July 26, 2025 • 29 mins
Colin gives his latest edition of Where Colin Was Right and Wrong. Colin discusses a report that LeBron James considered joining the Mavericks but chose to take the money with the Lakers and why his pursuit of Michael Jordan continues to impact his decisions. After Jerry Jones defends his position as owner and general manager of the Cowboys, Colin explains why this is the primary reason why Dallas hasn't played in a Conference Championship game in 29 years. Plus, Texas HC Steve Sarkisian drops by to preview the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Here we go on a Monday. Colin Wright, Colin wrong.
Let's roll it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Where Colin was right?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh, the offensively tone def Steelers. Mike Tomlin can't help himself.
Gave TJ. Watt the biggest non quarterback contract in the league.
They will once again lead the NFL in defensive spending.
It's not the player, but they paid Jalen Ramsey, they
played Darius Slay, they paid TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Watt.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yet they can't get their offensive line right. They let
Najee Harris go. It's not that Mike Tomlin's on a
good coach. This organization spends two much money. Billy doesn't. Rams,
don't Niners let defensive guys go. Kansas City doesn't pay defense.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Pittsburgh does. Where Colin was wrong?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Just when I gave the WNBA players credit for in
a private poll naming Kitlin Clark is the face of
the league going forward. And then Kelsey Plumb comes out
takes a shot at Caitlyn Clark because her team wasn't
present for you know, the meetings they're having regarding the negotiation.
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She said it was a very powerful moment wearing those
T shirts. But she said, you know, nobody from team
Caitlyn Clark was present.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Can we stop?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You guys are flying private. There's one reason Caitlin Clark.
Somebody joined the band that's roy popular. You're traveling in style.
Give it a break.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
NFL executives, scouts and coaches last week ranked Jalen her
ninth best quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That's what I've said.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Character, leadership, playmaking, strength excellent. Love him, but from the pocket.
After a Week five by the Eagles coaching staff reduced
a number of passes thrown per game to twenty four
and they were a better offense. Nobody's doing that for
Mahomes or Josh Allen. I can like a player, but say, yeah,
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there's limitations. Greg co SEL's been saying this for a year.
I love Jalen Hurts, He's not an elite pocket thrower.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Consistently, where Colin was right, well.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I said, Penn State I've set up for the last
month is the best team in the Big Ten. It's
not Ohio State. Even though the Buckeys have the best
offensive player and the best defensive player and Ryan Day.
Penn State was just awarded the media poll over Ohio
State as the best team in the conference. My prediction
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is a Penn State Texas National championship. I'll figure out
at the time who wins it. But I think the
Big Ten, we've been on it for a year, has
overtaken the SEC is the best program.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And the fact that Penn State gets.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Higher rated by the media that knows those programs over
the Buckeyes. We'll bring back the tech best two players
in the sport says.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Something where Colin was raw.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I sold my Shader Sanders stock after two speeding tickets.
I'm like, bro, you're a quarterback and you're a fifth
round pick. You got to have more self awareness.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But Mary K.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Cabot reported this week that because he performed so well
at camp, he has a legitimate chance to win the
starting job, so perhaps I bailed.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
A little early. Where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The ESPN rankings of the top rosters this year in
the NFL, seven of the top twelve are NFC. This
is something we started talking about last year. There was
about a three year period where the gap between the
AFC and the NFC was noticeable. But if you watched
the NFL last year roster composition, I thought the NFC
had more elite rosters. I thought Philadelphia's roster was the best,
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Detroit's was second, Baltimore's third. Seven of the top twelve
are NFC and oh, by the way, the NFC forty
eight and thirty three against the AFC last year.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Where Colin was right. What a shocker.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Only one NFL team hasn't signed their first round pick,
and it's the always cheap Cincinnati Bengals. Shamar Stewart is
the holdout. I've said it for years. Zach Tannler gets
criticized by a lot of people in the NFL. H
it's all Joe Burrow. He's got the cheapest owner there
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are owners. I don't love the guy down in Miami,
but he spends the facilities are amazing. Free Agents love Miami.
One team can't finalize their deal with the first round
pick the Cincinnati Bengals. That's why Joe Burrows Al was
kicked off where Colin was rowed. The Dodgers have hit
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one ninety eight as a team in their last ten games.
Last in baseball, they're two and ten in their last twelve,
just swept by the Brewers. Mookie Betts is in the
worst slum of his career. They moved Otani out of
the leadoff spot. The pitching too many injuries. I thought
this lineup, I believe that at the time, I said,
you can make an argument after Otani, Mookie Betts the
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best player in baseball. This is the best batting order
I have seen since the seventy five Reds.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
They officially can't hit where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well, Bradley Beal went to the Clippers and Jason McIntyre said,
it's the kind of move that will shift the paradigm
of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, I looked at the odds makers.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
They were plus two thousand pre trade plus two thousand
Clippers post trade. Oldest roster in the NBA with brooklow In,
Bradley Beal just got older. The Bradley Beal acquisition did
not make a dent in the Clippers' futures, despite the
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admiration of one Jason McIntyre.
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Speaker 1 (07:24):
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Wright stops by today.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It is a Tuesday. We're live.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's the Herd Jmac interesting story. The athletic kind of
broke an interesting story John Hollinger where there were whispers
in league circles that Lebron James, and we talked about
it on this show was looking at Dallas as a
landing spot. We've talked about this great front line. Here
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comes Cooper flag better coach, and you know, let's be honest,
if he went to Dallas, he would be the centerpiece.
