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right? And then our guy, I have
2:02
to bring up his name. I'm gonna look his name up real quick, man.
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He hit us up. He said, Hey, he said, are y'all gonna
2:06
talk about offensive tackles? Cause my San
2:08
Francisco 49ers need some
2:10
offensive tackle help. And I said, you know what? We're
2:13
gonna do that, man. We have some really
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talented offensive tackles, but DP,
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there's a, there's a, there's a clear group
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right at the top. Like I feel as though there's a
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clear group at the top, man. So let's
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kick it off. Who's the first name you want to throw out
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for these? Cause this potentially like, we
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talking about perennial Pro Bowl as tight
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talent at the top of this offensive tackle class.
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Who do you want to kick it off with?
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I got to start with the guy that I gave
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the, you know, a high first round grade
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to Keith. And that's Joe Alt from Notre Dame
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six, eight listed by the, we all
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know the websites on the schools are always
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accurate, but I'm pretty sure he's around six,
2:47
seven to six, eight, you know what I mean?
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Six foot eight, 315 pounds.
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This young man is a former tight end and he played basketball
2:54
in high school and very similar. If you remember the
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narrative guys around the Juan Jones from
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Ohio state, the right tackle people love,
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even though when you typically see a guy that size Keith,
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I remember two years ago, it was
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a, I forget the big guys,
3:06
the big right tackles name. He's, he's in Baltimore
3:09
now. But we saw him down the senior
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bowl in 2021. Yes. Yes. If I lay Lee
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fought,
3:17
what I have, but yes, him, you
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know what I mean? He was a, another big guy, but he didn't
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move like a Dwan Jones, right? Like
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he didn't have the lateral agility
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and the nimble feet. When I watched Joe
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Alt, and this is a guy that, you
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know, this, the, everybody tell me on Twitter, he has 34
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inch arms. And when
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he uses them correctly, guys, you
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can tell, but he's, he can, when he locks
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out, when he punches with good timing and
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uses the right hand carriage, not have
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his hands low or wide. You
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know, you see a tackle that could
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be a perennial all pro. I'm
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talking about franchise cornerstone
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type of tackle, good movement, lateral
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agility to mirror and mass rushers
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passes off, twists and stunts. Incredible.
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well. But what I love is
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not just a physical stature and tools guys,
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but I love his IQ
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to see things kind of happening
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before they happen, right? To as
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he's dropping off and if he's uncovered, it's
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because he knows there's a rusher coming
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from opposite angle because they're throwing
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those twists and those defensive line
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games at him. And he just picks them up
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so well. He's a great tandem and dual
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blocker in the run game. I think he's more
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of a zone fit, which we talked about in the
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mock draft Monday episode on Tuesday,
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because we did it on Tuesday. We
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did our mock draft way too early mock draft.
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We had him going to the Titans and I'm like, this is a perfect fit.
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And I think it really would be a perfect fit. This
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guy, man, I was thoroughly impressed,
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Keith, you know, family, I was still impressed with this
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young man and I'm excited to see him because he still
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got some technical and mechanical
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things that he has to work on, but those things are
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coachable.
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Yeah, yeah. And I haven't got eyes on
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Joe yet. You did a great job of,
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you know, breaking down, giving a synopsis,
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giving our listeners a perspective. But man, I'm
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going to go with the guy that
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would have been offensive tackle in this
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year's class for me. And that's Penn State's
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offensive tackle, Olu for Shannu,
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man. I really like
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everything about this guy. You give me big,
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you give me athletic, you give me smooth, you
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give me a finishing temperament, right?
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And then he's young too. That's the thing, man.
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He's growing. He's still developing as
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a pass rusher, but also his body is still developing.
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So I'm expecting him to get even stronger.
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So when you talk about the top of this class, I
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think there's going to be a Joe O, right?
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To offensive tag from Notre Dame you just talked about.
