Defense Showed Us To Hope, Who is Best Unit After Spring?

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It's the lockdown podcast network, your team every day. We told you about the offense.

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We ranked those position groups from least impactful to most impactful. Now we're moving over to the defense. What is the number one position group on the University of Georgia's team on the defense this year? We'll talk about it today on the Lockdown Bulldogs ORG podcast. You are Locked on Bulldogs. Your daily podcast on the Georgia Bulldogs ORG. Part of the Locked

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on podcast network, your team every day. Welcome back to Lockdown Bulldogs. Welcome back to the Georgia Bulldogs. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome back to Locked-on Bulldogs ORG.

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Part Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. He is Daniel, I am Clint PERSON, together. We are Locked on Bulldogs ORG. Thanks for making us your first listen. We really appreciate y'all. We do.

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So very much, the 199, the loyal third segment listeners, stick all the way to the end, thus being crowned loyal third segment listeners.

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That's what they do. Athens GPE, Athens Steve almost caught the wrath today as he was talking about greatest UGA ORG athletes

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of all time. Ant Man could be one of them, but his name is Stetson Bennett PERSON. He's the greatest that ever was, two-time national champion.

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But we're talking defense. We're not talking offense.

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No. We're done with it.

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Anthony Edwards plays both offense and defense. So're not talking offense. He was in a whole. We're, Anthony Edwards plays both offense and defense. So he does the bill.

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Both.

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Just real quick,

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real quick.

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Oh, we're talking basketball in the first segment.

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Thanks to Game Time ORG,

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by the way,

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for bringing us today's episode.

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We love them. We love you. No, we're not talking about basketball, but Ant Man is the face of the NBA ORG, which I,it might actually make me start watching NBA ORG basketball. What a time to be alive, Clint PERSON. It really.

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What a time to be alive.

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We'll talk more about that later.

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More about that later because we have some things in the works.

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But let's begin with this defense showed out.

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We talked about all off season how the defense really let us down in some key moments last year.

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It wasn't what we were used to in 2022, 2021, elite defenses.

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And all of a sudden, we had a huge drop off last year, mainly because we had a bunch of young bucks running around.

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Needed some guys that didn't come through. Michael Williams PERSON famously did not set the sack record for

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SEC ORG as I did he not? No, wasn't even close.

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Nah, didn't sniff it. No. That's okay, because G day brought you and I.

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Oh,

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there was a great warmth in my belly.

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Just like some liquid that at times we consume.

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It warmed our souls.

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So we're going to talk about that.

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We're going to go from five to one,

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the fifth best,

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fourth, best third all the way up to the best defensive unit on the defensive side. I'm going to let you kick us off here, Clint PERSON, but I think

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is it fair to say that this one's a little bit tougher to rank and sort out than the offense? I felt like we had a pretty clear picture on theoffensive side. Now, we maybe could go back and forth about a couple things. We dropped offensive line down, the wide receivers impressed us, these types of things. But on the defensive side of the ball, I really feel like it's going to be really tough to sort these out. I'm even curious as to how it's all going to shake out here on the episode today. We were in lockstep for the offense. There might be a little bit of disagreement, but we're going to keep our same format. We're going to alternate shots. And soyou're going to lead us off with the fifth best, a lot, the worst. And just to clarify, our five position groups on defense are defensive line, edge, linebacker, corner, and safety. We're going to call the star position a safety in this episode. So the defensive backs, the corners would be the outside corners. And the safeties would include three players most of the time as Georgia ORG runs out of the nickel quite a bit. So, Clint PERSON, I'll let you kick us off here on the defensive side.And who's at the bottom of the barrel?

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This is, like you said, I think five through two could really be in a lot of different orders.

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For me, we're going to get to number one.

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And to number one, I think is going to be common between us.

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But you start talent, do you go talent?

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Do you go to experience? Do you go success on the field? It's such an up in the air thing. And so Daniel, I'll give you the two position groups that I'm between for fifth. And that's actually defensive interior line and cornerback. Now, we have high hopes for cornerback. We saw some things at G day that brought you and I a smile because we were,

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we're very concerned. We're losing a bunch of key guys. Camar Lasseter PERSON, locked down corner.

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We have a couple of guys that could be fighting Ellis Robinson PERSON in there.

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So the talent is there, the five stars, the four stars are there.

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But I think ultimately for me, because of the seniority on the defensive interior line, I'm going to go corner because it's unimproven because right now I don't feel confident, leaving any single person out on an island unto themselves. Now, stop me if you heard this before. I think this is a common occurrence for UGA offseason. Is it not, Daniel PERSON, you and I have sat here on this podcast several times and said, hey, famously, DeAndre Baker PERSON is not a shutdown corner. Well, it turns out he is a shutdown corner.

