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Speaker 1: Are they going to lose more games? Was it a

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Speaker 1: competitive game. Or did Bama get beat like they did

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Speaker 1: at Oklahoma last year? Did they get beat like they

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Speaker 1: did at Vandy last year? Did they get beat like

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Speaker 1: they did at Tennessee? Is it the kind of game

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Speaker 1: where you say, this team's got a ton of holes,

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Speaker 1: like I thought they were good, but man Kirby, they

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Speaker 1: just dissected Alabama, they just exposed him. Something's going to

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Speaker 1: be true. I think that'll be a hinge game that

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Speaker 1: starts setting a narrative very much in motion. And the

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Speaker 1: last one, and certainly not the least one, because I

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Speaker 1: only wanted to go ten deep. I could have just

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Speaker 1: gone the whole show on this. Penn State of Ohio

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Speaker 1: State's one of the hinge games of the entire country,

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Speaker 1: of the entire season. Penn State at Ohio State in

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Speaker 1: week ten means someone's probably punching their ticket to Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: By this point, someone's probably You'd be hard pressed to

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Speaker 1: convince me the winner of this game is not gonna

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Speaker 1: play for the Big Ten championship. Let me put it

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Speaker 1: that way. This is the game for Penn State. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they've got Oregon in Happy Valley Week five. It's the

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Speaker 1: wide out game. It's a night kickoff. It's great, it's great.

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Speaker 1: That's not the game that Ohio State and Penn State

448
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Speaker 1: folks are really circling. In fact, Penn State folks, that's

449
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Speaker 1: not the one they're circling. They're excited about the Oregon game.

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Speaker 1: They've got the Ohio State game circle. And you know why,

451
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Speaker 1: because they know they should beat Oregon. They deep down

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Speaker 1: know they don't know that they're going to They know

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Speaker 1: Oregon's got a new quarterback. They're coming across the country.

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Speaker 1: We're off a bye. We finally get the night game

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Speaker 1: we want. We got our best team we've had in

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Speaker 1: a decade plus. We should beat Oregon. But we don't

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Speaker 1: know about the Ohio State game. We hadn't been able

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Speaker 1: to beat Ohio State's at twenty sixteen, Jesse, is that

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Speaker 1: the last time that Penn State beat Ohio State? So

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Speaker 1: by my math, I mean stat's in info random numbers.

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Speaker 1: That's nine years ago. You had a kid the same

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Speaker 1: year that Penn State beat Ohio State. Last that kid

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Speaker 1: can play Little league. Now you can play a ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean he could be facing like real live pitching

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Speaker 1: instead of just a coach throwing to him. It's been

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Speaker 1: that long that's the game. That's the game because the

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Speaker 1: Penn State's for real this year. Then they win a

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Speaker 1: game like that and Penn State could still be for real.

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Speaker 1: But if it's just the same old Penn State, they

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Speaker 1: go and they lose that game twenty seven to sixteen

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Speaker 1: or twenty seven to twenty something like that, and they're

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Speaker 1: still going to go to the playoff. It'd be tough

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Speaker 1: to see Penn State not going to the playoff. But

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Speaker 1: that's where it hinges. That's really where you train yourself. Nope,

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Speaker 1: don't don't buy in. Don't even get worked up about

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Speaker 1: Penn State. It's just the same old, same old, or wow,

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Speaker 1: it really is different this year. That attitude, which of

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Speaker 1: those attitudes you have will hinge on that game. You

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00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: can get to every one of them by going to

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Speaker 1: quick trip every one of them because we didn't do

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Speaker 1: a Hawaii game, we didn't do Kansas State, Iowa stayed

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Speaker 1: over in Dublin, Ireland, although I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: But my point being, all of these games were in

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Speaker 1: the continental United States, meaning you can drive to all

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Speaker 1: of them, but you can't do it without gasoline unless

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Speaker 1: you live very close to the stadium. And at some

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Speaker 1: point you still got to fill up, So quick trip

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Speaker 1: is there for you. Now you may be thinking to yourself,

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Speaker 1: live hack. I got a buddy and he'll drive to

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Speaker 1: all the games. Well, buddy needs gas. It may even

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Speaker 1: be named buddy. But point being, even if you yourself

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Speaker 1: are not responsible for the gasoline, good for you for

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Speaker 1: finding a way to freeload your way to college football games.

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Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it. I'm not hating on you.

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Speaker 1: I've done it myself. I would recommend it ten times

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Speaker 1: out of ten. If you can pull it off, If

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Speaker 1: you can get front seat privileges, that's better. But don't

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Speaker 1: you still need cold bri Don't you still need snacks?

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Speaker 1: Don't you still need a warm and welcoming environment where

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Speaker 1: you can walk in and feel like you belong. I'm

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Speaker 1: not talking about your guidance counselor's office, friends, I'm talking

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00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: about quick Trip. That's the place you really want to be.

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Speaker 1: Guidance counselors seeing one, seeing them all dime a dozen.

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Speaker 1: Quick Trip each place is unique, and yet each place

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Speaker 1: is the same. And that may sound counterintuitive, but if

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Speaker 1: you've been to a quick Trip you understand it's not.

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Speaker 1: I highly advise it They are the official fuel provider

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Speaker 1: of the tour, which I was gonna name tonight, but

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Speaker 1: we're gonna wait until Sunday because frankly, I came up

510
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Speaker 1: with some better ideas and not for the name, but

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Speaker 1: for the graphic, and so we're gonna wait until Sunday

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Speaker 1: and Prez is gonna dial that up and it's gonna

513
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Speaker 1: be great, just like the JP Pole graphic was great.

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Speaker 1: Quick Trip is going to be the cause of it all.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate them, all right, let's move on. It got

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Speaker 1: a good solid crowd, you knowe to to get this

517
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Speaker 1: kind of live viewership when we're doing the show three

518
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Speaker 1: hours early on a random Thursday in the middle of August.

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Speaker 1: Very encouraging, very encouraging. I appreciate you all. In due time,

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Speaker 1: very soon, in situations like these, I'll be able to

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Speaker 1: hand out free stuff in the live chat. And trust me,

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Speaker 1: there is stuff on the horizon that you'll really want,

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Speaker 1: whether you've got to pay for it to whether it's free,

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Speaker 1: you'll really want it. I love giving out free stuff.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's great. I love getting it. I love giving

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Speaker 1: free stuff out. It's great. Okay, here we go, latest

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Speaker 1: fall Camp until from across the country. We're getting there

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Speaker 1: week zero next week. Everybody starts the week after that,

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Speaker 1: so you better get it in gear. What about LSU

530
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Speaker 1: defense was an improvement last year? It was terrible two

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Speaker 1: years ago. I am as high on their defensive staff

532
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: as I could be any defensive staff in the country.

