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John Michaels of 680 the Fan in Atlanta checks in live from ACC Media Days in Charlotte and explains why his expectations for Carson Beck are very high.
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00:00john michaels he uh hosts mornings on 680 the fan in atlanta you can hear him nationally on
00:06espn radio as well at times he's on the toyota of hollywood hotline he is broadcasting this week at
00:13acc media days in charlotte so you have any first day uh takeaways i'm sure you did you speak with
00:21mario today did you speak with carson beck what was on your agenda uh yeah we spoke with both
00:27mario and carson beck i think me and mario are now best friends um i think we really because you had
00:32texted me that he was not going to be happy with you no no i just he he makes me nervous i mean he's
00:38not a little dude and he walks in very intense uh but when he saw all the ink um he he gave me good
00:44dap we spent literally 20 plus minutes with mario um and then had a chance to talk to him afterwards
00:50and that's my guy so yeah i'm ready for a big year for coach crystal ball
00:57oh you're muted crowder crowder's trying to ask you a question but he's muted he's up in your jersey
01:01i had a great question plan john my question was off the chain i was just no we we talked about this
01:10early in the show john about carson beck where my thing is he is a two-time national champion
01:15but he had he's not an all-american and now he's playing with a lesser a lesser supporting staff
01:22because georgia was loaded when they were winning like do you see carson coming in he's not going to
01:27be cam ward we know he's not going to be cam ward but i don't see him i'll put my opinion out there
01:33john i don't see him coming in and just now becoming an acc quarterback of the year or anything
01:38like that do you think he can do that coming to miami under this offense because i questioned cam
01:44when he came from washington and he did what he did right um i do think he can do all of that and
01:50i'm going to i'm going to disagree a little bit you know he wasn't the starting quarterback when
01:55they won national titles that was stephan bennett uh carson did take him to an sec title game two
02:01years ago they won the sec championship last year but i didn't think he was supporting cast especially
02:06on the offensive side a season ago was very good their o-line was mediocre to georgia standards
02:12their receivers led the country and dropped passes a year ago and they couldn't run the ball which is
02:17you know again goes against everything that kirby smart preaches at uga i think he has a chance like
02:22we had a chance obviously to vote for players a year and everything and i've got carson back now was
02:28there some orange and green homerism around that absolutely but i think him and kade clubnick are
02:33going to be the two best quarterbacks in the acc and crowder we had a chance to talk to carson's first
02:38time i've had like sit down it was my show and carson and we probably spent you know close to 25
02:45minutes talking to him and i couldn't have been more impressed because we get that whole preconceived
02:51notion and all the conversation about him being a bad teammate um and some of the stuff that happened
02:55allegedly at georgia that he wasn't around i did not get that impression at all very engaging very
03:02outgoing and even said you know i'm an introvert away from football he goes but you know he he talked
03:08to us from everything from working with the receivers getting to know people what it was like to
03:13transfer in how hard he's had to work you know to kind of be accepted all of that different stuff
03:19and i think he's got a chance to have a sensational year coming up in 2025 man i hope you are right man
03:26the the early line i forget who he has oh i guess lee sterling the early line for the um notre dame game
03:33at the end of next month is notre dame minus three you have an early lean
03:39give me the money line in miami i'm not worried about no damn notre dame coming to town and now
03:47look they run the football really well with jeremiah love um they've got a really good defense
03:53although they lost pieces and they lost their defensive coordinator in al golden they're starting
03:57a redshirt freshman quarterback who's never started a game and i get it hard rock stadium in miami is not
04:03always the loudest place but when it's full you know once or twice a year and the maniac miami fans
04:11like myself come out of hiding and decide to be loud it's going to be different and if cory heatherman
04:17can do anything you know change the fortune of the defensive side of the ball get after it stop the run
04:23and minnesota was a top 10 statistical defense a year ago we didn't have half the talent he has at miami