Even though he's older. Lebron in Dallas every time he
goes to a new team for two years, it's like wow,
whereas in LA it's like Luca's team, and everybody knows
that new owners. It kind of feels like it isn't
nothing against Lebron, but he's not in the future. But
this is interesting, This is really interesting. So the athletic
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does report. We've been saying this now, I have been
saying this for three to four weeks. Dallas is a
better place to go. I mean, I get Cooper Flag
or Austin Reeves, I get a d or DeAndre Ayton.
But Lebron wasn't willing and this is what killed it.
According to John Hollingdry, he wasn't willing to leave fifty
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two million on the table for a mid level exemption.
So think about that. Lebron's a billionaire. He's a billionaire.
And my take is with Lebron Rich Paul told us
it was all about winning, it's not anymore. I think
Michael Jordan's still in his head. He knows in the
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basketball community, with basketball fans, he's never going to catch MJ.
MJ is six for six. MJ is more memorable. MJ's
got the logo, the brand, and sells more shoes. He's
more romanticized Michael Jordan. There are a dozen plays to
this day that you close your eyes and think about
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and you can see Michael Jordan do it unless you're
driving with Lebron. There's one that chase down block against
the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And so I think at Lebron at this point, he's
never going to catch him. He's never going to catch
him in net worth. MJ's networth is three point five
billion dollars. Lebron, even with the massive money he's paid,
is one billion. That's why you want throwing a basketball team.
I think he's chasing Michael. And here's the difference. Michael
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Jordan makes you feel something and Lebron doesn't. MJ and
I mean high level salespeople will tell you you want
to trigger emotion, and advertisers and consumers, you want to
make people feel something about a product. Michael has that
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you wear his shoes, you feel cool. You like being
on that side of the argument. So Michael's richer, more memorable,
bigger brand, and he makes you feel something and Lebron doesn't.
Lebron has kind of bounced around to the best basketball
opportunity every chance he gets. He's been the great basketball opportunist.
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And I've never criticized him for that. I understand it.
His first stop, he got drafted to Cleveland. Seven years
in they couldn't get him another All Star. I was
on the bandwagon get to Miami. But my take is, Shoul,
probably I should have stayed in Miami. In fact, I'd
argue the only time Lebron has ever made us feel
something was when he went back to his hometown. When
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he went back to Akron and he won in Cleveland.
Remember that letter, I'm going back home. Major feel something.
Then he won in Cleveland. Major feel something. But he's
sort of been the great basketball opportunists, and he's got
more points and more assists, and he's been to more finals,
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but he's never made us feel anything. I said this
the other day Tiger Woods, Major feel something. Scotti Scheffler's
just great. That's the difference. Arnold Palmer was more beloved
than Jack Nicholas. People loved Arnie. Why major feel certain
way works in politics works in sports. Michael Jordan still
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sells more shoes than Lebron. Just to give you the
influence of Michael Jordan. He got Derek Jeter in his
prime to where logo football jerseys all over this country
to Jordan, logo and I look at this, Lebron not
taking for one time in his career, giving up money,
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mid level exception to play with Cooper Flagg, Anthony Davis, Kyrie, Irving,
Derek Lively better coach.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Now, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
In twenty sixteen, Lebron said it quote, my motivation is
the ghost I'm chasing he played in Chicago. Even with this,
I think Michael's still in his head. So NFL cams
are underway, including the Dallas Cowboys in Auxnard. They've had
a pretty rough twenty nine years, haven't been to a
single NFC championship. So yesterday or the day before, Jerry
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Jones was asked, I think a very reasonable and appropriate
question about remaining as general manager, stepping away as general
manager ever bet even a momentary consideration.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
For you for the eggs.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Uh, yes, momentary, A lot of moments.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Now we're getting that to it small fractions of seconds
as you know, you see it. I'm in senior bowls.
Combines all of that, all of that melts into a
real good feeling about where we are, so that I'm
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not sitting up there throwing darts about a player.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The downside to wealth is that it starts to make
you feel you're great at everything. The Cowboys had a
great draft in twenty twenty. That's their last great one.
The Eagles last great draft was the last four. Their
first two picks last year home run, home run, position
of need corner.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
They nailed both.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I think the minute you start thinking you can do
two to three things exceptionally well, you get into trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Six years ago was the greatest coach in the world,
but then he started taking over the draft in personnel,
and New England became the slowest team in the league offensively.
He was toned off to offense as the league pivoted,
and he got rushed out of town and couldn't get
another job. Bill O'Brien, I think a good coach. Houston
Texans made him GMN coach. Bad drafts, trades were worse.
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Remember they gave d hop Away for like, you know,
a bag of doritos.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Like it was brutal.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And I think I think the way to do it's
the way Brad Stevens did with the Celtics. Very very
good coach, but he's like, you know, this coaching thing
is hard. In a lot of travel and I love basketball.
I'm just going to move upstairs be a GM. I'm
eventually a great one and give it to the new guy.
That's the way to do it. You're seeing it in
college football. The smart coaches, they don't want to be GM.
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They make their school higher. One Elon Musk brilliant dabbled
in politics. Tesla stocks still down fifteen percent. It's hard
to just do a bunch of stuff really well unless
you're show hey, O Tony. The Cowboys don't draft well.
The Cowboys overpay for good players and they're non existent
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last couple of years in free agency.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I said this a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
How the hell could they not pay eight million dollars
for Derrick Henry and the Eagles, with a stacked, often
veteran expensive roster.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Pay for Saquon Barkley. How is that possible?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Philadelphia is paying their quarterback, a receiver, tight ends, three
offensive linemen, everybody but Jalen carter linebackers, safeties, and.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
They still have room.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Dallas is like, I don't know if we can afford
I'm not sure if we can afford eight million to
improve the worst running back room in the league. And
they couldn't and Baltimore could another well run team. So
but you know, sometimes with Dallas it feel it feels
like nobody's clapped in Dallas since Jason Garrett I was
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looking this morning. NFC Championship Game's most recent appearances. The Bears, Giants, Panthers, Cardinals, Falcons, Saints,
Bucks have all been to a conference championship game, and
the Cowboys haveen since nineteen ninety five. And Jerry will
never give up control. If you don't believe me, believe him.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I gave every frigging thing in my life and then
exposed probably two or three times that to get to
set up here, and I danced with that devilin and
I'm dancing with it a few other times along the way.
