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Speaker 1: It accurately describes where we are going with this episode

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Speaker 1: Charity cough. We got new rules everywhere, and a lot

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Speaker 1: So he's entered the portal and it's notable, not because

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Speaker 1: he's six two to two ninety, not because their offensive

430
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Speaker 1: line coach got dismissed in January. It's because after that

431
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Speaker 1: offensive line coach got dismissed, Lance Robinson has now become

432
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Speaker 1: the seventh offensive lineman to hit the portal from Houston

433
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: since then, not offensive player friends, the seventh OH lineman

434
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Speaker 1: to hit the poor Are they going to play seven

435
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: on seven in Houston this fall? This is not exactly

436
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Speaker 1: the headline I want to read as you're about to

437
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: Enterpower five competition. The offensive line market's always interesting. Now.

438
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: Lance Robinson played US I think defensive end in high school.

439
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: He was like two fifty two fifty five, then six

440
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: four two ninety now started eleven games last year, got

441
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Speaker 1: three years of eligibility remaining. And like I said, with

442
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Speaker 1: the offensive line market, anytime someone sneezes in that thing,

443
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,159
Speaker 1: half the country looks and says, someone say, offensive lineman,

444
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 1: what happened? So there's there's not gonna be any shortage.

445
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Speaker 1: Doesn't even matter if your average is grits as me

446
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 1: Mal would say, There's not gonna be any shortage of

447
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 1: attention because no one out there looks around their offensive

448
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: line room and says, yeah, we're we're not interested. We're

449
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 1: just full over here. Even if you are full, you

450
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: never say that. The one place where I truly think

451
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: you could look around and say we got everything we

452
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Speaker 1: need here Academy Sports and Outdoors. One stop shop is

453
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Speaker 1: a sentence I've already used, I guess, a phrase I've

454
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Speaker 1: already used in the show so far. But let me

455
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 1: just let me just use it one more time, one

456
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Speaker 1: stop shop. What do we think about that? Well? For me, look,

457
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Speaker 1: I am not a very very high maintenance person, so

458
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 1: my bar for you being a one stop shop outfit

459
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: is pretty low. For me, I can certainly get everything

460
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 1: I needed Academy. But I would argue, even if you

461
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Speaker 1: do live a little more refined lifestyle, Academy Sports and

462
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Speaker 1: Outdoors they've got you. And the reason I know that

463
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Speaker 1: if you're an outdoorsy type at all, or if if

464
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Speaker 1: you're into grilling at all, or you're just recreational at all,

465
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: they've got what you need. And if they don't, they

466
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: get you like ninety percent of the way. There you've

467
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: got like grilling, cookwar there, You've got footballs there, You've

468
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: got cones there, frisbees there, bikes there, tents there. I

469
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: always selfishly like to remind you in the checkout line,

470
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: they have Big League Chew, which is, you know, next

471
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: next to slice bread and like the Roman aqueduct system.

472
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: Can anyone honestly tell me that we as humans have

473
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Speaker 1: come up with a better concept than Big League Chew.

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Speaker 1: Come on now, Academy Sports and Outdoors. They are one

475
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Speaker 1: stop shop. They are our official partner, and they have

476
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Speaker 1: our back, always have, and they've got your back too.

477
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: And if you can't get there in person, Academy dot

478
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Speaker 1: com is where you want to go. Two shows ago,

479
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Speaker 1: director Colin and I had a very very quick chat.

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Speaker 1: I'm pointing to the doorway. We had it in right

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Speaker 1: over here. You can't see it, but it was thought

482
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: that I wasn't going to make it through the show.

483
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: Allergies had attacked me, and since then they've subsided a

484
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: little bit. The good news is that night we never

485
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Speaker 1: had to dump the show. I never had to give

486
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Speaker 1: the secret hand signal that director Colin and I have

487
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: worked out. And therefore I think I took, you know,

488
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Speaker 1: like one or two extra SIPs from the chalice. You know,

489
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Speaker 1: maybe every now and then, but largely we made it through.

490
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: Although I sounded like I had a hedgehog in my throat.

491
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: And I mentioned this because I have got a cough

492
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: that has just been sitting there for twenty seven minutes

493
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: and six seconds in counting, and Colin, I can't do

494
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Speaker 1: anything about it. So it's not like we're gonna stop

495
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Speaker 1: the show. I just want a little sympathy. That's all

496
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Speaker 1: I want from you. We had so many spring games

497
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Speaker 1: yesterday that I don't know where to start. Actually I do.

