The McShay Show - Carson Beck's Renaissance, Garrett Nussmeier's Master Class, and Everything Else that Mattered in CFB Week 1

Episode Date: September 1, 2025

Welcome to The McShay Show! The guys are back to recap all the action from the first weekend in college football. Todd and Steve begin by reacting to Carson Beck’s strong start as Miami’s QB in the Canes’ win over Notre Dame. Then, they talk LSU-Clemson and how Garrett Nussmeier is setting a new bar for the 2026 quarterback class. To close, they dive into the Texas–Ohio State tape and break down what they saw from Arch Manning. Our first LIVE show with special guest Dan “Big Cat” Katz will take place at Lincoln Hall in Chicago on September 10. Tickets are on sale now—secure your spot today! We’ll also be live on YouTube this Saturday night to recap all the action from Week 2 of the college football season. (0:00) Welcome to The McShay Show! (2:42) Carson Beck Leads Miami to Win Over Notre Dame(18:48) Takeaways from LaNorris Sellers vs. Virginia Tech(27:15) Garrett Nussmeier’s Special Tape vs. Clemson(57:38) Reaction to Arch's Disappointing Tape vs. Ohio State(1:09:04) Week 1 Standout Prospects The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit ⁠www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Todd McShayGuests: Steve MuenchProducers: Tucker Tashjian, Conor Nevins, and Daniel ComerSocial: Jon Roemer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Miami defeats Notre Dame in a top 10 clash. Lenora Sellers on full display in the Gamecox win. Then I'm going to explain why Nusser. is setting a whole new bar for college quarterbacks. Plus, we revisit the tape, right? Clubnick, Arch, and a whole bunch of prospects that popped off in week one. Just 234 days until the NFL draft. Ment, you good?

I'm good, man. All right, let's roll this thing. LSU won, Ohio State 2. Really? Yes. Okay. We'll get back to LSU. We'll get back to Gary Gaspire.

That was a road game at night. Great defense. I saw some special things. I think legitimately you can make a case for LSU at number one. And I think legitimately you can make a case for Ohio State at number one, certainly one and two. Somewhere in that, either way you want to put them. Okay?

Okay. But we're coming off of a great game last night. Miami Notre Dame. So much. I just saw so much different. both teams, positives, mostly, some negatives. But when I looked at Miami, right? And you just kind of look at what they were able to do.

Okay. The biggest thing that jumped out to me, and I'll get to the defense in a minute. Carson Beck loves football again. He said it. Those are his words. He fell in love with football again at Miami. We talked about it, man. Georgia isn't for everybody.

Miami's not for everybody. Carson Beck fits in this Miami offense, this Miami culture for this Miami team. He didn't fit in Georgia. I saw it with Carson Beck, right? We talked about it like on the field, okay? Receivers were having to work for the football. Every play it seemed like every time he dropped back to pass.

It was like the weight of the weight of, the world was on his shoulders. I remember last year in that by week, he came back, thought he was playing a little looser, talked to reporters about like, not every play is the most important play of my life. I've got to play free. He did a little bit, but I never saw him fully just with confidence, at ease, relaxed, playing ball, the game he loves, right? And then you get to the offseason in Miami and it's Lamborghinis and Lamborghini is getting stolen. It's social media dating, you know, one of the Cavender twins, and then it's a breakup. And like all the things you don't want your quarterback to be in the

headlines for. Then I told you a couple weeks before the season started. It's like this PR firm came in. And it was like, wait, I'm starting to hear out of Miami decisive, grinding. Teammates love him, playing free and easy. And like really excited to see what he does on the field because what we've seen in camp has been awesome. And I was, like, kind of nervous going in that game because all the other things I was hearing out of South Bend were defenses dominated. Secondaries, awesome.

Might be the best secondary in the country. So this is now a clash in South Florida, right? Sunday night, prime time, all of it. And Beck wasn't perfect, but I saw Carson Beck that I kind of had always been wanting to see. And I saw Carson Beck. I don't know if you noticed this match. I'm really curious.

to get your take. Maybe it was just me. Maybe I hadn't seen him in a minute. Maybe I just had like bad memories, like a bad taste in my mouth about everything felt so heavy. His feet were heavy. The mood was heavy. He looked light on his feet last night for his size, for what I've seen in his mobility. He was moving around a little better. He was making a couple throws that were risky, but he was doing it because he like moved a little bit and bought himself a split second extra time. And yeah, the receiver makes that unbelievable one-handed catch. And he threw, made a couple risky throws into coverage. But I just, and then, but when he took off and ran, I saw a little bit more juice in him.

So I'm not saying it was perfect by any stretch, but that's a damn good Notre Dame defense. He's got some playmakers. And by the way, it helps when your receivers catch the ball and make some plays after the catch. I'm telling you, this Malachi Tony. All right. Hold on one second because I want to get into the heaviness thing. No, I get it. I have the same thoughts, by the way, Malachi,

Tony is a whole thing. We're going to get into him. But talking about the heaviness of the feet, I agree with you. Both touchdown throws, good examples of just buying that extra split second, under pressure, just enough to get that ball off and make those plays, gutsy throws. I'll add to that.

I watched, when I was watching his tape at Georgia last year, I specifically wanted to see how he looked after. Georgia scored. And why did I want to see that? Because I'd heard all about this. He's not, you know, maybe he's not happy there. How did it end? What's the problem? And he did not look like a happy quarterback at that point. There was some celebrating. There was a lot of not. There was a lot of just like, this is business for me, just taking care of what I need to. Last night I saw a more emotional kid. Last night, there's a more emotional human being coming out in Carson Beck. And that's not a knock on Georgia. It just is what it is. He needed a change a change of place.

And it seems to be working out for him. Now, I will, I'll let you get into Malachi Tony because, I mean, it helps to have a Malachi Tony in your stable receivers, man. He's just a true freshman. It's unbelievable. By the way, they said that the Miami coaching staff was like, we're not sure how much we're going to use them tonight. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, you were.

Yeah, you were. You know exactly what you're going to do. Yes, you were. He's different. And, like, it doesn't. He had six catches. He felt like he had 20. Sorry, I told you I was going to let you talk.

No, I'm just saying, like, it doesn't take long. It takes a while to figure out who's good and who the young guys are and all that. But when a young man is different, it doesn't take long. No. It took like two or three plays. Because I saw, like, first couple plays, and I'm like, oh, this guy might be different. And then he kept, and he was doing more. And I was like, oh, yeah, he's different.

And so now you got Beck playing, like, light. free and easy. And honestly, like, Notre Dame defensively and accurate. Right. Receivers weren't grinding to make catches. Maybe the receivers at Georgia just weren't. And we know that they all, not all, a couple, a couple, a couple, a few of them struggled with, catching the football consistently, right? I think that offense is just tailored to we're going to run the football and the play action off of it. And it's, It's not as like open and free.

