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Speaker 1: Now welcome to Lake Kick is Live. It is Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: December twenty eighth, year of Our Lord, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: We are not High Top downtown Nashville, Tennessee. No, we

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Speaker 1: are in Miami. And of course by Miami, I mean

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Speaker 1: nearby Fort Lauderdale. That's where our CBS Sports HQ studios are.

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Speaker 1: That's where I am. Look, the last time we were

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Speaker 1: in this building, Travis Hunter cost chaos when he decommitted

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Speaker 1: from Florida State. He went to Jackson State. So look,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen tonight. Anything could

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Speaker 1: happen between now and the time we go off the air.

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Speaker 1: We haven't been live in about a week. That's because

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Speaker 1: we've been building up to this. We are, as I said,

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Speaker 1: in South Florida. For the remainder of the week. We

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Speaker 1: have got full previews and predictions for the college football

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Speaker 1: playoff tonight. I got Bama Cincinnati coming up momentarily, I

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Speaker 1: got Georgia Michigan. There are so many different angles that

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Speaker 1: I feel like we could do an entire telethon on

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Speaker 1: right now just talking about those games. But also there's

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Speaker 1: a lot going on with the transfer portal right now.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about it a lot on Lake Cake.

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Speaker 1: I don't just want to give you another transfer portal

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Speaker 1: update of here's a new kid in the portal, here's

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Speaker 1: where we think he's gonna go. Tonight. What I really

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Speaker 1: want to do is I want to talk wholesale about

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Speaker 1: the portal. We'll talk about some specifics, but there are

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Speaker 1: some things happening right now that I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of folks are freaked out about, and in the end

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay. It's not the way that we

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Speaker 1: wanted at the moment. I don't think anyone's really overly

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Speaker 1: happy with the way the transfer a portal looks, even

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Speaker 1: transfer portal advocates, of which I was one and still

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Speaker 1: am one. There's just a better way to go about it.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean we have to jump in and fix

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Speaker 1: everything in are best imaginative, imaginative way possible. So we'll

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Speaker 1: discuss that. I've got I think four more added best

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Speaker 1: bets tonight. We're gonna do what we rarely ever do

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Speaker 1: on Late Cake Live, and that is a few Q

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Speaker 1: and A questions. I put the call out on Twitter

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Speaker 1: earlier today, got a few Q and A questions, So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get to that too, very important, crucially important

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Speaker 1: week that you are following on Twitter and Instagram at

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Speaker 1: late kick, Josh, I don't know how much. I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna use the word copious. Copious amounts of added coverage

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Speaker 1: will be coming your way in that Instagram story. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you were tuned in last week when I was

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Speaker 1: on vacation, you saw some felonious activity. This week, I

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Speaker 1: don't know that we're going to commit any felonies down here.

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Speaker 1: I do know that we're gonna have a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. A lot of our guys are down here, obviously,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the national media apparatus is down here,

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Speaker 1: a few casuals, a lot of good folks too. So

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Speaker 1: we're going to try and intermingle with the folks that

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Speaker 1: we know are one of us, and there are several

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Speaker 1: down here. So let's dive into this, boy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we could go forever tonight, but in the interest of

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Speaker 1: actually getting people around here home at a decent hour,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to. Let's dive in though. Alabama versus Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: It's the first game. It's three thirty Eastern time this Friday,

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Bama, there it is a thirteen and

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Speaker 1: a half point favorite right now. It fluctuates. It's been

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Speaker 1: fourteen it's been thirteen and a half. But man, let's

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Speaker 1: dive into this because I want you to do me

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Speaker 1: a favor. I was thinking about this earlier today as

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Speaker 1: I was in standstill traffic on nine ninety five. I

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Speaker 1: want you to go back to August with me. Just

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Speaker 1: play pretend for a second, and I'm going to tell

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Speaker 1: you something. I'm gonna say, close your eye so you're

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Speaker 1: not distracted, and you close your eyes. I can't. I

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Speaker 1: gotta be responsible. We're on airs, like being behind the

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Speaker 1: wheel of a car. But close your eyes. It's August.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you there's gonna be a team

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Speaker 1: this year that's gonna stumble all over itself during the

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Speaker 1: regular season. It's gonna lose a game. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: right on the brink of losing multiple other games. So

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Speaker 1: they're gonna sputter and sputter and sputter. But boom, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna click. They're gonna catch fire just the right time

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Speaker 1: in a conference championship game. They're gonna lock up the

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Speaker 1: number one seed and then all of a sudden it's

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Speaker 1: gonna feel like they're shot out of a cannon in

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Speaker 1: the playoff. However, they are still gonna have that chip

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Speaker 1: on the shoulder us against the world, total underdog mentality.

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Speaker 1: You would have thought I was talking about Clemson. You

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Speaker 1: would have thought to yourself, Oh, guess Dabbo on Clemson

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Speaker 1: are gonna get them another one. That is the check mark.

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Speaker 1: That's the box after box after box that you normally

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Speaker 1: perma underdogs. That's what Alabama is right now. I don't

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Speaker 1: really see them wear this hat that often. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I don't remember ever hearing them go into the playoff

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Speaker 1: rest of you. But man, they got some Clemson vibes

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Speaker 1: to be clear, I'm talking about that twenty sixteen team,

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Speaker 1: that twenty eighteen team. If they have that about this team,

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Speaker 1: if that's the way that they're going to perform in

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Speaker 1: the postseason. It's probably Bama's title to lose. Now here's

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Speaker 1: the downside, we don't know. There's a great big ball

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Speaker 1: of mystery around what we should expect from Alabama. So

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Speaker 1: watch the line of scrimmage in this game. I was

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Speaker 1: flying down here last night and I was texting back

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Speaker 1: and forth with a coach and he said, brother, you'll know.

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Speaker 1: You'll know pretty early on. Just watch the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: He put it like this. Now, this is not my breakdown, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he said, I don't think Cincinnati matches up either side

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Speaker 1: he said, I think Auburn matches up better with Alabama

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Speaker 1: than do the Cincinnati Bearcats. That's not terrible news because

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Speaker 1: Auburn pushed Alabama to the very break of losing themselves.

