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a lot of guys say it a lot of guys say we're focused on the next play he genuinely seems to be hello everyone and welcome into texags rewind presented by our friends at specs in the r Insurance Studio Let's uh say hi to the people and see what people thought about the show Caitlyn what was your favorite part of the program today I'm G to go with Max Wright excited for this to be a weekly thing Max Wright was really good on the program appreciate his time Nick saage favorite part of the show uh had to be Marty Smith um he's just awesome every time he's on even though we had technical difficulties we fought through it and still had a good segment we had Kirk bus on the show from the Houston Chronicle as we uh looked back at that awesome uh rivalry and uh we also had Peter burns on the program my voice is all over the place I know the mics were working on it but it's me today it's me it's a Texas sound good thank you you look good buddy thank you I haven't messed this rewind up yet so we're doing good just did it's a rewind it's going to be very physical The Trenches will win it uh it's going to be loud it's going to be emotional and so how does coach Elco get those guys as as they get started like you got to start fast and so to have the emotional composure to make sure that you do that because that's hard to do when you're at home and uh on National Television against a team that has that kind of tradition and pedigree it's going to be all the juice I mean y'all Y this this is a serious matchup Marty with the time you spent with Mike Elco uh and opportunities you've had to interview him and whatnot what what impression do you do you get his composure his even kill approach he doesn't seem to ride a whole lot of emotional waves he seems to have a great perspective perspective on a lot of guys say it a lot of guys say we're focused on the next play he genuinely seems to be and he has a culture that is No Nonsense no BS you don't see a lot of Primadonna stuff and in a nil era where guys um where where money is so prevalent and so important if you can be someone that Kirby Smart does this better better than anybody in my opinion I think he's able to in an era where guys reassessment is how much you going to pay me versus how can you develop me that he's still able to promote G over everything in an amazing way I talked to some of his Players yesterday I've been all over creation this week I was in Baton Rouge Louisiana with Brian Kelly and Mason Taylor Monday I was in Athens with Carson Beck and Kirby all day yesterday had a 30-minute conversation with with Billy Napier last night because that's the game I have this weekend and the ability to do that to make sure that the culture and the expectation within that culture is upheld in this era is a unique talent and I see Mike having that talent because he's just not he doesn't seem beholden to now y'all got a lot of money down there and as a result of that he has a lot of financial resources at his disposal that's a blessing but when you get between the lines that doesn't matter man can you put a hat on a hat can you block tackle care love do and that's what I see from him now we'll see what happens on Saturday and and moving forward but he was able to do that a Duke so I have high expectations for him gentlemen so do you buy the uh Elco era do you think it's going to be what we all think maybe this year could be the beginning of something special I think it could be you know has just been begging for stability and uh you know getting Mike Elco back a guy spent four years there is as Jimbo's defensive coordinator you know our red zerman wrote this today about how they were 34 and 14 when elco's with Jimbo at A&M and 12 and 13 since so obviously I don't know if he was the missing missing link at all but uh uh CU they still played pretty good defense but uh I think they got a lot of elements to to Really uh you know jump start this whole program again well speaking a defense Kirk I got to ask you about that 10e covering because uh last year they just weren't I know they had a great year and everything they're not they weren't not good against the pass but they were great against the Run well those two big defensive tackles are in the NFL now so watch all this hype about Texas based on because quite frankly you know for here I'm not seeing it especially on the defensive side well it's based on hype and hope I would say ol that's a legitimate question and we're going to find out a little bit Saturday when Colorado State comes in here with their Air Raid Offense how mummy's I think his nephew is the offensive coordinator there at Colorado State for jayen no they got a really good quarterback who who threw almost as many yards 3,400 yards almost same many as Quinn yers did last year but he threw 22 touchdowns they got this receiver Tory Porton a Nevada transfer he was a thousand yard receiver last year for them and scored eight touchdowns but you know ol and David it was kind of a combination last year they didn't have a good pass rush and we all know you know that works in sync with the defensive back field and so they didn't have anybody that had more than five and a half sacks so so they they have rebuilt that defensive line Alfred Collins a kid from bass drop who's kind of been a bus