And you know the other part too? With the decisiveness from Beck that I saw there versus, I just have visions of all the tape we watched on Beck. And it's like play action, top of drop, going through reads, but like kind of holding on the ball and like wasn't just never felt like he was like, got this bank. I think part of the reason why. He's got so much more control at the line of scrimmage.

You know what lets you be decisive as a quarterback? Is when you get up to the line, you can check out of a play that doesn't appear to be working based off of what you're seeing from the defense. You can set your protections. You can because then you have a confidence in your mind. Exactly. When that ball hits my hand from the snap, I know where I want to go with it. And if that's not that.

You have the answer to the test. Yep. And even if you don't have the answer, it's hard to explain. But even if you don't have the answer, even if the answer is wrong based off of the pre-snap read, at least it was your, you chose the road you were going down. You know what I mean? And you're comfortable going into this neighborhood. And you know if there's a detour where to take the left to get around it.

You know what I mean? Versus when you're in a, when you get, you land in some town because you're going to a small college football town and there's a detour this is pre obviously GPS and everything else but there's a detour now you're like oh i don't know if i take that left we'll come back around you know so i just i saw a different version of cars and by the way carson beck i think we all forgot he's pretty talented NFL scouts i talked to and we will like if he if he gets better in 2024 off of the 2023 tape, he might be a top 10 pick. So now we've got this class, right, of Garrett Nussmeyer, who we'll get to in a little

bit because I'm, there's some fun stuff there. Cade Clubnick, Lenora Sellers, maybe this year, maybe 2027, he did some special things. And I know you've got some stuff you want to get to. John Mateer continuing to blow up and the legend that is Mateer. And I'm probably free. and Mendoza at Indiana, right? Drew Aller, Penn State. So you got all these guys.

And remember, like, everyone was kind of in our comments section, sending me social media. Like, what about Carson Beck? Sam Levitt. Like, we got to all those guys in the preseason, did deep dive breakdowns on them. I was like, let's just hold off on Beck. I don't know.

Like, he's, Lamborghinis are getting stolen, public breakups. Georgia didn't end well. Let him go. I'm just going to. step back from Beck and let's see what well now I'm like okay I'm in I'm not saying I'm in like he's top three top four quarterback I'm saying like I am now very interested in the product on the field that Beck put out there against a Chris Ash defense for Notre Dame that had an excellent camp that by the way give Notre Dame a lot of credit made adjustments in the second half mixed up some

coverages. And I think Miami kind of took foot off the gas a little bit offensively, but I also know Notre Dame kind of forced them into a lot of things and force them to be uncomfortable. And it's not the result you want if you're a Notre Dame fan. But my goodness, like the one thing that did transition from 24 to 25, they are tough, they are physical, and they got some fight in them. Yeah.

They're a reflection of their head coach. They are unconscious in terms of the scoreboard. I mean, they were down 10. That game looked like it was over, and they just battle back, make plays, find a way to get the score tied. And really, you know, your young quarterback who battled all night, this is, I was, I kept watching that game last time. I was like, I'd love a rematch.

I would love a rematch because a couple of things. Do you think that CJ Carr is going to have two intentional grounding penalties? That offensive line, as good as it was, and they made, they recognize it on the broadcast, were laboring in that heat and humidity a little bit. They got to get the running backs more involved, which I think you want to talk about. And they started to do that with Jeremiah Love in the passing game, but they had to get more touches for him.

So I was like, I would love to see a rematch. The flip side, if I'm a Miami man, I'm like, yeah, that's fine. We'll do a rematch because we had some costly penalties. We kind of kicked ourselves in the foot. Like, you know, the running back falling on the third and short. There was a couple of things that they did that, you know, that game could have gotten away. It could have been more of a lopsided win for Miami.

So I would love to see a rematch. Those are two damn good teams. The other thing I will say really quickly, I love the Notre Dame corners. They're kind of more pro corners. And what I mean by that is that they match up better with bigger receivers on the outside. And when you give them a Malachi Tony, who is like, I don't know your sound effects. You can do the sound effects, but he's like, in and out.

Yeah, he's so quick in and out that that's not really what they do. I think they're actually more built for the program. They're more built to match up with those big talented outside receivers. So that's secondary as good as it is. That was a real challenge for them last night. That's not the kind of passing game that they're really built to slow down. And again, they adjusted. They did a great job.

Do you remember as an Andover, Massachusetts kid, when you got parents dropped you off at University of Richmond and we had two a days? Yeah. In August, do you remember that? Because I didn't want to talk. about it, even to my, my, my, my, my, my, my asshole friends. Like, we had plenty of Massachusetts kids that came down to Richmond because Jim Reed recruits a BC and recruited a bunch of guys. I did, I was too embarrassed to talk. And I was playing quarterback. It was like as an

offensive lineman carrying that weight like, so I'm just, I'm not excusing anything. But when you go down to that heat in the south and they had a storm roll through before and so like the heavy, wet air. So yeah, I don't disagree. People, people don't believe me. They used to have when we were Richmond again this is Richmond not Miami we would go in and you'd have to weigh yourself before practice remember yourself after practice you had to do it like you couldn't practice unless you did it because the medical insurance reasons yeah people will lose 12 14 pounds and then they'd have to come in a way in for the second practice and if you hadn't gotten that water weight back they sat you you couldn't go back and i'm i'm talking double digit weight sometimes for people

it was in a two hour practice yeah right um so i i i And I don't want to go on the whole show in Notre. But I did find it interesting. And this is why I'm, I love the big game first game and then watching like everyone's like, Notre Dame this and Clemson this and Texas this. But watch like the adjustments because you got to remember they're scrimaging, they're practicing.

Like there's no preces to work out some kicks. You jump in like like face first diving into the ultra deep end, right? And then you go back and you watch the tape and you're like, this is what we, these are the mistakes we made as a coaching staff. These are the, these are the limitations that we have that maybe we didn't recognize in camp from a personnel standpoint. Like Mike Dembrock is a damn good coach on offense. He's going to get some things figured out.

I got to imagine that whether it's, it's that mensch kid coming in and doing some of that running in certain situations instead of CJ car or just eliminating some of the that Riley Leonard stuff that he was doing again last night with a quarterback that doesn't have Riley Leonard mobility. You got Malachi Fields involved a little bit more as the game went on? That kid's completely, man, I'm telling you. But I mean, Dembrock, like Stanford, Washington, okay, LSU. He's turned around a lot of guys.

My guess is the CJ car that we saw and the offense that we saw last night is going to be a lot different. I was confused. I didn't know maybe because I was kind of, I had to pop in and out. for a couple things real quickly. I didn't know if there was an injury with Jeremiah Love or what exactly was going on. But for Love and Price to finish that game

with 16 combined touches, is that right? That's shocking. Double check right now. Yeah, 16 combined. Jeremiah Love went 10 for 33. And I get it. The defense for Miami is much improved. The defense from Miami was like,

we're stopping him. But that's going to be like, That's going to be every defense's thing this year. So there's got to be a little bit more creativity to get the ball in his hands. That Miami front is going to be so good. Remember the kid David Blayley we're talking about, the transfer? He was outrageous. The defensive tackle was outrageous.