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Speaker 1: But here's what he said. He said, here's what you

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati's twos are not good enough to play at Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: Bama's twos are good enough to play at most Power

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Speaker 1: five programs in the country. How much does that matter Friday,

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Speaker 1: I keep wanting to say Saturday. Since he's pressure rate.

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Speaker 1: the's pressure rate. If you just pull up your statistics

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Speaker 1: do not think that's going to be the case. I

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Speaker 1: what happens if it's not. If they cannot get pressure

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Speaker 1: he will pick you apart. Bryce Shung's best quarterback in

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Speaker 1: One of them at least was, yeah, they're the best

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Speaker 1: know this. I like to look at that spread and Okay,

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Speaker 1: like to ask myself self, do I believe there's any

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Speaker 1: for me, I do think Cincinnati has a puncher's chance.

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Speaker 1: How theoretically would that happen? And so I was thinking

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati here, I do think this line's right. We're going

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Speaker 1: But there's something I use sometimes. It's called the yellowjacket

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Speaker 1: I've always called it the yellowjacket effect. If you've watched

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Speaker 1: that doesn't make you jump any less high knowing that

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Speaker 1: it can't kill you, because there's there's this momentary reaction

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Speaker 1: unless you're you know, a serial killer and your heart

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Speaker 1: rate doesn't get above eighty, or you're like Kobe Bryant.

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Speaker 1: You know when the guy pumped faked the ball in

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Speaker 1: those are real humans. But if you're a normal human

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Speaker 1: How many times have we seen in these settings some

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Speaker 1: on fire, and they're probably throwing things at that power

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Speaker 1: five team in this case Alabama, they haven't seen on tape,

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Speaker 1: and it's just it's the it's the wasp, it's the

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Speaker 1: yellowjacket effect. I also call it the cattle prod effects. Sometimes.

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Speaker 1: How long can you keep them on skates or maybe

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Speaker 1: If Cincinnati does get Bama in that manner, they've got

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Speaker 1: to score points during that process. You can't get latter

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Speaker 1: portion of the first quarter. Alabama looks out of sorts,

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Speaker 1: but it's three to nothing Cincinnati, it's got to be ten, fourteen, Like,

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Speaker 1: of people do breakdowns. We're about to do a breakdown,

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Speaker 1: But I think really at the core of a game,

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Speaker 1: when you say it, there's this thing that pops into

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Speaker 1: your mind. Sometimes it's Oh, this is going to be

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Speaker 1: a blowout, or oh, man, I don't trust that quarterback.

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Speaker 1: What pops into your mind when you think about Georgia Michigan,

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Speaker 1: Because I tell you what popped into my mind today

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Speaker 1: is what's putting a game breakdown together. Amnesia sometimes is

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Speaker 1: a terrible thing in the world of sports, especially because

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Speaker 1: you don't learn lessons. You sit there and you have

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Speaker 1: a lesson talk to you, but you forget it. Most

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Speaker 1: of the time. Amnesia is not good in sports. In

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Speaker 1: this case, I'm not so sure. Amnesia may not actually

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Speaker 1: help you a little bit in setting your expectation level

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Speaker 1: and sort of calibrating the expectations for this game. Here's

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Speaker 1: what I mean by that. What is your most recent

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Speaker 1: memory of the Georgia Bulldogs? Answer? The SEC championship game

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Speaker 1: and a loss to Alabama. Table that for a second.

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Speaker 1: What is your most recent memory of Michigan football. Michigan

445
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 1: fans are saying, well, we scull drug Iowa pretty effectively.

446
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Speaker 1: That's true. Most people's lasting memory of Michigan this year

447
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Speaker 1: is not the Iowa game. It's the Ohio State game.

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Speaker 1: Far more people remember that, it's etched in the minds

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Speaker 1: of more of the college football public. Well, the reason

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Speaker 1: that I'm telling you amnesia may not be the worst

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Speaker 1: thing in the world to be suffering from here is

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Speaker 1: because what worked or didn't work in those respective games

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Speaker 1: I don't think apply as a whole heck of a

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Speaker 1: lot to what we're gonna see this Friday night. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Alabama didn't even have to worry about running the ball

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Speaker 1: all that much on Georgia because they knew they could

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Speaker 1: throw the ball. Michigan, in no world can go into

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Speaker 1: this game Friday saying, hey, if we run it, fine,

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Speaker 1: if we don't find Cad McNamara is just gonna bomb

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Speaker 1: away on Georgia. No, no, no, that can never happen. Now,

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Speaker 1: Michigan may be Georgia, it won't be because they just

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Speaker 1: gave a token run or two and they just bombed

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Speaker 1: away on that secondary. It's the same way with Michigan

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Speaker 1: Michigan plays Ohio State. I was at both of these games.

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Speaker 1: You're standing there early on in Michigan's pounding away, pounding away,

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Speaker 1: pounding away, and there's a gain of two then again

467
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Speaker 1: to six, then again to thirteen nine thirteen, they start

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Speaker 1: to break it off Michigan. I think they threw the

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Speaker 1: ball like nineteen times or twenty times. They just had

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Speaker 1: their way with Ohio State on the ground. Ohio State

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Speaker 1: had a breaking point. I don't think Georgia's run defense

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Speaker 1: against Michigan's going to have a breaking point. So what

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Speaker 1: I mean there is Michigan also. You know, you can't

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Speaker 1: be looking over there and saying, you know what, I think,

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Speaker 1: if we just run, run, run, eventually they'll break I

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Speaker 1: don't think so Like I don't think so so a

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Speaker 1: lot of the ways that those games played out, I

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Speaker 1: don't really think it it applies all that much. It's good,

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Speaker 1: like you learned a lot about the teams. I just

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Speaker 1: don't think it applies nearly to the degree that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are making it out to be. I know,

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Speaker 1: those were big games, Like I would go back and

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Speaker 1: look at other sample sets and data points and games

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Speaker 1: if I were going to get a better read on

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Speaker 1: this one. Speaking of reids Man, how much has this

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Speaker 1: been talked about. I haven't spoken to you live in

487
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Speaker 1: about a week, and this has just been bubbling and

488
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Speaker 1: bubbling and bubbling and here we go. Stetson Bennett. I

489
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Speaker 1: mean it was as recently as today. I'm going back

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Speaker 1: and forth with people about him. He's the quarterback at Georgia.

