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Speaker 2: The area is Thursday night, April eighth, the year of

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Speaker 2: Our Lord, twenty twenty one, fresh off the Master's a

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Speaker 2: nice little lead in for us on the show tonight.

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Speaker 2: We have got a jam packed college football Thursday evening

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Speaker 2: for you. A couple of housekeeping notes. Gonna mention them

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Speaker 2: right after I tell you what's coming up. We don't

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Speaker 2: talk a lot of NFL draft here. It's college football show.

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Speaker 2: It's not really an NFL Draft show. However, sometimes if

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Speaker 2: you do the vendiagram of that audience in the draft audience,

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Speaker 1: I think we have some overlap tonight.

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Speaker 2: Touched on justin Fields the other night, for example, not

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Speaker 2: talking about fields tonight, I wanted to talk about Matt Jones,

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Speaker 2: Alabama quarterback. Depending on which Mott draft the Mott community

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Speaker 2: to how if we were to go back to twenty

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Speaker 2: Mac Jones, what do you think about him right now?

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Speaker 1: I can't get over some of these mock drafts. I

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Speaker 2: So congratulations to Mack Jones. I don't even where he's

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Speaker 2: That's kind of what I assumed we would hear. That's

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Speaker 2: The Iowa program is always cloaked in anonymity because everyone

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Speaker 2: But let me tell you this, let me make it

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Speaker 2: Petris or bust. You know, I I hate peeps, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think peeps are Satan's candy. Here's how it was

436
00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,119
Speaker 2: described to me. The Iowa quarterback situation was described to

437
00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,200
Speaker 2: me as the difference between Iowa being a top ten

438
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Speaker 2: to fifteen team versus being the Peeps.

439
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Speaker 1: Of college football.

440
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Speaker 2: That's the difference between Petris coming through this year versus

441
00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,840
Speaker 2: relying on anyone else on that roster. I don't think

442
00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,639
Speaker 2: I've ever had a more violently accurate description of a

443
00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,960
Speaker 2: program and a quarterback situation than that. So that's the

444
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Speaker 2: spring intel we have for you right now. We'll continue

445
00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,080
Speaker 2: to do that as long as spring camps continued around

446
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,199
Speaker 2: the country. I didn't talk about LSU there because I

447
00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,120
Speaker 2: want to talk about LSU for a couple of minutes. Now.

448
00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,199
Speaker 2: LSU is in a really good situation at quarterback, and

449
00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,920
Speaker 2: it does not jive with the perception that many people

450
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Speaker 2: have of where the LSU program is. So there's going

451
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,280
Speaker 2: to be some difficult decisions to make up in your mind,

452
00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:51,760
Speaker 2: if you're in a pool, or if you're trying to

453
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,800
Speaker 2: bet futures and you're asking yourself, what should I expect

454
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,439
Speaker 2: from LSU this year? Do I remember twenty nineteen? Do

455
00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,320
Speaker 2: I remember twenty twenty? How in the world do I

456
00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,199
Speaker 2: blend those oil and water? I don't know what to

457
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,360
Speaker 2: make of this program. They got four guys who could

458
00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,840
Speaker 2: probably start at many programs. They got two guys I'm

459
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,760
Speaker 2: talking quarterback who could start at a vast majority of

460
00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,000
Speaker 2: the programs in America. Now, the two that I'm talking

461
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 2: about are Max Johnson, who you saw beat Florida for example,

462
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,600
Speaker 2: late in the year, and then you saw Miles Brennan

463
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,280
Speaker 2: earlier in the season before he got hurt. It was

464
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,719
Speaker 2: an abdomen injury. We never really had public clarification on that.

465
00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,880
Speaker 2: So just as someone who has had an abdomen injury,

466
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Speaker 2: I couldn't have played quarterback for LSU during my injury either.

467
00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,359
Speaker 2: So I feel Miles Brennan. So guys like Miles Brennan

468
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Speaker 2: and I is what I'm trying to say, once we're healthy,

469
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 2: maybe you will contribute. I don't care who starts for him.

470
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Speaker 2: Like I got a feeling it's a lot more contentious

471
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Speaker 2: and a lot more competitive than maybe some of for example,

472
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Speaker 2: the preview magazines already rolling off the shelves with Miles

473
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Speaker 2: Brennan penciled in or inked in.

474
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Speaker 1: I guess is how they have to do it in

475
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Speaker 1: the magazine world.