The two edge guys, most notable Ruben Bay had a great night, not just the interception. Every time I look out. No, no, no, no. Unbelievable night. And then that kid Tore had, you know, he had a couple down snaps with the linebacker, Corey, he can play too, man. He is, he is a heavy hitter. That's a good front. That I told you in the preseason. One of the things I was really looking forward to was the culture that Corey Heatherman, the new defensive coordinator, was going to bring as like a

PA, you know, like he coached at Maine, a Western New England quarterback, old Dominion And I get northeast guy, goes the Midwest, Minnesota, Rutgers, and gets all that talent now. And the discipline and the toughness. You saw that defense, obviously, more talented than a year ago, but playing with an edge now. That's a good Miami football team. It's a good team, man. All right, quickly, I want to touch on South Carolina. And I'm going to let you take this because I, we both love Lenora Sellers.

Lenora Sellers, like he is developing. He's not there yet. There's a lot of development still to go. But my goodness, like if you forgot about how big, strong, fast and the big arm that he has, and he's 20 years old. Like there's some special things. I'm curious, though, what your take is on sellers. A little sloppy for South Carolina, but what did you see from sellers?

because that's kind of your guy that you're really excited to see. All right, let's get the negative out of the way. The safety was bad. When he lowered his eyes and took off, it wasn't there. I think he had someone in the flat or the hook curl. He had someone he could have got that ball to. He needs to get that ball out of his hands. He can't take the safety there.

And he was a little inconsistent throughout the game. But watch the Norris Sellers in the fourth quarter because this is becoming a theme. And I know, I know they should have beat Illinois in the bowl game. And he missed just a bunny at the end of the Illinois. Illinois game that would have given the South Carolina that win, and I get it. But look at Missouri last year and how he played at the end of that game. Look at Clemson, how he played at the end of the game. And now what does he do at the end of this game?

It's a little closer with Virginia Tech than everyone thinks. They're only up, I think, six points at the time. And what's he do? He throws a 64-yard dart, just perfect pass to Nick Harbor touchdown. Now it's a 13 point. Then they get the ball back. And this was my favorite stat of the weekend. It doesn't even make sense.

they get the ball back and he basically just ends the game. He had a 16-yard scramble that was insane. He broke like three tackles, McShay. He was like just shedding dudes. And he does this on a normal, like a, like it's just another day at the office from Lenora Sellers has a 16-yard scramble that, you know, extends the drive. They get to fourth and five, he gets six yards. They had, this is, I'm not kidding.

This is their last drive was a 10-play, 17-yard drive that took four minutes and 43 seconds. to end the game. That's such a weird stat. Ten plays, 17 yards, four minutes of 43. Yeah, how do you do that? Because you kneel, you get a first down, you get two first downs, but you also lose yards. It is a bizarre, bizarre stat. But again, this kid is taking over. I'm seeing it consistently now, and three of the last four, there was Wolford was in there.

That was a blowout. But three of the last four meaningful games that they've played, when it matters most, this kid is making plays, whether it's with his first. feet against Clemson last year, whether it's against his arm in this game with that ball to harbor. He is just making plays when it matters most. And he's still developing as a pastor. I get this.

But this kid's a winner. This kid is figuring out ways to win games. And it's exciting to watch him go forward, especially because when we looked at two other prospects, and I think that we're disappointing, we're Archmanning in Texas and Kade Klobnik and Clemson, when they needed to make a play when it was really on the line, they didn't take advantage of that opportunity this weekend. Maybe they do going forward and we'll see how that goes, but they didn't pass that test the way that I want them to pass that test to start the year. Little different defenses that were going up against, but yes, I agree.

No question. That's fair. I was encouraged by Nick Harbor. It's still a work in progress. Me too, man. Was that a catch? Did you see that? Yes, it's a catch.

What are we doing? I get it. I've sat in so many referee meetings and in the college football meetings and the pre-seeing. season. And like they get graded just like you guys, an offensive lineman get graded or a quarterback gets great. So like they have to great. They have to make calls based off of the letter of the law because it's their job. And that's what they're, you know. So I oftentimes don't even blame the referee. But like when you see a young man with those big hands, catch the ball, secured like couple steps and yeah like pulls it in and he's like this tall lanky guy who like it felt like three minutes later

he finally went to the ground like what are we doing there's a spirit of the law and I don't know how the language has to be written in that somebody else's job but do your job better because I'm seeing way too many clear catches ball is possessed when they're inbound when it matters And now we're three, five yards out of bounds at the end of the play, like out of the end zone. And there's like a little shift in the ball. Like, what the fuck are we doing? Do you know what? Like it is maddening. It is. And we will more points. Give me more points. Everyone likes points, man. And keep it fair. Keep it reasonable. But like that's reasonable.

So I, I don't know. Nick Harbor is just different, man. He's six five two 35, 235 track star playing football last year, commits to football in the offseason, first year not doing track in the spring, reports out of Columbia where he's getting better. And you know what? He is getting better. Still like needs more experience, needs more practice, maybe needs another year, whatever it is. But he runs in like the four threes, low four, I think four threes, man. It's insane.

It's like a D.K. Metcalfe. And he's just a pup. And he's learning. But he went three for 99, with a touchdown. And it could have been four for, I don't know what, you know, over 100 with two touchdowns. Right. So I'm really encouraged because last year I saw the physical tools. I didn't see the football.

This year, the physical tools are still there and getting better. And I'm seeing more of the football, you know? Yeah, I agree. That's exciting. South Carolina clearly right now. is not at the level of some of the other teams we've talked about. And, you know, even Notre Dame with the loss, Miami, LSU, Clemson, Texas, Ohio State. But I think a lot of people were just kind of counting them out.

And I think Sellers is, sellers is dangerous enough. Yeah. I wouldn't overlook this South Carolina team. I'm not talking national championship. I'm talking like a couple upsets in the mix. Yeah, yeah. And kind of right in that same area they were. potentially. The other one, I just want to say this really quickly. I thought Dylan Stewart,

the edge for South Carolina, who was super talented. I think he looks a little thicker this year. I thought he looked run down at the end of last year. He was a little lean. This year he looks a little thicker. He looks, he looked explosive at times in that game. I'm excited to watch him this year. I agree. The McShay show is brought to you by Fandual. Ready to fire up your Saturdays? Fan Duel's got a boost you don't want to miss. It's called boosting with the boys. And it's giving everyone. A college football profit boost every single week. I get a couple things for you here.