533
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Speaker 1: Blake Baker is the truth. He had limited ingredients to

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Speaker 1: work with last year. I think they made more than

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Speaker 1: the most out of what was available last year. I

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Speaker 1: don't think we've talked about that enough. Actually, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that during the season last year people even realized

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Speaker 1: how overachieving that unit was. Now you may say to yourself,

539
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: do that, but it wasn't a great defense last year.

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Speaker 1: It should have sucked, should have still been really bad,

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Speaker 1: and it was only average. So this year it's going

542
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: to make a huge leap. All the intel we've gotten

543
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Speaker 1: out of LSU, and I believe every bit of it

544
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Speaker 1: is expect a pretty sizable production leap. Here. They got

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Speaker 1: six plug and play starters from the portal. Now, you

546
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: could listen to that, and you can interpret that two ways.

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Speaker 1: You can interpret that as saying, wow, the cupboard was bare,

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Speaker 1: so any old guy could walk in off the street

549
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: and start for him. You could be that way, knowing

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Speaker 1: the Internet like I do. Some of you are that way.

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00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: Or you could say, yeah, the cupboard was fairly bear.

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Speaker 1: But might they be one of the best front offices

553
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Speaker 1: and one of the best personnel departments in America led

554
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Speaker 1: by one of the best general managers in America spoiler alert.

555
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Speaker 1: The answer is yes on that. Might they gone. Might

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Speaker 1: they have gone and gotten really good pieces to plug in?

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Speaker 1: Might they have hit on all of them? I tend

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Speaker 1: to think it's the latter. It's not without its growing pains.

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Speaker 1: You don't just throw pieces in a blender and spit

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00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: it out and oh, look a top five defense. No,

561
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Speaker 1: that's not the way that happens. So there may be

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Speaker 1: busts early in the season. You may see Cad Klubnick

563
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: make you a little uncomfortable week one. Even if you

564
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Speaker 1: go win, maybe you look and you say, I can't

565
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Speaker 1: believe we went in there and won. That's great, But

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Speaker 1: we still got some holes to plug, we got some

567
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: things to clean up. That's okay. That's okay. That can

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Speaker 1: be part of the recipe of what ends up being

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Speaker 1: a great season. Harold Perkins is a story that LSU

570
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: fans have been following. I just want to let the

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Speaker 1: rest of the country know what's happening here. Harold Perkins,

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Speaker 1: once upon a time freshman All American at edge. Then

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Speaker 1: he goes to linebacker productions down he tears his ACL

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Speaker 1: and that's the last most of you heard of Harold Perkins.

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Speaker 1: He is still there. He is currently taking reps at

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Speaker 1: the star position in LSU's defense. The star position in

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Speaker 1: LSU's defense, like most defenses, is this safety linebacker hybrid,

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Speaker 1: so he can still rush the passer. But there will

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Speaker 1: be situations where it will be many situations where you

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Speaker 1: see Harold Perkins in coverage this year, and there aren't

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Speaker 1: many body types like that in coverage normally by design

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Speaker 1: at least, And you may think to yourself, that dude

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Speaker 1: looks like Harold Perkins. It's him. It's him. Just if

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Speaker 1: you catch yourself saying that about LSU, it's him. I

585
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Speaker 1: can't wait to watch that. What I can't wait to watch,

586
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: also with LSU, but for different and more concerning reasons,

587
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Speaker 1: is the offensive line. Because I got to tell you,

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Speaker 1: I came out of spring feeling pretty good about the

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Speaker 1: O line. There, I don't feel as good about it.

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Speaker 1: I hope they can get it together. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: if you look at the schedule right now, if Louisiana

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Speaker 1: Tech was their Week one game at home, it'll be

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Speaker 1: all right, we'll kind of will jump and we'll figure

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Speaker 1: out the parachute on the way down. In Week one.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that on the offensive line at Clemson.

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00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: You just can't. So you got another scrimmage to go,

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Speaker 1: and then you got two weeks of build up to

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Speaker 1: the Clemson game. You got a really good offensive staff

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00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: down there, like they know what they're doing. They better

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Speaker 1: know what they're doing because it's very mixed reviews right now.

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Speaker 1: Along the offensive line at LSU. Gotta have it, gotta

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Speaker 1: have it. Nus is only as good as that offensive

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00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: line in front of him. Remember, we're trying to run

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Speaker 1: the ball a lot more efficiently down there as well.

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Speaker 1: Offensive line gotta make it happen. What about Nebraska, Well,

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Speaker 1: as you may remember, Dana Holgerson has now assumed offensive

607
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Speaker 1: coordinator responsibilities here. So we got let's see, we got

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Speaker 1: Holgerson as the OC at Nebraska. Now we got Malson

609
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Speaker 1: as the OC at FSU. A lot of folks hopping

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Speaker 1: back into the coordinator chair. The feedback we're getting is

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver group in the running back group is

612
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Speaker 1: much better than anticipated. Now that doesn't mean they thought

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Speaker 1: they were going to be terrible. It's just the group,

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Speaker 1: especially the depth of wide receiver. The quality of player

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00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: there is just better. And then you pair that with

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Speaker 1: Dylan Ryola another year under his belt experience wise, teaming

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Speaker 1: up with Dana Holgerson. I just think the offense and

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Speaker 1: the level of production from that offense, the explicivity from

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Speaker 1: that offense may take some people by surprise. This year,

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Speaker 1: that offensive line, it looks like the starting five will

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Speaker 1: all have double digit games started experience the current projected

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Speaker 1: starting five there also, in the interest of putting you

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Speaker 1: onto a name early that I promise you no one

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Speaker 1: else around your local water cooler is talking about. I

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Speaker 1: want you to remember the name Archie Wilson. You probably

626
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Speaker 1: could have guessed that by the first name he's a punter,

627
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Speaker 1: because no one after the mid nineties named Archie did

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Speaker 1: anything other than punt. That's a fact that we didn't

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Speaker 1: look up. That's a fact in college football. Archie Wilson

630
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Speaker 1: is a true freshman. He has never played a game

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Speaker 1: of American football. I expect him to be a huge

632
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: weapon for Nebraska because he is an Australian punter and

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00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: all those people know how to do is kick the

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00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: ball seventy yards in the air and apparently the returns

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00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: out of practice have been that. And Nebraska is sitting

636
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: on this kid and they know they've got him, and

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00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: they know no one cares about special teams. People claim

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00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: it's a third of the game, yet they never talk

639
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,239
Speaker 1: about it, and so they know that the guy's not

640
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: going to get over hyped aside from shows like this

641
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: spoiling it for everyone, Archie Wilson. As sure as this

642
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: pack of papers is hitting this desk, Nebraska has got

643
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: a weapon. And the dude's never played American football before

644
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: Ole Miss. All right, I don't want to backtrack, but

645
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: it's going to sound like I'm kind of backtracking a

646
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: little bit, but not really. You know what, Let's see

647
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: how it goes, Okay, So I expect defensive drop off

648
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: at Ole Miss this year. I think Old Miss was

649
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: too good defensively last year to just continue merrily alone

650
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: at that level. That's what I've thought. I've said that

651
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: on the show before. Maybe the defensive drop off will

652
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: only be very minor because they were top five at

653
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: various points in the year and a lot of the statistics,

654
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: so they could drop off and still be top ten.

