April 30, 2025 • 10 mins
Stacy Searels is the Offensive Line Coach at the University of Georgia. He joined us to discuss Bengals third round draft pick, and former Bulldog, Dylan Fairchild.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thing we like to do after the draft is if
we can try to get on some of these players.
Position coaches. Stacey Searles is the offensive line coach at
the University of Georgia. Has been in that capacity since
twenty twenty two, which means he coached Dylan Fairchild, the
Bengals third round pick, also on Marius Mems last year.
Stacey Serils a former UC assistant as well. It's good
(00:20):
to have you coach. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, I'm doing great, just that on the road recruiting,
trying to replace some of these kids that we lost
in the draft.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, you got a couple of them, including Dylan Fairchild.
So you show up in Athens in twenty twenty two,
Dylan Fairchild is already there. What do you remember about
the first time you met him.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, the first time I actually met Dylan was I
was at the University of North Carolina and I was
recruiting Georgia and here's a two time state champion wrestler
that I was hoping Georgia would not go on, and
he ended up signing with Georgia. When I show up
at Georgia, I'm really glad that he decided to sign
at Georgia. He is one tough kid kid, a great kid,
(01:01):
hard worker, and you couldn't ask for a better player
to coach.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Put the film on for me, we're watching him as
a prospect. What are you pointing out to me?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, the one thing is he's incredibly strong. He can
play with a bass, he can get movement, he can
finish people. Dylan, like I said, was a state chemp wrestler,
so that as to his leverage and ability to move people.
But the best thing probably about dealing Fairchild is his toughness.
(01:34):
He old school. If you ask him run through a
brick wall, he'll do it. And that mentality is what
office line coaches are looking for. And he'll do anything.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
A coach asked, where would you say you saw him
grow the most during the three years you had him
in Athens.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, like I said, his strength was really good
even coming out of high school. But he's such a
powerful young man. But he but he really he really
studied the game, Uh understanding U our playbook things like that.
But his his the violence he plays with was outstanding.
(02:13):
I can remember normally, uh, places I've been before on
Mondays and Thursdays is sort of a shorts practice. Things
like that. We'd be out there on Monday and Thursday
and between our Tuesday Wednesday bloody Tuesday and hard Wednesday practice.
But on Monday and Wednesday he would come out and
run the counter and the collisions and and and the
(02:33):
violence he played with was unbelievable. And I'm like, this
kid's gonna be a player. And the order was in
a backup role, and he just kept showing his toughness
and and not afraid to throw his face in there.
And uh, you know, he he earned he earned the
starting position. In the last two years, he's been a
staple for us. You know.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You you referenced something that has been talked about a
lot here, his wrestling background, and and you alluded to,
you know, the way that that can help when you're
playing his position. Can can you elaborate on it for me?
When you have an offensive lineman that has a wrestling background,
how does you how do you, as a head coach
try to try to blend the two skill sets?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, you know the one, the advantage he has over
other guys. A lot of times guys don't have the
balance and body body control and able to bend play
with leverage, move people. Uh, he's really strong with his hands,
and I think all that relates back to wrestling. And
then for offensive lineman, I wish they all played all
(03:35):
all wrestled, you know, they either need to. Are there
great skill guys that can move their feet and play basketball,
but that it translates of being able to get under people,
get your hands inside, replace your hands. You know. Play
in the offensive line is all about, you know, recovering
from getting in a bad position, and I think he
does a good job with that.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
When when you're his position, coach and uh, folks from
NFL teams reach out and go, look, you're gonna tell
us all the good stuff, and they asked for maybe
one thing that you would like to see him work on.
What do you mention?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know, sometimes he'd play out over a little hat
heavy at times because he tries to play with such recklessess.
Recklessness okay, easy for me to say. He tries to
destroy people. You know, I talked about the virus, and
sometimes he would play a little out of control, you know.
Getting in the NFL, I think he's going to, you know,
(04:30):
with coach Peters up there, is going to do a
great job of teaching how to play a little more
under control and still be violent, and that's one thing
he needs to do.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So Dylan Fairchild comes to Cincinnati a year ago. A
Marius Mims is the first round pick. Obviously, also someone
you coached. I know you're busy with your season during
the year, but the first year review for a Marius
Mims was awesome. I'm sure that's no surprise to you
at all.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, A Mars MEM's of freaking nature. Anytime you've got
a guy at six eight and three forty and eighteen
percent body fat, they don't make guys like that, Okay,
So I knew he'd go in the first round. The
other thing is he's he's really, really, really good at
the pass pro he you know, we'll start off season
in February, okay, and there's thousands of reps of one
(05:20):
on one pass we'll do through the year, and at
Georgia we go against really good players. You saw the
guys going in the first round. You've seen the guys
at Philly, and Mems will go against these guys and
there would be a handful of times that he might
get beat over. From February to we finished the season
in January and the playoffs or national championship and if
(05:42):
he if he is locked in, he don't get beat.