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Call 1-888-88-889-7777 or visit ccpg.org slash check. in Connecticut. I went back and watched Usmeyer yesterday. I mean, I watched the Clemson LSU tape. I know. You know why I know? I get the McShay report. Thank you. If you got the McShay report, you would be informed about this discussion right now. You would know a little

you would have a little more detail about what's coming. We did get a really good. Let me read this real quick. It's not even the books. I could tell us. Said that you are reading this. Well, no, this is nice. Everyone's like we get killed. You know, people people in this business get killed all time, right? John C wrote us a really nice from, he's a subscriber to the McShea report.

Let John do the selling. By the way, Google it, the McShay report, subscribe for free. Today's September 1st. This is the last day you can get 50% off if you want to become a premium subscriber. Anyway, um, hey guys, I wanted to read, it's that kind of funny. I wanted to reach out with no, with no question, but to let you know the impact you've had today while watching the games, my wife got met. My wife got. irritated with me. You can all relate because I knew so many players across every game and I told her where I thought they were going to be drafted and was very critical of their play.

She didn't love it, but damn it. Damn it. I did. Thanks for everything. Thanks, John. See, that's what we're trying to do. Break up marriages and inform you. Oh, man.

Oh, man. So the Nussmeyer thing, I'm not going to go into this deep long, that you can Go read it in the McShay report. I just want to share with you, we've been doing this for a minute. Like a couple and a half decades we've been doing this. I was kind of blown away, and it takes a lot to blow me away. Garrett Nussmeyer was really good last year, and we know his dad was an NFL quarterback and quarterback coach

and now offensive coordinator. We know all those things. And we saw some of those things in his game last year. And there's a couple of places I want to go with this. Nussmeyer last year showed a lot of those flashes. Nussmeier this year, it's watching an NFL quarterback who gets an opportunity to go back to college and play a season. And I'm not even talking about he looks lighter on his feet.

I love his mobility. I think he's doing a great job negotiating pressure, like phenomenal. I went into a lot of those things, throwing the ball accurately, making better decisions, All of that stuff. What he was doing, Mensch, pre-snap, and credit LSU, they recognize we got on the road. On the road. In a hostile environment.

First game of the year, they are revved up and lubed up for a night game. Yep. And LSU is like, yeah, we trust our guy. I know it's loud, but we trust our guy. They're going hurry up to not go hurry up. they're getting back to the line of script. What does that do? It keeps you in your personnel defensively.

So if you came out in nickel on first down, you better be prepared to stay in nickel. If you came out in dime, you better be prepared to stay in dime. If they catch us in the personnel, they can keep us in that personnel grouping by going back to the line of scrimmage in a flash, getting up there.

And instead of the old check with me and all the signs and all that, stuff and maybe they did some of that but I was watching the coach copy tape it was not nuss nuss gets up the line he's like okay got it personnel grouping single high too high safety let's move he's now I get the setting protections a lot of guys do that setting protections but then the motions watch the pre-snap motions moving forward the season if you're a football fan can I just mention one thing before you move on because you mentioned the protections he's doing that all with a relatively

inexperienced offensive line again on the road. The fact that you're looking at that that offensive line, that rebuilt offensive line that's playing in front of him and he's getting them all on the same page. And by the way, I just got to say it, credit, all the credit in the world to those five guys. They played their asses

off. They were in really good spot. They played really well, no breakdowns that I saw. It's just impressive that the quarterback and his again, relatively inexperienced offensive line were on the same page like that. in that environment in week one is incredible to be. And so he's getting the line of scrimmage with all that noise communicating to that

offensive line, which is you've got to communicate well. And then like you said, a young offensive line. And then the motions, it's like, okay, we're going to move this guy over and watch his eyes. If you want to get a little bit, I don't want to say smarter. It's like condescending. If you want to kind of get a peek into what's going on, he calls for emotion. Watch his helmet.

He's not watching, you know, the time. He's now surveying. Okay. So it went, so these are the safeties, right? Okay. Motion. He's got a tight end, let's say, coming over. He's watching it.

It's kind of like this. And then he's like, okay, you guys, another motion. And now it's like this, right? And he's like, all right. And then it's like five seconds left on the clock. Then he's like running back, swap right to left. And then when he, if you watch the running back, it would be right before he snapped. So what does that do?

Prevents green dogs, like the linebackers blitzing off, you know, to where the running back is with if the running back doesn't come out. If the running back goes out as a receiver, I cover him. If he stays in, I blitz. And also like by doing that, they don't, it gives them, gives the defense no time. Now it's like, I know he's. So when you're setting protections, who are your danger, guys? okay right who's the most dangerous guy yep or the dangerous so that i've got now depending if you get eight in the bus side there's eight guys who are threats so you set your protection whether you

fan it you you know overload at one side and then you've got that set and then there's a there's like numbers game that goes on real quickly in your head right there's four there's four there's four there i've got a guard and a tackle to my right i've got my back on my left side so it's motion in a tight end and then right before I snap let's swap the back you're like and then bang snap right he's doing all that like in a 10 second span hostile environment and now he knows the coverage he's he by by doing the motion he's figured out okay they're they're showing too high but it's really going to be a cover three or because he's motioned him around he's got him called zone man to man all that stuff and then he set his protection right the very

last second all right let's go and you could see it the ball snapped he knows where he wants to go with the ball and by the way the biggest difference in this game lsu clemson for me quarterback play was awesome for ls u flashes for club nick and we can get to him in a minute lsu protected clemson did yeah yeah and we've talked about play caller as a fair amount so far this Right? And I'm going to, I didn't mention his name and I was blanking, but the co-offance coordinator Joe, Joe Sloan for LSU who is their play caller. One of the things that allows Nussmiter to do that is getting the plan. Get the play in. Get them up to the line. Great point.

Go. You know, let him give him the play really quickly. Let him cook. Put him in a position. Then he knows what the checks are off of that play. Yeah. Exactly. Like here's, here's the formation.

This is what we think we like. This is, I'm giving you, I'm giving you the ingredients to whoever you want to make. here it is and we're going to go quick we're going to go quick so when you get to the line of scrimmage it's not oh oh shit there's six seconds left on the clock you know what I mean it's it's everyone set everyone can identify the front they can get set then they can get the it's it's just it's a it's a collaboration of all those things that's why the homes does this all the time and it's people think it's a nervous yeah you're right it's a nervous like twitch or whatever that's get me the play so so that I can go do the thing

that I do really well. Right. Next play. I can't worry about this. I can't whatever. I will say one thing that I got to say about Nussmaier that I knew it drove me nuts. He got someone compared him to Romo, and it was so weird because I saw a Romo interview recently, and I don't know if it was a commercial, but they asked him what his favorite play was, and he talked about the back shoulder goal line fade to Des Bryant and how you cannot defend it if the quarterback and the receiver on the same page. And you have a big receiver.

And I'm watching that LSU game. And what do they do? They take Tess Green, just the tight end. They isolate them on the left side and Nussmeyer. Just like that, catch the ball, throws it right to him. You can't defend it. And it was just, it was like watching Romo to Des Bryant. Nussmeier to Green in that goal line.