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Speaker 1: For those unfamiliar. A lot of people just come around

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs. So sometimes I gotta watch the pronouns

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Speaker 1: and I gotta actually give you the names. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people are misdiagnosing the culprit of the SEC Championship loss.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people are just looking at Stetson Bennett.

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Speaker 1: I mean I had a guy today tell me, were

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Speaker 1: you gonna tell me Stetson Bennett didn't cost us the

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Speaker 1: SEC Championship. U. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you he didn't

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Speaker 1: exclusively cost you the SEC Championship stets And Bennett notwithstanding,

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Speaker 1: I'm not telling you he played a perfect game by

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Speaker 1: any stretch. But I do believe that if Georgia doesn't

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Speaker 1: do any better than thirty rushes for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: nine yards against Michigan, it ain't gonna matter what Stetson

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Speaker 1: Bennett does. And that was the same story in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Georgia runs the ball for three point six yards per carry,

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Speaker 1: and I got fools telling me, well, forget about that

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Speaker 1: Stetson fault. What are we talking about? Like, in what

508
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Speaker 1: world was I ever going to feel comfortable in Stetson

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Speaker 1: Bennett facing a lot of third and five plus situations

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Speaker 1: against will Anderson and Dallas Turner. That's not the way

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Speaker 1: it was supposed to work. The way it was supposed

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Speaker 1: to work is Georgia's run game puts me in third

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Speaker 1: and manageable or second in and manageable, and then Stetson

514
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Speaker 1: Bennett gets to throw the ball out of luxury instead

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Speaker 1: of out of necessity. Michigan can do that same thing.

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Speaker 1: That's what I got one of my biggest fears for George.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about in a second. Michigan can

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Speaker 1: accomplish that same thing. But there's a lot of misdiagnosing

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Speaker 1: still to this day, of what the culprit was that

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Speaker 1: cost Georgia that SEC championship. Now, look at both sides

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Speaker 1: of these respective teams. There are kinds of players in

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Speaker 1: this sport. We call them popcorn droppers. Jamison Williams for

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Speaker 1: Alabama is one, for example. Can you find me one

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Speaker 1: in this game? Silence? Because I can't. I see some

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Speaker 1: really good players, but I don't see game breakers. On

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Speaker 1: the perimeter. I really don't. I think brock Bauers is

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Speaker 1: an extremely good tight end. It was listening to our

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Speaker 1: college football nerds buddies today and one of them put

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Speaker 1: it the right way, said, brock Bawers is a phenomenal player.

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Speaker 1: You don't break games open, you don't pop the top

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Speaker 1: with tight ends, and he's right, you don't. Having said that,

532
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Speaker 1: because there are not those popcorn dropping game breakers out wide,

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Speaker 1: it throws this game into such a barrel of volatility.

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Speaker 1: And by that I mean we've got a true Bob

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Speaker 1: game situation on our hands. That stands for bounce of ball.

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Speaker 1: When you don't have what Alabama had, now Alabama could

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Speaker 1: has some stuff go wrong. Jamison Williams makes up for

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Speaker 1: a lot of it. He's always got Billy out potentially,

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Speaker 1: he's got popcorn dropping potential. But if you don't have that,

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Speaker 1: then it really doesn't matter what the recruiting rankings say

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Speaker 1: over the course of the last four years. It doesn't

542
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Speaker 1: matter what the point spread says. Bottom line is, if

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Speaker 1: you don't have a quarterback that is elite in nature

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Speaker 1: and you don't have those game breaker, popcorn dropper types

545
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Speaker 1: out wide, you're in for a dogfight pun intended. I

546
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Speaker 1: guess you're in for a dogfight. Doesn't mean you can't

547
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Speaker 1: be the better team. It just means you got to

548
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Speaker 1: win this game a lot the way you used to

549
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Speaker 1: have to win him fifteen or twenty years ago. You know,

550
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Speaker 1: you got to wear it and it's gonna show over

551
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Speaker 1: four quarters. That's what you gotta hope for. Ronnie Bell

552
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Speaker 1: and Arian Smith, ironically enough, I think would have been

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Speaker 1: integral parts of this game. Could have even been guys

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Speaker 1: who would fit this role. Ronnie Bell was Michigan's best receiver.

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Speaker 1: They lost him for the year. Arian Smith had not

556
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Speaker 1: done a lot for Georgia. But if you look at

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna lack in this game, that is elite,

558
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Speaker 1: over the top speed. Arian Smith, for all we know,

559
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Speaker 1: could have been on his way to developing into that

560
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Speaker 1: guy that you're talking about as having come out of

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Speaker 1: nowhere late in the year. Well, he's not there either.

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Speaker 1: He's hurt for Georgia. You know, we saw George Pickens

563
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Speaker 1: make one big play against Alabama and that made a

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Speaker 1: lot of folks go uh oh. He wasn't a factor

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Speaker 1: rest of the game. He wasn't a factor. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people ask why didn't they throw to him more? Well,

567
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Speaker 1: it's obvious he didn't have the gear that he needed

568
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: to have for you to throw to him a whole lot.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Lad McCaughey's been a very good player for Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying there aren't good players. Notice what I said,

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Speaker 1: I was very careful in the wording. There are not

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Speaker 1: elite game breakers. That's why they call them game breakers.

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Speaker 1: There aren't very many of them across the country. So

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Speaker 1: the total is low. In this game, totals in the forties.

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Speaker 1: You see it right there on the screen if you're

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Speaker 1: watching on YouTube. The totals forty five and a half.

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Speaker 1: This is an NFL game. That's an NFL and really

578
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Speaker 1: not even a twenty twenty one. That's like a two

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Speaker 1: and nine twenty ten NFL kind of you know, Pittsburgh

580
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Speaker 1: versus Tennessee. That's kind of where those totals hang out.