655
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: To understand what I'm talking about here, to kind of

656
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: set a baseline, it's important to note when you say

657
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: a team is portal reliant, it's important to not just

658
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: say that blanketly. It's important to go case by case because,

659
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 1: for example, at Ole Miss, have they taken a lot

660
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: of kids out of the portal, Yes, they have. However,

661
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: Sunterene Perkins, they didn't take him out of the portal.

662
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: He's always been there. Xavian Harris has always been there.

663
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: Jim Mary's Brown has always been there. Will Eccles has

664
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: always been there. They recruited all those kids out of

665
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: high school. None of them are true freshmen, and those

666
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: are all starters along their defensive line. So Pete Golding's

667
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: got a defensive line there that is homegrown. They recruited them,

668
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: they developed them, and that's going to be a really

669
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: good group of players. Stay healthy, of course, but that's

670
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: going to be a really good group of players. dB

671
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 1: is a bigger concern, so maybe that's where the drop

672
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: off is. But that defensive front could be sneaky, really

673
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: good again for Old Mess. Now Austin Simmons quarterback kind

674
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: of being overshadowed, I think a little bit because of

675
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: all the other bigger names. I don't know why Simmons

676
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a big name. He is to us, but

677
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: he's not like Arch Manning. He's not getting the run

678
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: that Ty Simpson is. He's not being talked about as

679
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: much as Gunner Stockton Julian saying some of these dudes

680
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: may or may not even win their job, but make

681
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: no mistake about it. Now, Austin Simmons is the real deal.

682
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: He'll eventually take off. The difference with Old Mess and

683
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: these other teams is Ole Miss does not play anyone

684
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: to start the year. All due respect, they don't play anyone,

685
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: so you won't notice Ole Miss for a little while.

686
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: You will not watch much of Austin Simmons unless you're

687
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: a Rebels fan. You won't be seeing much of them

688
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: because you don't care about the or just state game.

689
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: Ole Miss goes to Kentucky, even though they lost to

690
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: him at home last year, you will still not convince

691
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: yourself that game's worth watching. You don't expect anything from Arkansas,

692
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: whether you're right or wrong, you don't expect anything. Ironically,

693
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: the two lane games probably the game that may get

694
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: the most attention up until the LSU game the twenty

695
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: seventh of September. That's when you start watching Ole miss

696
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: for the first time. Well by then, Austin Simmons has

697
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,479
Speaker 1: got a month worth of live action under his belt. Also,

698
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: Kawan Lacy probably the starting running back there, just a

699
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: Missouri transfer. Interesting, just keep an eye on him, very interesting.

700
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: How about Ucla? People blame us for not talking about

701
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: Ucla on the show much. They're right, we don't talk

702
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: about him a whole lot. But maybe this won't be

703
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: a mess. Keep getting feedback, Maybe this won't be a mess.

704
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: Eric Binamy was not a good college football offensive coordinator,

705
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: and he's not there anymore. He's moved on. Tino Sunseri

706
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: probably will be and he is there now, and so

707
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: it's a lot better fit at coordinator. Niko i aam

708
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: Aliava is the quarterback there now. You remember that whole

709
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: thing from spring, But they hired really good They hired

710
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 1: a good offensive coordinator there. I don't think Tina will

711
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: be there five years. I don't think I don't think.

712
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: I think he'll be good enough to where he'll get

713
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: opportunities very very quickly. But in the meantime, Quasi Gilmer

714
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: I believe is the wide receiver whose name will pop

715
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: pretty immediately for them because they lost their top two

716
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: receivers to the portal. Remember, so that's a guy who

717
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: has a long runway in front of him, and you

718
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: got a guy who can throw you the ball if

719
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: Nico has progressed as a passer, or you got a

720
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: coordinator who's going to dial it up. I'm interested to

721
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: see what kind of production level they get there because

722
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: they got five upperclassmen on the offensive line, so like

723
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:49,959
Speaker 1: everything was pretty bad last year? How how how far

724
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: would they have to improve to be any kind of factor.

725
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: They're not gonna win the Big Ten, they're not going

726
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: to compete for the Big Ten, but to be any

727
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: kind of factor because look, they do play Nebraska, they

728
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: do State, they do play at Ohio State, they do

729
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: play USC so they play almost all the contenders outside

730
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,919
Speaker 1: of Oregon. They play UNLV as well. Could they mess

731
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: it up for someone else? They play Utah? They they

732
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: could spoil someone's year. They could spoil a couple of

733
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: your years. Let's continue the pace, the pace, the pace.

734
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: It's important. This is a travel day. Hey. Look, someone

735
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: asked a question that I think we have to be

736
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: honest with ourselves about. Big Jay. Jeremiah from Atlanta, Georgia said,

737
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: which teams do you feel could be the most unpredictable

738
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: this year? Like they could be a playoff sleeper or

739
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: have a losing record? Oh, it's everywhere, Jeremiah, Florida State's

740
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: one of them. In fact, Florida State has been the

741
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: entire body of that tweet. Over the past twenty four months.

742
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: They've been a playoff team or a playoff contender. In

743
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: a twelve team format, they would have been in the playoff.

744
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: And then they've been the worst thing that I've ever

745
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: seen in my entire life, not just in football, the

746
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,720
Speaker 1: worst thing I've ever seen period. They were three games

747
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: below the worst case scenario last year. Do you realize that?

748
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: Do you realize what that does to one's confidence? When

749
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: I stand here or I sit here every year and

750
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: I do my record projections, there they go. Is that

751
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: the Florida State b role? Bradley, you roll in Florida

752
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: State beer. I think that was a Florida State bure

753
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: role from last year. So Florida State last year ended

754
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: up going two to ten, right, Jesse, that was their

755
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: final record. We did their worst case scenario on the

756
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: show in August, and we had five and seven as

757
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: the worst case, three full games below the worst case.

758
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: It made me rethink everything. The team quit on them now.

759
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: They had a lot of players go out, they had

760
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: a lot of players come in. They only had the

761
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: number thirty six portal class though. But I can tell

762
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: you when I was down there in spring, Mike Norvel said,

763
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: we went back to trusting proven production over potential, so

764
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: they didn't go and load up on a lot of

765
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: guys that were former four stars that just hadn't started

766
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: at Bama or hadn't started at Texas or Ohio State.

