Episode 2687: Kirby Smart fires back at Gunner Stockton criticism

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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DawgNation Daily -- the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fans Beginning of the show: I discuss what Kirby Smart said during an Atlanta radio interview in defense of his quarterback, Gunner Stockton, who received criticism from a prominent former NFL wide receiver this week. 15-minute mark: I share clips of Smart talking about what spring practice could possibly evolve into in the future as G-Day approaches on Saturday. 30-minute mark: DawgNation's Mike Griffith joins the show. 45-minute mark: I take a look at other SEC headlines including a funny story involving South Carolina coach Shane Beamer. 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	Today's episode of Dog Nation Daily is brought to you by Dr. Pepper, college football and Dr. Pepper. It's a Pepper thing.
0:10.0	Presented by Dog Nation.com. This is Dog Nation Daily, the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs favorite.
0:16.5	Here's your host, Brandon Adam. My, oh, my, my, do we have some fun stuff for you here today. I was joking with our video audience for the show started.
0:23.2	It seems like the largest sector of our economy these days is people responding to what a
0:29.5	crazy person said on a podcast and that becomes its own new news cycle and on and on it goes.
0:34.3	And just perpetuity feels like there's a lot of that going on.
0:37.8	We are guilty of that sort of thing around here.
0:40.4	I guess that's probably true.
0:42.0	But you know what the big story around Dog Nation was going back to, I guess it's
0:47.2	been Monday on our show.
0:48.8	We played the clips at the time.
0:51.7	The former NFL wide receiver, and I said this this morning.
1:11.5	I was on with my friends Athens Sports Radio 960 the ref. You can say a lot about Steve Smith, but for our younger folks who may not know this, you can't say that Smith is not a good football player, right? This is a former all-pro. This was a guy who not very big, not very fast, I don't know, but whatever God gave him, he turned it into an outstanding NFL career. So you can say what you want about Smith in terms of his
1:16.6	current evaluations of players, but you can't say he didn't come from a place of a guy that
1:20.2	was obviously very good football player. That's what Smith was. He is now like the best I can tell
1:25.2	every former player in all sports trying to do the podcast
1:28.8	game.
1:29.3	And you'll remember he ripped the Georgia offense because of how it used Zachariah Branch.
1:35.4	He ripped Gunner Stockton in some clips and cutups he was trying to watch of Dylan Bell.
1:42.2	And all of this came, and I'm not going to play the clips for
1:46.2	you again. I think you've probably heard them. I don't know that we need to give this any more
1:49.5	oxygen than it already has, to borrow a phrase, it's already been used this week. I don't know that we
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