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Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit lower than that. But the reason

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Speaker 1: is because you lack those game breaking elements. That makes

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Speaker 1: these games what is very rare in college football, that

584
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Speaker 1: is very prone to what I call the four way go.

585
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Speaker 1: In the world of teasers, used to always love in

586
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Speaker 1: the first and second rounds of NFL playoff action to

587
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: hit those two teams seven point teasers because I had

588
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Speaker 1: a bookie back home that gave me one ten juice

589
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: on it. I don't think he offers that anymore. But

590
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: get those we get those points spread around six seven,

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00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 1: we get the totals in the forties, and you knew

592
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: the game was going to be so condensed, and there

593
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: was so much variance in the game that oftentimes you

594
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,199
Speaker 1: couldn't go wrong. All four legs of those teasers would hit.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked at all. If we got a

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Speaker 1: four way go situation here, you bet Georgia and the over,

597
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 1: you bet Michigan in the under with teaser, not parlay

598
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: parlayser Satan's tool, but teasers possibility here. I am very

599
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Speaker 1: very concerned about a couple things for both of these teams.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I'm concerned the most about.

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Speaker 1: For Georgia, without the pass game, there is no breakpoint

602
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Speaker 1: versus the Georgia defense. So here's what I mean by that.

603
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: If Michigan's pass game is not there, if Cade McNamara

604
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: and in that passing game, if they cannot establish enough

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Speaker 1: and they're having to lean on that run till like

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Speaker 1: a two to one ratio, kind of like they did

607
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Speaker 1: earlier in the year before they get out of that,

608
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Speaker 1: and to their credit, they evolved in nature. But if

609
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Speaker 1: they do try and lean on that run, what I'm

610
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: scared is gonna happen is they're gonna keep waiting for

611
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: that breakpoint to come. And I don't know if the

612
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: break points there. By breakpoint, I mean all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the two yard runs start becoming the four and a

614
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,679
Speaker 1: half yard runs start becoming the seven yard runs. And

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Speaker 1: you're just sitting there with your popcorn late third quarter,

616
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Speaker 1: and you know you're nudging your buddy in the ribs

617
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: and you're saying, here they go, it's about to They're

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Speaker 1: about to break it open. They keep leaning and leaning,

619
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Speaker 1: it's all gonna pay off. Sometimes four quartersn't long enough

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Speaker 1: against the best run defenses. I mean, George's average run

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Speaker 1: defensive yards allowed behalf, behalf of what you would normally

622
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Speaker 1: give up and what another team would normally average. It

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Speaker 1: worries me that Michigan, if they get in that kind

624
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: of situation, looks around and they are arrogant enough they

625
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: have earned the right to be. It concerns me if

626
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: Michigan becomes arrogant enough to where they say we don't care,

627
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: we don't care about the block g on their helmet. Look,

628
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: we're Michigan. We can run it on anyone. I think

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Speaker 1: that way if I were them too. My concern is

630
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: what if I'm feeling that way but it's falsely based.

631
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: That's my concern for Michigan. My concern for Georgia would

632
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: be this. There's a path in this game where I

633
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: think Caid McNamara has a surprising to shocking day through

634
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: the air. I'm talking I'm not talking about Bryce Young

635
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: numbers necessarily, but I'm talking about you sitting there thinking, oh,

636
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: what about one point fifty one to seventy five through

637
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: the air and he throws like three hundred on you

638
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: and you would never expect that. I mean, I don't

639
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: know what his prop bet total is for over underpassing yard.

640
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: It just nowhere near three hundred. I can promise you that.

641
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: Here's what would concern me about Georgia. You go back

642
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: and watch the SEC title game where they got it

643
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: handed to him by Alabama. As we talked about in

644
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: the Bama Sincey preview, it's because Bryce Young had too

645
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: much time. Alabama didn't win the Joe Moore Award for

646
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: Best Offensive line in the Country. You know who did

647
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: it was Michigan. What if I'm watching this game, and

648
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: I'm watching midway through the first quarter, early second quarter,

649
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Kay McNamara, JJ McCarthy, whoever's

650
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: back there for quarterback at Michigan. What if they have

651
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: all the time in the world. You know, what if

652
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: that pass rush hasn't magically shown up, like what if

653
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart didn't just get that bequeathed to him for Christmas?

654
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: What if Michigan's got some time to throw And what

655
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: if that Georgia secondary, even against non elite Michigan receivers,

656
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,959
Speaker 1: can't stand up. What if these backs from Michigan out

657
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: of the backfield become a weapon a whole lot more

658
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: because that offensive line is able to stand up and

659
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: they don't need to keep extra pass pro help. In

660
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the game changes, and all of

661
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: a sudden, what you thought was going to be a

662
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: run heavy approach for Michigan becomes a wait a second,

663
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: I'm pretty clean back here, And then you got Josh

664
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: Gattis looking to say, wait a second, my quarterback's pretty clean.

665
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: Back there there is a path in this game where

666
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: Michigan wins the game throwing the ball, which would be

667
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: about the third or fourth way you would think they

668
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: would win this. You would think special team's points, running

669
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: the ball, a bunch of turnovers, and then the fourth

670
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: possible possibility would be I guess they could throw it

671
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: to win. There is a path. That's the concern I have.

672
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: Now Georgia could shut that down early in the game,

673
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: and we're not really talking about it a whole lot more,

674
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: but that possibility plus some creativity and some wrinkles, which

675
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: Michigan has shown the propensity to do, especially second half

676
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: of the year in the passing game, a special team

677
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: same way, that could be the difference in a game

678
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: that's a Bob game. One bounce a ball, one bend here,

679
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: one break there. So there's no huge quarterback edge. I

680
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: got asked today, who's got the better quarterback here? I

681
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: don't think there's a decided edge either way. We don't

682
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: have elite receivers, and because we don't have that, this

683
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: could be just from a prediction standpoint, from a gameplay standpoint,

684
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: could be one of the most entertaining games in the

685
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: playoffs we've had in quite some time. I think the

686
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: line's too big. Let's get into it. Let's talk about

687
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: what the model thinks. The model has this at five

688
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: and a half, and before I even looked at our model,

689
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: I agreed with that sentiment. So the Vegas numbers Georgia

690
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: minus seven and a half. We've got Georgia minus five

691
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: and a half for our in house model. There is

692
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: a very very fine line here. I ended up goinging

693
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,479
Speaker 1: Michigan to cover Georgia to win, so I think it's

694
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: a one score Georgia win. There are several paths for

695
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: Michigan to end up winning this game out right. I've

696
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: seen Michigan in person twice this year, and I remember

697
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: vividly the first time I saw him. It was in

698
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: East Lancing. They went in there and they lost to

699
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: Michigan State. I got a Michigan buddy, I'll never forget.