So if you think a little bit of what you
write is going to deter me I'm sitting up here
doing what I want to do, You're wrong. It's just
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not going to do it because I've danced with the devil,
the financial devil, and live to tell about it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
That's the downside to wealth. You convince yourself you're great
at everything. And I mean think about this. Justin coaching,
forget personnel. They let Dan Quinn walk to retain Mike McCarthy.
A year later, McCarthy walks off out of Dallas, and
Quinn becomes the coach of the rival and the next
superstar quarterback in the NFC coaching, free agency, drafting, developing
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the cap, He's convinced he knows how to do.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
All of it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
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Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, there were thirteen and three last year before losing
to the Buckeyes. One of the reasons I love the
College Football Playoff is that you can play big games
early and even if you lose thirty five thirty, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You can grow as a team.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You don't have to go undefeated the rest of the
way to play for the College Football National Championship. The
Buckeyes last year lost as a twenty point favorite home
after losing to Oregon and Notatson, and they still made it.
That's why I love Texas and Ohio State plan. My
buddy Sarks joining us coach of the Horns Texas Longhorns,
who I have playing in the National Championship this year
against Penn State. The two best teams I think are
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Penn State and you guys. I want you to go back,
Sark to your USC days, your Washington day's, the Alabama
days and now at Texas. This is a this is
a lot to chew on in week one road game
Ohio State. You guys, Pete Carroll and you guys, you
played some tough games early. Go back in your career.
Is this Is there anything that reminds you of this
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kind of game as an opener.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
As an opener. The only one I could think of,
Colin is when we went to Auburn. I want to think.
I want to say it was two and it was
Liner's first career star Reggie, Reggie Lindell were true freshmen
and we went into We went into Auburn and they
were they were pretty highly ranked team. But but I
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don't know of anybody you know, going on the road
playing the defending national champions after having played them in
the semi finals ended our season last year, and then
we turn around and open with them this year. It's
gonna be heck of a game. But that's you just
touched on it. That's the beauty of this format. Now
that that you can afford to play these games. It's
great for the fans, it's great for college football. Everybody's
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talking about it. And I was jokingly saying, you know,
it's so different than the NFL. Nobody's talking about Week
one matchups in the NFL. Everybody's talking about this game.
And and that the idea that I don't think either
of us get punished playing this game. Obviously, we all
we both need to play well throughout the entirety of
the season. But but sure, it's what what a spotlight
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it puts on both programs and as well as college football.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, and also it's a litmus test. You'll know a
lot of your team that you couldn't you wouldn't know
if you played a lesser opponent. So here's what I
worry about. Four new offensive line starters. Now you've got
this is a position. You have recruited very very well
in archs Manning. I bet, just like Dad and Eli
and Archie is good at the line of scrimmage. You'll
get that ball away quickly. But it does to go
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on the road.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Sark.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
You know this better than anybody. The O line. You
don't have a preseason These are nineteen twenty year old guys.
That is a cohesion chemistry unit, not just a talent unit.
Are you concerned for new starters on the road?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Not the arts thing?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
That's fine, but you don't you don't have an exhibition
game to start.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's a lot to ask. Does it worry you?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, I think that's why training camp is going to
be so important. And you know, the beauty for the
offensive line is they have to compete against our defensive
front every day, and I think we've got one of
the premier defensive fronts in the country. They're very talented players,
but also a really good scheme, a difficult scheme. But
to your point, them all playing together as one is
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going to be critical, and arch does play a part
in that. You know, we're fortunate DJ Campbell's a returning starter.
Cole Hudson rotated with DJ played a bunch of football.
Trevor Goosby really at the end of the season. He
was playing against all sorts of high, high caliber opponents
from Georgia to Texas A and M to Clemson, so
he got a lot of experience at tackle. But there'll
be a couple of new faces in there, and I
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do think that's going to be one of the keys
for us in the ballgame is I don't want to
say protecting them, but putting them in really good positions
so they can go out and execute and plays a unit.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So Jeremiah Smith is on a short list of the
most talented college football players I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Reggie Bush.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I can remember seeing him as a sophomore and thinking, oh,
he could probably play in the NFL right now. Javon
Curse was kind of like that. When you play a
guy like Jeremiah Smith, do you bracket him, do you
double him? Do you trust your corners? He is so
physically strong. It's one of those you contain him?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Do you? I mean? What? How?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What is a game plan? Is there a perfect one?
Do you just mixed coverages?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
You know? It's interesting. I had a chance to coach
Julio Jones for two years uh in Atlanta. Reminds me
a lot of him. So big and physical but yet
fast and then cover ground, so strong at the point
of attack when the balls in the air, you see that,
you see that, you know, just the ability to make
contested catches. And I do think at the end of
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the day, a that's where your attention needs to be
but hey, they got really good coaches. He's going to
be moving around. He's not going to be lining up
in one position all the time. Ideally you've you've got
multiple people with eyes on him and guarding him. But
you can't. You still have to play great team defense,
and you've got to have the ability to stop the run,
and you've got to cover the two other white House
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they have are two really good players too. So I
do think a multitude of things that you can do well. Uh,
but you better know where number is at all times.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So it's interesting when you get quarterbacks that I've always
kind of felt like ideally I was talking to an
NFLGM about this. He goes, I'm not really hiring coaches.