498
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Alabama quarterback situation. Unsettled, Ty Simpson, Jalen Milroe. Hey,

499
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: we saw the two younger guys get involved there as well. Unsettled. Now,

500
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Speaker 1: this is one of those situations where I started getting

501
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: feedback from my friends before I watched it myself, and

502
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: the feedback I got from my Bama brethren led me

503
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: to believe I was going to watch a five alarm

504
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: disaster of an afternoon offensively. And then I watched it,

505
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: and I watched the offensive snaps twice, and one would

506
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Speaker 1: argue in a spring game an offensive snap is a

507
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Speaker 1: defensive snap. But you get what I'm saying. I watched

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Speaker 1: these guys. I watched Milroe and ty Simpson. I watched

509
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Speaker 1: every snap they took twice. I must have just watched

510
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Speaker 1: a different game. I may have been on a different planet.

511
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was a bad afternoon at all

512
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Speaker 1: when accounting for what the structure of the game is.

513
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: So you have if you're a Bama fan. Now, over

514
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: the past few years, you went from Hurts to Tua

515
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: to Mac Jones to Bryce Young. All these guys are

516
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: like first round draft guys. All these guys are Heisman

517
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: conversation guys. So yes, there's a high standard at quarterback there. Now,

518
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Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, which is better than saying, frankly,

519
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. I don't think you

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Speaker 1: need that at quarterback this year. If the wins that

521
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: I am feeling out of Tuscaloosa are accurate, I don't

522
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Speaker 1: think you're gonna need a guy that hangs the kind

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Speaker 1: of numbers Bryce Young did. I don't think you're gonna

524
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Speaker 1: need a guy that puts up the kind of performance

525
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Speaker 1: that Mac Jones did in twenty twenty. It would be nice,

526
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Speaker 1: and maybe one of these guys has that in his ceiling.

527
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Speaker 1: But if you look at the way they're putting that

528
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Speaker 1: offensive line together, if you look at guys like Justice

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Speaker 1: Haynes being one of approximately fourteen tailbacks that are serviceable

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Speaker 1: or plus for Alabama. I think, as I told you

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Speaker 1: in December, Nick Saban has looked around both at his

532
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: past teams and then at what Georgia just did and said, well,

533
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Speaker 1: if that right there still works, I know how to

534
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Speaker 1: do that better than anyone. I made the shift in

535
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Speaker 1: the twenty teens because I thought the sport was going

536
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Speaker 1: that way and I was just going to be better

537
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: at it than everyone, and I was. But man, if

538
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: we can still play that kind of just sledgehammer offense

539
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: and we can marry it with some of those passing

540
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: concepts that we've come to know and love around here,

541
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Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do. And the reason I mentioned

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Speaker 1: that is to provide context when you look at Jalen

543
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: Milroe and in a scrimmage setting is always going to

544
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Speaker 1: be hamstrung because he doesn't get to use his legs,

545
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Speaker 1: so you never get to see who he actually is,

546
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Speaker 1: which is why I probably have more confidence in him

547
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Speaker 1: coming out of yesterday than I did just listening to

548
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Speaker 1: practice reports about whether he may very well end up

549
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Speaker 1: being the starter there. I don't think it's decided by

550
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Speaker 1: any stretch. But the difference is I had some folks

551
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Speaker 1: telling me, oh, oh, two quarterbacks means you got none,

552
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: one of the dumbest thayings in all of football. I

553
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: think they have two they can win with. That's what

554
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Speaker 1: I thought, And the reason is because of the other

555
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: couple of ten names I'm about to mention, Justice Haynes,

556
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: stud immediate impact guy, true freshman tailback, Caden Proctor. I

557
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Speaker 1: think you'll end up starting at left tackle for him.

558
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: That's him if you're watching on screen. We spent an

559
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Speaker 1: inordinate amount of time talking about him. For those unfamiliar,

560
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: that's the kid who decommitted from Iowa last minute and

561
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: committed to Bama, And we spent a bunch of time

562
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Speaker 1: talking about him, so much so that some folks said, Josh,

563
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Speaker 1: aren't you spending a little too much time I'm talking

564
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Speaker 1: about him? Would you watch him play yesterday? Because he

565
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: looks like he's been playing for the New York Giants

566
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: for four years. He looks like he's about to be

567
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: on a second contract in the NFL six seven three

568
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: forty I think is what they listed him at. Gigantic

569
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: true freshman. I don't even know if he's eighteen yet

570
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: true freshman. I think he'll start at left tackle for him.