700
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm driving back to the airport and he calls me

701
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: and he says, you know it's gonna sound stupid, but

702
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: I feel more confident in our ability to beat Ohio

703
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: State after this game today. They tasted their blood early.

704
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: They thought they got jilted in that game. They thought

705
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: they had a game taken away from them. They certainly

706
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: were not deterred in their mission. It ended up being

707
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: a positive. I think Michigan is a better team because

708
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: they lost an East Lancing earlier in the year. Well, hey,

709
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: Georgia just had that happen to him. I'm very fascinated

710
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: to see what kind of Georgia team we have. You know,

711
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about the difference in mentality, and that's all

712
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: well and good as long as what you're thinking has

713
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: changed about yourself is validated early on. But if it's not,

714
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: If Michigan jumps you, if you have some of the

715
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: same issues to start the game you had against Alabama,

716
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: that doubt it's not all that far in the rear

717
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: view mirror. That doubt can creep back in. So sustaining

718
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: for four quarters, you know, winning that turnover battle, not

719
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: making critical errors at quarterback in judgment, which is going

720
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: to be key for both these teams. Really interested to

721
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: see this one. I'm going Georgia to win the game.

722
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm going Michigan to cover. There is no shock for

723
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,719
Speaker 1: me whatsoever if Michigan ends up winning this game. I

724
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: don't see the blowout potential either way. I don't see it.

725
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: I was talking to a buddy today who made the

726
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: case for a Michigan blowout. I got another buddy who

727
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: could just swear to you at Georgia blowouts imminent. And

728
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there thinking, guys, what about like twenty four

729
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: to twenty one? Like are we feeling that? I think

730
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: that's more in line with what we should expect here.

731
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun now if

732
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: we are right, if both those predictions pan out. What

733
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: did I just call for? Well? I called for an

734
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: Alabama Georgia national title game. Now I know a lot

735
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: of you are not pulling for that. So I think

736
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: in television executive land, their ideal scenario is, hey, I

737
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: guess a Citrus Bowl twenty nineteen rematch Alabama versus Michigan.

738
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: I was at the Verbo Citrus Bowl two years ago

739
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: and that taco bar was killer, But the game was

740
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: great too. What if we have that for a national championship?

741
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm really excited. I mean that Alabama since

742
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: he game is big, that Georgia Michigan game, I'm going

743
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: to talk about it. More on the Thursday Showy I

744
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go out on the periphery. I

745
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: just wanted to do game breakdown. But on the Thursday show,

746
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to go in great detail about the ramifications.

747
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: If Michigan wins that game, understand what happens there. You've

748
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: got Kirby Smart exiting a season that they were virtually

749
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: wire to wire number one team in the country, and

750
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: they're exiting that season without any kind of trophy to

751
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,919
Speaker 1: show for it. They didn't win the SEC, they didn't

752
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: win a playoff game. They end up twelve and two.

753
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: They would to accomplished less than their twenty seventeen team

754
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: did because that team won the SEC and it went

755
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: to the national title game in overtime of the title game. Psychologically,

756
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: it would cripple a lot of Georgia folks. I've been

757
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: in Georgia for the past week. I can confirm this

758
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: off the record. A lot of folks have confided in me. Yeah,

759
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: I'd probably go in hiding for about four or five months.

760
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: But also if that happens, that means Jim Harbaugh is

761
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: going to play for a national championship nine days later.

762
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,959
Speaker 1: Like the whole it's like a whole new world. Don't

763
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: you dare close your eyes. Let's talk about the transfer

764
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: portal for a second. The transfer portals in the news

765
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: get used to it. That's like a perma headline just

766
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: twenty four seven three sixty five. The transfer portal has

767
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: many ways you can look at it. I woke up

768
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: this morning, I was looking at some numbers. They're just

769
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: insane amounts of kids in the transfer portal. Who'ms to

770
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: amongst us is not in the transfer portal a time

771
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: or two these days. And I think there are two

772
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: ways to look at the portal right now, because a

773
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: lot of you have been asking, and I do Q

774
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: and a's when we do this show, a lot of

775
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: you will ask in the live chat something about the

776
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: transfer portal. So I wanted to talk about it for

777
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: a second. Here. Think there are two ways to look

778
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: at it. You got the first witch is to fight it,

779
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 1: and that's to no avail because it's not going anywhere.

780
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: The second is to accept it. But by accepting it,

781
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: I don't mean you have to like it. I take

782
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: the B and approach, so I am in can't be

783
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: I've accepted it that it doesn't mean I love it

784
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: here's the end part. So I accept it, and I

785
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: want to change it. That's what I want to do.

786
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: But I don't need to get my hands involved. I

787
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: don't think to change it. This is the concept that

788
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: I want to present to you humbly tonight, because a

789
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: lot of you are going to disagree with this. I

790
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: know because I've talked to you a lot of you

791
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 1: about it. But just hear me out for a second

792
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: and I'll be happy to read your comments. So if

793
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: you don't like what's happening with the transfer portal right now,

794
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: and you look at it and you say, well, there

795
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: are so many kids in there, and my problem is

796
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: a lot of them are making foolish decisions with their career.

797
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: They are headed down a dead end road and they

798
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: are just ignoring all the dead end signs to the

799
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 1: left and right, and I need to step in, or

800
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: we need to step in, and we need to intervene. Look,

801
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: sometimes I know it sucks to hear. Sometimes you just

802
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: got to let folks learn a hard lesson. I mean,

803
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: sometimes that's the best course of action. The best course

804
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 1: of action is no action. Just get out of the way.

