November 7, 2025 • 30 mins
Chirs Low from On3 joins to break down the impacts of the changes in college in football on the pro game, and the weekend of matchups that could impact draft positioning. Plus, a soundbite roundup from DC Anthony Weaver, OC Frank Smith and Secondary Coach and Pass Game Coordinator Brian Duker.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up, Dolph Fans,
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, a little bit of
a different Friday Football Friday version of the podcast. I
(00:23):
should say, we're gonna hear from the assistant coaches Anthony Weaver,
Frank Smith, Brian Duker, and possibly more. We're also gonna
stop by the college football weekend landscape and talk about
some prospects, how the college game has changed the NFL game,
and a whole heck of a lot more from On
three's Chris Lowe, my guest today from the Baptist Health
Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Let's go ahead and kick this show off with some
SoundBite round up from the assistant coaches who met with
the South Florida media on Thursday morning. And I have
a few I want to get to here too, from
Anthony to kick things off. And you guys know by
now how much I really vibe with coach Weaver's leadership
style and the approach and the mindset he brings very
much the mindset of a former defensive lineman right. So
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I wanted to play this story because he talked about
handling adversity and how he approaches these meetings and game
plan meetings and you know, presentations about the upcoming opponent
and just the entire operation of the job when the
results aren't going the way that you prefer them to.
And he told a story about nineteen nineties NBA basketball
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and a player named Nick Anderson, which we'll hear from
him here in just a second, a comparison to Kobe Bryant,
and how he relates to the players, about these guys
and how their careers went in different directions after difficult
starts or I guess endings to their careers. Let's go
ahead and throw it to coach Weave, who talked about
his message and addressed to the team and relating it
to nineteen ninety five NBA Finals basketball.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
My message is very clear, like this is the NFL, right,
There's a reason my name tag is slides out right.
It's not in there permanently, so nobody cares.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Just work harder.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The comparison I gave him was where we're at just
as a team, right, as a defense I go I
compared Nick Anderson I'm aging myself now. I compared Nick
Anderson in like the nineteen ninety five NBA Finals game
won against the Rockets, Right, he misses four free throws
in a row and then go on and get swept
and from there like his career kind of fizzle. Unfortunately,
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I don't know Nick, but his nickname was became Nick
the brick Anderson. But I just remember how good he
was as a player. And then I contrasted that with
Kobe and his rookie year when they were in the
playoffs and he shoots four airwalls right in critical situations.
I go, well, here's where we're at from an adversity standpoint.
All right, guys being traded, right, speculation, all those things.
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I go, you can either be Nick Anderson and we
can wallow around in self pity. I go, oh, you
can just figure out we're at. Keep trying to get better,
which I think our guys have done right to date,
and try to be the mamba. I don't think anybody
wants to be a break, so our goal is to
be the mamba.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I think when executed well, speaking in parables like that
is like really profound and really impactful, and I think
that's important whether you're winning or losing games. So that
was cool to hear that stuff from coach Weaver. Let's
go ahead and do a hard pivot here on coaches
press conference, I asked him about the challenges of facing
that Buffalo offense with Dalton king Kid and Dawson Knox
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and the ability to go to a twelve personnel grouping
or she'll hear him talk about here at twenty one
twenty two doesn't really matter. Two tight ends in the
field with their run game prowess, but also having two
attachment players who can be part of the run, fit
part of the run scheme and be effective that way,
but also be so dynamic down the field as pass catchers.
How different is that than what the rest of the
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league has? And he compared it to the former Patriots
tight end duo between Gronk and Hernandez. Just good stuff
here again from coach Weave on the challenging of the
Buffalo offense and the uniqueness of their structure offensively and
how it challenges Miami's defense.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, that's why they do what they do right. It
makes it so you really can't be right from a
personnel standpoint. They're not quite the Gronk and Hernandez right
back in the day with New England, but the ability
to both line up in a twenty one personnel look
two back looks things that nature and then split out
and look like eleven can make you not right from
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a personnel standpoint.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Just the last thought and some updates on some more
coach weave bullet points. He talked about Jason Marshall, who
got back into the lineup last week after being activated
off injury reserve, how he could be a potential solution
on the outside or in the competition with Ethan Bonner
to play opposite Jack Jones, should Rusul Douglas miss this
game on the outside cornerback position. So that's one of
those things that I'm excited to watch as we go
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forward here. Right, Like we've talked about, you know, the
building blocks, the young pieces, We've uncovered a lot of
those already. We think Jordan Phillips, Travis thinks Jordan Phillips,
I should say, is going to be a heck of
a player. Kenneth Grant, Jonas of Vite and Iya coming long,
big fan of Ollie Gordon and Dante Trader. And yet
you still have more, you know cracks at this draft
class with Jason Marshall, who had a good camp, had
a good summer, and then missed some time with the injury.
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Curious to see what he looks like. Could he be
a long term solution at the cornerback spot. You might
not get the information this year, but you can get
part of the information with how he plays down the stretch.
It's one of the many things I'm looking forward to
watching here over these final eight games, as the rest
of the season, as well as the trade deadline impact
and injuries. All that stuff plays into this kind of
cocktail of how do you roll out your.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Lineup each week.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I think it's one of the most intriguing things to
watch as we finish up the twenty twenty five season,
which I say finish up like it's almost over.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We have eight games last and nine weeks, but those
first nine weeks flew by man like. This has been
the fastest season I can remember, So before you know it,
we're going to be into January talking about playoff games
and the you know, the hiring cycle for teams that
replace their coaches and gms, as well as the draft
and free agency all that stuff a little year before
you know it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Trust me, it comes fast.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Let's go ahead and pivot here to Frank Smith, who
was asked about Patrick Paul early on and the comparison
between him his production this year and Toron Armstead last year,
and just his growth and where they feel he is
as a second year left tackle, first year started for
the Miami Dolphins and showing so much promise at that position.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Here is Frank Smith on Patrick Paul.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Tron when he was a rookie, he didn't play for
I want to say, almost two thirds of the season
and at the end of season played and you could
kind of see his potential in the second year it
really building. After I left after the second years, really
really got to see him take off in year three.
You saw a lot of signs in year two, and
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then year three was really kind of where it kind
of starts falling together. Because that's the hardest thing about
the NFL is just the expectation for when things come.
