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you we'll see how much defensive depth Mississippi state has getting off to a fast start is really important I agree with you this TCH sax rewind presented by beex in the r Insurance makeshift Studio was uh taped in front of a live studio audience as you can tell there's a lot of folks in the background we are doing some remodeling downstairs where I did most of the show upstairs um but it was a good show Zoe what was your favorite part of the program you got to tell the mic though um definitely the talk about Conor Wegman excited to see him on the field this year 24 and 24 he was our number one Kade your favorite part I thought the with Elliot was pretty good he he had a lot of good Insight onm Notre match up eight days away that's right and the real deal Reggie mcneel was in studio we chit CCH with him and of course the executive editor co-owner of tech sags Billy Luchi that and more it's the rewind number one on the list uh Olen we touched on him a moment ago his name is wigman love him yeah I'm a big fan look I he may be the biggest kept secret in college football I know the people that really follow college football like the the the list that you just referenced know about him but I think uh nationally he's probably still got a stealth quality to him because uh of his injuries he hadn't been able his injury not injuries he hadn't had be able to play a lot but when he's when he's healthy games he started and finished uh he's been spectacular I I've talked about this if you look at the games he started and finished or seven of them and if you take the averages that he compiled in those games understanding that he did that as a freshman in one game uh in a Jimbo's offense and one of the in one game with horrific weather against UMass but if you take all those things together he's still and you and you take the averages of those seven games and then project it over a 13 game schedule cuz I think they're at least going to be a game you're looking at a guy throwing for over 3,000 yards with more than 30 touchdowns and just three interceptions well why take that now but I think that might be conservative I think you uh look at Conor wigman and you start saying hey um 3500 yards 35 touchdowns you know th those are the kind of things that this kid's capable of and there's just plus he can run so there's just not a lot of uh a lot of quarterbacks that can do the things that that Connor can do the only question is the people around him and I think they've got maybe better people around him than you think and uh I'm expecting a big big year out of Conor wigman and that'll probably translate to a pretty good year for Texas A&M I'm really bullish on this staff that coach El's put together we know he's a great headman but he's put on some other guys around him to really make this I think offense pop with Colin Klein defensively Jay bait's an extension of coacho Tommy Moffett strength and conditioning a lot of others as well and I I think baitman is an underrated higher here u in looking at this people want to say like hey he was benefited at army uh because of the tempo that Army plays with and sure on the surface numbers I agree with that but even if you adjust for Tempo like Army played well above its Talent score uh for me and then I don't think that anybody's going to have success running a defense at North Carolina uh because of the lack of physicality at North Carolina I think it's kind of a soft program and also the tempo they run with is is real difficult so I really don't bang bitman for that I think B Batman's a pretty bright guy and I I like that hire a lot I I think the staff that oo has put together is is really pretty good if I have a question honestly it's uh the the receiver coach Choice was interesting to me I I thought Bama's receiver development over the past three or four years has been horrid and I'm like that maybe he knows something there that I don't know uh but like that's the one that kind of stood out like huh kind of funny but the rest of the staff I love we we've been pretty uh bullish with Holman Wiggins he a really good recruiter and unfortunately we haven't seen a lot of wide receiver development here at A&M the last few years as well so we think it is an upgrade and also o line coach yeah no doubt I I I thought the o line coach was a great was a great pickup too so I started the show with this thought if I have any hesitation on A&M this year it's the beginning part of the season because sometimes it takes time to figure the new system out against you know big teams and they're taking on Notre Dame early on they're taking on Florida on the road they haven't won on the road since 2021 when they beat Missouri that's the long that's a long time so how important do you think to their season this first couple of weeks of the Season really uh what what it will propel them to I I I think it's huge for them if you look at look at the schedule here I mean if you get Texas a if you get Notre Dame in that opener A&M's gonna be favored to make the playoff like that that's how hard it's going to shift because if you can beat Notre Dame I mean at Florida I've been reading Florida's practice reports as I'm sure a lot of agies fans have as well and they're doesn't look great so maybe they're not that much better than they were last year I do have them as an improved team but they played pretty poorly at times I like MCN I mean I picked Bowling Green to win the Mac this year mainly because I think the rest of the Mac has kind of cut like I don't know the bowling Green's amazing I just think Toledo and Miami Ohio have regressed a little bit uh from where they were last year but that's still a team that you should pretty easily handle uh I haven't read a single good thing about Arkansas's offense so far like other than patrino magic I guess but the scrimmage reports have been iffy I guess they do eight picks in the last scrimmage so maybe some work to be done there still I don't know how many plays that is like maybe it's 140 plays so you know it's like a four pick game and a 70 playay game right um and then get Missouri at home like I talked about you know going at Mississippi