Good luck with that, by the way. You can watch all the tape you want in the world. Good luck with that. Yeah. If you're, if you're Ohio State, you're putting sunny styles out there. And that's what you're hoping you can. You have to have a unique athlete to defend that play, and there's not a lot of teams in the country that can do it.

I'm telling you, I watched a young man grow, like, it wasn't overnight. It's been the course of his lifetime. It was an offseason to refine and go back and self-s scout. Garrett Nussmeyer, and you have to assume this is going to continue, if he can do it on the road against Clemson in the first game of the year with as you touched on a fresh young pups in the offensive line maybe not young but inexperienced offensive line some new faces at receiver if he can do that in that moment it should from a mental standpoint I'm just saying all the results are going to be better but from a mental standpoint only continue

to get better okay Garrett Nussmeyer is setting a new bar for what elite elite looks like in terms of the mental game at the quarterback position. I get like maybe Andrew Luck, like you got to go back. That's how I was thinking, yeah. I'm talking about the mental part. What he's handling, what is on his plate mentally is so unique and so special. As an NFL evaluator, you're looking at this and you're saying, yeah, Klubnik's bigger.

He's got a baby a better arm. He's more mobile. Lenora Sellers is special. He's big. He's fast. He's strong. He's all these things physically. He's got a huge arm.

Drew Aller's a big, strong arm quarterback. You got all these guys with these physical traits. Nussmeyer's physical traits are good. But the way he controls a game mentally and the timing as a passer and the ball placement, even his misses, not all of them, but I saw a handful of his misses, he put the ball in the right place. Like that first quarter in completion to his big six foot seven, as the kids would say six seven,

tight end. Treydez Green, right? Yeah. Green got tangled up and couldn't get back. But if green gets out of that clean from the defensive back, that ball's back, shoulder, where it's supposed to be. Some of his misses the balls were put in the right place. It's hard to watch that tape, Steve.

it's hard to watch that LSU Clemson tape and say Garrett Nussmeyer's not the top quarterback in this NFL draft class. But Todd, you're going to, you said his tools are good. What does that mean? How good are they? Because I'm going to tell you right now. Well, he's not the biggest quarterback in the world. I liked his mobility. Like, it's functional quarterback mobility and sliding, moving, climbing. I saw a little bit more juice in his feet. But he's not, certainly not sellers. He's not Clubnik.

He's not going to take off and run like some of these other guys. He's got a good arm, not elite, not Drew Aller, not sellers, not even Clubnik in terms of like when he rips it, it's good. But it's not elite. But you know what? Tom Brady was the same way. Yeah. Hayton Manning was the same way. It's not as big as those guys, but he's more mold.

Like, I'm not, I know that's rare. I'm just saying, yes. Here's my pushback. You're talking about Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, two of the best that ever played the game. They were, I mean, Brady played really well until the end. Drew Breeze. Yeah, but these are guys who, this was,

these are guys who played years ago, Todd. These are, this is a, there's a different, there's a different model. Baker Mayfield. There is, you think he moves like Baker Mayfield? He doesn't move like Baker Mayfield. Not quite, but I'm seeing, but. But. Baker Mayfield was not the biggest guy, not the fastest guy.

He's a little thicker, I would say. I would say he's a little more well-built than Nussmeyer is and was in college. I mean, I'm just, I'm pushing back. I, listen, that tape's awesome. And I love Nussmeyer. But we have until April to figure all this. I'm just saying, I think that's going to be an interesting conversation that unfolds. Because mentally, there are no holes so far.

I mean, in one performance, but in a tough. situation against a really good defense, I think. And they only scored 17 points. I can hear people yelling at me already. Like, I get it. Yeah, but he was pretty damn good, man. Oh, he was pretty damn good. And by the way, that defense is awesome. Yes. And then that's Tom Allen coming in.

And that defensive line is deep with two top 10 prospects in Peter Woods and T.J. Parker. You got to be better than I thought, by the way. He did play better than I thought. I agree. I'm glad you said that. Not as deep, by the way. The depth guys need to step up a little bit. Those two defensive tackles that they're relying on, Capehart and Green did not play as well. They got a, they kind of got to step up. We saw that on tape coming in.

The linebacker, Sammy Brown, awesome. Yes. Right? What as we know what he is. Good, good college player. Day three prospect. But my point is that, to do it against that defense, first game, young offensive line, weapons you

haven't had forever, not necessarily all of them. Like, forget the 17 points. It's watched the tape that stuff special. And I'm telling you right now, LSU, with that defense, like that defense played really well against Clubnick.

And I know that Antonio Williams came out of the game early. But that defense with Blake Baker, the defensive coordinator, went from shit to middling an up and down, 23, 24, middle and up and down. Tell us how you really go, man. 25, like, this is a really good defense. Yeah, man.

This is what I kind of thought Alabama might trot out with, and it's not even close, right? Like, I'm just evaluating one game. That's a really good. This LSU team deserves to be, if not one, then two in the rankings this week. I don't hate it. I don't hate it.

I want to talk about Clubnik real quick, because it kind of ties in some of the stuff that Blake Baker did. I thought Clubnik was up and down. And Brian Kelly, I said this Saturday night, but Brian Kelly came into that game and said, we want to keep him in the pocket. And I thought that was an interesting comment right out of the gate. And when they had a hard time keeping him in the pocket,

Clubnik was making plays. And then when he couldn't get out and make plays on the move, that's when he started a struggle. And you saw that he has a tendency in big moments to get out to his right quicker than he needs to. And it was the last play of the game. I mean, Blake Baker, I mean, that call is perfect. It's understanding your personnel.

It's understanding the tendency of the quarterback. It's understanding the moment. What he does on that play is there's a four-man rush, and it looks like Klubnik, if he's looking to his right, he thinks the force defenders inside and that he can just roll out. But what Baker did was had Harold Perkins from the opposite side of the formation from looping around so that when Klemmick did step up

oh my God, here comes Perkins. And it looked like he was running a 4-2. I was just going to say that. He was a 4-2 speed. Because he's that closing burst. I swear to you, I was just about to say that. I want to know how fast this kid is. He was flying.

Flying for a guy who was an edge. Now he's playing star, but he was an edge at one point in his career. he was moving. In that play, he baited Klebnik. He said, oh, no, you can go out here. Go ahead. Go do that.

Right. And he's like, oh, I can. I'll go do it. And here comes Perkins. It's like, uh-uh, I'll shut that door on you right now. And he came from around here to this. Yes. Right.

Opposite side. Yes. That pre-snap breed is, oh, there's, we have to identify. They said it during the broadcast. It looked like he was happening. they were identifying where Perkins was every snap. Where is he? We need to know where he is right now.

So they were trying to find him and he looks over to his left. He's like, oh, I'm good. I'm good. He's over there. I can't believe they're giving me this. And then it looks like that that end is inside. And he's like, oh, my God, I can just run for this. And nope, they shut the door.