767
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: But you're thinking, oh, but there'll be stars here. No, No,

768
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: you don't know that they may not have been starting

769
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: at Bama because they weren't good enough to play for

770
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,919
Speaker 1: many reasons anywhere, you know, because Bama misses on guys

771
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: occasionally too. Georgia misses on guys occasionally too, So you

772
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: can't just go take the big boys backups and magically

773
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: think throw them in the pot mix it all up,

774
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: pour it out, boom ten wins. That's arrogance, and they

775
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: had a little of it last year. So Mike Norvel said, no,

776
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: we went and got players who have played before and

777
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: we're counting on them. Okay, if it works out, great,

778
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: But you got a new QB, you got a new

779
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, you got a new defensive coordinator. You play Alabama, Miami, Clemson,

780
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: n FSU or yeah, Bama Miami Clemson. How fragile are

781
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: you if you lose Week one? How mentally tough are

782
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: you if you lose Week one? I guess it's the

783
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 1: positive spin on that. So I mean Florida's take a

784
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: b ounce right back, Florida State could also be a disaster. Again,

785
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: I have no idea next up. I have no idea

786
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,959
Speaker 1: what to expect from the Auburn Tigers. Auburn was five

787
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: and seven last year, all right, So Auburn goes five

788
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: and seven. Last year. They had nine combined turnovers against

789
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: Cal and Arkansas, both losses. They had that pick six

790
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: late against Oklahoma, a game I was sure they'd win,

791
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: and they lost that one. They led Missouri by two

792
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: scores in the fourth quarter. The quarterback comes back from

793
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 1: the hospital, like Austin at Royal Rumble nineteen ninety nine,

794
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: only that was pro wrestling and it was fake. This

795
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: is real life. This happened to Auburn, so they invented

796
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: ways to lose games last year. There is a school

797
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: of thought out there that is flawed that anytime that

798
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,399
Speaker 1: happens to you one year, it magically inverts the next year.

799
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: Usc people are counting on this, Oh, we lost all

800
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 1: those one possession games, we'll be on the plus side

801
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: of those this year. No, you could just be on

802
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: the minor side, or you could lose games by more

803
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: than in one possession the next year. There's no guarantee

804
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: of that. That's not how the world works. That's not

805
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: how the universe actually operates. If I had a bad

806
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: day yesterday, my day the next day could suck. What

807
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: you hope is you learned lessons from the bad times,

808
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: and you applied them and you course corrected. That's why

809
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: the good times followed. But if they didn't correct, or

810
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 1: in this case, if they went and got the wrong

811
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: quarterback out of the portal in Jackson Arnold, it's gonna

812
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: blow up again. They got a good roster, they got

813
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: four recruiting classes stacked on top of each other. Two

814
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: of them were top twenty, two of them are top ten.

815
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: They've got the number seven portal class there. They play

816
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: five of my top twenty five teams in the country though,

817
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: in the first seven games, so you better have it

818
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: figured out. This is not a situation like the old

819
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: miss schedule, where you got a whole month in the

820
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 1: front half of your season to figure things out. Nope,

821
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: that's not Auburn. Auburn could be a playoff team, Auburn

822
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: could miss a bowl game, and neither would surprise me.

823
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: Next up, USC just mentioned them foreshadowing. I can't believe

824
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: we're in a spot. It stuns me. It floors me

825
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: that we are in a position in the United States

826
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: of America in twenty twenty five where the AP has

827
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,720
Speaker 1: given up on USC. They ranked them thirtieth to start

828
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: the year. And it's me, or rather the JP pole

829
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: powered by the model that is propping USC up. We

830
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 1: got them fifteenth. We have not given up on USC.

831
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: I hope people are listening out there. We have not

832
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: given up on Lincoln Riley. We have not given up

833
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: on the Trojans. But how do we get to the

834
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: place where I'm the one from rural Harris County, Georgia.

835
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: As a youth, I was taught to despise USC. They

836
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: love talking about that on the message board, like it

837
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: has any impact on how I viewed the team present day.

838
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: Obviously not because I'm rooting for you to prove me right. Yeah,

839
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: people don't believe in USC because they lost a lot

840
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 1: of games last year. Does that carry over or did

841
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: they learn lessons? Did they apply those lessons, and do

842
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: they course correct If they did, If they've big ten proofed,

843
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: there are lines of scrimmage, and they're bigger and more

844
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: physical and able to withstand a pounding and maybe maybe

845
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: even inflict some punishment that is illegal in this game.

846
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: They could be eleven and one. They could also be

847
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: six and six. You could be looking for a new

848
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: head coach. All of those things could happen Illinois, Notre Dame, Nebraska,

849
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: and Oregon all on the road. So if you don't

850
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: have good decision making at the quarterback position, if you

851
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: don't have the ability to be consistent offensively, if you

852
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: can't control the line of scrimmage, you're just gonna disappoint again.

853
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 1: They are so convinced they've made the right moves there.

854
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: It's not window dressing. I'm around window dressing a lot.

855
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: I know hollow words when I hear them, They're not

856
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: hollow at usc they are firmly convinced. I mean Lincoln Riley,

857
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: when I was out there in the spring, it was

858
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: almost I mean, he wasn't being cocky about it, but

859
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: it was hard for him to contain how resolute he was.

860
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: It was almost like, I mean, you'll see you just

861
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,240
Speaker 1: watched the Fall. It was like he had the movie

862
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: script in his hand, Like he's holding the script of

863
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 1: Almost Famous in his hand, and I haven't seen Almost

864
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: Famous yet. He's gotten no doubt this is a great

865
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: movie in my hands. You'll see come fall. That's how

866
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: he was talking about his team. He was talking about

867
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: his team like it was still water. And there's some

868
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: people in the audience that may not have seen Almost Famous.

869
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: Almost Famous is one of my top ten movies of

870
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 1: all time, so I highly recommend you watch it. But yeah,

871
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: so was that it does he really have a classic

872
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: in the works. We'll see. I told you so in advance.

873
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,720
Speaker 1: If you're watching this in November, and that came to fruition,

874
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,919
Speaker 1: I told you, so also, yeah, I gotta put North

875
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 1: Carolina in this batch. Now, this is mostly schedule based,

876
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: so I don't know if you heard Bill Belichick's the

877
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: head coach there. I kind of went under the radar.