476
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Speaker 2: But look, regardless of who starts, they're in a really

477
00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 2: good situation here, quarterback situation at LSU right now.

478
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:03,960
Speaker 1: And how good it is.

479
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Speaker 2: Is why I have a hard time buying into this

480
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 2: notion that LSU is some snowball of disaster and it's

481
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,399
Speaker 2: going to continue to roll downhill. And if you remember

482
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 2: how bad they were last year, get ready. That's just

483
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,879
Speaker 2: a preview of what's to come this year. That's hard

484
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,160
Speaker 2: to envision for me. I'm not telling you they're gonna

485
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Speaker 2: win the West and win a national title. I'm telling

486
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Speaker 2: you I got a hard time believing they're not going

487
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 2: to be much improved this year. I'm going to ask

488
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Speaker 2: you how do they not improve? First off, because of

489
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 2: the obvious, can't get much worse than it was last year.

490
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Speaker 2: How do they not greatly improve this year? Because even

491
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Speaker 2: if it's Mac Johnson or a Mac john Max Johnson,

492
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Speaker 2: if it's Max Johnson, if it's Miles Brennan, Like, one

493
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Speaker 2: of those guys is going to be a foreshore bona

494
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Speaker 2: fide SEC caliber quarterback, national caliber quarterback this year, and

495
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 2: they have two legit options.

496
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Speaker 1: That's what's important they don't have.

497
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Speaker 2: It's not like at Iowa, it's not Spencer Petris or

498
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Speaker 2: bust it's Max Johnson. If it ain't him, it's Miles Brennan,

499
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Speaker 2: you can reverse that order.

500
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Speaker 1: TJ.

501
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Speaker 2: Finley has started for him. Garrett Nussmeyer is a true

502
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 2: freshman who would started a lot of places. They're afforded.

503
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Speaker 2: The luxury of not having to start him this year

504
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 2: doesn't mean they couldn't. They got a new defensive coordinator,

505
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 2: They've got talent on both sides of the likes of

506
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Speaker 2: which ninety eight percent of the sport would envy.

507
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Speaker 1: How in the world do they not improve greatly this year?

508
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 2: Ed Orzron's name is going to be forever linked to

509
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Speaker 2: one of these guys. He's either going to be linked

510
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,640
Speaker 2: to Max Johnson, He's going to be linked to Miles Brennan. Now,

511
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 2: hopefully he gets a chance down the road to survive

512
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 2: and link his name to the likes of Garrett Nusmyer

513
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 2: If that happens, ed Orzron has saved off any threat

514
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Speaker 2: of losing his job, and LSU football is back on track.

515
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Speaker 1: But this is the year.

516
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 2: It's because a lot of people cannot see twenty twenty

517
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 2: two for edwor Zuran right now, I think, including a

518
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,639
Speaker 2: lot of people in the administrative side of things at LSU.

519
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 2: They're looking right now at twenty twenty one, and then

520
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 2: the blinder's wrong. There's a fog past twenty twenty one.

521
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 2: But his name's going to be linked to one of

522
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 2: these guys, you see, because if it's Max Johnson, then

523
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,120
Speaker 2: Ed Orseron's going into battle with Max Johnson this year.

524
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 2: And everyone at LSU, myself, everyone else is looking around

525
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 2: and they're saying, all right, you want a title in

526
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, Twenty twenty was a disaster. If you're a

527
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 2: lot more nineteen than twenty, we'll find out in twenty one,

528
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 2: and we'll find it out because you will have chosen

529
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 2: amongst these three or four legitimate options at quarterback.

530
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Speaker 1: You've chosen the right one.

531
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Speaker 2: We've got all the talent we needed offense, we got

532
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 2: all the talent we needed defense. This roster looks good.

533
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 2: You made the coaching changes you say you needed to make.

534
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 2: So now let's go into battle and let's win some

535
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: football games. And whoever that quarterback is, that's who ed

536
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 2: Oorzron's going to be linked to. So who is it

537
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 2: going to be. My guess right now is they don't know.

538
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 2: My guess right now is maybe even if ed Oorsron

539
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 2: has a lean, not only is he not ready to

540
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 2: say it, he doesn't know himself. And that's a good thing,

541
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 2: by the way, that's a very good thing LSU fans.

542
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Speaker 1: Though.

543
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 2: My point is it's a win win for them because

544
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 2: they look at this right now and this is the

545
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 2: most enviable position to be in, at the most enviable

546
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 2: position in sports. If you got especially in football, if

547
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 2: you've got quarterback figured out, you've got this sport figured out.