And then the play before we texted about it last night, the play before he stays on his first read too long. He has a slot wide open. They win the game. He looks to his right and throws us the slot. Again, I don't, I'm not comparing. Yeah, I am comparing the two. I mean, it would be hard to imagine

Nussmeyer where he is mentally that would have not figured that concept out defensively. It was a bust on third down. Yeah. It was a bust in coverage. They had, it was two over three.

Yeah. It's a numbers game in. LSU had two defensive backs over three receivers. So they had the outside guy covered. they had the two covered. They didn't have the three of the slot covered. Yeah.

Unfortunately, Clubnick made a predetermined pre-snap read. And what, so it was, it was, it was, a three by one. Yep. You got three to, I'm trying to work within the camera. He had three to go on the left. And then you're right and one to your left. And Wesco was the, was the single, right? Yeah.

To his left side. Predetermined read. But with these three, there were only, two defensive backs on top. And so, but he locked into that to the left side, to the left side. And you know what's interesting about that now that I think about it? What? Guess who he saw when he looked over to his right?

Perkins. I wonder if they were just like, we're going away from Perkins. It's, to me, it's a fascinating chess match that went down there because he looked over to his right. And if you watch that, that Perkin kind of steps up. Well, there was a time out early. There was a time out early in the game. Remember? Because that was her being Fowler, right?

Yeah. Yeah. There was a timeout early in the game. And they were like something about Clemson had to call a timeout because they were struggling with where Perkins was. And it's not what they wanted to do. And they had the tight end there. I actually didn't.

I was studying so many other elements and I put a lot of time into Nussmeyer and spent a decent an amount of time on Clubnik, but wasn't watching for that specific play, talking about like how just his mere presence force comes in into a timeout. So I'd have to go back and confirm that that's actually true. I'm sure if they said it, that they had information. But my point is, we saw Harold Perkins in 2023 and he was just a pup, but he was destroying offenses and ruining game plans. And that Arkansas game is burnt into my mind.

Yes. four sacks, like seven tackles for loss, single-handling. It's rare to see a defensive player, let alone a true freshman, win a game for you. And he did. And then he comes out in 2024 and he's playing off the ball linebacker. It was like key, you know, reading his key, locating the ball, traffic. And he just, it wasn't for him. And you told the great story.

And then he gets hurt. And it's early in the season. Yeah, it doesn't really get. So it doesn't have time to like, you know. And then you tell the great story of he goes in the office, defensive coordinator, right? And Blake Baker's like, what do you, how do you want me to use you? Like, where are you most comfortable?

And he says what? Wherever you want me, coach, I'll play wherever you want me. And that's exactly what you want your players to say. And good on Blake Baker being like, no, Harold, where do you think you'll be the best? Like, I need you to tell me. He's like, I want to play star. Well, it seems like it's working out pretty well so far. I mean, it's, yeah.

By the way, in Klemmick, too, he just has this thing where he wants to go right. He does, and they were on it. They knew it before the game. They started looping linebackers. They made it real difficult for him to do that as that game progressed because he had some success early on. I will say that the game, the throw he made with 148 left in the fourth quarter, they're down seven.

He's trying to go for a score. There's a too high look. He throws a whole ball with a defender right in his face. And I was like, there it is. It was an unbelievable throw. There it is. That's what you can do. You need to start doing that.

Start taking advantage of space. Start climbing the pocket instead of evacuating so quickly. He can do it. I thought he settled down. Oh, he absolutely. Right. So there was some really good stuff from Clubnik. The numbers weren't great at the end.

And he didn't. Those two plays at the end of the end of the top. He actually played a little bit better than I, then I kind of thought watching the TV. There were some, there were some things that he did where I'm like, you know what? Like, yeah, he's, he's one of the guys. Like, there's no question. I'm not like getting, and there's no concern here. I, I don't like,

making excuses, but like it's the first game of the year. Antonio Williams goes out early. I didn't see, I was looking for it on tape. I didn't see where the injury occurred. I saw it. It was early on. He ran a route over the middle and you can see him grab the leg. Okay.

Yeah. But it wasn't like a major contact thing, right? No, it was non-contact. It was like a hamster. It looks soft tissue, yeah. So that offensive line is, and I said this going on the season. You did. myself on the back, experience all you want.

They were overmatched physically. They were not ready for that. And I think, man, how many times are they going to blitz that B gap with the guard, with the guard helping out the center on a defensive tackle? Come on, man. They saw that off of last year's tape, LSU did. So credit to Blake Baker and that staff for LSU. Because they were killing them in the first, that first series.

And the first series of running back, the Clemson running back, remember the former wide receiver. Yeah, Terrell. He cannot pass block. He might get there, but right now, he doesn't, it's not, but he doesn't even know where to go. Exactly. It's not a toughness issue. I saw that.

I'm saying like, dude, you're soft. He is, I don't want to say loss because I think that's, that's, that's, that's, he's just green. You're right. He's green. He's getting, he's trying to understand where he needs to be protection wise. And LSU took advantage a couple times. And that's, that's all stuff the club Nick has to deal with.

When you, you know, we talk about it with us, when you're, you set your predictions, you think a guy's an accounted for. And then he's not, now you have problems. Now, you know, and then can you trust it and all of that stuff? So that was going on in that game, too. One other guy I want to mention I thought was awesome, Mansour Delane. And we talked about it a little bit on Saturday night. I watched on tape.

Every aspect, by the way. Physical, smooth, fluid, freaking confident. I like your cornerbacks have to be smart and they have to be confident, really above all other traits. And then you got to have all the physical tool. But like he started 29 consecutive games of Virginia Tech. I haven't gone back and deep dived into his Virginia Tech tape. But I could talk to a scout who said, I thought he was better in 23 than 24,

thought he might come out, maybe probably a day two prospect last year. That guy played like a first round. I'm not saying he's going to be. That's what you look for. Shut down corner. interception, right? Did you have an interception? He did.

Pass. Yeah, interception, pass breakup, tackles. Tackling. Yep. Taking got, so, like, that was impressive.

So now you get like Harold Perkins and Delane and that kind of depth on that defensive front. Patrick Patent flashes and the Weeks brothers at linebacker. I'm telling you, man, LSU, it's one week. I was one of the best teams in the country. I want to see how Baker calls games going forward because I don't have the numbers in front of me,

but it felt like he was bringing the house a lot. It felt like he was. We're just going to bring more. When you got Delane, that's what I mean. And, you know, they, again, it would be interesting to see how that holds up. And if you could do it against Clemson, and those Clemson receivers, I thought needed to have a better game, even without Williams in the game. They needed to play better.