805
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 1: Transfer Portal's not fifteen years old. Guys, it's only fifteen

806
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: months old. It hasn't been around all that long, and

807
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: the nature it's in now, which means the market has

808
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: not adjusted yet. Now, if you'll remember one of the

809
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: first segments I ever did on the transfer portal, it's

810
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: been a while back now, but it looked like there

811
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: was just this tsunami, and there was there still is

812
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: still ongoing. A lot of guys in that portal. They disappear,

813
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: never to be heard from or seeing again. And I

814
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: told you, no, this is not ideal. And you're absolutely

815
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: right when you say these guys are making just catastrophic

816
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: decision for their career, like you're I'm not even being

817
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: selfish when I say I don't care about me. I'm

818
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: not impacted by the portal. I'm not rooting for a

819
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: specific team. I am truly selfless and looking out for

820
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: the kid's best interest when I say some of these

821
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: decisions are horrible. However, I'm going to follow up that

822
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: sentence by saying, Bud, I'm gonna support your right to

823
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: do whatever you want to do your life, your career.

824
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: Here's what is going to happen. I still think eventually,

825
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: I still think you got to give it a couple

826
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: more years for it to really saturate. But I think

827
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: what's going to happen is the best course of action

828
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: is going to be no action. Just for the adults

829
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: in the room. Bite your tongue, lean back in the

830
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,959
Speaker 1: chair for a little while, put your hands behind your head,

831
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: and just observe and watch these kids run off the

832
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: cliff with nowhere to land, and you can feel bad

833
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: about it, but just avoid the temptation to interfere, because

834
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: what has to happen is some tough lessons have to

835
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 1: be learned. They have to be learned from tenth graders,

836
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: just as they have to be learned from freshman in college.

837
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 1: Right now, the guys that could be future portal entrants,

838
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: they need to be watching that. Ultimately, if we don't

839
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: do anything else and this just turns out the way

840
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: that it keeps turning out is probably going to be

841
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: enough to deter a lot of kids. But then here's

842
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: the follow up, how do you get that deterrent? That

843
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: is where a lot of adults in the room have

844
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: to step in. The adults don't need to be stepping

845
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: in and saying, okay, where's the break glass to stop

846
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: button boom? Portal over, that's not what you do. What

847
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: you do if you're a parent of a high school

848
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: kid or or kid in college right now, if you're

849
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: a high school coach, position coach, head coach, strength and

850
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: conditioning coach, if you're a mentor in a kid's life,

851
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: if you're the college coaching staff, if you're the support staff,

852
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: if you're the nutrition staff, and if you are in

853
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: our world, the media world, and you do feel this way,

854
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: what you have to do is raise awareness. What you

855
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: have to do is make sure you go, hey, are

856
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 1: you watching this? Put that staff out there every single day,

857
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: retweeted every single day, Hang it on your weight room

858
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: door every single day. How many kids are in the

859
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: portal right now? How many of them left one Power

860
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: five program and did not find a home at another

861
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: Power five program. How many of them thought there were

862
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: greener pastures on the other side. Statistically, put it in

863
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: front of my face, have it scream at me, and

864
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: it turned out that the opposite was true. You've got

865
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: to make sure that guys are equipped with the information

866
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: right now. I think a lot of folks have done

867
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: a pretty poor job of equipping guys with the right information.

868
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: It may be because they got the wrong folks in

869
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: their camp, or it may just be because not enough

870
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: people have taken it upon themselves. That's the key, that's

871
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: what you got to do. If you arm those dudes

872
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: with the right information, you'd be surprised. I think how

873
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: many of them are deterred from making a decision that's

874
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: not going to be in their best interest interconference transfers.

875
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: Though there are some tweaks I think we can make here.

876
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: I don't think we were wrong in the SEC or

877
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: the Big Ten or anywhere else in bar movement within

878
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 1: the conference. Like I listen, if you're electing me commissioner today,

879
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: I support a decision where you are not just freely

880
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: transferring inside a conference. You want to leave a conference.

881
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let those coaches block where you can go.

882
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: I'm not for that. But I mean watching these guys

883
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: transfer inside conferences like that's a death ticket for the

884
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: rest of college football. Alabama's just gonna kill you with

885
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: it every year. They already are. I mean Saban right now,

886
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: he just went and got Eli Rix, he got Jamiir Gibbs.

887
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: Probably not done. We'll see. Like, if you're trying to

888
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: act in the best interest of the sport. Saban's the

889
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: guy who didn't want the rule in place. Like Saban's

890
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: the guy once upon a time with Maurice Smith who said,

891
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: I don't think he should be able to leave and

892
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: go to Georgia. Well you know what he lost, But

893
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: Saban didn't lose. The rest of the sec lost because

894
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: he said, all right, I'm gonna be upset about this

895
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: for about ten seconds and then I'm gonna turn the

896
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: entire situation on its ear and I'll just dominate you

897
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: with this. And he is. And Ohio State's going to

898
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: do the same thing, and Oklahoma's going to do the

899
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: same thing. The USC is going to do the same thing.

900
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: So that's part one. Part two is I would love

901
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: to totally overhaul the college football calendar to where the

902
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 1: transfer portal is not just open all year like guys

903
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: entering the transfer portal during the season is crazy to me.

904
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 1: Should not be allowed. And if you think I'm stripping

905
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: away some of your rights, so be it. Look you're

906
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: gonna have a window down the road. But man, the

907
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: players don't run this sport. Ultimately, there are governing bodies

908
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: in a perfect world that should run the sport and

909
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: should be acting in the sport's best interest, which, if

910
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: you structure it the right way, coincides with the player's

911
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: best interest. Let me be perfectly clear about that. And

912
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,760
Speaker 1: there are windows that make perfect sense on the college

913
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: football calendar in which I could have that transfer portal open.

