Episode 2530: Kirby Smart explains why UGA produces so many NFL draft picks

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4.8 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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DawgNation Daily -- the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fans Beginning of the show: I discuss how Kirby Smart says he uses games like the one UGA will play Saturday vs. Austin Peay to prepare the next generation of UGA stars. 10-minute mark: I explain why UGA quarterback commit Jared Curtis might not have some of the same early-season struggles in college that Arch Manning dealt with vs. Ohio State. 15-minute mark: I discuss why the issue with empty seats against Marshall might be a bigger problem than just that one game. 20-minute mark: DawgNation's Mike Griffith joins the show. 40-minute mark: I discuss other SEC headlines including a preview of the weekend's top games. 50-minute mark: Former UGA linebacker Davin Bellamy joins the show. End of show: I award a Golden Shoe winner and share the Gator Hater Updater.

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0:00.0	Presented by dognation.com.
0:05.0	This is Dog Nation Daily, the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fame.
0:09.0	Here's your host, Brandon Adam.
0:11.0	Many of you know last week I asked for, can Georgia get off to a fast start against Marshall?
0:16.0	They did.
0:17.0	And I said, if they'll do that, I'm happy.
0:19.0	Anything else that happens after that is to me fairly inconsequential.
0:22.7	And we've been a man of our word on that this week.
0:25.8	So it leads me the question of, well, if I've got the power to wish stuff into existence,
0:30.4	what do I want to see happen for Georgia against Austin P this Saturday?
0:34.9	And to be honest with you, I don't know that I necessarily have a very good
0:40.5	answer for that this week. I'll tell you what I've been thinking about. And you make feel
0:45.7	completely different and you may be right. Who's to say? But I'll tell you the way I've been
0:49.5	thinking about this. When I was younger, the NFL had four preseason games. Now they just have three. And by the way,
0:55.9	certainly the Falcons and other teams don't really play their starters at all. The NFL preseason is
1:00.3	far different than it used to be. But when the NFL was the way it once was when I was a little
1:05.5	younger, you had the four preseason games. And everybody always viewed that third of the four preseason games.
1:12.8	Well, that's your dress rehearsal.
1:14.6	That's when your starters play into the second half.
1:17.6	That's when you approach it like a real football game.
1:20.2	Then you finally kind of unplug and you just play out the string for the final quarter
1:24.7	and a half or so.
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