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And I think it's going to be a Penn State,
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Olu, you know, Olu for Shannu, right? As offensive
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tackle, but DP, man, clip this up,
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man. Because I have another name that I want
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to introduce into this conversation. We've
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talked about Olu for Shannu. We've talked about
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Joe O.
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J.C. Latham, offensive
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tackle from Alabama will be in
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this discussion for offensive tackle And I
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just finished it up and guess what? He has everything
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that you want in an offensive tackle. Man, the guy
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is big, he's strong, he's powerful.
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He has nimble feet. This guy is
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quick out of his past that he can get depth. He
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plays with good tempo. He plays with physical
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temperament. He plays right tackle, but we're
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gonna see if he does the traditional Alabama
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offensive line move where he goes from right tackle
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to left tackle. And if he does that, he would
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definitely be in a conversation for offensive tackle
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again. So once again, invoke the
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name JC Latham into this offensive
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tackle one conversation because
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he has all the physical tools necessary and he's
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gonna push Olu Fushano and Joe out
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for offensive tackle one.
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Keith, I love that. I love it. I love
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it. I absolutely love it because as
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I said in the opening of this, the 2024
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class in my opinion Keith has
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the potential
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to almost blow 2023 out of the water. Yeah,
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I see it already. So this class
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and I hope people hear the excitement in
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our voice right through this podcast and be like,
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okay, this must be the real deal. I think
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this is the real deal. Like this class
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will rival more of the 2022 NFL
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Draft class where we had, we
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had Icky, we had Icky and Kwanu.
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Neil. We had Evan Neil, we had
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Trevor Penn and went in the first round. We had,
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I think it was- Oh, Brandon went to Seattle. Yeah,
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Charles Cross. Yeah, I think
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it was five offensive tackles and maybe even six
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went in the first round. So it's this class
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is gonna be similar to that and we'll
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see if it's even better because we know there's
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always names that pop up and to my JC
7:34
Latham point, right? I couldn't help but think of Darnell
7:37
Wright. Darnell Wright played Wright tackle Wright and
7:39
this was a guy that he went majority of
7:41
the draft process as what?
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Maybe a second round
7:45
or a third rounder. Then as they got
7:47
closer to the draft, people just started appreciating
7:50
his ability to just play offensive tackle. There
7:53
wasn't enough of Zeke that was like, oh man, this guy
7:55
looks like a Greek guy. Greek
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guy or anything like that, right? Or it wasn't-
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but a big guy that's powerful that can move, that's
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athletic, that's nimble. He's another guy that
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you know what you need to do, put him on your radar,
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put him on your radar because he checks all
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of the boxes when it comes down to athletic profile
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standpoint. So if he hits, and then when I
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mean hit, I'm talking about just gets everything
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together on the field, then you're
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talking about another round one guy because you can't
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teach 6'6", 330 pounds that can move, and
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that's a good athlete.
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And you talk about that, Kietha, and I'm
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glad you brought him up because I was gonna bring him up, you know
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what I mean? In terms of memes, but one
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of my favorite guys is Jordan Morgan
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over at Arizona, 6'6", 320, good
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mover, great instincts in character.
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I haven't seen, I've literally
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haven't seen any film on him. And I'm talking
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about like not even an ESPN highlight.
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I haven't seen that one. Of course not, he's at Arizona.
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He's at Arizona, of course not. I'm gonna have to check him up. And
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I think, if I remember correctly, I think he got hurt this
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year. So like he, if he didn't, yeah,
12:56
if he didn't get hurt this year, if I remember correctly,
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I think it was like back towards the back end of the season, I
13:02
think he probably would have came out. But, you know, like
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I said, excellent awareness, be able to like, we talked,
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like I talked about with Joe, being able to handle those
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stunts, blintzes, being great
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in combo blocks. I saw a guy
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with power, be able to overwhelm
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guys at the point of attacking and really
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drive guys off the football, right? Like, and
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then as well as being able to use a variety
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of sets, diagonal sets, quick
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and jump sets to be able to meet guys and
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not just meet them at the apex, don't even allow them to get
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to the apex by quick setting them and getting
13:31
right to them so they can't build them any momentum,
13:33
right? So I have to believe, I don't know what's
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arm length because, you know, like I said, like they don't really have a lot
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of that stuff available until we get to
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the draft cycle. But, you know, like that mean
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streak, the aggressive and physicality
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he plays when in the run game. And typically, you
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know, I think they run more of a, if I remember correctly, they run more
13:49
of a kind of spread offense at Arizona,
13:52
you know, over there on the West Coast. So I'm excited
13:54
to watch him fully healthy, play
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a full season again, and really showcases
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his skills.