914
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: I don't think that should be a three hundred and

915
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,479
Speaker 1: sixty five day a year thing, though, so I would

916
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: love to see the inner conference transfer rule adjusted. I

917
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: would love to see transfer portal window instituted. But you

918
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: don't shut down the portal. You don't do it. That's

919
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: even if you don't like it right now. You don't

920
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: advocate to shut it down. That's not in anyone's best

921
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: interest because ultimately you got to learn some lessons the

922
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: hard way. Sometimes that's not always the way it has

923
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: to happen. I personally have never touched a hot stove.

924
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 1: I never heard I had to learn a lesson the

925
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: hard way. But there are some other lessons I have

926
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: had to learn the hard way. Transfer portal probably gonna

927
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: end up being one of them for a lot of guys. Okay,

928
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: I got two more things I need to get to here.

929
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: We've got four more best bets, and then I got

930
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: about three Q and a's that I want to get to.

931
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: By the way, I appreciate you guys being tuned in live.

932
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: If you are adjust the seat here, unfamiliar seat. If

933
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: you are, do me a favor. Subscribe to the channel.

934
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: That's all. Just subscribe to the channel and we will

935
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Every time I ask you. We have a

936
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: little surge, a little spike in subscription. So thank you.

937
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: Without further ado, I act like I was gonna snap

938
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: my fingers for some reason. Let's add these four best

939
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: bets here. I almost put Louisville on today. At last

940
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: check they were losing by two touchdowns. I'm glad I didn't.

941
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: I tweeted these games out earlier. I don't know if

942
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: the lines have moved, so on the screen right now

943
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: are the games we have already moved on. Now before

944
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: I give you the added for I know a lot

945
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: of you listen on podcasts. You can't see this. So

946
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: we're on Iowa State minus one and a half. I

947
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: think if you have not bet that yet, you can

948
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: get a better number. They play tomorrow, they play Wednesday.

949
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: We've got Oklahoma minus four and a half. We've got

950
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: Baylor at a Pickham, and then these four games I

951
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: have added today. West Virginia they are playing tonight versus Minnesota.

952
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: We got them at plus five. Then we've got Wisconsin

953
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: Thursday against Arizona State. Badger's minus six. We like that

954
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: up to a touchdown Perdue. I got a lot of

955
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: pushback on this game. Purdue plus five and a half.

956
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: That is a Thursday game against Tennessee. A lot of

957
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: you are feeling Tennessee. A lot of you were asking

958
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: me why Purdue because the model says so, like if

959
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: I were just picking on gut, I love Tennessee. How

960
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: often have we learned the lesson the hard way? Peaking

961
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: of the theme we just came off of, we don't

962
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: bet with our gut on this show. That's not how

963
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: we have won consistently the way we have Purdue plus

964
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: five and a half, and then Oklahoma State plus two

965
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: and a half. If I were betting with my gut,

966
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: no way I'd touch Oklahoma State. They ended the season

967
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: ice cold. The model loves them, model does good in

968
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: bowl season, so I'm not gonna question it. So West

969
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: Virginia plus five, Whiskey minus six, Perdue plus five and

970
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: a half, Oklahoma State plus two and a half. Okay, quickly,

971
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: I promised you this today. I'm gonna get to it.

972
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: We normally do Late Kick Extra twice a week. It's

973
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: podcast only. It's Tuesday morning Thursday morning. But since we're

974
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: on the road right now and I don't have my

975
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: equipment with me, we have not done it this week.

976
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: So why not a little condensed version of me. Here's

977
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: what the Late Cake Extra podcast normally sounds like a

978
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 1: Hunter king? First up? Has this been the best college

979
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: football season ever? I've been watching for twenty four seasons.

980
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: This has been the best one since my first. That

981
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: was when Tennessee won the national championship, So I think

982
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: that would be nineteen ninety eight. I have got to

983
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: be real with you. I know sometimes we're prisoner of

984
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: the moment. I really think I'm not going to push

985
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: back on you if you tell me this is the

986
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: best season you've ever seen. What I'm most proud of

987
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: is that we saw it coming. What I'm most proud

988
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: of is we sat here, well not here. We sat

989
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: in Nashville all summer and we started saying Renaissance seasons coming.

990
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: I mean, we coined a phrase, we named our entire

991
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: tour after the idea that this was going to be

992
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: an insane season for college football? Why did we feel

993
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: that way? For all the reasons that you've seen play out.

994
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,439
Speaker 1: Number one, the super senior rule was a huge part

995
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: of this. There were going to be more senior laden

996
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: rosters out there. Therefore, there was going to be a

997
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: lot more parody injected into the equation. There was going

998
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: to be a lot more uncertainty. Week to week. We

999
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: got big upsets every week. Crowds were back in stadiums

1000
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: for the first time in two years. That led to

1001
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,399
Speaker 1: Number one, a return to the atmospheres we all loved.

1002
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: But also it was like atmosphere plus because we had

1003
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: a sense of appreciation. I witnessed it every week. I've

1004
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 1: been on the road fourteen out of the last fourteen weeks.

1005
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 1: I experienced it every weekend. There was like a rabid

1006
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,919
Speaker 1: nature plus an appreciative nature because you had something taken

1007
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: away from you and then you got it back again

1008
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: and that was awesome. But also, and I think we

1009
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: actually have a question coming up, so I'm gonna save it.

1010
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: But also I want you to crystallize that thought. Like Hunter,

1011
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: you just asked, is it the best season you've ever seen,

1012
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,280
Speaker 1: and you think it is okay, well, I would suggest

1013
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 1: to you nothing should be able to change that. Nothing

1014
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: will ever make me forget how classic that Red River

1015
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: shootout game was. Nothing will make me forget being on

1016
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: the field for the white out at Penn State earlier

1017
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: this year. Nothing will make me forget watching Michigan State

1018
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: upset Michigan and then going back up there again and

1019
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: watching Michigan upset Ohio State. Nothing will make me forget

1020
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: watching Baylor storm the field after they beat Oklahoma. Nothing's

1021
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,439
Speaker 1: going to make me forget that. It doesn't matter if

1022
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,720
Speaker 1: we have three blowout games and Alabama wins their forty

1023
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: seventh national title in a couple of weeks. Nothing about

1024
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: that changes, because, as I've tried to emphasize on this

1025
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: show for so long, you should never define the value

1026
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,919
Speaker 1: of an entire season by how it ends. Movies can

1027
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: work that way, college football seasons do not work that way.

