Kirby Smart keeps climbing up the ladder of coaching legacy with each passing season. He constructs elite rosters, maintains a ruthless standard, and keeps winning in an SEC environment. But all of us know more about Coach Smart than we know about ‘Player’ Smart. Long ago, there were helmets before headsets, and according to a certain Georgia legend, Kirby Smart, with a helmet on his head, “was an as—le.”

That certain someone is none other than 12x Pro Bowler Champ Bailey . The Hall of Famer shared Georgia’s secondary with Smart and knows the wiring inside that helmet better than we ever will. In a recent appearance on the 680 The Fan podcast , Bailey described Smart as the veteran voice who kept everyone in check, especially the secondaries. “You know what, when we played, he wa

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