I'm hiring CEOs. A coach to be a CEO. I
don't want him on the headset constantly. Now at college
it feels a little bit different. But you are a
CEO at Texas. You have a great athletic director, but
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I mean nil transfer portal, building a staff players. So
how much I know it's Arch's biggest start, yet, how
much freedom does he get at the line of scrimmage
In the opener.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Well, I mean there naturally, there's going to be some
you know, and we're still formulating that game plan. That
thing is nowhere near sett and Stone, and we're going
against a really good defensive coordinator, a Matt Patrician, which
I don't think people are talking to a whole lot
about of here's a guy who's been an elite defensive
coordinator at the NFL level and worked under coach Belichick's
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been a head coach with the Detroit Lions, and so
that that poses its own challenges too. There's not a
lot of tape, no no tape of him coaching in
college football, and so putting a plan together that we
feel good about also gives Arch a little bit of
freedom to to get us in and out of some
things that you know, as looks present themselves in the
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game because there's so many unknowns. I think is going
to be critical and he's more than capable of doing that.
You know, he's the guys. You know, it's been been
raised watching tape with with Eli and Peyton and his
dad and his grandpa and everybody. So we're going to
feel good about that. And he's got great composure and
he's been in some fires with us already, so we'll
feel good about it. Do we want to major in
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him have an audible on the road. That's a difficult
thing to do, but we're gonna give him some opportunities
to do those things, especially some critical moments.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So I you know, I was thinking about this. I
talked to urban Meyer about this.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I ni L's tricky, h Lincoln Riley's done a lot,
Brian Kelly has.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Done a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Deon Sander has done a lot, and those I would
argue those three there's value to it, but it is
hard to create culture and chemistry when you're bringing in
a player and paying him three times what you're paying
a third year starter.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Like in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Everybody understands there's the salary cap and there's certain guys
that get it, and it's the quarterback in college. I
think the nil. I'm for it, but there is a
danger in the transfer portal not screwing up chemistry.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Where do you land on?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I mean, have there been guys that you really like
but you're like, you know what, man, I'm not going
to pay this receiver that and bring him into our room.
Like is that something you have to think? A lot
about with the nil.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
For sure, I think you hit the nail on the head.
It happened this offseason we ended up not going on
a player because I didn't feel comfortable about what he
would have had to what it would have cost us
to get him in comparison to other players on that
side of the ball. And we we love our culture,
and we we've exhausted ourselves and building the culture here
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at the University of Texas, and it's really good and
and we're navigating the NIL space I think is good
or better than anybody. I think there's a lot of
respect in our locker room. We believe in production. This
is a production based industry, right. How you perform ultimately
is how you get compensated. And and so I think
our players understand that. And so when you bring somebody
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in from the outside that all of the sudden is
making more than everybody else, I think that's when you
can run into some problems. And and so you've got
to make those decisions because we're a really good football team.
That's the beauty of our sport. I think teams win championships,
not not just a bunch of talented individuals. And we've
got a really good team. And I'm very cautious to
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uh to do anything to to to cause you know,
any type of you know, feud or disruption to that
what we have going right now.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Finally, what is arch Manning's best trait? Something that you
didn't even have to coach. It's just intuitive. There is
something he just did well the minute he got on campus.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Work ethic. His work ethic is incredible, whether it's you know,
studying tape, studying film, studying the playbook, working at his craft,
you know, in the weight room like that. That that is,
whether it's innate in him or uh it was you know,
handed down from his uncles whatever, whatever it was, his
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work ethic is really pretty incredible. And that lends itself
to the teammate that he is too. And again that's
not to take away the arm talent, the deep ball,
the athleticism, all that. I think all those things are
a byproduct of how hard he works at his craft
and how hard he works at being a great teammate.
You know, those those things. I've never had to coach
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him on it that he walked in the door was
a great teammate and has worked his tail off from
day one.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
You know you're a coach. You could do TV. You
did a little TV, but in the end, you're a coach.
You just love coaching. You're an ex as and O's guy,
one of the smarter guys I've ever met that does that.
And I watched Nick Saban on TV, and I think
he's such a coach. Nick such a coach. I don't
think he's coming back to college. Let me ask you
if somebody in the NFL called him, maybe the team
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that got Arch Manning or got a great quarterback, do
you think Nick Saban would take the call?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
You know him, you know him well.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
You already have him in Cleveland. I heard you, yesday,
you already have in Cleveland. He's coaching Arch. I only
have Arch for one year, thought I was gonna have
him for two. I don't know. You know, hey, he
is a great coach and I loved my time working
for Nick. I mean, he really is a fantastic coach.
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I think he feels really comfortable to me. You know,
he's really good on TV. I think he enjoys what
he gets to do. He's playing a ton of golf,
which which he loves doing. I'm sure, I'm sure you
know Miss Terry loves having him at home, so I
don't know, you know, that's obviously a personal thing as
he grows. I know he's one of, if not the
most competitive person I've ever been around, so sure of
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those competitive juices get flowing pretty good. But man, he
looks like he's having a lot of fun doing television.
He looks relaxed, and he's great for our sport. You know,
I know people are love tuning into it to hear
his inside out all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, you know, it was just speculation on my part.
I you know, I just that's what I do. Steve great, seeing.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
You you too, man, you too?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
All right, one of my favorite guys, Sark, who's had
just a fascinating journey. I mean, I'm telling you right, Texas,
Ohio State. I mean, I am parked. Pregame game, post
game on Fox.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
That is going to be.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That's as good an opening game as we've ever had
on that Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
That's as good as it gets. It's the hurt
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Here we go on a Monday. Colin Wright, Colin wrong.
