The Flagship: One-on-one with Texas legend Michael Griffin

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this week's episode of The Flagship Podcast, Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes open the show previewing the upcoming 2020 NFL Draft, including the Longhorns who are expected to be selected first as they take the next step in their journey to the National Football League. The Flagship Podcast then welcomes in a very special guest in former Texas legendary safety Michael Griffin to catch up on the latest with the successful NFL veteran player and get his take on the Longhorns who will take their talents to the league in this year's draft class. Chip and Taylor close the show with an in-depth look into what college athletic directors across the country are weighing when it comes to the upcoming 2020 college football season. Chip, who has sources all across college football, and delivers an inclusive insider take on a potential change to this year's schedule, whether it's pushing the season to 2021 or finding ways to compact the 2020 schedule prior to the end of the fall semester. The Flagship Podcast — featuring Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes — hits the airwaves each Wednesday, and centers around all the latest happenings surrounding the University of Texas and college athletics, with big-name guests joining the show on a weekly basis. The Flagship is available on a multitude of platforms — including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts — so make sure to subscribe to the Horns247 podcast channel on all platforms to have the latest episodes available to you at all times. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome in everybody to the flagship podcast, joined as always by the managing editor of Horns 24-7, the one and only Taylor Estes.
0:18.6	I am Chip Brown. Taylor, how you doing? I'm good. I'm trying to stay inside right
0:24.6	now with the weather. My goodness. So I apologize if you can hear thunder and my door beeping throughout
0:31.6	this podcast because it's the house is shaken right now. We bring the thunder on this.
0:36.9	I mean, today we are bringing the thunder i think everyone uh is going to love it
0:44.9	how about a conversation with michael griffin i mean 19th overall selection in the 2007 draft one of one of the all-time great
0:58.1	safeties at Texas in my mind and I I think has a legit argument to defensive
1:04.6	player the decade from 2000 to 2009 I know I mean I'm friends with Derek
1:09.6	Johnson DJ I'm just saying he's in the
1:12.7	conversation. He's in the conversation. He's not, you know, I'm not, I mean, well, you know,
1:18.6	we'll talk to Griff about it. Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny chip because last week at Horns 24-7,
1:23.9	we did kind of our, the all-time, you know, offense, defense players from 2000 and
1:29.4	2009 and 2010 to present. And I think you and I both picked Michael Griffin for our defensive
1:34.5	one from 2000 and 2009. Did you not? Because I did. Yep. Yeah. Led the team in tackles in 05 and
1:40.5	06. And his twin brother, Marcus, led the team in tackles in 07 so I mean come on yeah and then you know still has the school record for blocked kicks you got to factor that in oh yeah but let's get uh we'll get to Michael Griffin here in a second, but it is NFL draft week.
2:02.8	And Taylor, the, look, Longhorn's fans are, you know, I'm reading the message board and I'm
2:10.5	seeing, man, when are we going to be back in the first round?
2:14.1	Because Texas hasn't been in the first round of the NFL draft for a while,
2:18.8	especially when it comes to offensive players.
2:21.6	I mean, Connor Williams got into the second round.
2:24.1	That was significant because Texas offensive linemen hadn't been getting drafted.
2:31.3	But this go-round, you've got Devin Duvernay and Brandon Jones, probably in that
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