But a lot of times for lineman it's like right
and they as they start figuring things out, year two
three is really reciated. So yeah, there's a lot of
stuff to be very optimistic about.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Patrick.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I hate comparing because like Toront's like a different athlete,
different build, different movement skills, where Pat It's got size
and length and a different range and skill set. Like
because I remember Toront out of college. I mean they're
running a down and round scheme and he beat the
running back to the end zone like I mean he
ran like what was he ran like a four to
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six at the combine where they're a little different. But yeah,
I mean you see the potential pad to be a
very good left tackle in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Speaking to young players, I thought this was also a
really good message akin to what we heard from coach
Weaver earlier, as we saw a handful of the young
guys right and this is a team that has kind
of restructured its core to be a younger team this
year and really kind of enact that youth movement. We
saw Taj Washington, Elak Washington, and Ollie Gordon all have
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errors in the game on Thursday, the two fumbles from
the receivers and all of you with the tripping call,
albeit a call that you know you might disagree with,
it was a mistake in terms of the result of
the play, and coach was asked about how you essentially
like weigh those or how you approach that on the sideline,
how you put it into the evaluation, and how you
get those guys to bounce back. Here's coach talking about
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mistakes from young players which are always going to happen, right,
and how to use them to your advantage as correction tools.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You know, when adversity hits, you know, it's how do
you handle it? You know, we all want life to
be an interstate where it's just moving along smooth. But
sometimes on the journey to where you want to go,
you have to take the country road which might be
bumpy and have more turns, but both can get you there.
It's just you have to stay the course and not
realize that one moment doesn't define yourself all right, that
moment can be defining to where you.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Want to go.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
On the topic of young players and finding gems or
potential future cogs for this roster, you guys know, I'm
a big fan of Greg Dolsitch coming here back in September,
big fan of his elevation, big fan of what he
did in the game on Sunday, So I asked Frank Smith,
did you learn more about Greg almost called him, Frank,
did you learn more about Greg in the Altimore game
than what you knew previously?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Here's coach Smith.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I think it kind of validated some of the things
he saw on tape of his ability in the passing
game and what he can do with his versatility. But
when you see him in the practice field, it's like
he's a diligent worker, very good communicator. So it was
great for the world to kind of see how he
can fit and how.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
He can help us.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We'll stay on the topic of the young players and
finish up here with coach Brian Duker, who talked about
one of his defensive backs and Dante Trader. Will go
ahead and just get his take on some of the
things that he likes about Trader. And then I had
a follow up about Trader with regards to what we
heard when we had Mike Loxley on the show, the
head coach at Maryland, who praised and this was unanimous
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across scouts. I talked to that not scouts, I should
say national media, scouts, draft analysts, people that talk to
scouts across the board. For Dante Trader was about his professionalism,
his approach, and how he it's basically a pro with
the approach of a pro, I should say at Maryland
and I asked coach, like, was that obvious in the game?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did you notice it in training camp? Back in spring ball?
When is it?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
When do you notice a player is on top of
their details the way Dante Trader is so first the
trades and the skills of Dante Trader and then his
makeup here from coach Brian Duker, I.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Feel good about what Trader's shown so far. I think
he's shown to be a good athlete, good instincts, very
professional in his approach, and I think all of those
things are going to translate and me, I think it'll
be a good start for us to.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
See that translated from you know, a wide eyed rookie
to a guy that is locked in and just on
top of all his details very quickly.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Yeah, you can tell kind of you know, rookie spring
really just the way they kind of go about the approach.
There's some guys that certainly developed that, but there's some
guys that come in right away, do you know. There's
plenty of guys that I've seen didn't come in necessarily
like that and kind of developed that down the road,
but from seeing some other guys, but he's one of
those guys that came in right away.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I went ahead and kept the end of my question
and because I thought it really helped set the stage
for his answer there. So that wasn't a mistake. That
was on purpose. Let's go ahead and take our first
break right there. Come back and we'll hear from Chris
Low on the weekend in college football, but also the
landscape of college football and how it might have an
impact on the NFL prospects coaches. All of that ahead
here with Chris Low. Next Draft Time Podcast brought to
you by AutoNation. I am joined now by the senior
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football college reporter at on three, Chris Low.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Chris, welcome in, my friend.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Excited to talk to you about this weekend in college football.
The games get bigger every week, so we got to
have a big time guest on.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Chris. Thank you for your time today, my friend.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Well, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We're very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I want to start with this because we usually
do these segments with more like a Dolphin's draft specific lens,
and we'll get to that. But having someone that has
such knowledge of the entire sport and the entire the
leagues of it all with your knowledge and your presence.
I wanted to get to this because you have your
finger on the pulse of the landscape of college football,
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and just ask you about the massive shift across college
football these last couple of years. The major conference changes,
the nil money, the transfer portal. In your estimation, how
has that impacted the prospect aspect of everything with regards
the NFL Draft in recent years, and how do you
think it will impact it going forward?
Speaker 7 (12:16):
To me, the biggest impact is listen to the guys
who are top ten picks, top fifteen picks, maybe top
twenty picks.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
They're coming out.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
But guys that are maybe Boordline, you know, you're getting
different feedback.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
From people in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Maybe you're a late first round or maybe you're a
early second or third. A lot of these guys are
making so much money, and I'll use it. I don't
know that he's an NFL quarterback. Let's use Gunner Stockton
at Georgia for example. Here's a guy that's with outside
nil plus revshare, which is the money that schools now
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are directly paying to kids. He's making somewhere between two
and three million dollars. Right, So if you're a borderline prospect,
you know, maybe you're a projected and and I'm not
saying he is, but a second, third, fourth round pick,
whereas in the past those guys, all right, I've put
good tape on, I'm probably not going to raise my
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draft stock. If I stay around, they're gonna come out,
Oh guys like that. And again I'm just using him
hypothetically because they're making so much money and they're doing
so well.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Then there's the decision to.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Make, Hey, do I want to hang around. I'm still
gonna make a lot of cash if my team's good.
I got a chance to win a championship, get to
the playoff, and who knows, maybe improved my draft stock,
whereas it really wasn't a question five, six, seven years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah, it's so interesting, and like you know, I think
bow Nix is a good example of this of you know,
all the opportunities guys have to play extra years and
get that experience in college, and then by the time
they get to the league, you start that rookie contract
and you're already hitting the ground running with your you know,
your play speed, and the way you can process defense
or offense respective, but I think it's a big, big
difference for those guys. And then separately, Chris, you know,
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we saw Jeff Hafley make a move a couple of
years ago that was kind of unthought of prior to
all of you know, this change in college football, going
from the head coach at Boston College to the defensive
coordinator at Green Bay.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Do you think we'll see more of that?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Like, what do you think that the impact on like
the way coaches approach thing approach things will be from
all this change.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
I've had guys in college rinks, especially guys who coached
previously in the NFL, come back to college and then
going back.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
To the NFL, say they like the work day, the
schedule better in the NFL because you know, you don't
have all.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Take June, for instance, in some of these months that
used to be pretty tame for college coaches. Now you're
having transferred guys come on or even in January they're visiting,
and you sort of gotta.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Keep up with that.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
And and the way you recruit, the way collectives are involved,
there's just so much more involved now in being you know,
in the college rinks. I'll say this, and talking to
a guy that I've known for a long time who
used to be a head coach in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
He's now back in college.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
He said, though, the thing that some of those guys
like when it comes is there there's so much more now.
