Georgia Peach Bowl media day highlights: 'What is a Buckeye?'
The Georgia Peach Bowl Media Day wasn’t all clichés. We asked the Dawgs some hard-hitting questions about Buckeyes, restraint, and Bulldogs today.
Before you roll your eyes, I’m here to tell you that even in some non-football reps, the Dawgs impressed me a lot with their answers and skills.
These guys are special in their humor, in their ability to multi-task, and in their ability to not mortally injure an opponent.
And they told us all about it today.
Georgia’s Peach Bowl opponent is a ‘Buckeye.’ What exactly is that?
I went straight to the most reliable source I could find:
Georgia football players.
Sure, I could ask an actual Ohio State Buckeyes football player, but where is the fun in that?
They’d probably give me some manufactured, embattled answer about a team that is against the world, and refuses to say the letter ‘M.’
No chance anyone would ever learn something from that.
So allow these Dawgs – even if they used Google, like Broderick Jones did – to inform, educate and entertain.
Even bigger props to Jalen Carter for the ultimate non-answer here. Instead of saying, ‘I don’t know,’ he approaches it with a subtle stroke of nimble brilliance that NFL Draft scouts will love:
“I feel like only a Buckeye can answer that question.”
Sedrick Van Pran put on a multitask masterclass
I, too, can use Google.
And that website tells me that it’s impossible to multitask, so I know it’s true.
Well, ESPN had a different plan for Georgia center Sedrick Van Pran.
Their TikTok team (you need an entire team for that, I guess) asked the big Dawg to draw another big Dawg:
Georgia’s mascot, Hairy Dawg. While he answered the media’s questions.
I don’t think I can understate how impressive that is.
Not just because he executed the task itself – but also because he actually drew Hairy Dawg really well.
I didn’t stick around to film the finished product.
There were more pressing interviews to film, clearly.
But if you’re curious about Van Pran’s payoff, well, it didn’t disappoint.
Just think. He drew this while answering reporters’ questions about Ohio State, practice (practice!), and buckeyes / nuts.
Pretty amazing. Take that, Google.
Back to Jalen Carter – here’s how he reacted to that Jayden Daniels play
Jalen Carter entered this media day with a vague, irresponsible report about his character.
Well, when we finally got the opportunity to speak with him today, I didn’t see him throw any small children in traffic.
He didn’t shake down an old lady for her Chick-Fil-A combo meal.
He just laughed and had fun like the rest of his teammates before yet another monumentally big game in their Bulldog careers.
One of the questions he had the opportunity to laugh off was about that SEC Championship moneyshot moment when he spared LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels from a Mercedes-Benz Stadium grave.
“I’m not in the game to hurt nobody,” Carter told me.
“If they get hurt off a big hit, a legal hit, it’s football. But I’m not here to pick up and slam nobody on their head or anything like that.”
Carter’s coaches congratulated him immediately for his intuition.
“Coach Kirby came up to me and told me, ‘nice job not slamming him.'”
What a quote to see on the page.
We don’t get to hear from Carter often, and I wish we had more opportunities.
Other than the etymology of ‘buckeyes’ and Sedrick Van Pran’s art, Carter’s appearance was a welcome inclusion today.