1028
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: Crystallize the regular season. Define it. If you think it's

1029
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: the best you've ever seen, then that's it. Close the

1030
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: book on it already. That's the regular season. Now you

1031
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: can talk about whether or not it was the best

1032
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: playoff you've ever seen once the playoff wraps up. Next

1033
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: question was from Ryan Days Berner could literally be his

1034
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: burner for all I know. With John Metchi out, how

1035
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: to Gardner and Bryant and the rest of the Bearcat

1036
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: defensive backs perform against Jamison Williams and the Alabama wide receivers.

1037
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,240
Speaker 1: Kind of just touched on this in the Alabama Cincinnati breakdown.

1038
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that has to do with

1039
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: number one, of course, how much pressure they getting on

1040
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: Bryce Young. But number two. Look, I think Cincinnati early

1041
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: on is going to put an inordinate amount of attention

1042
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: on Jamison Williams, and it's essentially yelling across the field.

1043
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,240
Speaker 1: Show me that someone other than number one in Crimson

1044
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: can beat us, And I'm very interested to see how

1045
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 1: far in the game they get before another receiver has

1046
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: two or three catches under the ledger or maybe the

1047
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: tight end position does come up big for Alabama. I

1048
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: think that is the answer to this question. Like Cincinnati,

1049
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: he's got some very good future NFO guys in the secondary.

1050
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: That matters when you make them play the way they're

1051
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: used to playing. There is no defensive back I don't

1052
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: care whoever the first dB is going to be taken

1053
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: in the draft next spring. Take that guy, put him

1054
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: on the field with Jamison Williams, and then have him

1055
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 1: cover him for three and a half or four seconds.

1056
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: He's toast. It's not even his fault. That means that

1057
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: you didn't pressure Bryce young enough, or he's scrambling out

1058
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: of the pocket. And then you're just improving. And you

1059
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 1: got one of the best athletes you'll ever see on

1060
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: a football field in Jamison Williams, who's running a spaghetti route.

1061
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Speaker 1: You have no prayer. So that's going to be the

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00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: answer to that question. What about no pressure, no diamonds?

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Speaker 1: He asked, would it be the ultimate ending to the

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00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: Renaissance Tour if Cincinnati wins it all? I want you

1065
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 1: to notice the spelling of Cincinnati here, folks. It's not

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Speaker 1: spelled in atti. I have struggled a long time with

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Speaker 1: how to really spell Cincinnati. By the way, Is it

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Speaker 1: double in? Is it double t? Is it double both?

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Speaker 1: But look I don't I can't spell restaurant half the

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Speaker 1: time either without my iPhone helping me out. So I

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Speaker 1: think the answer here is yes. If you wanted to

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Speaker 1: correlate the value of the regular season with how the

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Speaker 1: playoff ends. Then yes, okay, it would be fitting. But

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Speaker 1: like I just said a little while ago, Cincinnati could

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Speaker 1: get skull drug, Cincinnati could get body bagged by five touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't impact what the regular season was to me

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Speaker 1: at least, like Georgia and Michigan could blow each other

1078
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: out by thirty five either way, and then we could

1079
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Speaker 1: have a dud of a national championship game. I don't care.

1080
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Speaker 1: I care, I don't want to see that happen, But

1081
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Speaker 1: it does not impact one iota the value that I

1082
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Speaker 1: put on what we just witnessed in this regular season.

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Speaker 1: Like I got folks who would tell you today, who

1084
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Speaker 1: have emailed me, who watch Late Kick, who would tell

1085
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Speaker 1: you I was not a college football fan before this season.

1086
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: Either my buddy turned me onto the show or I

1087
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Speaker 1: was brought to the game because you know, when COVID happened,

1088
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: I wanted a sense of normalcy like everyone else. So

1089
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 1: when college football was back, Hey, I went to college

1090
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 1: once upon a time. Why don't I watch college football?

1091
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Speaker 1: But they would tell you that this regular season brought

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Speaker 1: them to the table. Nothing about the way the postseason

1093
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: plays out should change that. Like I think it's been

1094
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: I think it's been so valuable in so many ways

1095
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 1: that you'll see play out down the road this regular season,

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00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: and I'm very glad we emphasized it the way we

1097
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Speaker 1: did on this show. And it's not over yet, at

1098
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,240
Speaker 1: least the season in and of itself's not over yet.

1099
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Speaker 1: So that's why we're down here. Really good show tonight,

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Speaker 1: A good strong fifty minutes there. I may do some

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Speaker 1: more Q and A Thursday, we'll see. I really love

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Speaker 1: the Q and A format. We're going to get back

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Speaker 1: to it next week in the traditional form, So just

1104
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Speaker 1: in case, keep submitting the questions. Look huge appreciation. We're

1105
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 1: between Christmas and New Year's, a lot of you got

1106
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: stuff going on. You're tuned in anyway. We've got our

1107
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: crew here anyway. We've got our crew back in Nashville

1108
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 1: here anyway, So thank you to them. Thank you to

1109
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 1: you for making it possible for us to call this work.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of you are doing stuff you

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Speaker 1: don't want to do occupationally right now, and so that's

1112
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Speaker 1: why we stress that we've got to put this stuff out.

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Speaker 1: We're not taking long vacations because I have every single

1114
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Speaker 1: day those of you telling me this podcast, this show

1115
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Speaker 1: gets you through a part of your day that otherwise

1116
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Speaker 1: you would hate. And I'm not just using that H

1117
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Speaker 1: word because it came out of my mouth that way.

1118
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of you give me very personal

1119
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Speaker 1: accounts of how you listen to the show. I read them.

1120
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Speaker 1: I just want to let you know I read them.

1121
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Speaker 1: I answer a lot of them, but I read them.

1122
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Speaker 1: So thank you for that, and we will continue to

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Speaker 1: produce as long as you are there. So for our

1124
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: crew here in Fort Lauderdale and our crew back in Nashville,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate. We'll see you back here Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, have a great rest of your

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Speaker 1: evening and God bless you.