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That's right. We don't know Tyson Campbell PERSON, who's going to make the opposite end of the unit complete. But if you look at the cornerback, Daylon Everett Studd PERSON. Okay. The talent.

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Okay. We we project him to be very good this year. We're very high on him on this podcast. Let's

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not go. Let's not go Dailen Everett's PERSON stud

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right away. Okay. Just in a drill situation and a one-on-one, seven-on-seven type situation.

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We think he's got the goods. We think he's got the goods. Julian Humphrey PERSON, we think also has the

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goods, but has it translated to on-field? These are our two best corners. These are our two best

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corners. And there's no doubt. There's no denying that.

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There's no denying.

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And after that, like I said, Ellis Robinson probably talent wise, number three so far.

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If all recruiting services are correct, which there is no such thing as guru or insider, if they were, they would be coaches.

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So I'm going to go cornerback as our fifth position group because of the inexperience of success on the field.

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What say you to my analysis? It's corner and it's not even close.

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I don't think for fifth.

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I like it a lot as putting them there.

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Now, do I think corner is going to be drastically improved this year? I do actually and that includes losing a corner, obviously. And quite a good one in Kamari Laster PERSON,

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a guy that we liked a lot.

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Dayland Everett struggled at times last year, but we've been on record. We don't need to repeat ourselves on the podcast, but if there are new listeners, we believe that Daylon Everett is going to have a big year this year. We think he's going, we think he's good. I think you look at the track record of Kirby Smart PERSON coaching true freshman, or not true freshmen, sorry, but coaching young

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corners on the field over the course of a season. Now obviously, Daylon PERSON was a sophomore last

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year, but you look at Kirby Smart's track record that first year, sometimes some bumps and bruises. But what did we see out of the coaching staff? Nothing. He stayed the course, kept him right in there, kept him in the mix. I know Humphrey PERSON got rotated in, and I think that was good for us. I think Dalian Everett PERSON's going to be good.I think Julian Humphrey PERSON's going to be good. I think Ellis Robinson PERSON is going to need some time. And it would be awesome if he were a solid number three and got some good quality minutes every game, but was not necessarily being relied on all that much. So it would be great if those two guys would stay healthy, Clint PERSON, but lack of quality depth alone is going to put this unit. We're going to talk about some other units there'snone of them that would terrify me to see an injury at any more than corner right like this is the lack of quality depth that corner makes you just grab the bucket right we need by the way we we we got to get

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back over we we're going to make a bucket this, we, Daniel PERSON, we got to get back over. We're going to make a bucket this year to sell out.

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We got to sell a, we are going to sell a five-gallon bucket with our,

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with our own branding, with just Daniel and Clint's faces on it, a five-gallon bucket. I think you're right. The quality depth is of concern. We're going to talk about four, three, 2, 1, but first, these. These are, in fact, game time. Game time is fantastic.The official sports book of, I'm sorry, the official ticket of Locked on Bulldogs ORG.

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Well, I mean, tipping my hand here, but it ain't going to be defensive line.

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I'll tell you that. Not in my book. And I get to pick number four. And so I didn't even consider defensive line in here at four.

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I got to give quickly a little defense.

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We were glad to get back some returning players.

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I think that they got some advice that said, hey, you back some returning players. I think that they got some advice that said, hey, you need some more time.

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Sure, they did. And we're still

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glad to have them back. I'm happy.

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I'm thrilled to have them back. Yes.

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We'll talk about defensive line when the time

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comes, Clint PERSON. But

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right now we're going to talk about the safeties.

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Because I'm going safety

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at four. Now, it is hard.

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It's hard.

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Sometimes two things can be true at the same time, Clint PERSON, and that is, A, we have no business being successful podcast hosts.

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B, we have a successful podcast. Two things can be true at the same time. These are both true facts of life.

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They don't have to contradict each other. Point A is that the best player on George's defense by a lot, not the highest draft pick on Georgia ORG's defense, right? We'll get to him in a moment. But the best player right now on Georgia's defense is a safety. It's

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names Malachi Starks PERSON, and he plays the safety position. And yet, I've got safety as the fourth out of five rated position groups on George's team. And it obviously has to do with what I'm looking at opposite of Malachi Starx PERSON. And I got two other positions to fill Clint PERSON, and I got a lot of questions.

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And I don't have a lot of answers.