Let's roll it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Where Colin was right?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh, the offensively tone def Steelers. Mike Tomlin can't help himself.
Gave TJ. Watt the biggest non quarterback contract in the league.
They will once again lead the NFL in defensive spending.
It's not the player, but they paid Jalen Ramsey, they
played Darius Slay, they paid TJ.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Watt.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yet they can't get their offensive line right. They let
Najee Harris go. It's not that Mike Tomlin's on a
good coach. This organization spends two much money. Billy doesn't. Rams,
don't Niners let defensive guys go. Kansas City doesn't pay defense.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Pittsburgh does. Where Colin was wrong?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Just when I gave the WNBA players credit for in
a private poll naming Kitlin Clark is the face of
the league going forward. And then Kelsey Plumb comes out
takes a shot at Caitlyn Clark because her team wasn't
present for you know, the meetings they're having regarding the negotiation.
(01:32):
She said it was a very powerful moment wearing those
T shirts. But she said, you know, nobody from team
Caitlyn Clark was present.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Can we stop?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You guys are flying private. There's one reason Caitlin Clark.
Somebody joined the band that's roy popular. You're traveling in style.
Give it a break.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
NFL executives, scouts and coaches last week ranked Jalen her
ninth best quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That's what I've said.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Character, leadership, playmaking, strength excellent. Love him, but from the pocket.
After a Week five by the Eagles coaching staff reduced
a number of passes thrown per game to twenty four
and they were a better offense. Nobody's doing that for
Mahomes or Josh Allen. I can like a player, but say, yeah,
(02:28):
there's limitations. Greg co SEL's been saying this for a year.
I love Jalen Hurts, He's not an elite pocket thrower.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Consistently, where Colin was right, well.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I said, Penn State I've set up for the last
month is the best team in the Big Ten. It's
not Ohio State. Even though the Buckeys have the best
offensive player and the best defensive player and Ryan Day.
Penn State was just awarded the media poll over Ohio
State as the best team in the conference. My prediction
(02:59):
is a Penn State Texas National championship. I'll figure out
at the time who wins it. But I think the
Big Ten, we've been on it for a year, has
overtaken the SEC is the best program.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And the fact that Penn State gets.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Higher rated by the media that knows those programs over
the Buckeyes. We'll bring back the tech best two players
in the sport says.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Something where Colin was raw.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I sold my Shader Sanders stock after two speeding tickets.
I'm like, bro, you're a quarterback and you're a fifth
round pick. You got to have more self awareness.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But Mary K.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Cabot reported this week that because he performed so well
at camp, he has a legitimate chance to win the
starting job, so perhaps I bailed.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
A little early. Where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The ESPN rankings of the top rosters this year in
the NFL, seven of the top twelve are NFC. This
is something we started talking about last year. There was
about a three year period where the gap between the
AFC and the NFC was noticeable. But if you watched
the NFL last year roster composition, I thought the NFC
had more elite rosters. I thought Philadelphia's roster was the best,
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Detroit's was second, Baltimore's third. Seven of the top twelve
are NFC and oh, by the way, the NFC forty
eight and thirty three against the AFC last year.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Where Colin was right. What a shocker.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Only one NFL team hasn't signed their first round pick,
and it's the always cheap Cincinnati Bengals. Shamar Stewart is
the holdout. I've said it for years. Zach Tannler gets
criticized by a lot of people in the NFL. H
it's all Joe Burrow. He's got the cheapest owner there
(04:46):
are owners. I don't love the guy down in Miami,
but he spends the facilities are amazing. Free Agents love Miami.
One team can't finalize their deal with the first round
pick the Cincinnati Bengals. That's why Joe Burrows Al was
kicked off where Colin was rowed. The Dodgers have hit
(05:08):
one ninety eight as a team in their last ten games.
Last in baseball, they're two and ten in their last twelve,
just swept by the Brewers. Mookie Betts is in the
worst slum of his career. They moved Otani out of
the leadoff spot. The pitching too many injuries. I thought
this lineup, I believe that at the time, I said,
you can make an argument after Otani, Mookie Betts the
(05:28):
best player in baseball. This is the best batting order
I have seen since the seventy five Reds.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
They officially can't hit where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well, Bradley Beal went to the Clippers and Jason McIntyre said,
it's the kind of move that will shift the paradigm
of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, I looked at the odds makers.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
They were plus two thousand pre trade plus two thousand
Clippers post trade. Oldest roster in the NBA with brooklow In,
Bradley Beal just got older. The Bradley Beal acquisition did
not make a dent in the Clippers' futures, despite the
(06:12):
admiration of one Jason McIntyre.
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Speaker 1 (07:24):
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Wright stops by today.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It is a Tuesday. We're live.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's the Herd Jmac interesting story. The athletic kind of
broke an interesting story John Hollinger where there were whispers
in league circles that Lebron James, and we talked about
it on this show was looking at Dallas as a
landing spot. We've talked about this great front line. Here
(08:03):
comes Cooper flag better coach, and you know, let's be honest,
if he went to Dallas, he would be the centerpiece.
Even though he's older. Lebron in Dallas every time he
goes to a new team for two years, it's like wow,
whereas in LA it's like Luca's team, and everybody knows
that new owners. It kind of feels like it isn't
nothing against Lebron, but he's not in the future. But
this is interesting, This is really interesting. So the athletic
(08:25):
does report. We've been saying this now, I have been
saying this for three to four weeks. Dallas is a
better place to go. I mean, I get Cooper Flag
or Austin Reeves, I get a d or DeAndre Ayton.
But Lebron wasn't willing and this is what killed it.
