you did had Kelly going out there. Actually you get Deshaun Watson's first year going. Then the next year Watson gets going, and it's just maintaining defense. Defense, defense, that's where we're going. We should be able to have a top five defense at the end of the season. It's no excuse we won't. We're only playing two turning quarterbacks.

Next year, next season in twenty six, it's gonna be different because you're gonna have a lot of people come back. But yeah, this year, yeah, it should be much better than that. Capacity should be should be potentially that. So I'm here for it. Man. The blue shit ratio says we have a chance, So I say we have a chance.

But you know, Peyton Bowen has I mean, he's got a ton to prove this year because he has had you know, the Nixon bruises here and there, He's had a lot of you know, it's safe to say that we've all expected a lot more out of Peyton Bowen than we've seen at this point. And because a lot of the same, a lot of the the oh wows have been in spring training and fall camps and stuff like that. So you know, he's, uh, he is getting He's getting pushed right now, bye by both Hardy and Powers.

Powers is playing a lot. Powers is proving himself to be a person that they're going to make it hard to keep him off the field.

different guys with you know, different peak skill sets. You know, you look at you know, the cheetah position between Oma Sego, you get uh guys like you know, uh I just said powers and then you have Kendall Dolby, who you know just was one of the uh just was the most uh you know, uh I guess team coveted defenders two years ago and we saw what he was before he went down versus Tennessee last year.

circling back. Jay Jeometiers said that they put a bunch of new offense in that they didn't expect to put in the playbook also, so we went from dumbing down in offense for the Pups to get through last year to installing more and more offense earlier than they expected to at this point in the off season.

But those key are considered grandfathered in because the judge said the students did not deserve to lose their spots just because of the settlement there they used. This should be phased out instead of an instant cutoff, so any of those kids that want to return can And so there's a one time transfer window that opened July seven through opportite. If that's why you're starting to see some

kids enter the portal. If the kid is marked as a designated student, the team has that mark them as that, then they can go ahead and get back in the portal and go somewhere else. For example, we had some players that entered the portal, but they came back. We actually have some kids come back over the last weeks. Last week or so, when we looked at the roster, me and Coop went through it. You got some like some guys in the secondary like Jocelyn Malaska, the big

corner that came here from Utah. He's back on the most recent roster, so he did not leave. Let me go see when I looked at this portal stuff, let me see who else entered the portal. I'm still I'm actually surprised that Gabees, Gabe Salchuck is still here. Not gonna lie, did not I kind of expected did not expect him to be sticking around. But you know, Gavin goes to Florida State, he sticks around.

the designated deal so uh yeah, im Alaska's back. Read du Quasi the dB that was here from Carl Albert. He played quarterback at Carlid before you hurt. He's back on the roster. It was very interesting to see a lot of these players that actually made a return.

and we're back. Next Sunday, we'll do our sec stuff. We'll talk about and we'll talk about who we thinks, you know, where we rank them and who's good and prepare ourselves for the actual season because fall camp comes. For the question that might ask us, I've got to answer it. Fall camps in like a week and a half and two actually two weeks, we'll say two weeks to be safe. Fall camps in two weeks and then ay, talk season's over. Yeah, have a good night, Happy Sunday. Perch