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So let's talk about some of the things we think we maybe know. We think we know that Jonah Liguero PERSON is going to lock down that star position. We loved what we saw from him in G-Day ORG. But we need to see it in an SEC ORG game. He's about to trot out there versus Clemson in week one, Clint PERSON and the bins. We've seen him play SEC ORG football, and when he did.

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It ain't been good. The bucket was necessary. Yeah.

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So if Joanelle Aguero PERSON is out there, that's great. We talked about first year corners and Kirby sticking with them. Obviously, Jonell, true freshman last year, you would understand it if he took a big leap forward. And by all accounts, he has done that. And by all accounts, he looks great in practice. We loved what we saw at G day very high on him coming out of there.Now, that doesn't mean that makes me feel sunshine and rainbows. But that's, I would say, Clint, the better of the two spots that we have to fill.

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I'm sorry. You're right. We just said huge question mark for the guerrero. Huge question mark.

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And yet that makes me feel a lot more confident. The other one's worse. Because in the other safety spot over there, it's not that you don't have a bevy of names that you could go with. Okay. Thunder Dan Jackson PERSON. Jake Pope PERSON.True freshman K.J. Bolden PERSON. David Daniel PERSON. Like, Kyron Jones PERSON could slide back there and play safety

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there's a lot of names don't for a second think that Kairn Jones doesn't wind up of being the starting safety by the year's end opposite Malachi PERSON starts because he has a chance to do soI'm not I'm not calling shot but he has a chance to do so

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all those guys I think have a chance to do so

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I mean you

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obviously you've got a lot of different skill you've got a lot of different skill. You've got a lot of different people represented there, right? You've got true freshman, raw, Uber ORG talented, Uber athletic, has no idea what he's going to be doing out there. Zero clue. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum, you got Dan Jackson PERSON. Knows what he's doing.The highest floor possible. Yes. And the ceiling is the floor.

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Like he literally is just one player. He is the same player.

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And there's something to be said for that. There's pros and cons to all these guys. Some of them have more length. Some of them have more speed. Some of them have more size and physicality. It's the only thing that makes you feel good.And the only reason that safety doesn't find itself at number five on my list, Clint PERSON, is because you've got an absolute stone cold dude back there who can fix a lot of your problems. And so, yeah, safety is a position that I am, it's not like I'm nervous grab a bucket about it. I'm not nervous about any of these positions, to be fair. And that's wild given what I saw from this defense last year, which was filth.But I am so curious as to how the safety position is going to play out. And I can't rank them any higher than this until I see something. Clint PERSON, what do you got?

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What do you think?

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Look, for me, the talent of the best player on the field, Malachi-Starks PERSON, makes me want to rank them higher.

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But as I hear you talk about it, Daniel PERSON, I think you may have talked me into understanding that defensive line

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is not the fourth. And when I see defensive line, I, well, we're talking about safety.

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I think safety position is going to be a constant mix and match until we find the right recipe.

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I think in different situations and different sub packages, we're going to see a lot of guys getting run. Dan Jackson PERSON is going to be a dude who knows his assignment on lockdown. Can he get to the assignment in time to make a play?

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That's going to be the question. Will he be asked to do so? I don't know. He's on the field.

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So,

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yeah,

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if he's on the field,

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he will be asked to do so. And spoiler alert, dog fans, he's going to be on the field this season.

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Like, get used to it. Yeah. I mean, he may not play the whole game all right you've got three now clint now are we

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going to go to defensive one see though now as i hear you talk as i hear you talk about floor and ceiling

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and in the safety position and we're talking stone cold dudes we've got defensive line we've got

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edge we've got line back. We've got Edge PRODUCT. We've got a linebacker left.

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And truth be told, Daniel PERSON,

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Edge PRODUCT made me yearn last year from the lack of production out of Edge. Now, I'm thinking clearly,

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Deavis of Line ORG was fine. They were fine. We got a bunch of guys coming back. They're fine. And we have Christian Miller PERSON. We have Jared PERSON. We have dudes who are in the pipeline. We have a Xavier

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Cloud coming in transfer portal, big old Haas. Okay. That's sharing some stuff up. So I think trenches were going to be fine. And fine to me is B plus a minus work. The ceiling is probably right there as well. Okay. So I'm going to switch it up. I think I'm going to go edge with number three. Okay. And the reason why.

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The defense line just gets just get bumped up the ladder. Just keeps getting promoted. It ain't going to be number one. I'm going to tell you that right now.

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It's edge to me. Yeah.