04:29make a redshirt freshman quarterback come out and throw and to crowder's point about carson deck
04:34while he may not have been the the perfect quarterback at georgia he played at alabama he
04:39played at texas he played in sec championship games he played in monster games everywhere playing
04:46against notre dame is not going to have any fear or anything for him i think notre dame walks in and
04:51walks out of there with a loss maybe not as resounding as it was when they played them all the way back
04:56in 2017 and we beat the irish off those dudes but i think they come to miami and they leave out of
05:01there low lower in the rankings than they were when they walked in i think miami's got a real good shot
05:06to beat them and and john you up there that's the media day in the sec is it is it the normal people
05:12you know it's texas it's georgia even being a gator like i know we we have some ways to go
05:17even hell tennessee looks good but what like what do you see in the sec it's a way too early top 10 i
05:25guess whatever it is but is it texas georgia one and two and where does it go from there
05:29you know it's crazy crowder we we were at sec media days last week and it's almost like the media just
05:35read magazines and all they heard was arch banning because overwhelmingly people in that building think
05:42texas is going to run away with everything and i said you know i i think texas will be good
05:46arch banning starts are against ut san antonio i think it was maybe louisiana monroe and mississippi
05:53state so he's never played in a monster monster matchup where he was a starting quarterback oh
06:00guess what they start the year on the road against ohio state i think texas will be good but i don't
06:05know that they're going to be you know run away with the sec i think georgia crazy is a little bit
06:10overlooked partly because carson beck's gone nobody knows anything about gunner stock and they brought in
06:15a bunch of transfers at receiver you know they're replacing a ton of pieces on defense even though
06:21georgia reloads with five star after five star i think people are overlooking them and i truly
06:26think alabama's due for a bounce back i think all of us wanted to bury bama obviously with what
06:31happened last year losing to bandy and oklahoma losing your bowl game to a bad michigan team but
06:37you know you get killing the board getting his offensive coordinator back ryan grubb who spent one
06:41year in seattle with the seahawks i think their quarterback in ty simpson is a better fit for what
06:47they want to do i think miller was a better quarterback but simpson will be a better fit
06:51and they loaded up once again i you know to answer your question i think it's the the usual suspects
06:56throw lsu in there who brought 18 transfers in they have a quarterback returning and garrett
07:02nussmeyer who's been there before and brian kelly better win now because you can't keep losing three
07:07games in lsu and think that everything's going to be okay speaking of the usual suspects in the sec
07:12and of course crowder has to bring up the sec so fine i'll piggyback i'll play ball crowder
07:17john i know you loved ret lashley just ripping the sec to shreds today with what i believe to be a
07:25factual statement where he's like hey six schools for the last 60 years have won titles out of the
07:30sec nobody else there's no depth there as much as you know guys like crowder want to make it believe
07:34like every sec school could go win any other conference that they wanted no they can't and it's
07:41so spot on what ret lashley said today you think about the teams that consistently win it we just
07:46talked about them throw florida in there i give give the gators credit kennessee give them credit
07:50they won titles kentucky's not winning anything old miss for all the flash and style of lane kiffin
07:55they're not winning a damn thing mississippi state's not winning anything south carolina maybe this year
08:00maybe got a quarterback got a defensive lineman and dylan stewart who's really really good
08:04but those teams historically don't win anything you know what they do solana they piggyback
08:10off the rest of the conference they go oh we're in the big bad sec and their weirdo fans chant sec at
08:17you and it's like it's like dude you just cheered against kennessee two weeks ago now you're cheering
08:22for them because you're an sec fan there's no depth there's no depth in every conference every
08:28conference has about four teams that are better than everybody else and everybody else in the conference
08:32maybe has one year out of 10 that they rise up and do something so coach lashley was spot on we had a
08:38chance to talk to his quarterback kevin jennings that kid's got it together you know he's not going