548
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 2: Unless you have just a complete landfill under the top

549
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 2: soil of your program. Now I know LSU's had some

550
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 2: problems down there, but I'm just talking about football for

551
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 2: a second. Unless you have complete garbage under the surface,

552
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 2: you got quarterback figured out, you got a shot. It's

553
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 2: hard to be great to elite at quarterback in college

554
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 2: football and lose three or four games, and it's hard

555
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 2: to do this year, you got to really screw things up.

556
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at LSU this year. Yeah, they got

557
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,199
Speaker 2: a tough schedule, they do every year, but if one

558
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 2: of these guys is right, they'll fix things this year.

559
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 2: But let's just say they do have quarterback figured out,

560
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 2: but for whatever reason, the rest of the program goes

561
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 2: belly up. Well, then you get another staff in there. Okay,

562
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: But my point is I'm looking at Garrett Nussmeyer. That's

563
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 2: who I'm looking at down the road. Forget this year

564
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 2: for a second, look down the road. LSU's is such

565
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 2: a good quarterback position because whether it's Edwards Round or

566
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 2: someone else in twenty twenty three leading the program, you've

567
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 2: got such a good situation at quarterback that you have

568
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 2: cultivated in a environment, much like North Carolina has with

569
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 2: Sam Howell now and Drake May Tomorrow, you got either

570
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,479
Speaker 2: Johnson now and Brennan now and nuss Meyer tomorrow. And

571
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 2: who's to say you don't bring in someone more talented

572
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 2: than him in this class or the next class. You've

573
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 2: got an opportunity to bring really good to elite quarterback

574
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 2: play in and then not have to start the guy

575
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 2: his first year. That's where you want to beat. That's

576
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 2: where BAMA is with guys like Bryce Young. They did

577
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 2: it with Tua. That's where LSU is now. Not to

578
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: compare those names apples to apples, but the situations are

579
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 2: very comparable. That's why it is hard for me to

580
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 2: look at the LSU football program and say, oh, that's

581
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:39,479
Speaker 2: a disaster.

582
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: It's not going to fix itself.

583
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you right now, if they're struggling to

584
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,119
Speaker 2: say about five hundred this year, it would surprise me

585
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 2: if for no other reason, and that quarterback room will

586
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 2: not let it float around five hundred.

587
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,919
Speaker 1: Nos, it's just all right, let's wrap it up with this.

588
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 2: Brad Crawford and a lot of the guys over on

589
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 2: the desk at twenty four seven Sports, they do a

590
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 2: really good job this time and year putting out lists.

591
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: Lists are everything.

592
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 2: Lists in the content creation world are the most time

593
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Speaker 2: tested piece content that there is. Everyone loves lists and

594
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 2: so even if you claim you hate list, you click

595
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,160
Speaker 2: on it so you can hate it.

596
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: So I looked yesterday morning, or.

597
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 2: Maybe in this morning, I get my days mixed up

598
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,439
Speaker 2: over on the website twenty four seven.

599
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Speaker 1: Sports dot com.

600
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Speaker 2: Brad Crawford on twenty four to seven sports dot Com

601
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Speaker 2: put up a list of the ten spotlight games he's

602
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 2: looking at in the SEC this year.

603
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Speaker 1: Now, this is not my list. I'll probably come up

604
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Speaker 1: with one a little bit closer to the season.

605
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Speaker 2: But I found it really interesting because I was scrolling

606
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 2: down this list, I had thoughts immediately on every game,

607
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 2: and so we'll scroll through these right quick. I'm not

608
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 2: going to go too deep on any one game, but

609
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna name the game. I'm gonna give you the week,

610
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 2: and then you can think right along with me. What

611
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 2: comes to your mind immediately. We're not looking to break

612
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 2: down position versus position, just immediately what comes to mind?

613
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 2: How about ole Miss at Tennessee in week seven? First

614
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 2: thing that came to my mind is this stretch that

615
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 2: ole Miss has. I don't know if you've printed off

616
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 2: your helmet grid schedule yet put it on the fridge.

617
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 2: If you haven't, why in the world are you waiting?

618
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 2: Independence Day? Is no time to wait for it to

619
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 2: put your helmet grid schedule up.

620
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: Do it now, ole Miss.