878
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: Not many people talked about that. So Bill Belichick is

879
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: the old head coach. She's the old ball coach there

880
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: at North Carolina. Now, they had forty one players leave,

881
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: they had forty two players added. They had the number

882
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: eight portal class. They've got one game against teams that

883
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: I have power rated top thirty. That's Clemson. They play,

884
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: according to Fanduels odds, five of the bottom five teams

885
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 1: in the ACC. So if you're able to maintain a

886
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,919
Speaker 1: pulse and draw a breath every three seconds for most

887
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 1: of the year, you could win eight games. I don't

888
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: know how much more you could do than that. What

889
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: I am saying is if North Carolina is terrible this

890
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: year with this schedule, I don't know what their schedule

891
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: looks like next year. It will never be as workable

892
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: as this. Even in the ACC, It'll never be as

893
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: workable as that. Again, So for that reason alone, I

894
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: gotta put North Carolina in there. I mean, they could

895
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: just play good, solid football, Like if they did nothing

896
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: more than not lose games, they could win nine. Like

897
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: if they just stand on the field and wait for

898
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: the other team to hand them a game, they could

899
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: win nine. That's the kind of year it could be,

900
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: and you'd watch them and you'd say, this team is

901
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: not good. How in the world are they ranked nineteenth

902
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: in the country. Could be that kind of year, or

903
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: it could be a disaster. Thus the unpredictability Academy Sports

904
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: and outdoors not on the list because they're very predictable.

905
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:36,759
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906
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: had one of you about an hour or two ago.

907
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: Hit me up. It's back to school time. So like

908
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: everyone's pulling in the parking lot. They're taking the picture,

909
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 1: they're tagging me, they're tagging academy. I didn't ask you

910
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: to do that, but I appreciate you doing that. And

911
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: they're saying, look, man, kiddo's headed back to school. Had

912
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: to gear them up, or I'm headed off for a

913
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: family camping trip this week. I had to gear up.

914
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: Or hey, my little nieces playing field hockey this year,

915
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: had to gear up, or man, I'm low on gum.

916
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get some big leads. You had to

917
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: gear up. The point is you can get all of

918
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: these things at one place, and that is Academy Sports

919
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 1: and Outdoors. And if you can't get there in person,

920
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: Academy dot Com is there to help you out. They

921
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: help us out. Longtime partner of the show. We appreciate them.

922
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: I think they appreciate us, and you will appreciate them

923
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 1: as well. Let's move on. We got one more team preview.

924
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: There were allegations circulating on tech SAgs the other day. Well,

925
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: let me back up. There were allegations circulating on the

926
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: Texas message boards that I was in the tank for

927
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: A and M, which is false. I appreciate A and M.

928
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 1: I'm not in the tank form. But then there are

929
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: some very hurtful allegations on tech SAgs considering I'm in

930
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,879
Speaker 1: the tank for A and M, that we had left

931
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: them out of the team preview series. And then I realized, wait,

932
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: they're right, tank or no tank. We've left A and

933
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: M out of the preview series. So let's rectify that

934
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: for about five minutes here, what do we expect from

935
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: Texas A and M this year to set the table

936
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: for you. How well do you remember last year? Do

937
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: you remember A and M as a success or a

938
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: failure in Mike Elko's first year. I think a lot

939
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: of people would say failure. I don't know why. They

940
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: went into their last game of the season with a

941
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: trip to the SEC Championship game on the line. You

942
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: remember that, Yeah, Texas game, they win it, They're in

943
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: Atlanta playing Georgia. They lost it, and then they lost

944
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: the bowl game. So no one really remembers, but it

945
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: was true. I was there. It really happened. Since twenty thirteen,

946
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: this program has been the model of consistency. That's the

947
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: good news. The bad news is they've been consistently average

948
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: paper pop total wins per season since twenty thirteen nine

949
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:58,720
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven nine eight nine eight five seven eight.

950
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 1: Jimbo wants to get back in coaching. Unrelated note, so

951
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 1: they've averaged seven and a half eight wins. They're over

952
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: underwin total seven and a half this year. I can't

953
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: shake the feeling there's something more there. Thus the end,

954
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: the tank allegations start to resurface. So big questions for

955
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: Texas A and M. First, is there a big jump

956
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: coming defensively this year. We saw it at LSU last year,

957
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: we saw it at USC last year. Do we get

958
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: a big defensive jump year two here? Mike Elko's sort

959
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: of taking the reins here. This is the Elko spot.

960
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: They were sixty thirty yards per game given up. They

961
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: were ninetieth and pass yards per game given up. Pass rush.

962
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: Need to address it, dB got to address it. But

963
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: this is the Mike Elko spot because I believe in

964
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: his developmental ability about as much as anyone out there. Well,

965
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: if that's the case, that's where it'll shine through. It'll

966
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: shine through this year. You'll you'll just be saying the

967
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: overall collective output here is better. It's not any one

968
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: or two players, it's the unit itself is a whole

969
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: lot better this year. That's just Mike Elko working his magic.

970
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 1: That's what you need to be saying. The second question,

971
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: of course, is Marcel Read at quarterback and his development

972
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: this year. You've got the mobile threat. You saw him

973
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: at times being assassin with the deep ball last year consistently,

974
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 1: you need to see it more often. I think the

975
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver group is really upgraded here, and that's why

976
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 1: I think the threat of the deep ball. The threat

977
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: of the vertical passing game will be more potent this year.

978
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: Colin Klein's just got better personnel to work with when

979
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: he calls plays. Also, I mean, what about the intermediate

980
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: the underneath an intermediate passing game. Those are areas of

981
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: Marcel Read's development that you should see an uptick in

982
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: You're one to year two. So it's a question, but

983
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: I think I may know the answer to that one,

984
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: and then the third one. This is kind of intangible

985
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: in nature, but the competitive character of this team is

986
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 1: going to be put on display. They're going to be

987
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: exposed one way or the other this year because what

988
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: Mike Elko is going to ask that team to do

989
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: not many people could do. And this is kind of

990
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: a hunch I'm playing here. I think that coaching staff

991
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 1: at A and M is going to demand a brand

992
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: of football, a level of physicality over the span of

993
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: an entire season that most teams wouldn't be capable of delivering.

994
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: So they're going to ask them to do something most

995
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: players wouldn't be capable of doing. They're going to ask

996
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: them to do something most teams wouldn't be capable of delivering.

997
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: So that's a competitive character thing you've gotten after it

998
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: in the weight room. I don't doubt that you worked

999
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: hard over the summer. I don't doubt that you're big enough,

1000
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: fast enough, strong enough, or they wouldn't have recruited you

1001
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: there to begin with. You wouldn't be on the field

1002
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: at Texas A and M if you didn't have the

1003
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: physical characteristics. But mentally, do you have the competitive character

1004
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: not to do that stuff for a quarter? Understand what

1005
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I'm talking about bludgeoning people over a

1006
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: twelve game season. Doing that the second week of November

1007
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: when you're beat to death and it hurts to get

1008
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: up in the morning, and you got to go and

1009
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: practice on Tuesday the same way that you did in

1010
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: week three, in week six and week nine. That stuff's hard.

1011
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: That's why no one does it. No one plays that

1012
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: way anymore. I think they're gonna ask them to play

1013
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: a style of football that is a little throwback in nature,

1014
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: and if they do it effectively, they'll go play for

1015
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: the conference championship. If they do it effectively. Who's the

1016
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: best position group here? I'd go with running back. I

1017
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: would listen to offensive line. I would absolutely listen to

1018
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: o line. I went running back, Le'Veon Masson, Rubino and Owens.

