NFL Legend REVEALS Florida's Plan to Target an ELITE Transfer QB

Oh, Isaiah's got me. Yeah, I lost everybody. Had a little bit of a glitch across the board. All right, so I don't know if you guys saw this. We talked about it last time on Gator Summit. But Chris Carter mentioned on his podcast, I'm going to play the clip so you can hear him say it, and then we can discuss it, about Florida going after a top quarterback portal next year. Lots to unpack here. Let's play the clip, and then we'll definitely discuss it some more here. Take a listen. Summer, that's who they are at Florida. and next year from I got friends in this business Florida is going to go out and do what Miami's done the last two years Miami spent 11 million dollars the last two years on the quarterback so whoever is the top ranked quarterback in the portal Florida is going after him for next year Florida's for real Florida Florida's back Florida is the version of Indiana okay all right because we always look at okay who's going to come out from out of the Power Four and become a real player in the top 20 like Indiana is Florida people won't say because they got national championships and everything but man Florida football sucked no doubt like they were not this football team so that's why it's a version of tomorrow that's who so lots to unpack there um we talked I talked with Dave and Allie about this last night Dave actually had an interesting point he he was not calling Chris Carter a liar saying what he's saying what he's hearing is not true he just doesn't believe that the coaching staff is gonna is gonna be kind of moving that way this that quickly right which is which is a good point like we're six weeks into the season why are you giggling Cody Camario Taylor's gonna look so good in orange they don't run the wide choice they don't run the wide choice that's okay he's gonna be so good dude i i cannot wait i mean i am juiced up for this i'm gonna have a veteran offensive line one more year under Troutline we're gonna be built and ready to go they're gonna sure up the db room They're going to sign one more year, one more back with the band after we eventually lose in the playoffs, either first or second round. Just come on down, Camario. The water's fine. Is that what that K is for, the Camario? That's not KTP. It is. That's for Camario. Camario Taylor. That's the Camario Taylor pass, what the KTP stands for. It's interesting to think about. Let's play the game. Let's play the, if this is true. I mean, because it's, you know, we don't know. I mean, I'm not saying, like, why would Chris make it up? Clearly, he heard something, right? And so, let's play that. Let's go down that rabbit hole for a minute. Clearly, I don't think somebody just woke up and said it. And I think that's where, if there's smoke, there's usually fire. And so, somebody had to feel or hear something. And I wonder if it goes back to, we could connect this to Easton Royal a little bit. Because people are going, why is, what is Easton Royal seeing in this offense? And we talked about what showed to be explosive. I think Summerall and Buster show that they want this offense to be explosive, whether that hasn't looked fully the way they would like it to look and be this five wide flying high like Cody would like it to be. And so if you're able to show proof of concept with said quarterback and Aaron Philo, who can manage it but not give you all the attributes that you need, well, now you've got ammo. And we were in this portal last year without any proof of concept. So Summerall and the boys were having to kind of make way with probably very little support from a financial standpoint. And I think showed a lot already in just a short amount of time to show what they can do with talent. And my theory of them hearing this and how we're seeing a lot of quarterbacks, Bryson Wright being one, and we've talked about blueprints a lot of how do you attack the portal? What is the way to go about this? And we saw a little bit of the blueprint changing last year with how we went in the recruiting cycle for 2027 with going after big-time trenches guys. That's where we were spending money. When prior years, we got wide receivers, cornerbacks, kind of your playmakers, which were helping the class look good, but it's not the same as getting top-tier interior defensive linemen and offensive linemen. Now, we went more offensive heavy this particular cycle, but that blueprint follows what Miami's been able to do. You recruit the trenches, you develop them, and you pluck cornerbacks and quarterbacks in the portal and other places if you needed to, right? And we've heard, we've already kind of been yelling for cornerbacks. So how is it crazy that it could be a quarterback that you're going to be, you know, poaching after the fact? I think if you look around the league, Austin Simmons was a top quarterback coming out of the portal. Josh Hoover, Sam Leavitt, Trinidad did not go into the portal, but obviously would have been a top quarterback in the portal. Obviously, that is where, you know, the key is to be successful. Getting an older quarterback that has shown their way to do things. Again, it does seem a bit soon, and I think that Dave was right on this, of like, it seems a bit crazy to already have that theory when you have a quarterback room with Trammell Jones, who we are high on. Will Griffin, in my opinion, would still be very young to take