Tui sighting

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Yeah Taylor was part of the '21 O-line that went to Frisco and graduated along with Lewis Kidd. Everyone thought the O-line would take a step back the next year because of their departure.

And yeah Jimmy came in the brewery with one of the partners here who is also a doctor. My partner says do you remember him and I didn't but then he said his name and I asked "didn't you play on the line?" It was hard to believe.

I think Matt Brownlow lost about 135 pounds. Might be off a little, but it was a bunch

Mitch Brott lost a ton of weight too. I hardly recognized him last year.

I was friends with a few lineman in college. The amount they had to eat to keep or gain weight was disgusting. It’s no surprise they lose weight, I bet they were pushing 6k calories a day. If you saw Shaun Sampson today you’d never guess he played on the line.

I would say one of the most underrated biggest pieces of progress that we've seen at the FCS level in this state in terms of athlete experience and health is the implementation of true professional dieticians who help the players have a real nutrition plan and learn how to put on weight in a rapid yet healthy fashion.

Go back 15-20 years, dudes were literally going to Taco Bell dollar-taco night or Pizza Hut lunch buffet and eat themselves sick. Maxing out their meal cards at the dining hall on sysco foods and eating nothing but bad carbs.

One of my buddies was eating 12,000 calories a day. He would set alarms at midnight and 3 a.m. and wake up in the middle of the night and chug double-scoop protein shakes and crush whatever leftovers was in the fridge and then go back to bed. That's so freaking bad for you!

Even as recent as 2017 or 2018 before the two Montana schools really ramped up the nutrition part, you'd see OL and DL guys eating breakfast burritos with triple bacon before practice in full pads. I remember Dylan Mahoney told me he went to a fast food drive through for a "snack" every single day just to meet the weight demands they had for him...Honestly, disgusting, like Belligerent said....

When people wonder how Alabama and Georgia get kids from rural backgrounds who then go straight to the NFL, this is a huge part of it. You recruit kids from disadvantaged backgrounds and they get to the SEC where they have a training table that you wouldn't believe — you could literally have surf & turf every night if you wanted — and these dudes become Patrick Willis in less than 2 years. It's crazy.

Braden Zimmer told me he put on 63 pounds this last off-season. He said he was eating 350+ grams of protein a day and between 7-8K calories. That's much more realistic than eating 12,000 calories of ****** and waking up in the middle of the night to chuck gross ass chalk.

350 grams of protein a day is crazy. I’d be so fat

In fairness, Zimmer is doing 2 a days. If my 50 year old body could handle a lifting and cardio session 3-4 times per week, I could handle 350 grams of protein and 8k calories too.