621
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Speaker 2: I want to give you a seven week stretch that

622
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 2: they have to play this year Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee. This

623
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Speaker 2: game LSU Auburn Liberty, which is a top twenty five

624
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 2: team now, and Texas A and M. That is a

625
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: seven week stretch for ole Miss, no bye weeks. I'm

626
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 2: looking at this list and crazy though it might seem,

627
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 2: if we went by twenty twenty standards, the Tennessee game

628
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 2: would be the most winnable game, even including Liberty, the

629
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 2: Tennessee game would be the most winnable game. I don't

630
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: know how twenty twenty one is going to shake out.

631
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 2: That's why this is my initial thought on that. How

632
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 2: about South Carolina at Georgia that's a Week three game.

633
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 2: Will must Champ obviously comes to the forefront. If you

634
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: don't know mush Champ's at Georgia now in a senior

635
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 2: analyst role. I'm told Will mush Champ knows the South

636
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 2: Carolina roster fairly well. So here's what came to my mind. Now,

637
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 2: this would be really, really far reaching in a prediction fashion,

638
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 2: But I'm not making a prediction right now. But remember

639
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 2: when Lane Kiffin took the Tennessee job in year one,

640
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 2: he had that press conference and he said, get ready

641
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 2: to seeing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida,

642
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: because it's going to happen. At the time, Florida was

643
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: the number one program in America, and they did not

644
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: beat Florida, but they were a lot more competitive than

645
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 2: the fifty six to fourteen final everyone expected. Like they

646
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 2: were competitive with Florida, they went to Bama, the eventual

647
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 2: national champ that year, and lost twelve to ten. And

648
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 2: so I'm looking at Shane Biemer in South Carolina this year.

649
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 2: I'm not picking them to win any of these games,

650
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 2: but they're going to be a three plus touchdown underdog

651
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Speaker 2: in this situation most likely. What if they were to

652
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Speaker 2: go in there and put up a twenty three sixteen loss,

653
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: well that would be encouraging. So blowout versus close loss.

654
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 2: Like I know, everyone believes record is everything, not in

655
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Speaker 2: year one for a new head coach, at least not

656
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Speaker 2: for me. Like I think you can glean a lot

657
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 2: from how a team loses a game, especially early in

658
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Speaker 2: a coach's tenure. Five years in, no one cares. You

659
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 2: just got to go win. How about A and M

660
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: at Old Miss This is week eleven is so far

661
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 2: away it does no good. We don't even know which

662
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Speaker 2: quarterback is going to be healthy or anything like that.

663
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Speaker 2: But at this point in week eleven, by the time

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Speaker 2: A and M goes to Oxford, they've played Arkansas, They've

665
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 2: played Bama, They've played Missouri, They've played Auburn. And then

666
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Speaker 2: I look at Old Miss and I was reading off

667
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 2: that stretch of games.

668
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Speaker 1: This A and M game comes at the very end

669
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Speaker 1: of that stretch.

670
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 2: Again, they played Bama, Arkansas, Tennessee, LSU, Auburn, Liberty, and

671
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Speaker 2: then A and M. They could be eight and one,

672
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: they could be four and five. I could see both

673
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 2: scenarios very easily playing out. But this is that kind

674
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: of game where we're going to learn a lot. Well,

675
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 2: we will have already learned, we will have further validation

676
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Speaker 2: of whether the A and M offensive machine has taken

677
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Speaker 2: the steps it needs to take.

678
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Speaker 1: Souse, they could grind out.

679
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Speaker 2: Wins against inferior teams with inferior offensive but even if

680
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Speaker 2: Old Miss is perceived or in reality is an inferior

681
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 2: team to A and M, they better be able to

682
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Speaker 2: score because you see, Ole Miss was inferior to Alabama

683
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 2: last year if I remember correctly, they still hung forty

684
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 2: eight on Alabama. Now Obama could score in the low sixties,

685
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 2: so it didn't matter. Can A and m do that.

686
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Speaker 2: I don't know we'll see this year. Maybe we'll see

687
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 2: the Iron Bowls the last week of the regular season,

688
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 2: so it's Week thirteen, Bama at Auburn. Any if they

689
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 2: play it at Bryant Denny Stadium, it's just about matchup

690
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 2: for me. But when Georgia and Bama, when they go

691
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 2: into Auburn, the venue always plays a role.

692
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Speaker 1: I can't quantify this for you. I'm just telling you.

693
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Speaker 2: I've been on the field many times for these games

694
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Speaker 2: at Auburn just different.