08:42to beat miami in november but i i wish him a lot of luck the rest of the season what just happened
08:49sec what he's saying crowder is kind of like girl scout cookies miniature golf or sweet potato fries
08:57which is we're hypnotized to believe that you know oh they're so good and miniature golf is so fun
09:02but if you really break it down no one likes miniature golf no one likes sweet potato fries
09:07no one likes girl scout cookies sec is not as deep and as good as you think and to be quite honest with
09:13the aac rebranding as the american and having an eagle as a mascot we're really going to need to start
09:17talking about that guys play out of the sec that can't play in the sec i'll tell you that much
09:24he's uh he's fall he's falling for it hook line and sinker john it's just that mute button still
09:30working up there it's so it's so sad to see it hey are you watching uh quarterback on netflix
09:38uh i didn't and that's because kirk cousins is on there we played a lot of the cuts obviously for
09:43us locally he was the story yeah we don't i i do the dolphins need a backup please come get them
09:52you actually do i would take him in a heartbeat over zach wilson do you think the dolphins made
09:57a mistake having zach wilson as the backup for tua look if two is hurt it doesn't matter who's back
10:03there you could have kirk cousins you could have brett farve hell you might be able to try it out big
10:07dan at this point zach wilson was a unmitigated bust like one of the worst second overall picks ever
10:14but he's a backup quarterback anytime you're going to your backup quarterback you're in a little bit
10:19of trouble i would have liked to seen the dolphins get a veteran who maybe can come in assuming that
10:24two is going to miss four or five games somewhere throughout the regular season so i said call
10:29terry fontenelle get chris greer on the phone call terry fontenelle see what they want for kirk
10:33cousins hell we'll take zach wilson right now just to get kirk cousins out why wait a second why i love
10:40this guy on quarterback you want who's going to be the starter oh it's pennix it's not even a doubt
10:46kirk cousins is the backup here's here's why so the whole saga that unfolded last year we were all
10:52in on kirk you're six and three he clearly got hurt against uh new orleans and i know they showed
10:58this on the quarterback documentary he gets hurt he tells the trainer he's hurt they then have a
11:05bye week or i think they played denver the next week they get obliterated like 38 to 6 then there's
11:10a bye week he's clearly hurt they asked him point blank because he showed up on the injury report on a
11:16wednesday and he goes no no i'm not hurt it's a clerical error he then goes out to have two more
11:21weeks after the bye week a bye week in which instead of staying and getting treatment he went
11:25to michigan to get his jersey retired and spent a week up there came back then through one touchdown
11:31and nine interception the season unravels after the season he then goes during super bowl week and
11:37goes yeah i was hurt during the season and he calls our owner arthur blank and basically begs to be
11:44traded to a place where he can be a starter and now he goes on netflix and they have the whole
11:50thing with my arm oh i was hurt i don't feel bad for him at all he's been a thief his career he's had
11:56a career where he's made over 300 million dollars and he has one more playoff win than hawk and i have
12:01combined as a starting quarterback of the nfl i think you've proved that he's a gamer
12:06you believe in pennix though or you just want something different
12:11um i like what i see out of pennix i mean it was a really small sample size last year we got to see
12:18him start three games two of the games we were down in the fourth quarter and he led game tying
12:22touchdown drives unfortunately we lost both the games because we never touched the ball in overtime
12:27and the defense was an absolute sieve the kid has a cannon for an arm he can make every throw he's
12:33he's done everything right in the off season but it's obviously a wait and see his completion
12:38percentage was under 60 which i don't like and i think a lot of times he was big play hunting he's
12:44got to find a way in the nfl to get that percentage up 65 67 but he's got all the tools that we're
12:50looking for and we've got offensive pieces around them that really can make some plays and maybe put
12:55up some big numbers in the league john michaels he's at acc media days in charlotte enjoy charlotte
13:02what do they got up there they got like cookout what do they what do they have for like barbecue
13:05but that that is called cookout that's like a that's like a famous chain yeah no here cookout's
13:12great they have those in georgia any place you can get chicken nuggets as a side instead of fries