And that was the thing that really impressed me with Mems.
How strong he is. He can he can set people down.
And that's the one thing Dylan, you know, you put
those two guys beside each other, who knows where coach
will play them, But that would be a very powerful
side of the office slide.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, and you and I were talking about this off
are You've You've worked with a lot of guys who
went on to become Cincinnati Bengals throughout your career. So
if we could just do this every year, get a
Georgia guy. This, this this offensive line is going to
be like the best in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We'll have a couple more next year. And I'm blessed.
I'm blessed to be at Georgie and I'm blessed to
coach coach some really good guys and dealing Fairs House
one of my favorite all time, that guy. You know
a quick story. He pops his calf against Tennesse O'Neill
the week of the Texas game. His calff in practice
and Tuesday practice and I practice is at Tuesday on
(06:36):
Tuesday or or bloody Tuesday. They're hard and he pops
his calf and he ain't hardly walk for a couple
of days. And I'm like, you're gonna be okay, he said, Coach,
it's the biggest my career. Said, there's no way I'm
not playing against Texas. They were number one in the country.
We were like number five. And he's like, I'm playing.
So we'll get out there in pre game and he's
moving around okay, and I'm like, you okay, can you go?
(06:58):
He said, uh, yeah, I can go, said I just
can't run. I said, do what I can't run? You
got to run to play to know, Coach, I'm fine.
So he every time we run the counter and they
call for him to pull, they would flip positions. The
two guards would flip positions, be like, I can douce block,
I can move a down guy, but I can't sprint
(07:19):
and pull and block the corner. So he's extremely tough.
He'll play with pain in sixteen or how many. I
don't even know how many Radar season games you guys
play now, but that season is very long. You've got
you a tough guy that can play through pain. Because
it's a violent sports. Things are going to happen, and
(07:41):
he does have that toughness to play through pain.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's our kind of guy. He'll do well here. I
cannot thank you enough for doing this much appreciated. If
they get another Georgia lineman next year, and I'm kind
of hoping they do, we're gonna bug you. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Coach, good talking to you.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You got it. Stacy Ceril's the offensive line coach the
University of Georgia, coaching UH Dylan Fairchild each of the
last three years in Athens. Twenty eight after four o'clock
five one, three, seven, four nine fifteen thirty is our
phone number. Brendeman and Jones on baseball is coming up
in just about twenty five minutes on ESPN fifteen thirty
Cincinnati Sports.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Station Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Traffic from the UC Help Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
UC Help's Weight Loss Center offers comprehensive obcity care and
advanced surgical expertise. Call five one three, nine three nine
two two sixty three. That's nine three, nine two two
six three. Cruis have cleared an earlier accident eastbound two
seventy five that on the Combeshail Bridge southbound on Dixie Highway.
It is an accident that before Sleepy Hollow Road and
(08:47):
on Queens City Avenue. And it's another accident over at
Ridge Top Way on that Ezelac with traffic.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This is in ESPN fifteen thirty Miami University, Meet your
new Bank.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
The Cincinnati Bengals select.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Where Today's students become Tomorrow's leaders, presented by Skyline. Chili
sent a Natty drywall and ae door in window. Now
here's Moegger.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
With their first round pick in the twenty twenty five
NFL Draft, the Bengals selected Texas A and M edge
rusher Shamar Stewart. Stuart was a third team All SEC
performer for the Aggies last season. At six ft five
inches tall and two hundred and sixty seven pounds, he
absolutely looks the part, and there's no questioning his raw
physical traits. At the NFL scouting combine, Stuart ran a
(09:36):
four point five to nine forty yard dash, He had
a forty inch vertical and a ten feet eleven inches
broad jump. Athletically, Stuart has tons of upside. The question
is about his lack of production in college, where Stuart
had just one and a half sacks last season and
just four and a half across thirty seven games in
three seasons at Texas. A and M. Evaluators will point
(09:57):
out that the film shows a more disruptive player than
sack totals will indicate, and they'll mention that he led
his team in pressures last season with thirty nine. Still,
the Bengals need better production from a player they're counting
on to help improve their pass rush. Get to know
new Bengals defensive end Shamar Study.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Moe has more on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home
of the Bengals. This report is paid for by
Thing we like to do after the draft is if
we can try to get on some of these players.