According to John Hollingdry, he wasn't willing to leave fifty
(08:48):
two million on the table for a mid level exemption.
So think about that. Lebron's a billionaire. He's a billionaire.
And my take is with Lebron Rich Paul told us
it was all about winning, it's not anymore. I think
Michael Jordan's still in his head. He knows in the
(09:08):
basketball community, with basketball fans, he's never going to catch MJ.
MJ is six for six. MJ is more memorable. MJ's
got the logo, the brand, and sells more shoes. He's
more romanticized Michael Jordan. There are a dozen plays to
this day that you close your eyes and think about
(09:29):
and you can see Michael Jordan do it unless you're
driving with Lebron. There's one that chase down block against
the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And so I think at Lebron at this point, he's
never going to catch him. He's never going to catch
him in net worth. MJ's networth is three point five
billion dollars. Lebron, even with the massive money he's paid,
is one billion. That's why you want throwing a basketball team.
I think he's chasing Michael. And here's the difference. Michael
(10:05):
Jordan makes you feel something and Lebron doesn't. MJ and
I mean high level salespeople will tell you you want
to trigger emotion, and advertisers and consumers, you want to
make people feel something about a product. Michael has that
(10:26):
you wear his shoes, you feel cool. You like being
on that side of the argument. So Michael's richer, more memorable,
bigger brand, and he makes you feel something and Lebron doesn't.
Lebron has kind of bounced around to the best basketball
opportunity every chance he gets. He's been the great basketball opportunist.
(10:46):
And I've never criticized him for that. I understand it.
His first stop, he got drafted to Cleveland. Seven years
in they couldn't get him another All Star. I was
on the bandwagon get to Miami. But my take is, Shoul,
probably I should have stayed in Miami. In fact, I'd
argue the only time Lebron has ever made us feel
something was when he went back to his hometown. When
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he went back to Akron and he won in Cleveland.
Remember that letter, I'm going back home. Major feel something.
Then he won in Cleveland. Major feel something. But he's
sort of been the great basketball opportunists, and he's got
more points and more assists, and he's been to more finals,
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but he's never made us feel anything. I said this
the other day Tiger Woods, Major feel something. Scotti Scheffler's
just great. That's the difference. Arnold Palmer was more beloved
than Jack Nicholas. People loved Arnie. Why major feel certain
way works in politics works in sports. Michael Jordan still
(11:51):
sells more shoes than Lebron. Just to give you the
influence of Michael Jordan. He got Derek Jeter in his
prime to where logo football jerseys all over this country
to Jordan, logo and I look at this, Lebron not
taking for one time in his career, giving up money,
(12:15):
mid level exception to play with Cooper Flagg, Anthony Davis, Kyrie, Irving,
Derek Lively better coach.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Now, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
In twenty sixteen, Lebron said it quote, my motivation is
the ghost I'm chasing he played in Chicago. Even with this,
I think Michael's still in his head. So NFL cams
are underway, including the Dallas Cowboys in Auxnard. They've had
a pretty rough twenty nine years, haven't been to a
single NFC championship. So yesterday or the day before, Jerry
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Jones was asked, I think a very reasonable and appropriate
question about remaining as general manager, stepping away as general
manager ever bet even a momentary consideration.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
For you for the eggs.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Uh, yes, momentary, A lot of moments.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Now we're getting that to it small fractions of seconds
as you know, you see it. I'm in senior bowls.
Combines all of that, all of that melts into a
real good feeling about where we are, so that I'm
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not sitting up there throwing darts about a player.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The downside to wealth is that it starts to make
you feel you're great at everything. The Cowboys had a
great draft in twenty twenty. That's their last great one.
The Eagles last great draft was the last four. Their
first two picks last year home run, home run, position
of need corner.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
They nailed both.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I think the minute you start thinking you can do
two to three things exceptionally well, you get into trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Six years ago was the greatest coach in the world,
but then he started taking over the draft in personnel,
and New England became the slowest team in the league offensively.
He was toned off to offense as the league pivoted,
and he got rushed out of town and couldn't get
another job. Bill O'Brien, I think a good coach. Houston
Texans made him GMN coach. Bad drafts, trades were worse.
(14:40):
Remember they gave d hop Away for like, you know,
a bag of doritos.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Like it was brutal.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And I think I think the way to do it's
the way Brad Stevens did with the Celtics. Very very
good coach, but he's like, you know, this coaching thing
is hard. In a lot of travel and I love basketball.
I'm just going to move upstairs be a GM. I'm
eventually a great one and give it to the new guy.
That's the way to do it. You're seeing it in
college football. The smart coaches, they don't want to be GM.
(15:08):
They make their school higher. One Elon Musk brilliant dabbled
in politics. Tesla stocks still down fifteen percent. It's hard
to just do a bunch of stuff really well unless
you're show hey, O Tony. The Cowboys don't draft well.
The Cowboys overpay for good players and they're non existent
(15:29):
last couple of years in free agency.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I said this a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
How the hell could they not pay eight million dollars
for Derrick Henry and the Eagles, with a stacked, often
veteran expensive roster.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Pay for Saquon Barkley. How is that possible?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Philadelphia is paying their quarterback, a receiver, tight ends, three
offensive linemen, everybody but Jalen carter linebackers, safeties, and.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
They still have room.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Dallas is like, I don't know if we can afford
I'm not sure if we can afford eight million to
improve the worst running back room in the league. And
they couldn't and Baltimore could another well run team. So
but you know, sometimes with Dallas it feel it feels
like nobody's clapped in Dallas since Jason Garrett I was
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looking this morning. NFC Championship Game's most recent appearances. The Bears, Giants, Panthers, Cardinals, Falcons, Saints,
Bucks have all been to a conference championship game, and
the Cowboys haveen since nineteen ninety five. And Jerry will
never give up control. If you don't believe me, believe him.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I gave every frigging thing in my life and then
exposed probably two or three times that to get to
set up here, and I danced with that devilin and
I'm dancing with it a few other times along the way.
