{"id":324556,"date":"2017-04-27T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=324556"},"modified":"2017-06-19T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:03:59","slug":"listen-gus-malzahn-on-the-opening-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/listen-gus-malzahn-on-the-opening-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Gus Malzahn on the Opening Kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Malzahn-OK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324564\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Malzahn-OK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MOBILE, AL (WNSP) &#8211; Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn &#8220;feels good&#8221; about his current corral of quarterbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Malzahn sat down with Mark Heim and Lee Shirvanian from WNSP&#8217;s Opening Kickoff on Thursday to talk spring football, the transition to summer, and the next season.<\/p>\n<p>Malzahn said &#8220;it&#8217;s hard to compare&#8221; transfer quarterback Jarrett Stidham&#8217;s spring game to the Tigers&#8217; previous two transfer QBs\u2014Heisman winner Cam Newton and Nick Marshall, who both took Auburn to the national title game\u2014because Newton&#8217;s game was &#8220;a different day&#8221; and Marshall missed the spring game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing that stands out to me about Jarrett is his leadership ability,&#8221; Malzahn said. &#8220;He&#8217;s done a good job of befriending his teammates, trying to earn the respect of his teammates and his coaches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That said, Malzahn told Mark and Lee that Jarrett&#8217;s arrival made last year&#8217;s starter Sean White a better quarterback as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing better than\u00a0competition,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I just think it brings out the best in everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hear the full interview below.<\/p>\n<p>For more, listen to the Opening Kickoff with Mark and Lee weekdays from 6 to 9 am on WNSP.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-324556-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gus-Malzahn.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gus-Malzahn.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Gus-Malzahn.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MOBILE, AL (WNSP) &#8211; Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn &#8220;feels good&#8221; about his current corral of quarterbacks. Malzahn sat down with Mark Heim and Lee <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/listen-gus-malzahn-on-the-opening-kickoff\/\" title=\"LISTEN: Gus Malzahn on the Opening Kickoff\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,10,117,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-auburn","7":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","8":"category-news","9":"category-on-the-air","10":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324575,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324556\/revisions\/324575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}