I posted this on Rivals board but I’ll post here since it’s applicable.
Well I’ll say this, I am listening to Steak, Sandra and Brian this morning because I knew they were at practice yesterday. I wanted to see if they were going to follow up on their experience at practice yesterday. They did a whole segment on it. Highlights:
1. Steak said it was an amazing experience the way they roll reps and the energy. Said you can’t appreciate it unless you are there.
2. Sandra said “not to bash the previous regime” (stop if you’ve heard this from other media and NFL scouts) but the access to the staff for the media wasn’t night and day different. She said she has never felt that welcome at a practice to walk around and ask questions to anyone there and get questions actually answered.
3. Steak said our players are noticeably bigger. Said our secondary has NFL sized players. He said Geoff came up to him and told him to look at the players and how much bigger and faster they are compared to last year. Steak agreed. Said that Geoff told him the average OL when he came in was 6’1 and 265 pounds. They are now 6’1” and 295 on average. Steak talked about our recruiting and how we are now recruiting OL 6’4 and bigger. Said they are fixing that quickly.
4. Brian mentioned that Oliver looked the most comfortable running the offense. Said there isn’t going to be a very clean pocket this year and Oliver was more athletic outside the pocket. I found that interesting. Oliver might actually be the starter.
5. All 3 of them gushed about the water slide, water balloons etc. he said the coaches implored them to wait until the end of practice. Said they dimmed the lights in the indoor and started to watch film them suddenly music started blaring and water balloons being tossed by coaches from everywhere even up on the lifts from above and the kids went crazy. Said he had never seen kids have that much fun this far into the monotony of camp.
6. Steak mentioned the NFL scouts present and Chris Cotter from the ACC network there as well.
I don’t know about y’all, but perhaps if GT let’s the media in, we will start to get some more positive talk and air time. When’s the last time we got a full segment on 680 talking about our program. How much fun they had and how much they appreciated our coaches welcoming them.
Perhaps we embrace this and quit pretending everyone is against us. I know Paul Johnson brainwashed us all into thinking that but I am ready to forget that and work to mend the toxicity within the Atlanta media that man set us back with.
Steak also said that we are going to win a game or two this year we shouldn’t. Said we have some speed and size that’s going to surprise people.
Funny comment by Brian, he said that Marco Coleman scares the crap out of him. He said that’s a bad dude. He said Marco Coleman told him about the DL “these mother F$&@ers are going to surprise people”. Finneran said by his estimation Anntoneous Clayton is going to be special.
He's definitely the guy you want in your corner when things get rowdy in a bar room.