the reins next year, so that doesn't seem crazy to me. Here's the thing. If you're either, because you're not going to be able to keep Philo or Trammell. We've always said that. One of them would be leaving if one didn't play. so next year you're going into it with either Trammell or just Philo more than likely and now Will Griffin so you were probably going to have to go into the portal anyways so then if you go from that angle it's okay well you're going into the portal anyways and if you have Philo that stays or Trammell let's just pick either one you would be an idiot to not go try and go get a better guy and then create a competition and if that quarterback that's there currently feels that hey i can't beat it well then you're not where we need to be so yeah it it doesn't seem crazy because of how this quarterback room is. It's still very young. We've talked about it being young. Philo, I think, is old and should be kind of taking that turn, and that's why it's like, if he's not taking it by the end of the year, then yeah, you go get a guy. 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You place $5, you get $150 if you win that lineup for brand new users and take advantage ride with the crowd okay use the great features that PrizePick has to offer PrizePicks it is good to be right you obviously somebody needs to to the offensive line needs another year of work and or we need a piece here or there but it's pretty close um i think that the the linebacker room uh you'll probably get a one or two veteran guys in there it and then i think that the db room you're gonna have to do a little bit of work in there i also wouldn't i mean it depends uh if we even have brad white because i listen you can't be 128th and and and defense at the University of Florida i don't i don't i don't care who you are i don't that's unacceptable any year so you know you go pick up a guy like jim leonard he flips that defense around and you go get some pieces in the portal dude you're pretty close because if you can get let's just hypothetically say jayden ball comes back one more year because because we make the playoffs he wants to win an addy um you get jayden ball to come back you got duke clark that's coming back you'll have to you'll you'll have to fill in for for uh whole whole line probably like maybe a tackle or something oh yeah you'll probably have to go get one tackle but you're pretty much set, Fletcher Westfall sitting there uh very nice, being being groomed ready to dice up, you know, you're probably only one one away offensively you have the wide receivers Dolly Wally VB3 you probably go and pluck one other guy to replace Singleton, a guy like him, a speedster which we got, you got some young guys coming up too and Justin Williams and Gross say that you've you've invested in as well so yep you are you are literally a couple pieces away and i think that the University of Florida boosters if i'm them and this season continues to go on the right path i think you look back and say okay he did this with uh 128th ranked defense so like let's juice up the defense a little bit let's get them at least top 50 yeah right let's spend some money let's get let's hey that interior nose position we need to refill that because we we haven't done a very good job retaining players there you're gonna have Woods you're gonna have KJ Ford uh coming into his sophomore year you're gonna have some players on the edge it's really set up that if you want to go for a national championship run it could be in the next year or two yeah before you hand the keys over to Will Griffin it's there yeah i i agree and i want to kind of make this clear because i know how some of this could look of like oh they're already signing off on philo they're already you know counting it out it's only five weeks in like give the kid time i don't that isn't my theory at all like this isn't us creating this this is what we've heard and i look i think that there is a part of the business and we've heard them talk about this before where you've always got to be looking five months to a year out like you have to be and there's a whole probably staff gm wise that are looking at possible outcomes of hey like these three guys could really make this thing tick if Philo doesn't continue to progress or if Trammell doesn't progress like we would like them to. We can't waste this talent that we have in Dallas Wilson, in Aaron Philo, in Jaden Woods. These are all guys that will be back 100%, unless they leave the portal, but they have the opportunity. We don't have to worry about the NFL plucking them, right? And Ryan says, well, you also have to consider Buster leaves. That was my point. You always have to consider something happening. And if there is noise of us being willing to attack the quarterback portal, that does excite me that again you're kind of saying that we see what we have we know where we're light at and if this doesn't go the way we need it to go then this is where we're going to have to get up after that's that's that's the thing yeah it's adapt or die and look i think some gator fans maybe kind of that have watched this sport it may sound like oh we're trying to sign off on guys that are playing currently and it isn't that at all it's just we're i mean you hear this rumor so you're talking about it but you got it you gotta be always thinking you gotta put our gm hat on too i mean that's that's don't let me get the