Position coaches. Stacey Searles is the offensive line coach at
the University of Georgia. Has been in that capacity since
twenty twenty two, which means he coached Dylan Fairchild, the
Bengals third round pick, also on Marius Mems last year.
Stacey Serils a former UC assistant as well. It's good
(00:20):
to have you coach. How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, I'm doing great, just that on the road recruiting,
trying to replace some of these kids that we lost
in the draft.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Well, you got a couple of them, including Dylan Fairchild.
So you show up in Athens in twenty twenty two,
Dylan Fairchild is already there. What do you remember about
the first time you met him.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, the first time I actually met Dylan was I
was at the University of North Carolina and I was
recruiting Georgia and here's a two time state champion wrestler
that I was hoping Georgia would not go on, and
he ended up signing with Georgia. When I show up
at Georgia, I'm really glad that he decided to sign
at Georgia. He is one tough kid kid, a great kid,
(01:01):
hard worker, and you couldn't ask for a better player
to coach.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Put the film on for me, we're watching him as
a prospect. What are you pointing out to me?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, the one thing is he's incredibly strong. He can
play with a bass, he can get movement, he can
finish people. Dylan, like I said, was a state chemp wrestler,
so that as to his leverage and ability to move people.
But the best thing probably about dealing Fairchild is his toughness.
(01:34):
He old school. If you ask him run through a
brick wall, he'll do it. And that mentality is what
office line coaches are looking for. And he'll do anything.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
A coach asked, where would you say you saw him
grow the most during the three years you had him
in Athens.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, like I said, his strength was really good
even coming out of high school. But he's such a
powerful young man. But he but he really he really
studied the game, Uh understanding U our playbook things like that.
But his his the violence he plays with was outstanding.
(02:13):
I can remember normally, uh, places I've been before on
Mondays and Thursdays is sort of a shorts practice. Things
like that. We'd be out there on Monday and Thursday
and between our Tuesday Wednesday bloody Tuesday and hard Wednesday practice.
But on Monday and Wednesday he would come out and
run the counter and the collisions and and and the
(02:33):
violence he played with was unbelievable. And I'm like, this
kid's gonna be a player. And the order was in
a backup role, and he just kept showing his toughness
and and not afraid to throw his face in there.
And uh, you know, he he earned he earned the
starting position. In the last two years, he's been a
staple for us. You know.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You you referenced something that has been talked about a
lot here, his wrestling background, and and you alluded to,
you know, the way that that can help when you're
playing his position. Can can you elaborate on it for me?
When you have an offensive lineman that has a wrestling background,
how does you how do you, as a head coach
try to try to blend the two skill sets?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, you know the one, the advantage he has over
other guys. A lot of times guys don't have the
balance and body body control and able to bend play
with leverage, move people. Uh, he's really strong with his hands,
and I think all that relates back to wrestling. And
then for offensive lineman, I wish they all played all
(03:35):
all wrestled, you know, they either need to. Are there
great skill guys that can move their feet and play basketball,
but that it translates of being able to get under people,
get your hands inside, replace your hands. You know. Play
in the offensive line is all about, you know, recovering
from getting in a bad position, and I think he
does a good job with that.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
When when you're his position, coach and uh, folks from
NFL teams reach out and go, look, you're gonna tell
us all the good stuff, and they asked for maybe
one thing that you would like to see him work on.
What do you mention?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know, sometimes he'd play out over a little hat
heavy at times because he tries to play with such recklessess.
Recklessness okay, easy for me to say. He tries to
destroy people. You know, I talked about the virus, and
sometimes he would play a little out of control, you know.
Getting in the NFL, I think he's going to, you know,
(04:30):
with coach Peters up there, is going to do a
great job of teaching how to play a little more
under control and still be violent, and that's one thing
he needs to do.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So Dylan Fairchild comes to Cincinnati a year ago. A
Marius Mims is the first round pick. Obviously, also someone
you coached. I know you're busy with your season during
the year, but the first year review for a Marius
Mims was awesome. I'm sure that's no surprise to you
at all.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, A Mars MEM's of freaking nature. Anytime you've got
a guy at six eight and three forty and eighteen
percent body fat, they don't make guys like that, Okay,
So I knew he'd go in the first round. The
other thing is he's he's really, really, really good at
the pass pro he you know, we'll start off season
in February, okay, and there's thousands of reps of one
(05:20):
on one pass we'll do through the year, and at
Georgia we go against really good players. You saw the
guys going in the first round. You've seen the guys
at Philly, and Mems will go against these guys and
there would be a handful of times that he might
get beat over. From February to we finished the season
in January and the playoffs or national championship and if
(05:42):
he if he is locked in, he don't get beat.
