Welcome in everybody to the flagship podcast.

I am Chip Brown of Horns 247.com, joined as always by our fearless leader, managing editor of Horns 247.com joined as always by our fearless leader, the managing editor of Horns 247, Taylor Estes.

Taylor, how are you doing?

I'm doing great, Chip.

How are you doing?

I mean, we are at the midpoint of spring football.

We are. We're at the midpoint of spring football. We are.

We're at the midpoint of Texas Longhorn's spring football coming off that five and seven,

2021 season and then the off season of all off seasons,

one of the best off seasons in college football with the hiring of two talented new position coaches and Brennan Marion and to Shard Choice.

You bring out Gary Patterson as a special assistant to the head coach.

We don't even know what that means.

It's like G14 classified special assistant to the head coach,

Gary Patterson. And, and then the recruiting class, top five recruiting class, all full of

offensive linemen and defensive linemen. And now here we are seven practices into spring ball.

There will be 15 practices, including the spring game on April 23rd.

And so we are going to give you a couple of nuggets from observing practice today.

And then we're going to get into sort of a mid-spring football, you know, maybe a couple

things that are exciting to us, maybe a concern.

So sit back, relax, and let's talk some Texas football. All right. So

Taylor. Here on the flagship podcast, Chip, as we always say, it never ends. When you talk about

the season, it's almost like, that was just a bad dream, I think, right? The off seasons erase

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