chart out yeah well here's the thing i and this this might be a wild take there are guys this week that signed their walking papers and they don't even know it by the attitude they brought into practice and what they what yeah they're just going through the motions for the next six weeks yeah now i don't i i have no information on who that is and i think there's probably only two people that know and that's John Summerall and the GM, and they're saying, look, it was already bad. Now he's going to have attitude or, you know, come in after a bad loss and not buy in. Walking papers are there. I guarantee it. They'll let them go through the motion and, you know, probably you'll see guys go to third string and work some practice squad and stuff, but there will be kids that are, if there was a way to cut them, they would have been cut this week. I guarantee you. So, yeah, and it's the name of the game. And I would get mad if they didn't because, listen, I'm spending my hard-earned money every single month to support Florida victorious, and so is a lot of people in this chat. And, listen, I got the federal government not spending my money right. I don't need my Florida Gators not spending my money right, okay? Vikings aren't either. Listen, I don't pay them. Okay. Smart guy. Eric Ellington could come back he has if he has the five or five i i believe he could still come back so go ahead no i'm just wondering why we're acting like this team doesn't average about 45 points a game you're like the worst in the chat did you not just hear what i said this isn't me like panicking or burning it down it was just it was interesting he said this last week he said this before the Mizzou game i believe yeah so i i think that it's just interesting to hear how this team is approaching stuff i know it's gonna people are like oh why are we while we're freaking out it's not i i think that it is just almost refreshing to hear that they're willing to be aggressive like maybe they don't but the fact that it's being out there i think it's good for publicity i think it's good for like if it is talked about they're like reaching out to john like hey like my quarterback's looking to leave he's he's a stud like is this for real like what's up like it doesn't hurt to be in the conversation if your quarterback currently is going to get his feelings heard about it he was never going to make it in the first place so we're not in the business to protect the guys from hearing it like it's yeah it's already out there well as a quarterback i like it you want i want if i'm a quarterback like i want people to have competition i need that competition yeah i don't feel like it's my job like i gotta earn my job that is my job it is mine he has to take it from me so i i do understand what you're saying i would just kind to give you a little smoke but what i'm saying is is like this you know you always have to be ready in the portal no matter what team you are anymore because if you're not you're going to get run over and miami has done it over the last couple years with the mensa and the becks and you know they have put the people in the right place and it's always been the quarterback position because they always have the talent so you know we haven't seen Miami, when is who doesn't Miami even recruit quarterbacks i don't even know who their quarterbacks are they always just get the They got the best quarterback in the portal. They have a good one from, I think, Mandarin right now that's committed to them that throws to Bryson Wright. He's kind of a stud. He's a lower end, but it's kind of like the theory that I've been saying. You go get kind of a three, low four-star and develop in why you're still plucking guys. And if it doesn't work out, your blueprint still works. No, it's like in the NFL when you go and you get a veteran quarterback on a team, a good team. Now you're just getting a veteran quarterback in college and you're putting him on a good team. What'd you call him? That's veteran. yeah not everybody can be the packers and draft you know look kirk i mean the writers they're doing it that's right the veteran quarterback baby he's out there slinging it okay vet veteran you're like it's veteran right veteran veteran veteran vet i'll go with that bro you're like i'm like is he glitching I have a glitch in my voice yeah I love it I love it I I did I said I was at Chili's and I said triple dip or the other I said triple dip the other day in front of the boys I got absolutely throttled for it was one of those things where you had to just you just put the head down you know what I mean like it was it came out so sloppy it's just wet and like thick I guess and it wasn't even that make it it was that bad it was like it'd be funny but like it was like me trying to say it as good as possible and it just like I got thumped like I I literally had a seizure when it happened um you can't defend it no you just you got to just take it well you went you doubled down you said veteran like four times that's what I was like veteran veteran maybe it's like Cody's saying roof What do you say? Ruff. Ruff. Ruff. Ruff. Veterinarian QB. Veterinarian quarterback. I love it. I love it. Now I'm gonna get yelled at for making fun of Tyler's speech impediment. Hey, shout out to CeCe for giving us some steam. This is something that Florida hasn't had in the last couple years too is some positive publicity that we're going to spend.