They just, they did not live up to the reputation. or the talent. We'll see how that that is going forward. Clemson's going to get a lot better. Clemson is still one of the best teams in country. Clemson's defense shut down. I'm telling you, it's like that was one of the, like, it's rare for me to come away from a tape and like,

I need a minute to digest that to make sure I don't oversell it. But like there was a new bar set with Nussmeyer. They still held him to 17. Okay. Yeah. With an offense, it was a lot, it was a bunch of three and outs and struggling. So, like, that Clemson defense is as advertised. Clubnik needs more from his receivers,

losing Antonio Williams in that game that early, with other receivers that you're hoping are going to be great complementary pieces and keep developing. That was hard. Yes. That offensive line, honestly, the receivers will be fine. They'll run the ball okay. clubnick's going to be awesome this year.

They got to run the ball more. They got to say committed to the run game, but yeah, go ahead. But if that offense, if Clemson doesn't come back and win 10, 11 more games in the regular season I'm talking about. Because they got SMU, we're going to Florida State, whether you want to or not or can or not or whatever it is. Why do you think I know what to go? No, I know you want to go. Sorry, I'm just talking fast. They've got those two big games, and I'm sure there'll be a couple other teams that are rising up on their schedule.

but they should still win 10 regular season games, if not 11. Agree. A hundred percent agree. But if they don't, Clemson fans, it's going to be that offensive line. And you warned us from the jump on that. I'm a little worried about it. Can I tell you something else really quickly before? Yeah, yeah.

I think I know how we're going to end this. I don't know. Maybe this is just the old man. I mean, effort matters in college football. effort matters in football and there's two plays that really jumped out one was the lSU game one was the i got i got a few in the alabama game that are concerned yeah that's we're i didn't want to go the we're not going the yeah we're not going the other way i hear you unless you want to do it i wasn't going to go no no no we're good they got an issue there uh bowers sharp new tight end he's from oklahoma

comes into this game and fumbles early do you see who made the the tackle on the fumble recovery Bower Sharp. Kid pops up off the ground, cases down the safety, and makes that play. And you might say like, oh, whatever, your teammates see that. They go when they watch that film the next day, and they're like, look, that kid could have been moped. That kid could have been upset.

And he only hit five catches for like a low amount of yards. But he played a role in that game. I think he's going to play a role from them going forward. He's a pretty good player. But effort matters. And your teammates see that early in the season, him popping up and making that play. I think someone else would have tackled them before he scored.

But still, it was a great play for him and then Ruman Bain Jr. on the pick. You could say the hands and all that and the effort, but I will just say this too because he chases outside to get to that pick. But I'll say this too. Did you see the way he sank and exploded off field at that size? Yes. You have an opportunity, right?

All tape matters. Now, when you, you were like, oh, I'll show them all my sack. Well, they do a lot of combine drills to try to emulate something you normally can't see from a defensive lineman in game action, you got to see something there. And then when they did that tight view in the TV last night, ABC with McDonald's. I was like, dude, how is he moving like that?

He's like 270 pounds. Like, how is he moving with that? He catches it foot in bounds. And instead, like a lot of defensive line would have just got a foot in bounds. And it was like, oh, talk is moving. Was he running back in high school? Like, that was not uncomfortable for him.

And you're right, sinking the hips. and the let just take advantage of an opportunity but something on tape for a team yeah if i'm a team i'm watching i'm like this is effort athletic ability burst all like at that size i mean that's that'll help you more than a sack against you know a lower level of competition any day of the week yeah exactly right slippery rock tech right great you had three sacks against slippery rock my cousin's going to kill me he went there but yeah um i don't i don't want to everyone in the The world's doing the arch thing and the Texas thing. I do want to circle back because we had a lot of conversation about it Saturday night.

Arch has got to play better. We know that. I'm not, there's no excusing. I just wanted to go. I went back and wanted to get some more of the why. Right. I am concerned. There are some layup throws that he needs to be making.

There's no question about it. I need to see progression in that area. I did not put him on any 2026 draft list. And this is important. I want you to hear me, okay? There's not an I told you so. I'm leaving that for Jordan Rogers and the gang. It's not like I'm protecting the man.

It's none of that. I didn't put him on the 2026 NFL draft board in the preseason because he's not developed yet. He didn't play at the highest class in high school. He only started a couple games last year. He's developing, right? I want to remind you of this. And it's interesting because I watched Nussmeyer and LSU

before I went back and watched Texas, Ohio State. Nussmeier was really good last year. And all the Twitter draft analysts were tripping over themselves before Texas A&M and the first half of Texas A&M. He's my QB one. He was mine two weeks ago. He was mine in July. He hadn't started to get, right?

And then he kind of imploded with that, as Connor and Evans are, executive producer said, and I'll never forget, he's feeling himself type of threat. And it kind of all fell apart. We all do it sometimes. But Nussmeyer, I went back this summer and watched this whole tape. Nussmeyer at his best last year wasn't as good as what I saw against Clemson. So it's a rinse, refine, repeat.

Remember we talked about in the offseason? It's go back at self-scout. Now let's scout what the opponents are doing. More importantly, how can we? we take it from here to another level. Arch Manning's just starting out right now. It was a bad game. The accuracy on some easy throws was concerning,

but everyone chill the fuck out. Because if you want to make comments on a national stage and you want to be out there the first one to report, maybe you better have experience doing it and go watch the tape. I'm not making excuses. I just said he did not play at a level that is acceptable for anyone, whether in your names Manning or not, for anyone who's a starting quarterback at Texas,

who has any intentions of being an NFL draft, all that stuff. I'm not excusing any of it. But I'm here to tell you after watching it, Matt Patricia with a new group of defenders, eight guys drafted last year, Patricia in a new job, probably a little nervous,

am I going to overwhelm this, this starting 11 with eight guys going off to the NFL's draft picks from this defense alone? Can I throw all this at them? And to have the talent level Ohio State has on defense, and this, the smarts to execute. a lot of NFL stuff in week one and to have the onions, the kiyans to go in into that game

with that game plan? I know you had the whole offseason to do it, but there's a lot of things that can go wrong with 18 to 22 year olds and a vast majority of them first time starting roles. If you're throwing that much at them. How many times do we see a defensive coordinator, whether it's in college or the NFL, come out in week one and the game plan's too complicated? I need to simplify things. Let's let our players play fast, right? It's the first thing you hear when a defense starts to struggle or it has some breakdowns. We've got to simplify things.

Exactly. They came out and they changed the looks on Arch over and over and over again, and they did it in NFL ways. Nine guys that are threats to come as rushers only bring in three, dropping eight. Like cover two looks like cover three, looks like quarters. It was like I talked about master class for Nussmeier. Patricia and Ohio State's defensive players that executed, that stuff was masterclass. And now you're in your first, it's your third start, first game on the road in Columbus where no one wins except Michigan.

And the answers to the test are not what you prepared for. You go into a quiz or a test in school and you think you got all the questions. And now all of a sudden there's a bunch of different questions. and now you're thinking and overthinking and you're questioning yourself, I saw a lot of that. And again, Arch, Arch is cool with it. And I don't care if he is or he isn't.