It's predicated upon of evows. Your evoils have to be
really good. If you're looking for kids in the portal,
for instance, you're watching tape, do they fit? Do they
fit what we were doing in our system. So I
think there is more of an NFL type push in college,
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but we've seen it. You know, Chif Kelly goes from
being the head coach at UCLA to be in the
OC at Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Now he's back in the NFL. Some guys just.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Don't like having to deal with, you know, the NIL
part of it. As I mentioned a minute ago, sort
of how the calendar has changed now than you're coaching
in college football. It's much more rigid, you know, regimented.
NFL you know when you're going to be doing it,
what you're doing or that doesn't change as much in
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the NFL part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And we've for years seen you know, the NFL borrow
from college football in terms of schematics and concepts offensively
and defensively, and I think we'll see more of that
going forward. Here, let's go ahead and pivot the conversation.
Chris Low from On three covering all things college football.
I love, you know, this time of year, because you
get these big matchups for prospects who are trying to
kind of solidify their spot and you know, rankings ahead
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of the draft season when we get to the Combine,
the Pro Days, the Senior Bowl, all that stuff. But
these guys right now, they're putting together their film, which
ultimately is what we'll decide their draft stock and this
weekend and maybe this is kind of the good and
bad of a quarterback class that isn't necessarily I think,
you know, on the on the level of what we
saw a couple of years ago with Jayden Daniels and
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Drake May and Caleb Williams and bow Nix and Michael Pennix.
But there's a bunch of quarterbacks that are kind of
intriguing folks out there. And the result of that is
you get three big time quarterback matchups this week, and
in terms of of tough opponents to face. When you
think about Fernando Mendoza and Indiana going to Penn State,
you think about Dante Moore and Oregon going to Iowa,
and then Ty Simpson going to LSU. What stands out
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to you about those matchups and how these quarterbacks can
kind of differentiate themselves among their peers for next April's draft.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, I'll start with Mendoza.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I was at the Indiana Oregon game earlier this year,
and I knew Mendoz was a good player, and I
knew that he had some good guys around it and the
serradicated receivers, a big time player. But boy, I was
really impressed his command of that offense, the way he
gets rid of the football, knowing where everybody is and
just sort of thinking a step ahead of everybody.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
He's got twenty five touchdowns.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I don't think anybody in August would have pointed to
Mendoze and say, hey, he's gonna outplay with our sellers.
He's gonna outplay arch Manning, He's gonna outplay Garrett and Thatsmeier.
You know, Lagway wasn't necessarily well, I guess Likeway was
that draft?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Alis? Well?
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Anyway, my point is all these guys who were at
the top of boards in August, guys like Mendoze you
mentioned Tydd Simpson have outplayed those guys and now they're
really intriguing to NFL people as they get ready to,
you know, be a part of the draft.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Mendoza, I mean a South Florida kid.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
He's I liked his comments the other day about the
Maryland game when he was like, they took away our
pass concept, so I'm happy just to run the ball
for three hundred and seventy five yards.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
That's a good approach man that works at both levels.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
When you think about Dante Moore because you mentioned the
game they went to Oregon about a month ago or so,
really impressive game there from Indiana with Dante Moore though,
he's a guy that had the big game at Penn
State and and kind of looked the part there. What
do you think about him going into Iowa this weekend
in a tough place to play there in the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yeah, this is a big stage for Dante.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
You know, he took a shot a week ago or
so to the news and did not did not finish
the game, you know, and when I talked I had
a chance to talk to him and Dan Lenninghen was
out there. I think the thing about Dante is the
way he secured. He's you know, he sees things now
that he did in earlier. The game is not too
big for him. But this is a game, and you're right,
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I think this is a game not only for him,
for that entire Oregon team that I think a lot
of people are gonna be watching. We had a lot
of eyes on him how he plays against that defense,
because he's got all the tools. You know, he's mobile,
he can throw the football, he's got a great release,
a guy that can off script make big plays. And
certainly when you look at the NFL now, how many
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times do we see that, you know, among the best
quarterbacks in that league.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
So now I think this is a game. He's got
a couple of big games.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Coming up Dante does to prove that he will be
one of the top and that Upper Atlantic quarterbacks in
the draft.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, you know, Chris, I'm a Washington State alumni, so
my vitriol for the realignment is quite strong. But the
one thing I will say I do like about it,
even though my school no longer gets to compete at
the highest level is what you just talked about. We
get all these big time games down the stretch, and
one of these is going to be the LSU Alabama
game this weekend. And for Tys Simpson, you know you
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talk about we started the show talking about Bo Nicks
and what if five six years of college experience you
go from Dante Moore to ty Simpson. Both those guys
have like no more than ten college starts. I'm curious
what you think ty Simpson can prove here against LSU.
But also do you think he's ready to make that
jump after one year starting? Because right now when I
watch his tape, Chris, he looks like the most polished
quarterback at the college level.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, he does.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I've seen Tye play live twice this year and had
a chance to watch him practice the week before game
week against Florida State. You know, Nussmeyer and Simpson are
a little bit alike and that both of them sort
of hung around to get their shot. You know, Nussmeyer
did at LSU last year and his first year as
a starter. This is Tydd Simpson's fourth year on campus
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at Alabama. I think that's helped him. You know, we
see guys move around. If, especially at that position, they're
not the guy, they lose the job in spring their
gone well.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Neither one of those kids did.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
They didn't run from a challenge, and I think that
says something about him, It says something about their development.
We'll start with Nuts. I don't think Nuts was healthy
healthy to start the season. He had that ab strain.
I think Kelly called it a torso, but it was
more of an ab that really hindered his ability to
throw the football. The first gosh, I don't know, three
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four or five games and you could sort of and
what in going back and watching him after figuring that out,
you could see that now the team has not played
as well. They've had issues on offense, they haven't been
able to score, they haven't been able to run the football.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I think that's hurt him.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
But Ty Simpson has been You go back to his
first game against Florida Day. He didn't play that well,
he didn't play terrible, but the team around him, I
thought played soft. Since that game, he's been a big part,
not just on the field, but a big part of
that team, forming a harder edge and being more focused
and playing more at the level that you got to
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play to win some of the games they did, and
that's what you got to have your quarterbacks. Do you know,
quarterbacks are not just the leader of your offense, their
leader of your football team. And Ty has done that
in such a way that guy rally around him. I
love his ability to feel the pressure. And you know
he's not a guy, He's not Lamar Jackson, but boy,
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he can move and scramble and make plays. And we
talked about Dante offscript. I think Ty has been as
good at that as anything. And putting the ball in
tough windows and tight windows, different types of throws.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
He's grown a lot.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
And you Ryan Grubb is go see there, will tell
you they they sort of saw this in him back
in preseason, even the spring, but he's taking it to
another level. And I and again, when I'm in press
boxes and talking to the scouts, I've known him for years.