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Because Chas Chambliss PERSON, look, you know how to do a couple things well, but we need you to take that step forward. Michael Williams PERSON hasn't accelerated. I see draft mocks of him going on the top five.

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And I'm like, okay, in a combine, you're right.

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I need to see the production on the field.

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What is going on?

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Now, again, we got Wilson PERSON on the edge as well.

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Jim and Walker PERSON, we've seen him come in in sub packages,

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but there hasn't been dude who's just stayed out there on the edge. We got a change of position to Mikel PERSON that gives me some hope,

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but I'm going to go edge number three, Daniel PERSON. Do you like them being number three? I actually do, and it's the similar logic. This is a more talented position group than safety. But it's, it's Michael Williams PERSON and company.That's the edge position. And Michael Williams PERSON is probably going to be drafted higher than Malachi Stargs, but make no mistake. Based on what I've seen, they are not even similar football players. No.Like I, you could take that as a disrespect to Michael Williams PERSON all you want. Based on what I've seen so far, they're not the same. Now, hopes are very high for Mikel this year. And I mean, listen, I watched a guy named Lorenzo Carter just scuffle around for three years.

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I mean, just kick rocks for three years.

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And then he came out and played himself right into a fantastic senior season, NFL ORG draft pick,

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and a very successful NFL ORG career.

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This is ongoing. So it's not like I don't think that talent level is there. Michael Williams, and I mean, you saw him at G-Day Clint PERSON. He's,

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he doesn't look normal.

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He's different than the rest of them.

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Mary Smith PERSON walks down dog walk and you're like,

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whoa, whoa, dude. Same feeling for Mikel PERSON. And it's not the get off, like on the pass rush.It wasn't what I saw against the deep, the offensive tackles, even though I thought he looked good against the offensive tackles. He threw, he threw that back to the ground, Clint PERSON.And play a little, little chip right here. Boy, I saw some things. You mentioned Chas PERSON. I think Gabe Harris PERSON is a,is kind of a wild card. Yeah. In, in the edge room. And, you know, it's not fair. We're going to put him in both groups because we're going to talk about him again. But if you don't talk about Jaylen Walker when you talk about the edge, I think you're, I think you're kind of fooling yourself because that's where he lines up a decent amount of the time.And so he's an inside backer for sure. And we're going to talk about him again when we talk about the depth of the inside linebackers. But he's also an edge defender. And that elevates this unit. I like edge here. That's where I have them ranked as well.

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All right.

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And so we got two left. And their defensive line line backers will talk about them and see which one is number one right after this. All right, game off.

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We have two position groups left.

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Defensive line, inside linebackers are what remains for this defensive unit as we rank them. Where do you want to go for number two?

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I can see the argument to be made actually for both of these. And I'm going to say, even though I think when you lead off next and talk about the linebackers, I think you're going to say that there's a big gap between one and two. I don't think, I actually don't think there is a big gap. I actually think the defensive line and the linebackers are kind of neck and

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neck for which is going to be the best position group which we can quibble about one and two but just right there the fact that that

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might be the case should give you dog fan insane confidence the strength is up the middle

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the weakness is over the top the strength is up the middle like this is your georgia bulldogs

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where have we heard that before this is? Yeah, this is, listen,

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it's a recipe we have seen play out well for us.

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Yeah. And then we watched last year also. So,

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you know,

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these things could go either way. Let's talk about the defensive line. I got them at two.

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But if you want to talk about top and elite talent, yes, the defensive line is at two. If you want to talk about great quality depth, the defensive line is head and shoulders, the best position group on this roster.

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Too deep.

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On this roster, maybe deep. On this roster,

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maybe with the exception

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of wide receiver. But like the defensive line is crazy deep. Obviously Warren Brinson PERSON comes back. Nazeer Stackhouse PERSON comes back. And Tyrant Ingram Dawkins PERSON comes back.He was never really a threat to leave.

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But those three guys come back.

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Kristen Miller PERSON transferred. So you hate to see him go, but you just wish him the best.

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Hold up. Hold up, Daniel PERSON. Oh, did he come back?

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No, he came. So he came back after he transferred. Jordan Hall PERSON is back. Jamal Jared PERSON is back.

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And then you bring in guys like Xavier McLeod PERSON. You bring in true freshman like Jonah PERSON, Joni PERSON, like that they're going to play.

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Oh, he's going to play.

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He's going to play.

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Oh, he's,

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and he's going to open.

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Do you remember Michael Williams's freshman year? He's going to open some eyes when he plays.

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So I just listed nine dudes.

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And for what is essentially three spots.