571
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: I talked to a couple of folks around Alabama who

572
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: said they thought that was already trending that way, but

573
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: it probably went a long way and becoming solidified. Yesterday

574
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: Caleb Downs was also on the field for them. Number two.

575
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: Believe he played in Crimson yesterday. Mika Fitzpatrick, according to

576
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: some folks around Bama, is the best overall high school

577
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: prospect they've ever had, regardless of position. They have never

578
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: compared anyone to him. They just reserve that. It's almost

579
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: like it's sacrilege to make that comparison. Then Caleb Downs

580
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: comes in and they started comparing them to Mega Fitzpatrick.

581
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: I have rarely heard Nick Saban speak as glowingly about

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Speaker 1: true freshmen plural as I've heard him talk about Downs

583
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: and Justice Hayes, Haines. And you watch Caleb Downs, it's

584
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: not like the dude had five scoop and scores yesterday,

585
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: didn't have two pick sixes. He just it's so obvious

586
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: it oozes off of your screen. He just got it. Instinctive, twitchy,

587
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: good ball skills, good speed, so fluid, looks like he's

588
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: been doing it forever. Their signing class this past year

589
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: was bordering on the highest rated of all time, and

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Speaker 1: I think it may end up being a white I

591
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: don't think. I know it'll end up being a huge

592
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: impact class for him this year. I just wonder how

593
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: many of them are gonna end up starting their secondary.

594
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: Also is a unit. It's an entire facet of that

595
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: team that's let them down at times this past couple

596
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Speaker 1: of years. I don't want to overreact to a spring game,

597
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: and I don't want to overreact to spring practices, but man,

598
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Speaker 1: if they got those guys healthy, the ones that are

599
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: on the field, the ones you saw yes yesterday, and

600
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: if those guys are in the right positions, which they

601
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: haven't always had the luxury of doing in the past

602
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: couple of years, they could be really good. Kouol Aid

603
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: McKinstry is a first round draft pick at corner terry

604
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: and Arnold's a guy that I've particularly been high on

605
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: his second full year starting at the other corner spot.

606
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: But man Caleb Downs is going to start as a

607
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: true freshman at safety. They've got Malachi Moore back there,

608
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: but which allows you to put guys like Earl Little

609
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: and Christian story in those money and those dime spots. Again,

610
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: it's always wonderful if no one gets hurt. They are

611
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: deep in the defensive secondary and could be really really

612
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: good there. I just I always flash back to like

613
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: images of Jalen Hyatt running free in Alabama secondary. They

614
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: play some good teams again this year they do every year.

615
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: I think that they are much more well off in

616
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Speaker 1: the secondary and style of play. You know, That's what

617
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: I took away from the spring game yesterday, Just the

618
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: style of play overall, I think will revert back to

619
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: a lot more physical brand of football, the stuff you

620
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: used to see Bama do. I'm not saying you're going

621
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: back to John Parker Wilson style, but I'm saying you're

622
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: going back to a lot more of what made Bama

623
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Speaker 1: what you came to know it as. And that's why

624
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and freak out about quarterbacks

625
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: with them, knowing the players they have on that roster,

626
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Speaker 1: I'm not freaking out about quarterback because also I think

627
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks are going to be good, Like one of

628
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: them is going to be really good, plenty, good enough

629
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: to win with They're watching us in French Camp, Mississippi,

630
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada, and Georgetown, Texas. And for that we

631
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Colin, Yeah, I think this is it. I

632
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: think I'm just gonna do the one cough per show.

633
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Speaker 1: I'll give you a countdown three to one. Yeah. Yeah,

634
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: that clearly did it. Okay, so we're good to go.

635
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: Now sit from the chalice out of celebration. Did do

636
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Speaker 1: you guys watch the Oklahoma spring game at all? Because

637
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: Brent Vennables cut a promo. I mean it was like

638
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: Dusty Rhodes in the Omni before Flair comes down the aisle.