1019
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: If they're healthy then especially my answer is running back

1020
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 1: because if they're good, it could be lethal and it

1021
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: kind of goes hand in hand with the offensive line.

1022
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: But the breakout player for me is not in the

1023
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: running back room. The breakout player for me is Casius Howell,

1024
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: because that's a guy that if they turn him loose

1025
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: this year and he stays healthy, he could be one

1026
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: of the best edge players in the country. He's six four,

1027
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: two forty five. He was third team All Mac at

1028
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: Bowling Green in twenty twenty three, so you may hear

1029
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: that and he'sa a big deal. Well, I'm not not

1030
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: looking in the rearview mirror. I'm looking in the windshield.

1031
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: I'm looking down the road, and I think he is

1032
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: due for a breakout season this year. He is an

1033
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: impact player. I think he can change games. There have

1034
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: been guys through there like that in the past. I

1035
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 1: think he could be another one. Take a look at

1036
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: the schedule here, We've got them playing the number ten

1037
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: strength of schedule in the country. That's our internal metrics.

1038
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: Before you go looking for it. That game at Notre

1039
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: Dame in week three is interesting because of what I

1040
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: just said. I just said they're going to ask this

1041
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:32,839
Speaker 1: team to do something that most teams couldn't do. If

1042
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: they can do it, that's where they'll show it. They'll

1043
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: go up to South Bend and they'll win. And if

1044
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: they do, they out physical Notre Dame in South Bend.

1045
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: If you do that kind of stuff, that's how you

1046
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: know you're capable of playing that different brand of football.

1047
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: That's not the kind of game and M football's won lately.

1048
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: They didn't win it last year at home, so that's

1049
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: a big circle game for me. Four of their toughest

1050
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: five games are on the road. You do need to

1051
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 1: know that Week four game is actually a Week five game.

1052
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: You see they play Auburn as their fourth game, but

1053
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: they got to buy before that. Auburn doesn't. That's a

1054
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: huge situation alledge. When you're playing a team at home

1055
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: and you're off a buy and it's their fifth game

1056
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: in a row, that's a big situation alledge. So keep

1057
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: that in mind. Best case, worst case, most likely. What

1058
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: do we think here? We're pretty high internally on A

1059
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: and M. So the model has their best case at

1060
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,959
Speaker 1: eleven and one, not even ten. And two. The model

1061
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: shoots all the way up. It sees a path where

1062
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: A and M's eleven and one. Basically, what the models

1063
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: saying is if that identity starts to crystallize itself, then

1064
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: that's going to be a tough, tough team to be.

1065
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: There are worlds where they win eleven of their twelve games.

1066
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't come together, there's a five and

1067
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: seven in here. It's a very high variance team. Actually

1068
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that. I think six and six

1069
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:52,879
Speaker 1: is the floor for them, But the model seid five

1070
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 1: and seven. But what's the most likely record here? The

1071
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: model has A and M going nine to three, and

1072
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: that is like a one hundred simulation season sort of thing.

1073
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: Nine and three is a really good year there. That

1074
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: means you can go eight and four, you can go

1075
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: ten and two, but it all kind of averages out

1076
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,879
Speaker 1: to nine and three. It's pretty high mark over under

1077
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: seven and a half, so that's a game and a

1078
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:19,879
Speaker 1: half over. That's it's not a bad year. Now are

1079
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: you happy with nine and three? If you can go

1080
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 1: nine and three, why not go ten to two? And

1081
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: if you go ten to two, you can go eleven

1082
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: and one. Nine and three is basically undefeated. That's how

1083
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: I'd look at that if I were an A and

1084
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:33,320
Speaker 1: M fan. They're watching us in Melbourne, Florida, Columbus, Ohio, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1085
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, guys being tuned in. I have great news.

1086
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: Thomas Hammock is the head coach at Northern Illinois. You

1087
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: may remember him for such things as upsetting Notre Dame

1088
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:52,240
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame last year, but that's not all he does.

1089
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: He is also really good with words, and he doesn't

1090
00:55:56,719 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: hold back a lot, pretty unfiltered. So he was having

1091
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: a press conference the other day. I'm judging by our

1092
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: audience metrics. I don't think most of you are dialed

1093
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: into Northern Illinois University post practice football press conferences very often.

1094
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 2: But we are.

1095
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 1: This has no context. I just threw it in the show.

1096
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: I told him to dial it up. It's a little

1097
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: bit lengthy. It's like a two minute SOT that's a

1098
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: sound on tape for those who have never worked in

1099
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: local news. But I want you to listen to it

1100
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: because by the end of this, knowing our audience like

1101
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: I think I do, ninety eight or more percent of

1102
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: you will be nodding your head in approval. This is

1103
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: Thomas hammock head coach Northern Illinois.

1104
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to me, I mean to be honest with you.

1105
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 2: I love the challenge. You know. It don't bother me

1106
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 2: one bit because you know what, in life, you're gonna

1107
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 2: make decisions, right, Sometimes it's gonna work in your favor

1108
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 2: and sometime it's not. I told our teamed the other day,

1109
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 2: you know, we lost all these guys. Let's see who plays.

1110
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 2: So it's all good when people put it on Twitter. Hey, all,

1111
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,359
Speaker 2: glory to God. I'm going on transfer portal. Let's see

1112
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 2: if they play. How many of other guys gonna play

1113
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 2: or travel or get snaps? You know, I was thinking

1114
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 2: I was gonna tweet something the other day, a picture

1115
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: of me and say, you know what, I enjoyed my

1116
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 2: college experience. I didn't get one dime, but the lessons

1117
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 2: I learned was more valuable than any money you can

1118
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 2: ever pay me. And I appreciate that because that is

1119
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 2: long term. People are losing the fact that this is

1120
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 2: short term. I coached in the National Football League for

1121
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:34,479
Speaker 2: five years. Five years, right, don't lose fact, don't lose

1122
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 2: focus or what the long term? Get your degree learn

1123
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 2: valuable lessons that's going to help you in the long

1124
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 2: term of your life. That's the whole purpose. This is

1125
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 2: a transition from being a kid to a grown up,

1126
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 2: and I hope people don't lose focus of that. Everybody's

1127
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 2: talking about everything else besides, what is the most important

1128
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 2: thing for going to college? Because if you going to

1129
00:57:58,440 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 2: college to go get a couple of dollars, you might

1130
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 2: have to go get a job. This is too hard

1131
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 2: to go get a couple dollars. Learn the lesson that

1132
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 2: you need to learn to be successful in life for

1133
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 2: the next forty to fifty years of your life. That

1134
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 2: I would do it again for free, for free because

1135
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:18,959
Speaker 2: of the things I learned. That's why I'm standing here today,

1136
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,080
Speaker 2: because of what I learned in college, not because of

1137
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 2: how much somebody gave me. That's what I would tell

1138
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 2: people and parents. They need to learn that lesson too.

