8/30/24: Coach Kirby Smart Post Game vs. Clemson Part II

on that note Nate Frasier had excellent debut and um I was just wondering how how would you assess his uh place on the dep chart after today we don't we don't we don't do dep charts running back I mean cash Jes had a great day too and uh I was really proud of all those guys stepping up but there's no dep chart I mean we play the guys that have the best week of practice K to your transfer receivers made some big play me down go made a great catch in London show how fast he is when he get the ball his in the space yeah London I thought really stepped up I thought the play of the game was the play he caught over the middle um Dylan had gone down was some cramping London had to step up and go play he made a great catch I think it was a third down conversion I'm not sure but once we converted that it kind of was a springboard to being explosive and scoring and I thought that was a clutch catch you know he he London is is a great kid he's very levelheaded nothing really affects him uh it didn't surprise me in the moment that he didn't the moment wasn't too big for him because he's played in a lot of these SEC matchups Kirby you mentioned Mel earlier what was the injury for him and for Warren Bron as well both uh one's a ankle and Warren was more of a contusion of some kind I'm not sure I don't want to say high ankle but it was above the ankle it was more calf uh in there where he got stepped home he felt like and in Mel's x-rays they looked good but I've seen that before so we got to go check when we get home and see coach obviously etn didn't play was that was that a suspension and will is it over now will will it carry into next talk about those things and that's the focus and energy I put into I appreciate your question uh we all know that Carson is calm cool collect we've heard you say wanteded to show a little bit more passion to get his teammates fired out did you see that from him today yeah I thought he got a little passion energy too there you know we started a little bit early and didn't have the third down conversions we the first half and I thought he responded well to that uh he came in sat down on the iPad and he told me when we came out second half he said we're going to have score coach and sure enough we did and um I thought he he really handled that that well and look that's a good defense guys y can say what you want that's a that's a really high quality defense that kick from Payton 55 y uh I mean pretty late in that half there how how big was that for yall yeah it was big at the time but it just you know you can't play these games in 3 three three three you got to score touchdowns and uh that probably was a little out of my comfort zone but it looked to me like he had uh some room to spare on him you know and uh what was it 50 what5 realized I knew when we had to kick it it was out of the Zone but I really wanted to but I didn't have a lot of options there and and uh we were playing field position and I've seen him make them so indoors I think it makes it more significant yeah coach I believe Carson Beck extended some plays with his legs there a couple third down conversions just talk to that growth in the area of his game using his Le yeah tremendous I mean the first conversion was that it it didn't end up in points but what it did flip the field position it made them play behind the the bad field position most of the game um he has the ability to do that and I tell people all the time they don't know the athlete he is and it's not the speed it's the body control decision making he can hurt you when you go out there and match everything and then he takes off on he's got really good pocket presence and um he he made some plays yeah with Warren going out Jordan Hall zavier McLoud out there not out there what do you see out of Christian Miller and zier and ni stack house today midle defense play just tough guys man I I can't say how they played you know I can't like I didn't watch it speciic spefically but to play the plays they play the number of snaps the volume they've taken they have been extremely durable and uh extremely tough Trey's done a great job of bringing the young players along in that room and you know we're getting a a blessing in some ways of getting all these young guys ready while we're trying to get healthy and that could really pay dividends late in the year um if if we get everybody back hi coach um some of the talks surrounding Clemson has been that they have not been utilizing the transfer portal as much as some other teams have can you talk about how the trans uh transfer portal guys have affected your roster and how they've um affected the way that you guys play this year yeah I that's that's you know that's hard for me to to speak on I'm not Judgment of someone else I guess you're not asking me to judge their program you're saying how the transfer guys have helped our program we're very selective in in in the transfer department you know we take a tight end out of Stanford who's played in a similar offense two tight end sets uh we take a wide out who we play against and and and can run and we need wide outs because we lost guys at wi out um Take Kobe who's a high quality kid I mean we talked to these kids we visit with these kids and you know if I if I I want my team to stay my team I've always said that if you could give me every kid I sign they stay at my program for four years and they can't leave I would take that every day of the week but if we're going to lose kids we've got to replace repl them with high quality kids that are that are um character kids that are looking to to to have an opportunity to win a championship they want to go somewhere and play because otherwise you don't you can't survive in the SEC without the depth you need so it's a it's it's a it's a forced situation you have to use it so we use it selectively because we actually like signing high school players that can develop and the guys that you see in our program most of the time are that