Everybody I talked to, I'll say, hey, have you been
through this school or that school? We've been and they
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all talk about Ty Simpson. Just what you said that
he looks right now as polished as anybody.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I think that's instrumental.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I mean, teams are gonna love you mentioned that that
he didn't transfer right, didn't didn't go run away from
the opportunity to compete, And I think teams are going
to love that at the next level. And just just
to be totally clear, like I love talking about the
quarterbacks because they set the draft, like every draft is
kind of determined at least from a you know, casual
fan standpoint in terms of how good the draft will
be that year. And this year is so fascinting because again,
you don't have that number one guy that I think
that stands out above the rest the way Andrew lucked
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at once upon time.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But it's certainly intriguing. Class.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Let's go ahead and pause for a break, real quick,
come back on the other side and talk about the
rest of the landscape this weekend in college football.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Some big games on the schedule.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
We'll do that with Chris Low next Draft Time Podcast,
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Draft Time Podcast, my guest today is Chris Low from
On three, breaking down all things college football for week
number eleven, and let's just go ahead and knock out
a couple of these games, you know, time slot by
time slot here, starting with a big noon game not
too often you get a top ten matchup in that
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noon window. Who are some players, Chris you're looking forward
to watching in this BYU Texas Tech matchup?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Well, I mean, I think when you look at what
BYU has been able to do, and they had, you know,
they had chances last year I thought to release to
climb into the into the playoff spot, the playoff role, uh,
and just sort of did not play great down the stretch.
But I really like what they've done across the board
in their.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Offensive line and and.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
You know, when you start talking about guys in particular,
I think there's a lot of guys and their ability
to control games in the offensive line, uh, to do
things both.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
In the past game and the run game.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
And that's the thing I think when you look at
teams that have a chance to you know, to go
far uh in the in the playoff, I think that's
that's one of the things that you look for. You know,
their tailback L. J. Martin has has been beaten up.
You know, he's like a guy who's rush ra eight
hundred yards. Looks like he's gonna be able to play
in this game. And certainly he's been a big beneficiary
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of their ability to play in the offensive line. But
I think when you look at tailbacks, they're running backs
across the country. He's probably a guy we haven't talked
enough about.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
It's a position that I feel like is kind of
coming back. I mean, we went for years there where
it was like no first round running backs, and now
it seems like every year we're getting more and more
guys that are in that range. And you're seeing what
quin Shawn Jenkins is doing right now, and obviously what
Omari and Hampton and Ashton Genty have done in the
first round before Hampton got hurt this year for the
Chargers and Raiders respectively. Then we move on to the
three thirty kickoff between Texas A and M and Missouri
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and A and M. Man they're climbing up those rankings.
It's a prospect may even every single year. What are
you looking forward to in that game out in the SEC?
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Chris Well, Again, I think the offensive line, and if
you followed Mike Elko's career, he's always been had a
blue collar, tough, physical approach to the game.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
And their offensive line. I saw them live.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I was at the LSU Texas and Him game, and
the way they play up front and dictate the flow
of the game. Listen, they've got a quarterback we probably
should have mentioned earlier. Marcel Reid has gotten better every week,
and he's always been a guy who could make things
happen with his legs, but his ability to throw the
football has been outstanding.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And Casey exceptsy On is another guy.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
I mean, I think we've thought of A and M
as being a tough, physical, blood of your nose type
of game of team. But Mike said one of the
things they really look to do was to get more explosive,
and in both the return game, he's returned two punts
for touchdowns this year. Concepts On has as many transferred
from n C State and his ability to make plays
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after the catch, to get deep, you know, to get separation.
They look like a really complete team, certainly offensively, I
think check all the boxes.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And there's a reason.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
I think, what are they ranked third this week in
the play the first playoff rankings. Yeah, there's a reason
they're ranked at highs. They are a complete, balanced, well
versed offense.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Let's go ahead and finish up with the game we
already talked about, but from a non quarterback perspective, because
I mean I can think back to two of versus
Burrow and the to me, the greatest college football game
of all time, just in terms of the NFL prospects
out there every year for this game, you're going to
get at least ten draft picks from this game. What
are you looking forward to outside of Ty Simpson and
Gus Garrett nes Meyer in the LSU Bama tilt.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, that that game.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
I still go back to the eleven game, the twenty
eleven game where there was like twenty four draft picks
on defense along and I remember Joe Pendry walking by
me was like a nine to six game, and he said,
this will be a logo game they'll play between the
thirties because there's so many great defensive players. And he's right,
there were You know, you look at the at Alabama
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on defense, they've gotten better every week. I think Kane Walmock,
their defensive coordinator, deserves a lot of credit.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Tim Keenan right through in the middle of that defensive line.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Remember he didn't play against FSU in that first game
he had the ankle surgery. He makes a huge difference
for them. He's just a guy you can't move out
of there and and he's seeing him and he's I think,
certainly in the right system in the NFL, he's going
to be one of those guys that I think plays
a long time if he could stay healthy.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
And you look at their offense.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Jeremy Bernard who came with everybody talked about Ryan Williams
and Ryan Willams is a good football player. But Jeremy
Bernard came with Caitlin de Boor and with Ryan Grubb
from Washington and he has made a ton of big
plays for them. And of course we can't forget big
Caden Proctor, who's become their modern day Swiss Army knives.
He's about three hundred and seventy pounds and they split
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him out there and throw it to him. They put
him in the backfield. He's another guy I think that's
gonna get. You know, a lot of looks. LSU has
not been we talked earlier, they've not been as good
on offense as I think a lot of people thought
they would be. But their corner, I mean I think
that in their back in what they've been able to
do and bring back or certainly go out in the
Portland get they've gotten a lot better on.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
The defensive side of the football.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
What weeks is probably questionable to doubtful this week at linebacker,
but I think he's the guy that, again, could play
every down on the field. I don't care if it's
down on the goal one, if it's third and long.
He's another guy that I think when you look at
what NFL people are looking for who can play every snap,
he certainly would fit that both.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, I have a lot of work to do on
the tape this year before I get into my final
draft evaluations, but I think Man started delaying right now.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Is probably my top cornerback that I've seen this year.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
So They've always got guys in that defensive backfield on
the defense to watch. LSU so Alabama LSU big game
to watch this weekend, along with the other ones you
talked about their Texas Tech BYU, Texas A and M
and Missouri. Thank you so much for your time today, Chris.
He is Chris low senior college football reporter at on
three at c low FB on Twitter. We appreciate your time,
and hey, enjoy the weekend of games. We're getting to
(29:35):
the good stuff now.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Man, Yeah, I look forward to it. Thanks for having me, guys,
I appreciate it.