So if you think a little bit of what you
write is going to deter me I'm sitting up here
doing what I want to do, You're wrong. It's just
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not going to do it because I've danced with the devil,
the financial devil, and live to tell about it.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
That's the downside to wealth. You convince yourself you're great
at everything. And I mean think about this. Justin coaching,
forget personnel. They let Dan Quinn walk to retain Mike McCarthy.
A year later, McCarthy walks off out of Dallas, and
Quinn becomes the coach of the rival and the next
superstar quarterback in the NFC coaching, free agency, drafting, developing
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the cap, He's convinced he knows how to do.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
All of it.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
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Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well, there were thirteen and three last year before losing
to the Buckeyes. One of the reasons I love the
College Football Playoff is that you can play big games
early and even if you lose thirty five thirty, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You can grow as a team.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You don't have to go undefeated the rest of the
way to play for the College Football National Championship. The
Buckeyes last year lost as a twenty point favorite home
after losing to Oregon and Notatson, and they still made it.
That's why I love Texas and Ohio State plan. My
buddy Sarks joining us coach of the Horns Texas Longhorns,
who I have playing in the National Championship this year
against Penn State. The two best teams I think are
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Penn State and you guys. I want you to go back,
Sark to your USC days, your Washington day's, the Alabama
days and now at Texas. This is a this is
a lot to chew on in week one road game
Ohio State. You guys, Pete Carroll and you guys, you
played some tough games early. Go back in your career.
Is this Is there anything that reminds you of this
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kind of game as an opener.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
As an opener. The only one I could think of,
Colin is when we went to Auburn. I want to think.
I want to say it was two and it was
Liner's first career star Reggie, Reggie Lindell were true freshmen
and we went into We went into Auburn and they
were they were pretty highly ranked team. But but I
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don't know of anybody you know, going on the road
playing the defending national champions after having played them in
the semi finals ended our season last year, and then
we turn around and open with them this year. It's
gonna be heck of a game. But that's you just
touched on it. That's the beauty of this format. Now
that that you can afford to play these games. It's
great for the fans, it's great for college football. Everybody's
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talking about it. And I was jokingly saying, you know,
it's so different than the NFL. Nobody's talking about Week
one matchups in the NFL. Everybody's talking about this game.
And and that the idea that I don't think either
of us get punished playing this game. Obviously, we all
we both need to play well throughout the entirety of
the season. But but sure, it's what what a spotlight
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it puts on both programs and as well as college football.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, and also it's a litmus test. You'll know a
lot of your team that you couldn't you wouldn't know
if you played a lesser opponent. So here's what I
worry about. Four new offensive line starters. Now you've got
this is a position. You have recruited very very well
in archs Manning. I bet, just like Dad and Eli
and Archie is good at the line of scrimmage. You'll
get that ball away quickly. But it does to go
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on the road.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Sark.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
You know this better than anybody. The O line. You
don't have a preseason These are nineteen twenty year old guys.
That is a cohesion chemistry unit, not just a talent unit.
Are you concerned for new starters on the road?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Not the arts thing?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
That's fine, but you don't you don't have an exhibition
game to start.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's a lot to ask. Does it worry you?
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, I think that's why training camp is going to
be so important. And you know, the beauty for the
offensive line is they have to compete against our defensive
front every day, and I think we've got one of
the premier defensive fronts in the country. They're very talented players,
but also a really good scheme, a difficult scheme. But
to your point, them all playing together as one is
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going to be critical, and arch does play a part
in that. You know, we're fortunate DJ Campbell's a returning starter.
Cole Hudson rotated with DJ played a bunch of football.
Trevor Goosby really at the end of the season. He
was playing against all sorts of high, high caliber opponents
from Georgia to Texas A and M to Clemson, so
he got a lot of experience at tackle. But there'll
be a couple of new faces in there, and I
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do think that's going to be one of the keys
for us in the ballgame is I don't want to
say protecting them, but putting them in really good positions
so they can go out and execute and plays a unit.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So Jeremiah Smith is on a short list of the
most talented college football players I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Reggie Bush.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I can remember seeing him as a sophomore and thinking, oh,
he could probably play in the NFL right now. Javon
Curse was kind of like that. When you play a
guy like Jeremiah Smith, do you bracket him, do you
double him? Do you trust your corners? He is so
physically strong. It's one of those you contain him?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Do you? I mean? What? How?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What is a game plan? Is there a perfect one?
Do you just mixed coverages?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
You know? It's interesting. I had a chance to coach
Julio Jones for two years uh in Atlanta. Reminds me
a lot of him. So big and physical but yet
fast and then cover ground, so strong at the point
of attack when the balls in the air, you see that,
you see that, you know, just the ability to make
contested catches. And I do think at the end of
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the day, a that's where your attention needs to be
but hey, they got really good coaches. He's going to
be moving around. He's not going to be lining up
in one position all the time. Ideally you've you've got
multiple people with eyes on him and guarding him. But
you can't. You still have to play great team defense,
and you've got to have the ability to stop the run,
and you've got to cover the two other white House
(22:53):
they have are two really good players too. So I
do think a multitude of things that you can do well. Uh,
but you better know where number is at all times.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So it's interesting when you get quarterbacks that I've always
kind of felt like ideally I was talking to an
NFLGM about this. He goes, I'm not really hiring coaches.