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because like I said, with Zion Nelson,
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Jordan Morgan, Mims that
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you mentioned, man, this offensive
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tackle class, and there's even more names that we'll get
14:08
into as well, but just you
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get excited
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about guys that look the part. I got, like
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I said, I'm big on, I'm not
14:17
one of those people that like harp on size and
14:19
height and weight, but when guys hop off, when they
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hop off the buses and they look like football
14:24
players and then they play like it, you
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get excited. There's probably nothing
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better in the world, right? When you have a guy that
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looks like, when you're watching film and
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you have a guy that looks like a dude,
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and then he plays like a dude, it's like,
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oh man, this is heaven, man. I found out what heaven
14:38
looks like. It's a game changer, baby. It's
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a game changer. No, man, but
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hey, we could continue to go with this and we
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look at these guys, we're talking about hopping
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off the bus. I'm hearing a lot of noise
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about Wisconsin offensive tackle
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Jack Nelson. I'm here in the
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sense of the fact of he's cut from that
14:57
Wisconsin cloth, right? One of
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our scouts were able to get some
15:02
eyes on him. They're like, hey, this guy has potential
15:04
to be a real
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dude. Like he's physical, he's a good
15:07
athlete. He can play out in space and he
15:09
checks the measurable box. Right? He's six, six, 300 pounds.
15:12
And we keep saying that, right? Because that's usually the threshold
15:14
somewhere around there, the six, five, six, five
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and a half to six, six, 300 pounds to
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be able to take on that kind of bull rush. And when
15:21
those defenders want to play with power, you
15:23
can anchor down. So Wisconsin has
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an offensive tackle also. I mean, we already,
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I think eight people deep when it
15:29
comes to the offensive tackle class. And we have
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even more men in these names that we're going to bring
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up next
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DP. These are names that I want
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to bring up because I'm familiar with and in some
15:38
sense, and they
15:41
may have transferred to different situations
15:43
or they just have different situations overall.
15:45
So I want to talk about these names and these are real
15:47
deep name pools. But like we said, there's
15:50
always offensive tackles that emerge out
15:52
of nowhere. Trevor Penning, first round pick, he
15:54
was relatively a quote unquote nobody until
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we got halfway into that season. So these
15:59
names that we've...
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off to you, you know, watching the
18:02
film, watching Joe O.
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Yes, 100 percent. Listen, Sam Hartman, the
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transfer quarterback from Wake Forest, that's a happy man
18:09
going into the 2023 season. Keith,
18:11
no more deep mesh and he got two bookend
18:14
tackles to make sure he is upright because
18:16
when I watched as I'm watching Joe O, I
18:18
remember somebody bringing up Blake Fisher to
18:20
me and told me to keep my eyes on him. And he popped,
18:23
athletic, got out of his blocks with real
18:25
good quickness and kind of explosiveness
18:27
to that, that when he gets vertical
18:29
in his pass sets, and what
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I mean, vertical guys who don't know, is that straight
18:34
drop, not diagonal, where he's dropping at
18:36
an angle, but that straight drop back, he
18:38
can cover ground and he
18:40
has good, you know, arm length look good, physical,
18:43
just athletically gifted from what I saw. I
18:46
can't wait to do a full deep dive on just him
18:48
because, you know, of course, you got to pay attention to
18:51
the moneymaker, which is Joe O on that offensive
18:53
line. But Blake Fisher absent, Lulee
18:55
popped to me and it's just a young
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man that I think, like you said, it's
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no more, hey,
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left tackle, right tackle as
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much as we saw with Darnell, right? It's just,
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can you play tackle and Blake Fisher
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can play tackle?