695
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Speaker 1: Can't explain it.

696
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 2: I used to think it was BS before I experienced it.

697
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Speaker 1: It's not. There's something real. Don't know what it is

698
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: that happens there.

699
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go as far as to say haunted,

700
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Speaker 2: cursed spell, anything like that, but I'm also not discounting

701
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Speaker 2: that as a possibility. So we wonder, as I've watched

702
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 2: many a time, Auburn be a size underdog there, doesn't

703
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 2: end up that way. They could lose, doesn't end up

704
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 2: is any kind of blowout or anything like that. This

705
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 2: is Brian Harrison's first Iron Bowl, So that's the second

706
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Speaker 2: thing that I thought, And the third thing I think,

707
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: because this is the last game of the regular season.

708
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Speaker 2: Is I wonder what Bama looks like at that point.

709
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Speaker 2: They're going to be a prohibited favorite to win the

710
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: SEC West. Okay, that's happened before, and they've not won

711
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Speaker 2: the West. So is it going to be a must

712
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 2: win game for them in terms of the SEC?

713
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Speaker 1: In terms of the playoff?

714
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Speaker 2: Could they be in a cushion situation where we're looking

715
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Speaker 2: at it and we're saying they need to win if

716
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Speaker 2: they want to keep the number one seed. But hey,

717
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: they could probably afford to lose. They'll still go to Atlanta,

718
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 2: they can still do YadA, YadA, YadA. That's what I

719
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 2: think about with that one. How about Georgia at Auburn.

720
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Speaker 2: This is week six Again, this is the year that

721
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Speaker 2: that odd number year where Auburn gets both Bama and

722
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Speaker 2: Georgia at home. Auburn's got to go to LSU the

723
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Speaker 2: week before, so this is one of those baptism by

724
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: fire stretches for Brian Harson. Wonder what bo nixill look

725
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 2: like because this isn't Week one, a week two, so

726
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,959
Speaker 2: this is halfway through the year and this is a

727
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: very crucial two game stretch for the Tigers.

728
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Speaker 1: Georgia you've looked at their schedule, and if.

729
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 2: You have it, you will and you'll say, oh, they

730
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 2: open with Clemson, this is going to be a tough year.

731
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Speaker 2: And then you go, huh wait a second, I see

732
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Speaker 2: they play Florida way down the line here.

733
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Speaker 1: But how many other losable games do they have?

734
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Speaker 2: And then it's going to occur to you, Oh, the

735
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Speaker 2: Auburn game, the game at Auburn, that may be the

736
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Speaker 2: next most losable game they have. They play Arkansas the

737
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 2: week before, but that's in Athens, and so that's kind

738
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Speaker 2: of what pops in my mind is how losable will

739
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Speaker 2: this game seem when we get there?

740
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Speaker 1: Because right now you'd favor.

741
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Speaker 2: Georgia by ten points or so, I would guess maybe

742
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Speaker 2: more if they were playing at Auburn today, but they're

743
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Speaker 2: not playing there today.

744
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: So JT.

745
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 2: Daniels it's going to be one of a couple of

746
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Speaker 2: prove it games for him too at Georgia. LSU at

747
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 2: Bama is a lot of times the circle game of

748
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Speaker 2: the year in the SEC.

749
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Speaker 1: This is week ten.

750
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Speaker 2: I guess it's kind of on LSU to determine whether

751
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 2: that's going to be the case this year. It'll be

752
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 2: the season for them. I mean, that's pretty straightforward. I

753
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: don't think much more needs to be said, because we'll

754
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: say a lot more when the game gets here. How

755
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: about Bama at Florida. Do you know this game's happening

756
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: this year? It is, and it's early in the year.

757
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 2: Alabama plays at Florida week three. History tells us one

758
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 2: thing about trying to upset Nick Saban, and trying to

759
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: upset Nick Saban has to involve a precision passing effort,

760
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: and they're not going to have that in all likelihood

761
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 2: at Florida this year. So how do they pull the

762
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: upset off? That was the thought, and it's not going

763
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,959
Speaker 2: away anytime soon. Bryce Young unless Miami steps up their

764
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 2: effort in week one, this will probably be his toughest

765
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Speaker 2: early season test. And speaking of Miami, I mentioned them

766
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Speaker 2: because Bama plays Miami in week one, then they play

767
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Speaker 2: Florida in week three.

768
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Speaker 1: If you're interested in.