1139
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 2: Stop trying to live through your kids. Teach your kids

1140
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 2: what the order the things they need to learn to

1141
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 2: be successful. That's what I'm telling my kids. I don't

1142
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 2: care about no nil, no revenue share. I can care less.

1143
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 2: You need to learn things in college to get you

1144
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 2: prepared for life, to be a father, a husband, to work,

1145
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 2: everything else. Those are the most important things. That's what

1146
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 2: people are missing, in my opinion, just my opinion.

1147
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I enjoyed it, thoroughly enjoyed it, agreed with

1148
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: all of it. So I saw most people agreed with it,

1149
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 1: that had almost unanimous approval. However, you know, some people

1150
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: disagreed that the sky is blue, so some people had

1151
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: a little issue with that. And what I noticed is

1152
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: how quickly people outed themselves. The few dissenters to what

1153
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: Thomas Hammick just said, They outed themselves quick because what

1154
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: they did is they talked about what he didn't say.

1155
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: This happens often on our show, so I'm used to it.

1156
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: And I noticed the few people who had a problem

1157
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: with what Thomas Hammick there said, they started taking issue

1158
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: with what he didn't say. This is how you know

1159
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: who's fake and who's real in the room. This is

1160
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: how you know who has a preconceived agenda that they're

1161
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: trying to push. This has how you know someone has

1162
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: a vested interest in the current structure of the game

1163
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: being as chaotic as it is. Because I noticed what

1164
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: a lot of people said was shame on Thomas hammock

1165
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: for not wanting these players to be able to get money,

1166
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: for wanting barriers between them and opportunities, for wanting rules

1167
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 1: that prohibit this and laws that prohibit that. I saw

1168
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: all that today. But you know what I didn't see

1169
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: or hear is him say any of that. Did I

1170
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: just listen to the entire thing. Did you hear him

1171
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: talk about rules? Did you hear him talk about laws?

1172
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 1: In fact, all I heard him talk about was his opinion.

1173
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: All I heard him give were personal anecdotes. He offered

1174
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: a perspective, and that was it. There are people out

1175
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: there who take that for what it is. I'm one

1176
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: of them. I appreciated what he had to say. I

1177
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:39,920
Speaker 1: happen to agree with him, but even if I didn't,

1178
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: I'd appreciate his viewpoint. There there are other people. I mean, look,

1179
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm just going to shoot straight with you. There are

1180
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 1: some people who find it in their best financial interest

1181
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 1: for college football to be chaotic and for some players

1182
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 1: to make some real piss poor decisions that are going

1183
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: to impact them forty years down the road. Cause the

1184
01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: people profiting off those decisions in the here and now

1185
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: will have long forgotten those players forty years down the road. Now,

1186
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: what you may have just heard is I threw every

1187
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: agent under the bus. I didn't. I know a lot

1188
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: of them. Some of them give very good guidance. Some

1189
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: of them truly do have the player's best interest in mind.

1190
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 1: But there are of course many more who could not

1191
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: care less. At the end of the day, it's about

1192
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: putting money in their pocket. Look, they're playing the same

1193
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: game that a lot of administrative types play on the

1194
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:28,919
Speaker 1: other side. So before anyone in a sweater vest worth

1195
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: eight figures starts nodding their head, you guys do the

1196
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: same thing. Do you really have the best interest of

1197
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 1: college football at heart? Or do you really have your

1198
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: bank account at heart? This is a tale as old

1199
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: as time. We're just applying it to college football. But

1200
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:47,200
Speaker 1: I will tell you I would just look around and look.

1201
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 1: I talk to players all the time. I'm around them

1202
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: all the time. I'll be in three different programs in

1203
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 1: the next five days or six days, just trying to

1204
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: do my math there. So I talked to players constantly.

1205
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: Many of them get it. Like many of them get it.

1206
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 1: The feedback they gets way better now than it even

1207
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: once five years ago. Just ask yourselves, what kind of

1208
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: feedback are you getting from people who don't stand to

1209
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: make a dime either way, because those are the people

1210
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: who are shooting straight with you. Now. It may not

1211
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,919
Speaker 1: always be the best advice. That does not mean take

1212
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: advice from everyone, but it does mean when someone stands

1213
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: to benefit or profit off of your decisions, you better

1214
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: be careful with the filters you're running their opinions through.

1215
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: And it sucks that you're not fifty years old. It

1216
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 1: sucks that you're nineteen years old having to make these

1217
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: decisions because you don't have a lifetime of experience. You

1218
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: don't have a lifetime of wisdom, which is just applied

1219
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: knowledge through experience. You don't have that, and yet you're

1220
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 1: having to make decisions now. I know, like I talk

1221
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: to you guys all the time about it. I understand,

1222
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: I understand. But point is, that's reality. That's reality. So

1223
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: you got to equip yourselves like drinking water from a

1224
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: fire hose. You got to equip yourself with the knowledge

1225
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: as quickly as you can. Try and acquire that wisdom

1226
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: as quick as you can. Just be careful, like guys

1227
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: like Thomas Hammock, you are going to have people in

1228
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 1: your ear telling you that fool don't know what he's

1229
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: talking about. He's trapped in a bygone generation. He's just

1230
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 1: bitter because he didn't get the opportunity to make the

1231
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: money and now that you're in the new era where

1232
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: you can make money. A lot of these folks are

1233
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: selfish and a lot of these folks are envious. Hey,

1234
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 1: there may be some. That guy I don't think is

1235
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: one of them. That guy I don't think is one

1236
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,320
Speaker 1: of them. I think, and then call me crazy here,

1237
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 1: call me drinking the kool aid. I do think he

1238
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 1: has the best interest of the player at heart. Forty

1239
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:40,800
Speaker 1: years down the road instead of four months down the road.

