All right, Shane. Hey, we're officially live. Once again, that SEC podcast brought to you by twisted tea. What's up, buddy?

What's going on? Restart. It's so, it's so funny because I get a little nervous knowing that it's live. Even though we've done this a billion times for some reason, when we go live, I'm like, I don't know what to do with my hands.

Yeah, I got you, buddy. And my favorite thing about going live aside from getting to interact with people I'm already seeing. We got a bunch of comments already. So we'll get to those in just a second shape.

But I don't have to do editing when we're done. So I'm going to open a beer with you. Yeah, come on in. There's nothing's worse than having a little bit of a buzz and having to do computer work. So 13 days away. There we go.

Man, we are right around the corner. Can you feel it? Did you watch any of the hard knocks? Is it tough watching your boy Aaron Rogers in a Jets jersey? Oh, yeah, I refused.

And you're going to watch it. Are you? No, no, man. I tell you what? And it's so funny because I watch, I watch every hard knock. And then at the end of it, I'm like, these guys are winning the Super Bowl. You know, and then they get destroyed. Usually it's like, I just buy into the hot.

Just like I'm buying into all this college hot. I'm watching all these videos come out and listen to these coaches talk. And it seems like every team may go undefeated. I don't know if it's possible, but.

Yeah, Bradley. Children are ashamed of the show. He's he's asking is it's just Facebook? No, this is YouTube. This is Twitter. All three of them. We should be live and there's plenty of comments coming in from the YouTube channel. So yeah, we're available on YouTube as well right now, but.

So many scrimmages shaded. It took me hours to kind of go through the coach clips. We've got. I think about 10 different coaches speaking on this episode. I think I did it right this time to where everybody can hear it. They can hear us and everything like that, but.

I don't know. I guess we got so much to get into. We should just dive right into it. Don't you think? Yeah, absolutely. And people keep looking while I'm looking down. I got so many screens in this building. It's like, I don't know which one to look at. So I'm just.

So if you catch me look at sideways, I'm just trying to find Mike's face there. But yes, I'm ready to jump into these coaches, man, because you know, one of the things. I don't know if it if it's that time of the year, but it seems like I don't know about you, brother. It just feels like, okay, now we're getting into the grind of things.

We're two weeks out for a lot of these programs. And it's it's it's no no more trying to find who's the best on your. It's it's like you're filling the roster now. You're.

You're filling the depth chart and it's like you could feel the pressure with some of these coaches that come out today.

Yeah, and before we get at any clip, Shane, I think kind of the biggest news that we've had since we've actually recorded and we anticipated this. I mean, we even set it on the last show.

But Florida has named Graham Mertz starting quarterback. It's official now. So does that change anything? I mean, it's fairly early in camp. I think that's what you want.

If you're a Florida fan, you don't want to sing a drag out. You brought this guy in who's got 30 something plus starts in his career.

Here's your leader. We were here in behind the scenes. He's he's leading the charge down there. He's got the playbook down.

He's doing exactly what Billy Napier wants for him to be doing. So I mean, he's Mertz. They're already saying it down there in Gainesville.

Does this give you any hype going into this this incredible game one at Utah? We got a veteran under center to hopefully be a lot more consistent on offense this fall.

Yeah, I love the confidence, Mike. I think that gives you a little uptake. If you're thinking about betting on these boys early, you know, that they got their quarterback and we've heard great things.

You know, from what is it? Has Mertz? Is that his nickname now? I like that. But again, this is a program that needs to hit the ground running. They don't have time to tune up.

Every game is going to be pivotal on their schedule. And I think now you're in kind of that territory where you got so many valuable reps that you don't want to waste it on another quarterback when you know in your heart who the number one is going to be.

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