13:18is a friend of mine and at cookout you can go there and be like hey i want a number two but give me
13:22nuggets instead of fries as my side so you get a burger and nuggets oh you can't have a better place
13:28for me why don't more places offer that i didn't even know that was a thing i know at raising canes
13:33you can get double toast that way you forego the the coleslaw you get two pieces of their delicious
13:39toast you're telling me at cookout you can sub nuggets for fries yes and that's what makes cookout
13:46a very very must-stop place when you're in georgia or the carolinas oh my god i gotta consider
13:53moving that's unbelievable that's unbelievable it's no upcharge no i want maybe there's i don't
14:00know 49 cents i'm not sure what the upcharge is anymore i have kids so when i look like i go to a
14:06fast food place and they're like 52 05 excuse me i'm like i don't want to work here i just want i want
14:11a couple of number threes like what the hell's going on that crazy you literally can't get a pizza
14:16delivered for less than 30 bucks like it's ridiculous it's crazy i remember my dad like going out with my
14:23mom and handing me a ten dollar bill and going hey uh if you want to get a pizza tonight just make
14:28sure you you leave me the change the change wouldn't get a slice and a drink now if i could
14:36like anytime kane asked me for money now and he loves to do this that dad i'm and it's not dad can
14:41i get 10 dad i need 15 what do you need 15 for um it's zaxby's the hell are you getting exactly
14:47it's 15 well i want the milkshake as well like if i give him ten dollars he wouldn't be able to eat
14:52it's bad it's been very difficult to get a meal for 10 bucks even at a fast food place
14:58100 you know if you're going to mickey d's you can still get the big mac meal now you better not
15:03upcharge it you better get the large fries and the large and by the way the large coke's overrated
15:08the the amount of soda that they give you is almost uh it's almost like stroke inducing the
15:14amount that they give you like those cups they're too big nobody needs all of that hey john
15:19the birthday cake milkshake at zaxby's and have you ever tried the uh the fried cheesecake bites
15:25with like the little strawberry dipping sauce oh i've i've not had that one we we love they've got
15:31the they've got the loaded fries now which again is just great they they pile chicken and sauce and
15:37everything on this at zaxby's the birthday cake milkshake is fantastic but i what was the one you
15:42just said cheesecake fried cheesecake was oh man fried cheesecake bites and they give you like a
15:48little uh i don't know if it's strawberry or like like a little dipping sauce oh so good man delicious
15:54seventy six dollars
15:56but you're right you're there in uh atlanta you got uh the varsity right there i mean man the varsity
16:04i'm telling you the varsity man that's where the good food is the hot dog is one of the five most
16:12useless uh food items on a menu ever why would i ever go somewhere to get a hot club never ever in
16:18my life please tell him the varsity is just good marketing the food is garbage yeah the it's it's one
16:26that if you stop at in the late night and you need to clear out the system it's the perfect place
16:31to clear out the system i refuse to believe that i've never been to the varsity but i refuse to
16:37believe that it's garbage there's no way it could could have been around this long with it being
16:41garbage oh it's got a prime location in downtown right across the street from georgia tech's campus
16:47that's how it got people go there to park their car nobody's going there for the actual food
16:52solana you went to the away game at georgia tech right isn't that where you were the uh you
16:58know the very subtle um clothing did you and eduardo walk across did you did you walk across
17:03the street to the varsity wasn't subtle i met up with john michaels at that game he saw i was wearing
17:08a um hat and uh no we did not walk across the street to the varsity but um was stitched on the
17:14inside of the hat right because you didn't want to get beat up at the georgia tech game isn't that
17:18what i remember it was not stitched inside the hat this is what i deal with john one one picture
17:24with my hat turned back and all of a sudden i was hiding from georgia tech fans i've never seen a
17:29uf fan go to a georgia tech game wearing royal blue and a backwards hat what'd you say nothing
17:36i'm trying to figure out talk as you said him get beat up at georgia tech of all campuses in the world
17:42the last campus you have to worry about getting beat up is georgia tech he gets he gets a little
17:49mouthy that could happen anywhere he can get beat up at temple all right and i'm not talking about
17:54the college all right we'll see you john we appreciate your time