1240
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the worst attitude in the world

1241
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 1: to have. That's all I'm saying. I had a meeting

1242
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 1: earlier today. In fact, we've had several meetings about the

1243
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 1: season with all our partners, and one of the partners

1244
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: that we meet with frequently is FanDuel because what I'm

1245
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: interested in doing during the season is I'm interested in

1246
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: layering their information into our show to give you a

1247
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,919
Speaker 1: more accurate read on teams, like, for instance, who would

1248
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: be favored against who if they played today. That's really fun,

1249
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 1: It's stuff we do. We did with them last year,

1250
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna do with them again this year. You could

1251
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 1: also say, hey, man, I think Michigan's going to be

1252
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 1: ten times better than America. Things. Well, FanDuel says here,

1253
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: you can go bet them plus points against Ohio State

1254
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: right now if you want to. Do you think Clemson's

1255
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: going to make the playoff? Yes? Ooh, someone said no,

1256
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 1: You could go bet that right now. The prop market

1257
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 1: is there, your preseason over under win totals. Are there,

1258
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: Games of the year are there, odds to make and

1259
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: miss the playoff, odds to win conferences, odds to win

1260
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: the national championship. It's all there. Do it responsibly or

1261
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 1: don't do it at all. But if you can do

1262
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 1: it responsibly, if you shake that pocket and you hear

1263
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:51,480
Speaker 1: a little spare change in there and you're looking for

1264
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: something to do with it, might I suggest Georgia Tech

1265
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 1: to make the playoff. It returns good money right now,

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Speaker 1: up with a very important question. I got strong feelings

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Speaker 1: on this, strong feelings. It's about something that's near and

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Speaker 1: dear to all of our hearts this time of year. Bradley,

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Speaker 1: here's the endpoint when you edit this. I snapped Phil

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Speaker 1: from Montgomery, Alabama, Bradley's hometown. He said, do you agree

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Speaker 1: with me that someday preseason rankings don't even exist? In

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Speaker 1: college football? The first polls shouldn't exist until week six

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Speaker 1: at the earliest. Thank you for asking this question, Phil. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't agree with you at all. No, I'm not

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Speaker 1: with you whatsoever. I love preseason rankings, I love preseason

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Speaker 1: power ratings, I love odds, I love it all. In fact,

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Speaker 1: as the future commissioner of this sport, I stated this

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Speaker 1: morning that when elected, my platform does not include a

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Speaker 1: ban on or preseason rankings. My platform actually encourages preseason rankings. However,

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Speaker 1: when I'm the commissioner, my office will hand out massive

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Speaker 1: cash prizes to the most accurate polsters every December, while

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Speaker 1: publicly shaming the least accurate polsters. I believe two things work.

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Speaker 1: Scratch that. Mem I used to always tell me, two

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Speaker 1: You got to take matters into your own hands, and

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Speaker 1: so look, I love that kind of environment. But to

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Speaker 1: be real with you, I want to ask you, Matthew,

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Speaker 1: because I know you're not alone. I know many people

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Speaker 1: out there field this way. Many of you hate preseason rankings?

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Speaker 1: Why are preseason rankings bad? For all of you who

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Speaker 1: just want them scrapped? Knowing it's impossible, but let's it

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Speaker 1: was possible to completely do away with and outlaw preseason

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Speaker 1: rankings and preseason polls. Why are they bad? The first

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Speaker 1: thing I always get told is all they create biases.

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Speaker 1: It crystallizes mistruths in the preseason. How is that? How

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Speaker 1: is that? What barrier have preseason rankings created? Last I checked?

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Speaker 1: Sm you got in the playoff last year, Indiana. If

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Speaker 1: there's ever been a preseason barrier built in front of

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Speaker 1: a team by way of polling and rankings, it would

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Speaker 1: have been Indiana football last year. How'd they do? They

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Speaker 1: got in the playoff? Like by week five and week six?

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Speaker 1: Where is this even factoring in anymore? This is just

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Speaker 1: stuff that gets said. And then the other part of

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Speaker 1: it is, oh, Josh, you're intentionally misrepresenting it. You know

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Speaker 1: good and well. When I say biases, I mean the

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Speaker 1: poles prop up the SEC. Therefore it makes all the

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Speaker 1: strength of schedules look better than it actually is. And

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Speaker 1: I always ask the same thing. Don't speak in the abstract,

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Speaker 1: don't speak generically, speak specifically. Look at the specific top

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Speaker 1: twenty five this year, power ratings or rankings. I don't

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Speaker 1: care who's where they shouldn't be, like who unfairly I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at the AP right now. Who is unfairly placed?

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Speaker 1: Because as much as you want to talk about that,

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Speaker 1: I could go with other schools. I could go to

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Speaker 1: any other conference. Like it's an SEC thing, because the

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Speaker 1: SEC is either you're a fan of one of their

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Speaker 1: teams or they are evil. But it's mainly just noise

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Speaker 1: the preseason biases. The next thing people say is it

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Speaker 1: impacts the way the committee votes. Hey, if that's true,

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Speaker 1: you don't have a pole problem. You got a committee problem.

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Speaker 1: Because if anyone on the playoff committee in December is

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Speaker 1: was that team ranked in the preseason, you got the

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Speaker 1: wrong person on the committee. In fact, if anybody on

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Speaker 1: even after they've seen something that proves otherwise than those

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Speaker 1: people don't need to be on the committee, So complain

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Speaker 1: about the committee. To me, you don't plain about complain

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Speaker 1: about preseason rankings. I just always ask when someone wants

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Speaker 1: to do away with something, is it a net positive?

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Speaker 1: And I think preseason rankings are a net positive because

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Speaker 1: they create conversation and there's not a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: you're going to power rate teams, do it, but be

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Speaker 1: open minded. That's why Week one so important. You've got

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Speaker 1: to be ready to pivot on a dime, but also

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Speaker 1: not fall victim to knee jerk reactions. It's a very

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Speaker 1: very fine balance that you have to strike there. Also,

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Speaker 1: in what world do you expect people to stop comparing

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Speaker 1: teams and having opinion? Everybody does it. The people who

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Speaker 1: say they don't want preseason holes do it. So that's

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Speaker 1: not going anywhere. So, by my estimation, we've got something

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Speaker 1: fun that makes August go by faster. There's really no

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Speaker 1: consequence to it. It's written in pencil. It's not written

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Speaker 1: in pen anybody worth their salt on the playoff committee

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Speaker 1: has long since forgotten about the preseason rankings long before

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Speaker 1: they release their poll in week nine or week ten.

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Speaker 1: If anyone is allowing it to cloud their judgment, you

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Speaker 1: need to get them out of the room entirely. I

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Speaker 1: believe that it would be great if I could be

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Speaker 1: the commissioner of this sport and give the top ten

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Speaker 1: pollsters a million dollars each, which further removes the allegation

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Speaker 1: of nefarious activity propping up of one conference or the other.

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Speaker 1: You got cash on the line, you get rid of

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Speaker 1: all that. And I am a big fan of publicly

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Speaker 1: shaming posters who whiff fantastically unless it's me. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm all for preseason polls. I'm all for them.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go. We got a lot of traveling to

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Speaker 1: You know, I haven't even told you. We're doing our

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Speaker 1: the public, That's why I haven't told you. But it

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Speaker 1: will be a playoff contender. I will just tell you

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Speaker 1: that I'm going to go to a couple of places

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Speaker 1: next few days. Just just check the socials. You'll find

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Speaker 1: out more there. For producer Jesse For director Bradley, I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Pate. Take care, have a great start to your weekend.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back Sunday night.

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