639
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: It was a it was a heck of a promo.

640
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: I have a quote here because in the interest of time,

641
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: we were not going to play it for you. But

642
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: picture Brent Venables, head coach at Oklahoma, just pacing back

643
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 1: and forth on the field in front of fifty four thousand,

644
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: four hundred and nine Sooner fans, and he made this

645
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: quote for the naysayers who say support and attendance for

646
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: a spring game doesn't matter, it's because they have a

647
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: program that doesn't. Brenton Venables payt state material quote right there,

648
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: paper pop quote. He's absolutely right. I think I said

649
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: that about Oklahoma last year, come to think of it,

650
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: so he may have even stole that from me. I

651
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: don't care, though. It's fine. I didn't tm it, I

652
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: didn't trademarket. It's his. He is right about that. That's

653
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: a whole other conversation. It's a whole other topic. But

654
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: people who say Spring Attendants has no bearing on the program,

655
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: you've never spoken to recruits who experience it. I don't

656
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: know what else to tell you. It matters. It matters,

657
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: and Venables is right. Normally, the folks who are saying

658
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter are saying it because they can't get

659
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: anyone to show up, and therefore their kind of sort

660
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: of irrelevant. I don't know if he was aiming mad

661
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: at anyone, but yeah, I agree with him. So anyway,

662
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: what happened in this game, Well, Dylan Gabriel, who is

663
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: presumably the starting quarterback there he was last year twelve

664
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: of eighteen, one hundred and thirty nine yards, three touchdowns.

665
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: For whatever spring stats are worth for you, quarterback depth

666
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: is what I wanted to see. I know Dylan Gabriel,

667
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: I know what he can do when he's healthy, but

668
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: I wanted to see some Jackson Arnold, the true freshman

669
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: Elite eleven Finals winner Jackson Arnold, and he played and

670
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 1: as is usually the case with the true freshman wearing

671
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: a blue jersey in a spring game, it was up

672
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 1: and down. He started off slow, had a good final drive.

673
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: They brought him in i think for the final drive

674
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: and had a really good showing. Not everyone's ready in

675
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: week one. I want to remind you of this. So

676
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: sometimes when we're looking at true freshmen or players period,

677
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: but especially when we're looking at true freshman in spring,

678
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: when we're listening to practice reports from fall camp about

679
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,720
Speaker 1: true freshmen, everyone has week one as the finish line, right.

680
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: They look at week one, and when they're talking about

681
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: whether you can start or whether you're going to be ready,

682
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: it always leads up to week one. Well, sometimes a

683
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: true freshman clicks in week four. Sometimes a true freshman

684
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: hits that critical line in the sand that is the

685
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: minimum baseline to get him on the field in a

686
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: meaningful role in week six. And so with Jackson Arnold,

687
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: Now you don't handle the quarterback position like this, but

688
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is with Jackson Arnold, if you watched

689
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: him yesterday, you probably didn't say, bring on our Week

690
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,760
Speaker 1: one opponent. Let's take him out there and split reps

691
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: with the ones. He's ready to go. Of course you

692
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: didn't think that. You may not think it come week

693
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: one or three or five. Jackson Arnold is eventually going

694
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: to be good enough to win you games, whether it's

695
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: this year or next year, whatever. But I have a

696
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: suspicion that they're going to get into their schedule this year,

697
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: and there's gonna eventually come a time. Sometimes it's out

698
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: of a bye week, sometimes it's not, but there's going

699
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: to eventually come a time where all of a sudden,

700
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: you start hearing practice reports about how the lights really

701
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: come on in the past two weeks or so for

702
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: Jackson Arnold, and he's really he's found a different gear.

703
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: How many times do you hear that kind of phrasing.

704
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: You may hear it with him. Now, this is not

705
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: exclusive to Jackson Arnold. I say this a lot about quarterbacks,

706
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: especially who aren't being counted on to start. Drew Auler

707
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: at Penn State. You heard that about him last year,

708
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: not ready to go in week one. He had to

709
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: play in Week one, but you didn't hear how he's

710
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: ready to be the face of the program in week one,

711
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: but as the weeks went on, you just start hearing

712
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more buzz, a little bit more buzz,

713
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: a little bit more buzz out of practice. I guarantee

714
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: you that's how Jackson Arnold's going to be this year.