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So we're talking about a three deep at Georgia ORG on the defensive front. These guys are going to be fresh the whole game, which is going to make them play even better.

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I don't even know who the best player on this unit is.

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See, this is what was confusing why I wanted to rank them so low

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because I couldn't answer that either. And that gave me pause, but keep going.

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But then you say, who's the worst player on this unit?

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And you look at how good they are,

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and all of a sudden you're like, oh, my, that is, like,

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that is a scary situation.

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I think Warren Brinson PERSON is still the best player on the defensive line.

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But I think there's a reasonable chance that either Kristen Miller or Jordan Hall could surpass him and Nazir Stackhouse this year and assert themselves as the preeminent player on the defensive front. And like, I mean, I'm telling you, there's a lot of guys on here. I mean, you could throw Jamal Jared PERSON in there too. I think he could have a big year and really pop this year. So there's so many guys on this defensive front. And to me, it's not the quality of the player.It's the quality of the situation that they're going to be put in, well-rested, and rotating in and constantly fresh and always getting a series off after they have a long series. That's going to make really good players look like great players on the field, especially in the fourth quarter when it matters. And so even though Georgia ORG might not have a superstar on the defensive line, and they might,but they might not have a superstar on the defensive line. You could be talking about six, seven guys that legitimately are playing like great football players all season long. And to me, that's why I think you've got to at least consider them as the number one strength of this defense. I got them at number two,but I think this is a very strong position group.

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I think you use sound logic and wisdom, but let me just, let's get to the linebackers. It's the linebackers. And the reason, you know,you know when you're like shopping for cars and you do,

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and you're just fell in love with a car and you're like, this is the car. This is my car. I love it.

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And I'm looking at it. And I just, and the entire time, it's a good car. It's a great car. But you kind of emotionally

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attached to it. But it's your car now. It's my. Yeah. Yeah. And then all of a sudden,

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you look, you look over and somebody says, but have you seen this car? And you're like, no, I only have eyes for this. That's what it's been like for me with C.J. Allen PERSON. And now all of a sudden sudden as I'm getting reports, I'm hearing word more and more of Mr. Mondin PERSON come in here. Oh, yeah. Smile Mondin PERSON might just have an abject rocket booster season coming for him at the inside linebacker group.Yes. These two guys are first round talents at inside linebacker. Yes. Oh, and let's keep going because as you mentioned, Jalen Walker PERSON is also talent-wise, that dude, he's a Channing Tindal PERSON type inside linebacker.That's who he is.

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Mistle. Okay, he's a missile. CJ Allen PERSON is more of a steady, true tackling. Smile Mountain ORG's a guy that's just an eraser all over the field, fast, athletic, agile.

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I haven't mentioned the young guys that we haven't even seen yet get into game time action, but whose talent and reports from practice as well as G. Raylon Wilson, did he open some eyes at all, Daniel PERSON, for you? Because he did for me. I'll tell you this, C.J. Allen ain't the reason that Pops PERSON transferred. Raylon Wilson is the reason that Pops transferred. Okay. So that's all, I think, you should need to know about him. And so right now on the depth chart, he's not listed as the starter.

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He's third on the depth chart right now.

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And, but he going to play, Clint, a lot this year.

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We have bona fide dudes at the inside linebacker position.

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Another year, more weight, more strength, more knowledge.

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CJ Allen holding him back last year was missed reads and missed assignments.

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So Malmond PERSON wasn't healthy the whole time.

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Now they're healthy.

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Now they're a year and more in the system. More weights, more sprint, more conditioning. And these two guys are monsters with monsters behind them. Inside linebacker group gives me the confidence.This defense will be elite this year because of this group. Because Kirby Smart System, you got to have two dudes that can just make a, get off blocks, doesn't matter. Assignment doesn't matter if they, if offense made a great call. We were in a bad situation, blitz up the middle, all of a sudden outside run or a little screen game.You have to make up for those times on defense. And these guys are those racers. For me, inside linebacker is a clear number one. And it makes me thrilled this season.

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You love to it. Troy Bulls, special teams monster, also plays inside linebacker and guys, Chris Cole PERSON.

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Just pencil the name down. Write it down. Because the next car Clint PERSON's going to be looking at

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and forgetting about his current CJ Allen car his name's Chris Cole PERSON so if you want to get ahead of it you go ahead and look there he's Clint I'm Daniel PERSON this is the lockdown bulldogs podcast that is the defensive position group rankings we will be back next week we got a lot that we're going to try to cover we might have some guests we're going to have some guests.

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We don't know what's going to happen.

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