Marcellus Wiley loved Kirby Smart's leaked pregame speech: 'Most direct, primal engaging pregame speech I've ever heard'
Marcellus Wiley was blown away by the audio that was recently leaked about a Kirby Smart pregame speech.
While Smart has said that he’s not sure about the specific game, although he noted that it wasn’t from the national championship against TCU.
Wiley on a recent podcast episode ranked the pregame speeches he heard from 6 NFL head coaches he played for, but Smart exceeds all of them.
“There’s none coming close to what Kirby Smart said,” Wiley said on the Dan Patrick Show. “I wish I could repeat it right now, but on the podcast I do. Point being, that was the hypest, most direct, primal engaging pregame speech I’ve ever heard. There’s not going to be another one that touches that one.”
Wiley said Smart’s speech was effective because it went to the “source of why are we playing football,” and doesn’t speak about execution, discipline and commitment.
“Go know their — that’s it,” he said. “When you first started playing football before you knew how to play, before you knew the plays, you knew the scheme, you knew to go knock that dude, and he just went back to channel zero. That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard. If I was on that team, I would’ve helped out and chipped in on that 65-7 win.”
“There’s not going to be another one that touches that one.”
–@MarcellusWiley on Kirby Smart’s pregame speech
For Marcellus Wiley’s full appearance: https://t.co/0Q9zXNQlYw pic.twitter.com/tMMZTqz1Np
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) January 18, 2023
Kirby recruits, coaches and motivates better than any football coach in America.
Yes yes and yes!
“And y’all ain’t even heard the best one!”
I’ve seen people say that it was leaked intentionally to drive up recruiting and I wouldn’t doubt that. Who wouldn’t want to play for this guy? There’s no tearing them down. You can tell he’s confident in them and what they are going to do. I don’t know how much it elevates the actual level of play, but it does create a way to connect with these players and it surely gets them in the right mindset before the game.
I’m curious to what game it was.
If it was 2022 I’d guess Tennessee or game 1 Oregon.
I’m betting it was Tennessee.