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Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, a little bit of
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should say, we're gonna hear from the assistant coaches Anthony Weaver,
Frank Smith, Brian Duker, and possibly more. We're also gonna
stop by the college football weekend landscape and talk about
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Let's go ahead and kick this show off with some
SoundBite round up from the assistant coaches who met with
the South Florida media on Thursday morning. And I have
a few I want to get to here too, from
Anthony to kick things off. And you guys know by
now how much I really vibe with coach Weaver's leadership
style and the approach and the mindset he brings very
much the mindset of a former defensive lineman right. So
(01:11):
I wanted to play this story because he talked about
handling adversity and how he approaches these meetings and game
plan meetings and you know, presentations about the upcoming opponent
and just the entire operation of the job when the
results aren't going the way that you prefer them to.
And he told a story about nineteen nineties NBA basketball
(01:31):
and a player named Nick Anderson, which we'll hear from
him here in just a second, a comparison to Kobe Bryant,
and how he relates to the players, about these guys
and how their careers went in different directions after difficult
starts or I guess endings to their careers. Let's go
ahead and throw it to coach Weave, who talked about
his message and addressed to the team and relating it
to nineteen ninety five NBA Finals basketball.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
My message is very clear, like this is the NFL, right,
There's a reason my name tag is slides out right.
It's not in there permanently, so nobody cares.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Just work harder.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The comparison I gave him was where we're at just
as a team, right, as a defense I go I
compared Nick Anderson I'm aging myself now. I compared Nick
Anderson in like the nineteen ninety five NBA Finals game
won against the Rockets, Right, he misses four free throws
in a row and then go on and get swept
and from there like his career kind of fizzle. Unfortunately,
(02:28):
I don't know Nick, but his nickname was became Nick
the brick Anderson. But I just remember how good he
was as a player. And then I contrasted that with
Kobe and his rookie year when they were in the
playoffs and he shoots four airwalls right in critical situations.
I go, well, here's where we're at from an adversity standpoint.
All right, guys being traded, right, speculation, all those things.
(02:51):
I go, you can either be Nick Anderson and we
can wallow around in self pity. I go, oh, you
can just figure out we're at. Keep trying to get better,
which I think our guys have done right to date,
and try to be the mamba. I don't think anybody
wants to be a break, so our goal is to
be the mamba.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I think when executed well, speaking in parables like that
is like really profound and really impactful, and I think
that's important whether you're winning or losing games. So that
was cool to hear that stuff from coach Weaver. Let's
go ahead and do a hard pivot here on coaches
press conference, I asked him about the challenges of facing
that Buffalo offense with Dalton king Kid and Dawson Knox
(03:32):
and the ability to go to a twelve personnel grouping
or she'll hear him talk about here at twenty one
twenty two doesn't really matter. Two tight ends in the
field with their run game prowess, but also having two
attachment players who can be part of the run, fit
part of the run scheme and be effective that way,
but also be so dynamic down the field as pass catchers.
How different is that than what the rest of the
(03:52):
league has? And he compared it to the former Patriots
tight end duo between Gronk and Hernandez. Just good stuff
here again from coach Weave on the challenging of the
Buffalo offense and the uniqueness of their structure offensively and
how it challenges Miami's defense.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, that's why they do what they do right. It
makes it so you really can't be right from a
personnel standpoint. They're not quite the Gronk and Hernandez right
back in the day with New England, but the ability
to both line up in a twenty one personnel look
two back looks things that nature and then split out
and look like eleven can make you not right from
(04:26):
a personnel standpoint.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Just the last thought and some updates on some more
coach weave bullet points. He talked about Jason Marshall, who
got back into the lineup last week after being activated
off injury reserve, how he could be a potential solution
on the outside or in the competition with Ethan Bonner
to play opposite Jack Jones, should Rusul Douglas miss this
game on the outside cornerback position. So that's one of
those things that I'm excited to watch as we go
(04:49):
forward here. Right, Like we've talked about, you know, the
building blocks, the young pieces, We've uncovered a lot of
those already. We think Jordan Phillips, Travis thinks Jordan Phillips,
I should say, is going to be a heck of
a player. Kenneth Grant, Jonas of Vite and Iya coming long,
big fan of Ollie Gordon and Dante Trader. And yet
you still have more, you know cracks at this draft
class with Jason Marshall, who had a good camp, had
a good summer, and then missed some time with the injury.
(05:11):
Curious to see what he looks like. Could he be
a long term solution at the cornerback spot. You might
not get the information this year, but you can get
part of the information with how he plays down the stretch.
It's one of the many things I'm looking forward to
watching here over these final eight games, as the rest
of the season, as well as the trade deadline impact
and injuries. All that stuff plays into this kind of
cocktail of how do you roll out your.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Lineup each week.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I think it's one of the most intriguing things to
watch as we finish up the twenty twenty five season,
which I say finish up like it's almost over.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We have eight games last and nine weeks, but those
first nine weeks flew by man like. This has been
the fastest season I can remember, So before you know it,
we're going to be into January talking about playoff games
and the you know, the hiring cycle for teams that
replace their coaches and gms, as well as the draft
and free agency all that stuff a little year before
you know it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Trust me, it comes fast.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Let's go ahead and pivot here to Frank Smith, who
was asked about Patrick Paul early on and the comparison
between him his production this year and Toron Armstead last year,
and just his growth and where they feel he is
as a second year left tackle, first year started for
the Miami Dolphins and showing so much promise at that position.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Here is Frank Smith on Patrick Paul.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Tron when he was a rookie, he didn't play for
I want to say, almost two thirds of the season
and at the end of season played and you could
kind of see his potential in the second year it
really building. After I left after the second years, really
really got to see him take off in year three.
You saw a lot of signs in year two, and
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then year three was really kind of where it kind
of starts falling together. Because that's the hardest thing about
the NFL is just the expectation for when things come.
But a lot of times for lineman it's like right
and they as they start figuring things out, year two
three is really reciated. So yeah, there's a lot of
stuff to be very optimistic about.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Patrick.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I hate comparing because like Toront's like a different athlete,
different build, different movement skills, where Pat It's got size
and length and a different range and skill set. Like
because I remember Toront out of college. I mean they're
running a down and round scheme and he beat the
running back to the end zone like I mean he
ran like what was he ran like a four to
(07:24):
six at the combine where they're a little different. But yeah,
I mean you see the potential pad to be a
very good left tackle in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Speaking to young players, I thought this was also a
really good message akin to what we heard from coach
Weaver earlier, as we saw a handful of the young
guys right and this is a team that has kind
of restructured its core to be a younger team this
year and really kind of enact that youth movement. We
saw Taj Washington, Elak Washington, and Ollie Gordon all have
(07:52):
errors in the game on Thursday, the two fumbles from
the receivers and all of you with the tripping call,
albeit a call that you know you might disagree with,
it was a mistake in terms of the result of
the play, and coach was asked about how you essentially
like weigh those or how you approach that on the sideline,
how you put it into the evaluation, and how you
get those guys to bounce back. Here's coach talking about
(08:13):
mistakes from young players which are always going to happen, right,
and how to use them to your advantage as correction tools.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You know, when adversity hits, you know, it's how do
you handle it? You know, we all want life to
be an interstate where it's just moving along smooth. But
sometimes on the journey to where you want to go,
you have to take the country road which might be
bumpy and have more turns, but both can get you there.