so far he's a senior now he and Vernon browon are supposed to take the place at Byron Murphy and tandre sweat but they haven't done it yet so I know you know the tight end room very well so how good can that tight end room be there's some new faces there's some guys coming back from injury and Donovan Green you got Theo developing so kind of just give me your thoughts in that room itself I think it's going to be the deepest that it's been in years um I mean Trey Watson is unbelievable the guy that guy's are a really really good talent um somebody who can spread out wide and and isolate him one-on-one against safeties against linebackers he's going to get open I think that adding this depth of tight ends to the depth that we have in in the receiver room as well is going to make us really dangerous in the receiving game um you know I think that Shan coun the guy from ECU was a great ad he's a physical player who I think is going to be a great fhb kind of the role that I filled um during my time at A&M the guy's physical can block um I think Theo is is stepping up to where he's finally you know developing into the the monster that he is he's he's got all the size and all the intangibles um he's a great kid man that that dude he works so hard um and has a willingness to to play and put on the line the line for the guys around him um and then Donovan obviously coming back from his injury and stuff I mean if you have a four group tied end rotation that genuinely has SEC experience and playing experience um and all the talent in the world to go out and be dominant you could have a super dangerous room that could be out there with three tight end sets um and not have to worry about any of those guys uh but they're on field abilities I mean I I also love the coach that they brought in uh this year the guy's a great guy I had a chance to sit down with him and talk about his plan for the room and what he was going to do and it seems like we're going to have a a genuine tight end rotation this year um that's going to get guys a lot of opportunities and going to be able to spread out kind of the love between the tight end groups so I'm excited about that room like really excited I think that's the one thing that I and the new coaches that are coming in whether it be you know Elco down for you guys or even kayin dor is that it's almost like a resetting of like hey like things you know there's other factors that went in let's play some football and I think you know and I love learned that from Elco and I I fell in love with him I've been on this show many times and I said it before that I thought Jeff trailer should have been the guy over at A&M and then now the more and more I get an opportunity to hear about coelo and talk to people close to that program and and even some other coaches that knew him before go this guy is no BS he's going to get in here and it's just about football and how you can develop in this program and so I look at that and I go all right if you clean up all of the the old issues from you know that's kind of the old headlines and kind of what it was you know in the past and just focus on football buddy I mean Elco kind of reminds me like peddy Roosevelt like it's what was the saying like speak softly and carry a big stick and I'm I'm fired up for it and I and hell yeah went for Conor Wegman because you know on on on sexm this morning just simply for the fact of when you saw him play everybody immediately said uh oh A&M's got a quarterback and then of course like it's happened the last three or four seasons you know you know all of a sudden he gets injured and and and you're starting to scrape scrape around again now some of the issues at quarterback because of injuries were self-inflicted right like it it there's a reason every year you went to a second and a third string sometimes a four string quarterback but find me a program in the SEC that can survive that when you get to second third fourth QB well I mean ask Alabama if they you know had they had Jaylen milro break out and you would have gone to Ty Simpson or Tyler Buckner that not wouldn't have worked out you know I mean LSU as much as I like Garrett NSM I think that they might they're gonna fall back a little bit not having Jaden Daniels I mean you know very little times you have a quarterback especially playing at this conference like if you play another conference Maybe you can get away with it in in ACC or a Mountain West or something along those lines but you damn sure can't do it against a miniature NFL so and that's what I'm hoping for the most is a healthy season and again I I don't know I love I love what we talked about this morning is the idea of you know Riley Leonard who OKO knows a whole heck of a lot about how cool of it how cool is it for A&M to have that advantage to know who he is what he can and cannot do at home in Kyle Field that the roof is going to be off of that place all right we're going to close it out our friend Jackson's going to reach over and tell the people what to do all right Jackson tell the people all right people um you're gonna like comment subscribe and share with a friend or a family member whoever you want to share with friend or a family member I would suggest both all right do it to both both yes thank you awkward ending we'll see you next time [Music] a [Music] [Music]