Put a lot of that on Arch. But I also want to say, Ohio State, you've got an unbelievable football team. I just said when I started the show, it's LSU and Ohio State for me, what I saw week one. If we're just going off a week one, those are the top two teams in the country.

Number two is Sark and the offensive staff need to go back and regroup and say, what makes this kid special now? I agree. He's going to, I don't know that he'll ever get to Nuss, but he's going to get close to Nussmeyer and he'll be like he'll advance a lot. I saw Nussmeyer played a pretty high level last year. There's a lot of great things. And I'm watching him now in one year, one off season to go self-correct and self-scout

and all that stuff. And he is like a different stratosphere from what he wants. was last year. Arch can get there. That's why we're talking about him in the 2027 NFL draft. He's not there now. We cannot put a guy who has lived through high school

and early in his career off of his mobility in a situation where we're not focusing and featuring that and allowing the stuff in the pocket to come with it over time. That would be my thing. And Sark's one of the best in the business. I have an unbelievable amount of respect for Sark. And by the way, the Mannings picked Sark for a reason, all that stuff.

And he will adjust. I expect to see Texas a little bit more arch with the mobility, run pass option, get him outside, those sorts of designs, those sorts of things. Let's get him comfortable and let's start putting a little bit more on this plate from a pocket passer reading defense's standpoint as he progresses. A little pushback on the Sark because I want to say this. I think there's there is some fair criticism there.

Two conservatives start the game. I hate, hate the quarterback sneak of the goal line. Well, when I went back on it, there was a couple of things I saw. One is the first play of the game, they roll them out. And yes, Arch gets a defender in his face. And this was a theme in this, in this game for Arch. He gets a defender in his face. His mechanics fell apart, and he throws the ball in the dirt.

That happened in a couple of key plays. Look at the last, the most, The two most alarming plays for me in the game were the second of last and third of last plays. Because in the last play, if you remember, the young right tackle gets beat and Arch has no chance. The two previous plays, I mean, that was a pretty good design by Sark. Just hit the, just hit the cross. And again, what happens is it's a, it is a, it's, it's, it's, any one who's play quarterback, you know this, but I would know it from listening and watching you guys for so long.

It's the fundamentals. His feet, no follow-through. He's trying to whip it. His feet are just splainted in the ground. It was all about his technique and his fundamentals. Okay. So I actually think Sark, whatever, and I want to say this one really quickly. Go ahead.

Just so you understand. And I said this on Saturday night, so it's worth repeating. As the game went on, we saw Sark start to, right. That's fair. In terms of the RPO. We saw a couple dry. It was, it was, and I thought the game plan improved, the aggressiveness improved. and we saw some flashes of it.

I'm saying coming into a game so that your young quarterback doesn't feel like he's swimming mentally. And the most important thing I can say here, and I think it gets lost. When I start with, Arch did not play to a level. It was unacceptable,

and he mistrows throughout that game, early, middle, late. He can't miss. But I also want to explain, Patricia and Ohio State did some awesome stuff. And I think that Texas could help him be the best version of himself, but circle right back to it's on Arch, man. Yeah, one other thing I will say because I was critical.

And I need to walk this back because I was critical of Sark too. There was two moments in this game, one play and then one drive where Sark put the ball in arch his hands and I thought he made poor decisions as a runner. The second fourth down on the first drive, if you go back and look at that, that is a run pass option. Watch that. Oh, I said, I tweeted and put it on threads or X and all that. And he's, he's young.

He's on the road. He's learning. Pull it. Because now you not only do you, not only do you have a numbers to go run, but there was a tight end that was, remember correctly. Wide open. It wasn't a tight end motion or came across the formation and he's wide open. I think it might have been injuries.

I think he's looking back and I'm like, if they peel back at the tight end, run it and vice versa. He would have walked. I think he would have walked for the first down. And then when you got to the goal line stand before, the plays before you got the quarterback sneak, they run power. And I think if he stays on the hip of the guard and stays outside instead of trying to cut it up, I think he walks in the end zone there too. He made a couple.

We don't know sometimes. And again, sometimes it's true too. It's predetermined. Even though it looks like something to keep the defense off balance. sometimes you're coordinated or your ball off no matter what especially with the first starting quarterback so we don't know but we don't know but there's a couple times i felt like oh if he just keeps that or if he follows the guard he's going to be all right here's the biggest thing for me i have seen quarterbacks who drop back footwork looks awesome they look it's like the prettiest throwing motion in the world and then the ball flutters the ball goes in the dirt or whatever you're like oh shit like i literally don't know if you're going to be able to play quarterback because of that everything i watch with Arch literally everything there was an answer for it whether it was you know and people get mad at me for saying so there was a couple snaps that DeAndre Moore felt one when he fell down another one he's clearly got to clear the safeties and the linebackers and it looks like

arch makes a terrible throw because he doesn't run to the right place it's just he's got to do a better job with that route there's a couple of things there's some things with his offensive line with protection those things did happen again arch needs a play better but nothing i saw on tape was like oh shit he just can't do that it was always the mechanics were somehow breaking down. I went through a bunch of guys. We're already over an hour. There's no reason to do it.

Go look at the McShay report. But there were some guys that popped on tape. There were some guys on Sunday. I love getting the texts on Sunday from Scouts coming back home or just to watch some tape. Joshua Joseph, Edge Rush, Tennessee. Look out for this cat. Rvel Reese, that linebacker from Ohio State. Oh, man.

He did a day. Preston, Zachman, two picks for Wisconsin. is the safety position. This Robert Henry kid, I got to watch Tate. You know what Robert Henry did for UTSA against A&M? No. 177. He had some special like injury exemption.

He was late to figure out whether you could play this year, all this stuff. He comes and goes 177 rushing on 16 carries, two touchdowns, five carries of 10 plus, over 100 yards after contact against A&M. So there was a lot of that stuff. and I put it all in the McShea report. The bailor tight end, Michael Trigg. He was, yeah, I led the whole thing off of Trigg. Oh, did you really?

I swear, number one, number one guy I put on there. Not that I was ranking him, but it was a first because he was right. It was earlier in the weekend. Do you know, interesting note on Trigg, obviously he's the guy then who dropped the pass at the end of the game, but if you watch the play before, exhausted, contact, made a catch, just like, it was not the guy to go to in that moment without maybe a timeout for him to get a reset, no excuses here. He played awesome.

But do you know that Trigg, who's now at Baylor, is a senior, I believe, he caught passes from Jackson Dart at USC. Isn't that funny? He's been around him, man. Yeah. All right. This is fun. We're back on Thursday morning. Is that right?

That's right. Yeah, Thursday morning. Previewing week two in college football. We're off and running. I'm so stoked. Metsch five stars come on man you are all five stars you too see you guys must be 21 plus and present in select states for Kansas in affiliation with Kansas Star casino or 18 plus and present in DC Kentucky or Wyoming gambling problem call 1 800 gambler or visit r greg dash help dot com call 1 888 789

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