I'm hiring CEOs. A coach to be a CEO. I
don't want him on the headset constantly. Now at college
it feels a little bit different. But you are a
CEO at Texas. You have a great athletic director, but
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I mean nil transfer portal, building a staff players. So
how much I know it's Arch's biggest start, yet, how
much freedom does he get at the line of scrimmage
In the opener.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Well, I mean there naturally, there's going to be some
you know, and we're still formulating that game plan. That
thing is nowhere near sett and Stone, and we're going
against a really good defensive coordinator, a Matt Patrician, which
I don't think people are talking to a whole lot
about of here's a guy who's been an elite defensive
coordinator at the NFL level and worked under coach Belichick's
(23:57):
been a head coach with the Detroit Lions, and so
that that poses its own challenges too. There's not a
lot of tape, no no tape of him coaching in
college football, and so putting a plan together that we
feel good about also gives Arch a little bit of
freedom to to get us in and out of some
things that you know, as looks present themselves in the
(24:17):
game because there's so many unknowns. I think is going
to be critical and he's more than capable of doing that.
You know, he's the guys. You know, it's been been
raised watching tape with with Eli and Peyton and his
dad and his grandpa and everybody. So we're going to
feel good about that. And he's got great composure and
he's been in some fires with us already, so we'll
feel good about it. Do we want to major in
(24:39):
him have an audible on the road. That's a difficult
thing to do, but we're gonna give him some opportunities
to do those things, especially some critical moments.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So I you know, I was thinking about this. I
talked to urban Meyer about this.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I ni L's tricky, h Lincoln Riley's done a lot,
Brian Kelly has.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Done a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Deon Sander has done a lot, and those I would
argue those three there's value to it, but it is
hard to create culture and chemistry when you're bringing in
a player and paying him three times what you're paying
a third year starter.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Like in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Everybody understands there's the salary cap and there's certain guys
that get it, and it's the quarterback in college. I
think the nil. I'm for it, but there is a
danger in the transfer portal not screwing up chemistry.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Where do you land on?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I mean, have there been guys that you really like
but you're like, you know what, man, I'm not going
to pay this receiver that and bring him into our room.
Like is that something you have to think? A lot
about with the nil.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
For sure, I think you hit the nail on the head.
It happened this offseason we ended up not going on
a player because I didn't feel comfortable about what he
would have had to what it would have cost us
to get him in comparison to other players on that
side of the ball. And we we love our culture,
and we we've exhausted ourselves and building the culture here
(26:04):
at the University of Texas, and it's really good and
and we're navigating the NIL space I think is good
or better than anybody. I think there's a lot of
respect in our locker room. We believe in production. This
is a production based industry, right. How you perform ultimately
is how you get compensated. And and so I think
our players understand that. And so when you bring somebody
(26:25):
in from the outside that all of the sudden is
making more than everybody else, I think that's when you
can run into some problems. And and so you've got
to make those decisions because we're a really good football team.
That's the beauty of our sport. I think teams win championships,
not not just a bunch of talented individuals. And we've
got a really good team. And I'm very cautious to
(26:47):
uh to do anything to to to cause you know,
any type of you know, feud or disruption to that
what we have going right now.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Finally, what is arch Manning's best trait? Something that you
didn't even have to coach. It's just intuitive. There is
something he just did well the minute he got on campus.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Work ethic. His work ethic is incredible, whether it's you know,
studying tape, studying film, studying the playbook, working at his craft,
you know, in the weight room like that. That that is,
whether it's innate in him or uh it was you know,
handed down from his uncles whatever, whatever it was, his
(27:28):
work ethic is really pretty incredible. And that lends itself
to the teammate that he is too. And again that's
not to take away the arm talent, the deep ball,
the athleticism, all that. I think all those things are
a byproduct of how hard he works at his craft
and how hard he works at being a great teammate.
You know, those those things. I've never had to coach
(27:50):
him on it that he walked in the door was
a great teammate and has worked his tail off from
day one.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
You know you're a coach. You could do TV. You
did a little TV, but in the end, you're a coach.
You just love coaching. You're an ex as and O's guy,
one of the smarter guys I've ever met that does that.
And I watched Nick Saban on TV, and I think
he's such a coach. Nick such a coach. I don't
think he's coming back to college. Let me ask you
if somebody in the NFL called him, maybe the team
(28:17):
that got Arch Manning or got a great quarterback, do
you think Nick Saban would take the call?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
You know him, you know him well.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
You already have him in Cleveland. I heard you, yesday,
you already have in Cleveland. He's coaching Arch. I only
have Arch for one year, thought I was gonna have
him for two. I don't know. You know, hey, he
is a great coach and I loved my time working
for Nick. I mean, he really is a fantastic coach.
(28:46):
I think he feels really comfortable to me. You know,
he's really good on TV. I think he enjoys what
he gets to do. He's playing a ton of golf,
which which he loves doing. I'm sure, I'm sure you
know Miss Terry loves having him at home, so I
don't know, you know, that's obviously a personal thing as
he grows. I know he's one of, if not the
most competitive person I've ever been around, so sure of
(29:08):
those competitive juices get flowing pretty good. But man, he
looks like he's having a lot of fun doing television.
He looks relaxed, and he's great for our sport. You know,
I know people are love tuning into it to hear
his inside out all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, you know, it was just speculation on my part.
I you know, I just that's what I do. Steve great, seeing.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
You you too, man, you too?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
All right, one of my favorite guys, Sark, who's had
just a fascinating journey. I mean, I'm telling you right, Texas,
Ohio State. I mean, I am parked. Pregame game, post
game on Fox.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
That is going to be.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That's as good an opening game as we've ever had
on that Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
That's as good as it gets. It's the hurt
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