State off the buy so you get you get the buy to work on that interesting offense they're going to run and you we'll see how much defensive depth Mississippi state has getting off to a fast start is really important I agree with you said you already know coacho what do you think I think he's I think I two things I think our season our schedule Falls perfect for us it's not the toughest his firsty it's not easy I mean any anytime you go to SEC it's not you know it's not going to be easy but we did Escape some big time names and no b no Georgia no Old Miss yep and so you and ELO he when he was here the first time you he was amazing defensive coord y went went to do same deal and I mean I think it was a great high for us I love the the trajectory that we that we headed to and man I just hope we just put it all together now and that's been our problem we always got the team and the pieces but we we just got to put it together for week to week and be consistent with it you have an opinion why we haven't put it together consistently we'll have one year really good than a couple bad years and a really good year why hasn't it been consistent man that's a tough one because I go to I I I I you can take it back to the to how we were kind the recruiting game goes because I I see a bunch of kids and I see a lot and so we Chase Stars instead of players and I think that's I think they're doing both right now though they're getting the right so that and that's what we need you have to have cuz all them all the stars and I I was talking to a coach from Miami he said R you we a five star you're ready to come in and play day one he say man re if a kid is not ready to step on the field now he's not five star he like so they need to stop putting those labels on them kids as far as five and four stars he like now you get a five star a so-call five star that's not very good now that coach that think he's a five star not coaching him is hard because he's getting paid he's the five star he's the guy now I can't just get on his head like I want to because next thing you know he transfer so now that's we have to that we the we got to put it all together as far as the the stars and the kids that's not star we have to find because is some studs out there that ain't Stars yeah I see them on the regular and I don't I don't want to I I just don't like the fact that a lot of coaches Chase those Stars instead of athletes and kids that can actually play and then you start having them same star to be attitude problem they have issues that don't even last because they McDonald's they expect everything to be given to him and don't want to work yeah and with nil involved the transfer portal changes all right let let's close out with this cuz I know you've got the eye for a quarterback when you see Conor wigman love him yeah yeah love him been been been I I love snappiness from his release I quick he can get the ball out the mental aspect of this game now we just got to keep him healthy and I I I like our back up too the what's his name the the one that played in the the balll game you talking about Marcel re jerson yes sir and I like him too he the one that played in the ball game right well uh Jaylen started the ball game got hurt and then that's he he reminded me a lot of myself yeah that he when I watched him play I said he he reminds me a lot of myself I've said it before it was dinner the night before that game and earlier that day I had talked to TBO and all three of us all well those two believe I was just the one talking about that game A&M Auburn and the conversation was at that time who's the best QB in the SEC and Jordan's like I got some really nice highlights tell tell me you know like wigman Dart Jaden Daniels now obviously Jaden Daniels sword ended up winning a Heisman should have won it deserved it he was incredible no one's saying that would have been Connor particularly on this team uh there was no Malik neighbors to throw to there was no Brian Thomas but what Conor wigman was trending towards was to be an all conference Contender I think that's what he would be because and why number one he's a gamer okay you go back and look at how he played in his first ever career start against a good old Miss team where he outd Jackson Dart you know uh the running back uh quinan judkin crazy in that game Jackson Dart did a lot of scrambling with his legs had a hell of a game but Conor wigman he his production in that game was like that of a an All-American it you look at his numbers you look at the throws he was making the way he started that game then you go a few weeks later that LSU game and that was the Devon aain show but you watch some of the throws Connor made early some of the scrambles he made early to keep games alive when it was close and then trust in Moose Muhammad go up and get it late and not being scared to throw him up there and let your guys score touchdowns and make big catches he was I think he was like 12 for 18 but he was A+ Plus in that football game he looked like a veteran he looked like a fourth year starter he was a freshman and then we go and talk about that Miami game so the small sample size is why I understand if you don't have him ran ranked up that high but the small sample size is also why I think you can go if A&M is to reach its upside this year and if A&M is to let's just say enter that Texas game with with a shot outside shot legit shot whatever at the playoff it's going to be because they Rose above the LSUS and the tennesses and the uh trying to think of these teams that I think so much is going to depend on their quarterback oh you with Jackson Arnold um Tennessee with Nico and then and then obviously with uh LSU with nus me I think I think Conor wigman can be better than those guys this year and if he is then I think A&M I think the team out of those four that moves up is which quarterback is best and I think that could very well be Conor wigman all right do we allow Zoe to do it or Kade to do it Zoe tell the people what to do you know how to do this yeah guys we're going to like comment subscribe and share it with a friend thanks everybody have a great weekend next week is a game week we'll talk to you then [Music]