It's just you have to stay the course and not
realize that one moment doesn't define yourself all right, that
moment can be defining to where you.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Want to go.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
On the topic of young players and finding gems or
potential future cogs for this roster, you guys know, I'm
a big fan of Greg Dolsitch coming here back in September,
big fan of his elevation, big fan of what he
did in the game on Sunday, So I asked Frank Smith,
did you learn more about Greg almost called him, Frank,
did you learn more about Greg in the Altimore game
than what you knew previously?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Here's coach Smith.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I think it kind of validated some of the things
he saw on tape of his ability in the passing
game and what he can do with his versatility. But
when you see him in the practice field, it's like
he's a diligent worker, very good communicator. So it was
great for the world to kind of see how he
can fit and how.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
He can help us.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
We'll stay on the topic of the young players and
finish up here with coach Brian Duker, who talked about
one of his defensive backs and Dante Trader. Will go
ahead and just get his take on some of the
things that he likes about Trader. And then I had
a follow up about Trader with regards to what we
heard when we had Mike Loxley on the show, the
head coach at Maryland, who praised and this was unanimous
(09:44):
across scouts. I talked to that not scouts, I should
say national media, scouts, draft analysts, people that talk to
scouts across the board. For Dante Trader was about his professionalism,
his approach, and how he it's basically a pro with
the approach of a pro, I should say at Maryland
and I asked coach, like, was that obvious in the game?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did you notice it in training camp? Back in spring ball?
When is it?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
When do you notice a player is on top of
their details the way Dante Trader is so first the
trades and the skills of Dante Trader and then his
makeup here from coach Brian Duker, I.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Feel good about what Trader's shown so far. I think
he's shown to be a good athlete, good instincts, very
professional in his approach, and I think all of those
things are going to translate and me, I think it'll
be a good start for us to.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
See that translated from you know, a wide eyed rookie
to a guy that is locked in and just on
top of all his details very quickly.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Yeah, you can tell kind of you know, rookie spring
really just the way they kind of go about the approach.
There's some guys that certainly developed that, but there's some
guys that come in right away, do you know. There's
plenty of guys that I've seen didn't come in necessarily
like that and kind of developed that down the road,
but from seeing some other guys, but he's one of
those guys that came in right away.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I went ahead and kept the end of my question
and because I thought it really helped set the stage
for his answer there. So that wasn't a mistake. That
was on purpose. Let's go ahead and take our first
break right there. Come back and we'll hear from Chris
Low on the weekend in college football, but also the
landscape of college football and how it might have an
impact on the NFL prospects coaches. All of that ahead
here with Chris Low. Next Draft Time Podcast brought to
you by AutoNation. I am joined now by the senior
(11:20):
football college reporter at on three, Chris Low.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Chris, welcome in, my friend.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Excited to talk to you about this weekend in college football.
The games get bigger every week, so we got to
have a big time guest on.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Chris. Thank you for your time today, my friend.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Well, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We're very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And I want to start with this because we usually
do these segments with more like a Dolphin's draft specific lens,
and we'll get to that. But having someone that has
such knowledge of the entire sport and the entire the
leagues of it all with your knowledge and your presence.
I wanted to get to this because you have your
finger on the pulse of the landscape of college football,
(11:57):
and just ask you about the massive shift across college
football these last couple of years. The major conference changes,
the nil money, the transfer portal. In your estimation, how
has that impacted the prospect aspect of everything with regards
the NFL Draft in recent years, and how do you
think it will impact it going forward?
Speaker 7 (12:16):
To me, the biggest impact is listen to the guys
who are top ten picks, top fifteen picks, maybe top
twenty picks.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
They're coming out.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
But guys that are maybe Boordline, you know, you're getting
different feedback.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
From people in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Maybe you're a late first round or maybe you're a
early second or third. A lot of these guys are
making so much money, and I'll use it. I don't
know that he's an NFL quarterback. Let's use Gunner Stockton
at Georgia for example. Here's a guy that's with outside
nil plus revshare, which is the money that schools now
(12:52):
are directly paying to kids. He's making somewhere between two
and three million dollars. Right, So if you're a borderline prospect,
you know, maybe you're a projected and and I'm not
saying he is, but a second, third, fourth round pick,
whereas in the past those guys, all right, I've put
good tape on, I'm probably not going to raise my
(13:15):
draft stock. If I stay around, they're gonna come out,
Oh guys like that. And again I'm just using him
hypothetically because they're making so much money and they're doing
so well.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Then there's the decision to.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Make, Hey, do I want to hang around. I'm still
gonna make a lot of cash if my team's good.
I got a chance to win a championship, get to
the playoff, and who knows, maybe improved my draft stock,
whereas it really wasn't a question five, six, seven years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah, it's so interesting, and like you know, I think
bow Nix is a good example of this of you know,
all the opportunities guys have to play extra years and
get that experience in college, and then by the time
they get to the league, you start that rookie contract
and you're already hitting the ground running with your you know,
your play speed, and the way you can process defense
or offense respective, but I think it's a big, big
difference for those guys. And then separately, Chris, you know,
(14:02):
we saw Jeff Hafley make a move a couple of
years ago that was kind of unthought of prior to
all of you know, this change in college football, going
from the head coach at Boston College to the defensive
coordinator at Green Bay.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Do you think we'll see more of that?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Like, what do you think that the impact on like
the way coaches approach thing approach things will be from
all this change.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
I've had guys in college rinks, especially guys who coached
previously in the NFL, come back to college and then
going back.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
To the NFL, say they like the work day, the
schedule better in the NFL because you know, you don't
have all.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Take June, for instance, in some of these months that
used to be pretty tame for college coaches. Now you're
having transferred guys come on or even in January they're visiting,
and you sort of gotta.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Keep up with that.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
And and the way you recruit, the way collectives are involved,
there's just so much more involved now in being you know,
in the college rinks. I'll say this, and talking to
a guy that I've known for a long time who
used to be a head coach in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
He's now back in college.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
He said, though, the thing that some of those guys
like when it comes is there there's so much more now.