And that was the thing that really impressed me with Mems.
How strong he is. He can he can set people down.
And that's the one thing Dylan, you know, you put
those two guys beside each other, who knows where coach
will play them, But that would be a very powerful
side of the office slide.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, and you and I were talking about this off
are You've You've worked with a lot of guys who
went on to become Cincinnati Bengals throughout your career. So
if we could just do this every year, get a
Georgia guy. This, this this offensive line is going to
be like the best in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
We'll have a couple more next year. And I'm blessed.
I'm blessed to be at Georgie and I'm blessed to
coach coach some really good guys and dealing Fairs House
one of my favorite all time, that guy. You know
a quick story. He pops his calf against Tennesse O'Neill
the week of the Texas game. His calff in practice
and Tuesday practice and I practice is at Tuesday on
(06:36):
Tuesday or or bloody Tuesday. They're hard and he pops
his calf and he ain't hardly walk for a couple
of days. And I'm like, you're gonna be okay, he said, Coach,
it's the biggest my career. Said, there's no way I'm
not playing against Texas. They were number one in the country.
We were like number five. And he's like, I'm playing.
So we'll get out there in pre game and he's
moving around okay, and I'm like, you okay, can you go?
(06:58):
He said, uh, yeah, I can go, said I just
can't run. I said, do what I can't run? You
got to run to play to know, Coach, I'm fine.
So he every time we run the counter and they
call for him to pull, they would flip positions. The
two guards would flip positions, be like, I can douce block,
I can move a down guy, but I can't sprint
(07:19):
and pull and block the corner. So he's extremely tough.
He'll play with pain in sixteen or how many. I
don't even know how many Radar season games you guys
play now, but that season is very long. You've got
you a tough guy that can play through pain. Because
it's a violent sports. Things are going to happen, and
(07:41):
he does have that toughness to play through pain.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's our kind of guy. He'll do well here. I
cannot thank you enough for doing this much appreciated. If
they get another Georgia lineman next year, and I'm kind
of hoping they do, we're gonna bug you. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Coach, good talking to you.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You got it. Stacy Ceril's the offensive line coach the
University of Georgia, coaching UH Dylan Fairchild each of the
last three years in Athens. Twenty eight after four o'clock
five one, three, seven, four nine fifteen thirty is our
phone number. Brendeman and Jones on baseball is coming up
in just about twenty five minutes on ESPN fifteen thirty
Cincinnati Sports.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Station Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Traffic from the UC Help Traffic Center.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
UC Help's Weight Loss Center offers comprehensive obcity care and
advanced surgical expertise. Call five one three, nine three nine
two two sixty three. That's nine three, nine two two
six three. Cruis have cleared an earlier accident eastbound two
seventy five that on the Combeshail Bridge southbound on Dixie Highway.
It is an accident that before Sleepy Hollow Road and
(08:47):
on Queens City Avenue. And it's another accident over at
Ridge Top Way on that Ezelac with traffic.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This is in ESPN fifteen thirty Miami University, Meet your
new Bank.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
The Cincinnati Bengals select.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Where Today's students become Tomorrow's leaders, presented by Skyline. Chili
sent a Natty drywall and ae door in window. Now
here's Moegger.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
With their first round pick in the twenty twenty five
NFL Draft, the Bengals selected Texas A and M edge
rusher Shamar Stewart. Stuart was a third team All SEC
performer for the Aggies last season. At six ft five
inches tall and two hundred and sixty seven pounds, he
absolutely looks the part, and there's no questioning his raw
physical traits. At the NFL scouting combine, Stuart ran a
(09:36):
four point five to nine forty yard dash, He had
a forty inch vertical and a ten feet eleven inches
broad jump. Athletically, Stuart has tons of upside. The question
is about his lack of production in college, where Stuart
had just one and a half sacks last season and
just four and a half across thirty seven games in
three seasons at Texas. A and M. Evaluators will point
(09:57):
out that the film shows a more disruptive player than
sack totals will indicate, and they'll mention that he led
his team in pressures last season with thirty nine. Still,
the Bengals need better production from a player they're counting
on to help improve their pass rush. Get to know
new Bengals defensive end Shamar Study.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Moe has more on ESPN fifteen thirty, the official home
of the Bengals. This report is paid for by
Mo Egger News
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