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Okay, cool. That's what we need to know, right? That's what
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the people want to know. So when we're watching Notre Dame,
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we're watching the left side and we're watching the right
19:16
side for not only Joe O, but Joe O, but
19:19
we're watching for Blake Fisher. Man, so I'm gonna go back
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and I'm real off a couple of names to talk
19:23
about Wisconsin already. I have to talk about another
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guy that's on that Wisconsin offensive line that
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is Nolan Ruchi listed at 6'8", 300 pounds,
19:31
right? Like a big guy that can drive, drive
19:33
block people off of the line of scrimmage,
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man, is gonna be really fun to watch. Definitely a
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name to note. I remember him from my time recruiting.
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He was a
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highly talented football player. Um,
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and you know, going to Wisconsin, I'm on
19:45
the show, right? They develop offensive lineman. He's
19:47
going to be of the elk, right? Like we're, this is a
19:49
name we're going to hear. And who doesn't like name Nolan
19:52
Ruchi, right? It's just something about it. You
19:54
should be just a high caliber level, a
19:56
D1 athlete in some sport. Next
19:58
up DP, man. I'm talking about time.
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Tommy Brockhamire, this guy, he actually has
20:02
a twin brother named James Brockhamire.
20:04
They both went to Alabama.
20:06
They actually Texas football legacy,
20:09
meaning I think the grandpa
20:11
and the father both played at University
20:13
of Texas, the Longhorns, and
20:15
they were twins on the same team,
20:18
on the same high school team, and they both decided
20:20
to commit and go to Alabama. So
20:23
you know, people say to SEC, we recruit, you know,
20:25
we kind of recruit, man. I'm more than sure Texas wanted
20:27
both of those boys. So but
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man, he's transferred. He's left Alabama.
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He's at TCU. Now, the reason I'm bringing him up because
20:35
he played a tackle position, an athletic guy.
20:38
I remember he had all of the tools, right? The requisite
20:40
tools to be a good football player.
20:42
And I want to see him right. Would it be minimal
20:44
competition? He transferred for a reason, probably
20:46
so he can get on the field immediately. I'm
20:49
more than sure TCU is not loaded with five stars,
20:51
how Alabama is right. So we will
20:53
see this guy on a football field. It is definitely
20:56
a name to note to like, hey, he's off the radar
20:58
because we haven't seen him play much at Bama, but
21:00
him in a starting position, if he plays well,
21:03
definitely stock up on this guy. And there's one other
21:05
name I want to throw out there. And that is Florida
21:07
State's offensive tag. When the last time we talked
21:10
about Florida State having this much talent,
21:12
right? Every time we do a position kind
21:15
of introduction, yeah,
21:17
they have one player. And that's Robert
21:19
Scott. I got it. I think I gave a third or fourth
21:22
round grade two last year when I watched him.
21:25
Big guy, athletic, I think he
21:27
had positional versus titty could play tackle, could
21:29
play guard, but I'm expecting
21:30
him, like I said, another guy to make some noise
21:33
deep into this, you know, NFL draft
21:35
cycle, this draft process. And
21:37
guess what? He's going to be in prime time games. He's
21:39
going to have some really good matchups. We know they're going to play Clemson,
21:42
right? And they're going to play some of these other highly talented
21:44
team with these egg rushers that he's going
21:46
to get his test, right? He's going to get tested and
21:49
he'll have every opportunity to show up.
21:51
Keith, listen, that deep
21:54
name polls in this class, it just keeps, it's
21:56
just continues to go because now you got me excited
21:58
to go back and watch because what's.
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