It's predicated upon of evows. Your evoils have to be
really good. If you're looking for kids in the portal,
for instance, you're watching tape, do they fit? Do they
fit what we were doing in our system. So I
think there is more of an NFL type push in college,
(15:32):
but we've seen it. You know, Chif Kelly goes from
being the head coach at UCLA to be in the
OC at Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Now he's back in the NFL. Some guys just.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Don't like having to deal with, you know, the NIL
part of it. As I mentioned a minute ago, sort
of how the calendar has changed now than you're coaching
in college football. It's much more rigid, you know, regimented.
NFL you know when you're going to be doing it,
what you're doing or that doesn't change as much in
(16:02):
the NFL part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And we've for years seen you know, the NFL borrow
from college football in terms of schematics and concepts offensively
and defensively, and I think we'll see more of that
going forward. Here, let's go ahead and pivot the conversation.
Chris Low from On three covering all things college football.
I love, you know, this time of year, because you
get these big matchups for prospects who are trying to
kind of solidify their spot and you know, rankings ahead
(16:26):
of the draft season when we get to the Combine,
the Pro Days, the Senior Bowl, all that stuff. But
these guys right now, they're putting together their film, which
ultimately is what we'll decide their draft stock and this
weekend and maybe this is kind of the good and
bad of a quarterback class that isn't necessarily I think,
you know, on the on the level of what we
saw a couple of years ago with Jayden Daniels and
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Drake May and Caleb Williams and bow Nix and Michael Pennix.
But there's a bunch of quarterbacks that are kind of
intriguing folks out there. And the result of that is
you get three big time quarterback matchups this week, and
in terms of of tough opponents to face. When you
think about Fernando Mendoza and Indiana going to Penn State,
you think about Dante Moore and Oregon going to Iowa,
and then Ty Simpson going to LSU. What stands out
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to you about those matchups and how these quarterbacks can
kind of differentiate themselves among their peers for next April's draft.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, I'll start with Mendoza.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I was at the Indiana Oregon game earlier this year,
and I knew Mendoz was a good player, and I
knew that he had some good guys around it and the
serradicated receivers, a big time player. But boy, I was
really impressed his command of that offense, the way he
gets rid of the football, knowing where everybody is and
just sort of thinking a step ahead of everybody.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
He's got twenty five touchdowns.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
I don't think anybody in August would have pointed to
Mendoze and say, hey, he's gonna outplay with our sellers.
He's gonna outplay arch Manning, He's gonna outplay Garrett and Thatsmeier.
You know, Lagway wasn't necessarily well, I guess Likeway was
that draft?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Alis? Well?
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Anyway, my point is all these guys who were at
the top of boards in August, guys like Mendoze you
mentioned Tydd Simpson have outplayed those guys and now they're
really intriguing to NFL people as they get ready to,
you know, be a part of the draft.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Mendoza, I mean a South Florida kid.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
He's I liked his comments the other day about the
Maryland game when he was like, they took away our
pass concept, so I'm happy just to run the ball
for three hundred and seventy five yards.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
That's a good approach man that works at both levels.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
When you think about Dante Moore because you mentioned the
game they went to Oregon about a month ago or so,
really impressive game there from Indiana with Dante Moore though,
he's a guy that had the big game at Penn
State and and kind of looked the part there. What
do you think about him going into Iowa this weekend
in a tough place to play there in the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yeah, this is a big stage for Dante.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
You know, he took a shot a week ago or
so to the news and did not did not finish
the game, you know, and when I talked I had
a chance to talk to him and Dan Lenninghen was
out there. I think the thing about Dante is the
way he secured. He's you know, he sees things now
that he did in earlier. The game is not too
big for him. But this is a game, and you're right,
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I think this is a game not only for him,
for that entire Oregon team that I think a lot
of people are gonna be watching. We had a lot
of eyes on him how he plays against that defense,
because he's got all the tools. You know, he's mobile,
he can throw the football, he's got a great release,
a guy that can off script make big plays. And
certainly when you look at the NFL now, how many
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times do we see that, you know, among the best
quarterbacks in that league.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
So now I think this is a game. He's got
a couple of big games.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Coming up Dante does to prove that he will be
one of the top and that Upper Atlantic quarterbacks in
the draft.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, you know, Chris, I'm a Washington State alumni, so
my vitriol for the realignment is quite strong. But the
one thing I will say I do like about it,
even though my school no longer gets to compete at
the highest level is what you just talked about. We
get all these big time games down the stretch, and
one of these is going to be the LSU Alabama
game this weekend. And for Tys Simpson, you know you
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talk about we started the show talking about Bo Nicks
and what if five six years of college experience you
go from Dante Moore to ty Simpson. Both those guys
have like no more than ten college starts. I'm curious
what you think ty Simpson can prove here against LSU.
But also do you think he's ready to make that
jump after one year starting? Because right now when I
watch his tape, Chris, he looks like the most polished
quarterback at the college level.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, he does.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
I've seen Tye play live twice this year and had
a chance to watch him practice the week before game
week against Florida State. You know, Nussmeyer and Simpson are
a little bit alike and that both of them sort
of hung around to get their shot. You know, Nussmeyer
did at LSU last year and his first year as
a starter. This is Tydd Simpson's fourth year on campus
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at Alabama. I think that's helped him. You know, we
see guys move around. If, especially at that position, they're
not the guy, they lose the job in spring their
gone well.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Neither one of those kids did.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
They didn't run from a challenge, and I think that
says something about him, It says something about their development.
We'll start with Nuts. I don't think Nuts was healthy
healthy to start the season. He had that ab strain.
I think Kelly called it a torso, but it was
more of an ab that really hindered his ability to
throw the football. The first gosh, I don't know, three
(21:10):
four or five games and you could sort of and
what in going back and watching him after figuring that out,
you could see that now the team has not played
as well. They've had issues on offense, they haven't been
able to score, they haven't been able to run the football.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I think that's hurt him.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
But Ty Simpson has been You go back to his
first game against Florida Day. He didn't play that well,
he didn't play terrible, but the team around him, I
thought played soft. Since that game, he's been a big part,
not just on the field, but a big part of
that team, forming a harder edge and being more focused
and playing more at the level that you got to
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play to win some of the games they did, and
that's what you got to have your quarterbacks. Do you know,
quarterbacks are not just the leader of your offense, their
leader of your football team. And Ty has done that
in such a way that guy rally around him. I
love his ability to feel the pressure. And you know
he's not a guy, He's not Lamar Jackson, but boy,
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he can move and scramble and make plays. And we
talked about Dante offscript. I think Ty has been as
good at that as anything. And putting the ball in
tough windows and tight windows, different types of throws.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
He's grown a lot.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
And you Ryan Grubb is go see there, will tell
you they they sort of saw this in him back
in preseason, even the spring, but he's taking it to
another level. And I and again, when I'm in press
boxes and talking to the scouts, I've known him for years.
