Lane Kiffin discusses Ole Miss culture, analyzes Jalen Hurts & Mac Jones' play I THE HERD

Lane Kiffin on losing weight and by the way you've lost a lot of weight what was you lost 30 pounds i'm told what did you do i did a lot colin i really um after the season after the bowl game you know just sitting down with players and you have your year-end meetings and we had some linemen that you know talked about their diet and working out and having discipline and i'm sitting there looking at myself going out how am i staying this and i'm not doing myself so um just change the diet i'm back to exercising like i used to and just kept plugging away by the way Lane Kiffin on 100 vaccination rate um you have 100 vaccination rate on your football team which is absolutely remarkable in a state especially with a lower vaccination rate what was the sell we know that some kids it may be religion they get misinformation you sold your entire team on this and how did you do it well i am proud of our players and our staff our entire building that's 250 people you know coming together and so it's hard to get that to happen and like you said we're in a state that was dead last in vaccination rates so um i we didn't make anybody do anything we didn't force anybody but we did educate people and we brought in not just our own doctors but outside doctors for information and and for support in this decision-making process and you know really what it came down to is a lot of the kids a lot of the employees adults you know it really wasn't for sure no it was really well i just i read one article or yeah i had one person tell me this so i'm just gonna say no and it's easier to say no than yes because i don't have to go down the road and get the shot or you know go to the doctor's office so i think a lot of it was that yeah versus what people really think it is and everybody's so educated on this Lane Kiffin on Mac Jones ole miss football coach turned him around offensively in one year one of the great recruiters in college football so i trust your judgment on quarterbacks mac jones had a field day against you guys last year uh tell me um what do you like about his game any concerns going to the nfl he's not a quote great athlete but when you faced him what did the film say and what did the game say to you afterwards well he played great versus us but everybody played great versus gone that's a really good thing to go by but um no maxwell great competitor phenomenal student of the game he's going to study he's going to know everything about it um i i think he'll do really well and you know i think he in the offseason when we watch cut-ups of things to learn and you know you kind of learn the players even more and he was extremely accurate you know with his deep ball throws now over two years of throwing the four first rounders helps your accuracy too but you did a great job Lane Kiffin on Jalen Hurts jalen hurts who you had philadelphia is going to let him roll lane for 16 games what do you like what would be your concerns on the eagles quarterback um i like how jalen can get out of trouble i like that um you know especially so so many plays are not made in rhythm and um he does a great job of doing that you know the concern would just be you know an entire season at that level as a young quarterback at any age you know just just having the experience and going through everything and most guys take a while you know everybody now wants everybody to play great right away and that position most of the time takes a while Lane Kiffin on NFL culture you know lane when you went to uh oakland it's well documented uh there were a lot of picks that al davis muscled through that you weren't a fan of but you were a young coach and there were a lot of skeptics and it always takes time in society for us to just put our arms around cultural changes now in the nfl zach taylor sean mcveigh just kids i mean we got nick ceriani we got all these young guys and take me back a little bit it was such a stigma your age was such a big deal and my takeaway is young people my kids are smarter than i was like young people are just smarter do you remember when you were the raiders just all the doubt and skepticism you had to constantly hear and face i remember some of it but you know i was i was young enough and i think that's you know one of the good things about being young you know is you think you can do everything and you think you got all the answers so that's bad and good at the same time so um i had no concerns what what i think when you are young what you need is the right people around you just like to be a good quarterback you need the right pieces around you of the organization and the other players and so i think any head coach needs that but especially when you're young Lane Kiffin on Nick Saban you know um you faced alabama and nick saban and there's always been this feeling from people outside the sec bubble that oh kiffin and saban oh boy i don't know and i have a i know both of you i have a hard time believing i mean i don't know i just think i think nick let you run an offense he gave it to you and if you go look at what you did not you didn't have first round quarterbacks do you and nick if you walk up to each other what is it like now today very comfortable it's happened a number of times and great respect for him great appreciation for what he did for me and giving me that opportunity you know you know go on when the usc thing happened you know all of a sudden you know i didn't know anything about coaching so um you know he gave me a great opportunity and you know people want to give me credit for changing the offense there but as a head coach especially head coach that that is set in his ways for him to want to change on offense and it was his idea i didn't come in saying this is what you should do he said this is what i want you to do i want i want to change you know i'm tired of people running these plays against us so we don't have an answer for them so just appreciating that opportunity and you know it's a good lesson sometimes when you just sit and listen you know for three years and learn from somebody you can learn a lot and obviously that helped us last year the other way playing against him because you heard for three years what he didn't like to see yeah well you've had pete carroll and nick saban as mentors and you're obviously going to be a mentor for some young coaches out there you know it's funny if i have friends i just met with some friends the other day from the sec i had dinner with them and they just they just love football i'm a west coast guy but i always tell my west coast friends you just don't want it as badly you should as a guy who loves the west then i know you do if if explain southern football to a west coast guy who just thinks the media doesn't like us and i say you just don't understand the sec explain it to them yeah you really don't and until you get in it you view it different you think out there it's like a dif it's just not a different league it's like a different sport you know and you can utilize it in some really good ways too you know like this vaccination you know as a head coach at ufc i think if you do that you're going to have some impact but you do that as the head coach of ole miss you know fans now are lining up to you know get vaccinations because the football team did it so it is completely different and there's good and bad to everything you know and you know i've talked before you can go go today down there in manhattan beach and maybe a few people recognize you you know the head coach usc but you know they just maybe say hi or something down here in the south you ain't going anywhere um quick so it takes an hour to go to the grocery store so it's just a totally different goal they are passionate about it hi everybody thanks for watching subscribe here to get the latest from the show also be sure to check out more of the best clips from the herd or go watch a few segments from other shows on fs1