769
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 2: That whole Florida in state team compared to other team dynamic,

770
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 2: even if they're not in the same conference, we'll get

771
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: a really really good cross data set because we'll have

772
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: Florida and Miami already with a common opponent after Week three. Now,

773
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: it'll be one of the best teams in the country.

774
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 2: But we'll still be able to see that if Bama

775
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,719
Speaker 2: goes thirty three to twenty three against Miami and then

776
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 2: goes fifty to ten against Florida, Uh, that indicates a

777
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 2: little something I guess. And then lastly got a couple

778
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 2: of them here that I would guess with the games

779
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 2: of the year, at least as we sit right now,

780
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 2: Georgia Florida the neutral site in Jacksonville, much to the

781
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 2: chagrin of some of our viewers. As I found out

782
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Speaker 2: week nine, this will define JT. Daniels legacy at Georgia.

783
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 2: Don't think it's too soon to say that the SEC

784
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 2: East maybe on the line there, but the playoff could

785
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: also be on the line.

786
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Speaker 1: JT.

787
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 2: Daniels legacy didn't start this game last year, started after it,

788
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 2: and then everyone was left saying in the offseason up

789
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: to an including now, what if he had played in

790
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 2: that game? We lost the game by X number of points?

791
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 2: What if he had played in that game? Could we

792
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 2: have matched points? Could he have matched production with Kyle Trask?

793
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 2: Could we have traded points with Florida? Will you get

794
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 2: your shot this year and you get it again, presumably

795
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 2: if it is Daniels versus Emery Jones with the quarterback

796
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 2: edge on the side of Georgia.

797
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: That's how it seems in April.

798
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,280
Speaker 2: We'll see if it plays out that way and Alabama

799
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: goes to College Station Texas in Week six Bama at

800
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: A and M. I'm interested in two things. How comparable

801
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 2: or how closer to comparable does the A and M

802
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 2: roster look to Alabama? And then what's the quarterback situation,

803
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 2: because you're going to have a couple of first year starters.

804
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 2: We think Bryce Young for Alabama, you think Haines King

805
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 2: for Texas A and M. Again, it's not week one

806
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 2: or two, it's halfway through the year. So whatever these

807
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 2: teams are offensively, whoever these quarterbacks are, they will be

808
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 2: that version, that incarnation of themselves by the time these

809
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 2: two teams play.

810
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Speaker 1: It's going to be a fun year, always is.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully we get a full year, Hopefully some folks can

812
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 2: actually be in person to witness these games. But those

813
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 2: are the ones that we're looking forward to, as laid

814
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 2: out by our Brad Crawford in the SEC this year.

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Speaker 2: Really appreciate you watching again. If you want to schedule

816
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 2: a Zoom consultation. Hit me up Josh pat seven zero

817
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: six at gmail dot com. If you want in on

818
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: the Late Kicks Show Owners Association meeting coming up very soon.

819
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 2: You can DM me on Instagram or Twitter at Late

820
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 2: Kick Josh should be following me there anyway.

821
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Speaker 1: We do a lot there we don't do on the show.

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00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 2: Or email me again Josh pay seven zero six at

823
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Speaker 2: gmail dot com. We'll enter your name into the lottery.

824
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Speaker 2: We'll let you know Sunday night or Monday morning. Who's

825
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 2: going to be involved in that. We're gonna have more

826
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Speaker 2: people because we're gonna have a different format this time.

827
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot cleaner. It's gonna probably have

828
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Speaker 2: a lot more back and forth. We learned a lot

829
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 2: of lessons Director Colin and I when we chopped that

830
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 2: thing up last time. We had a scroll and we

831
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Speaker 2: just rolled it out and we want to do this,

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Speaker 2: this and this, we don't want to do that and that.

833
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Speaker 2: So it's gonna be really fun. I hope you can

834
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Speaker 2: be a part of it. So good luck in the lottery.

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Speaker 2: We already got a lot of names. We'll be well

836
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Speaker 2: into the hundreds, if not thousands, and so you guys

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Speaker 2: like that last time, I think you'd.

838
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Speaker 1: Like it even more this time. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us.

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Speaker 2: For Director Emeritus Colin, for Jesse, and the entire crew

841
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Speaker 2: in Connecticut, I'm Josh Pate. Thanks so much for watching.

842
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Speaker 2: Have a great start to your week and enjoy the Masters.

843
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 2: We'll be back here right after that Sunday night. Until then,

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Speaker 2: God bless three