Everybody I talked to, I'll say, hey, have you been
through this school or that school? We've been and they
(22:44):
all talk about Ty Simpson. Just what you said that
he looks right now as polished as anybody.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I think that's instrumental.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I mean, teams are gonna love you mentioned that that
he didn't transfer right, didn't didn't go run away from
the opportunity to compete, And I think teams are going
to love that at the next level. And just just
to be totally clear, like I love talking about the
quarterbacks because they set the draft, like every draft is
kind of determined at least from a you know, casual
fan standpoint in terms of how good the draft will
be that year. And this year is so fascinting because again,
you don't have that number one guy that I think
that stands out above the rest the way Andrew lucked
(23:14):
at once upon time.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But it's certainly intriguing. Class.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Let's go ahead and pause for a break, real quick,
come back on the other side and talk about the
rest of the landscape this weekend in college football.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Some big games on the schedule.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
We'll do that with Chris Low next Draft Time Podcast,
brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on the
Draft Time Podcast, my guest today is Chris Low from
On three, breaking down all things college football for week
number eleven, and let's just go ahead and knock out
a couple of these games, you know, time slot by
time slot here, starting with a big noon game not
too often you get a top ten matchup in that
(23:45):
noon window. Who are some players, Chris you're looking forward
to watching in this BYU Texas Tech matchup?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Well, I mean, I think when you look at what
BYU has been able to do, and they had, you know,
they had chances last year I thought to release to
climb into the into the playoff spot, the playoff role, uh,
and just sort of did not play great down the stretch.
But I really like what they've done across the board
in their.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Offensive line and and.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
You know, when you start talking about guys in particular,
I think there's a lot of guys and their ability
to control games in the offensive line, uh, to do
things both.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
In the past game and the run game.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
And that's the thing I think when you look at
teams that have a chance to you know, to go
far uh in the in the playoff, I think that's
that's one of the things that you look for. You know,
their tailback L. J. Martin has has been beaten up.
You know, he's like a guy who's rush ra eight
hundred yards. Looks like he's gonna be able to play
in this game. And certainly he's been a big beneficiary
(24:46):
of their ability to play in the offensive line. But
I think when you look at tailbacks, they're running backs
across the country. He's probably a guy we haven't talked
enough about.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
It's a position that I feel like is kind of
coming back. I mean, we went for years there where
it was like no first round running backs, and now
it seems like every year we're getting more and more
guys that are in that range. And you're seeing what
quin Shawn Jenkins is doing right now, and obviously what
Omari and Hampton and Ashton Genty have done in the
first round before Hampton got hurt this year for the
Chargers and Raiders respectively. Then we move on to the
three thirty kickoff between Texas A and M and Missouri
(25:17):
and A and M. Man they're climbing up those rankings.
It's a prospect may even every single year. What are
you looking forward to in that game out in the SEC?
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Chris Well, Again, I think the offensive line, and if
you followed Mike Elko's career, he's always been had a
blue collar, tough, physical approach to the game.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
And their offensive line. I saw them live.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I was at the LSU Texas and Him game, and
the way they play up front and dictate the flow
of the game. Listen, they've got a quarterback we probably
should have mentioned earlier. Marcel Reid has gotten better every week,
and he's always been a guy who could make things
happen with his legs, but his ability to throw the
football has been outstanding.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And Casey exceptsy On is another guy.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
I mean, I think we've thought of A and M
as being a tough, physical, blood of your nose type
of game of team. But Mike said one of the
things they really look to do was to get more explosive,
and in both the return game, he's returned two punts
for touchdowns this year. Concepts On has as many transferred
from n C State and his ability to make plays
(26:21):
after the catch, to get deep, you know, to get separation.
They look like a really complete team, certainly offensively, I
think check all the boxes.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And there's a reason.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
I think, what are they ranked third this week in
the play the first playoff rankings. Yeah, there's a reason
they're ranked at highs. They are a complete, balanced, well
versed offense.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Let's go ahead and finish up with the game we
already talked about, but from a non quarterback perspective, because
I mean I can think back to two of versus
Burrow and the to me, the greatest college football game
of all time, just in terms of the NFL prospects
out there every year for this game, you're going to
get at least ten draft picks from this game. What
are you looking forward to outside of Ty Simpson and
Gus Garrett nes Meyer in the LSU Bama tilt.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, that that game.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
I still go back to the eleven game, the twenty
eleven game where there was like twenty four draft picks
on defense along and I remember Joe Pendry walking by
me was like a nine to six game, and he said,
this will be a logo game they'll play between the
thirties because there's so many great defensive players. And he's right,
there were You know, you look at the at Alabama
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on defense, they've gotten better every week. I think Kane Walmock,
their defensive coordinator, deserves a lot of credit.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Tim Keenan right through in the middle of that defensive line.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Remember he didn't play against FSU in that first game
he had the ankle surgery. He makes a huge difference
for them. He's just a guy you can't move out
of there and and he's seeing him and he's I think,
certainly in the right system in the NFL, he's going
to be one of those guys that I think plays
a long time if he could stay healthy.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
And you look at their offense.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Jeremy Bernard who came with everybody talked about Ryan Williams
and Ryan Willams is a good football player. But Jeremy
Bernard came with Caitlin de Boor and with Ryan Grubb
from Washington and he has made a ton of big
plays for them. And of course we can't forget big
Caden Proctor, who's become their modern day Swiss Army knives.
He's about three hundred and seventy pounds and they split
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him out there and throw it to him. They put
him in the backfield. He's another guy I think that's
gonna get. You know, a lot of looks. LSU has
not been we talked earlier, they've not been as good
on offense as I think a lot of people thought
they would be. But their corner, I mean I think
that in their back in what they've been able to
do and bring back or certainly go out in the
Portland get they've gotten a lot better on.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
The defensive side of the football.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
What weeks is probably questionable to doubtful this week at linebacker,
but I think he's the guy that, again, could play
every down on the field. I don't care if it's
down on the goal one, if it's third and long.
He's another guy that I think when you look at
what NFL people are looking for who can play every snap,
he certainly would fit that both.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, I have a lot of work to do on
the tape this year before I get into my final
draft evaluations, but I think Man started delaying right now.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Is probably my top cornerback that I've seen this year.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
So They've always got guys in that defensive backfield on
the defense to watch. LSU so Alabama LSU big game
to watch this weekend, along with the other ones you
talked about their Texas Tech BYU, Texas A and M
and Missouri. Thank you so much for your time today, Chris.
He is Chris low senior college football reporter at on
three at c low FB on Twitter. We appreciate your time,
and hey, enjoy the weekend of games. We're getting to
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the good stuff now.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Man, Yeah, I look forward to it. Thanks for having me, guys,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
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