715
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: Defense was the clear winner. That is a headl line.

716
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: That is a welcome change. Anybody who watched Oklahoma last

717
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: year knows this to be the case. Do I need

718
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: to do it? I think I need to do it

719
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: once more. The defensive horror for Oklahoma last year, ninety

720
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: ninth in the country, points per game, allowed, one hundred

721
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: and nineteenth pass yards per game, allowed one hundred and

722
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: sixth rush yards per game. You get the picture. If

723
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: you're listening on podcast, trust me, it's bad. If you're

724
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, there it is on the screen right there,

725
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: TVMA special Oklahoma's defense Year of our lower twenty twenty two,

726
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: which brings us to yesterday. Defense looked pretty good. Now

727
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 1: they were going against a poverty offensive line that was

728
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 1: missing multiple starters, and they will rectify that. They will

729
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,959
Speaker 1: be a whole lot better version of themselves come fall

730
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: than they were yesterday. So I don't want to overreact.

731
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: It's one of the cardinal sins, right, don't overreact to

732
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: spring games. But their defense look good. And a couple

733
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: names that stood out, including one that we focused a

734
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: lot of our attention on, Deshaun McCullough when we were

735
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 1: doing our transfer portal Intel. McCullough was one of the

736
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,959
Speaker 1: names that I told you to break out the red

737
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: sharpie and circle and just press down as hard as

738
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: you can the paper rips. Don't worry about it. You

739
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: need to know this name. And he is a transfer

740
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: from Indiana, and he was dynamite in his season in Indiana.

741
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: And he is a guy kind of like Gums out

742
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: of North Texas, goes to a lower tier school, now

743
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: this time it's a Big ten school, but goes to

744
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: a little bit lower tier school, balls out. It erases

745
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: any kind of questions you may have had about him

746
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: coming out of high school, and all of a sudden,

747
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: you got a six', five two hundred and twenty five

748
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: pound out of high school. Edge now he's come in

749
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: and he was all over the place. Yesterday so he's

750
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: an immediate impact. Guy he's everything we thought he would.

751
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: Be lewis at linebacker like a sophomore. Linebacker he had

752
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: eleven tackles. Yesterday now you may, think if you look

753
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: at the stat, sheet hey there's another impact. Linebacker i'm

754
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: not so sure because the kid barely weighs two hundred.

755
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,240
Speaker 1: Pounds but that's a blessing that one of the standouts

756
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: statistically in your spring game on a defense that was

757
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: terrible last, year you can afford to look at and,

758
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: say nice spring. Game go put on some weight and

759
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: then come back and we'll. TALK i don't think that

760
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: he will ride the bench all. Year i'm just saying

761
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: that is the one. Area eleven, tackles that's, Great but

762
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: eleven tackles, notwithstanding that's probably not a front line linebacker for,

763
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: you which translates to depth being built In. Norman how

764
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: much will that defense? Improve it's the question it will

765
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: improve because, statistically AND i can't Believe i'm saying, this

766
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: it can't get much worse than it got last. Year

767
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: But Peyton brown Or Peyton, bowen Not, Brown Peyton bowen

768
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: kind of the lost five star if that exists From

769
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: oklahoma signing class five star safety From, Denton. Texas he's

770
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: going to start at safety for. Him we got A

771
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: down's situation In. Alabama you got A Peyton bowen situation In.

772
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: Norman and the reason, is and follow me, here because

773
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: this is pretty. Advanced he's just. Better he's just too

774
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,240
Speaker 1: good to keep off the. Field DID i lose anyone

775
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: with that. Explanation i'm. Sorry he got deep there for a. Second,

776
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: community he got, deep but he's good. Man so you're

777
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: getting a lot of verification on a lot of these

778
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: highly rated guys they brought. In they did not have

779
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: a formidable offensive line. Yesterday So i'm not making too

780
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: much out of, this BUT i want to reemphasize for

781
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 1: those of you who think that there's a lot of

782
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 1: panic out, there and for those of you who think

783
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: because they were woeful and were hovering around five, hundred

784
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of panic and a lot of.

785
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: Rethinking The brenton venables higher maybe, outside not inside the.

786
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: Walls that's why the mood tracker Around oklahoma was. Clear the,

787
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: mechanism the outside noise doesn't matter what people In austin

788
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 1: Or manhattan Or nashville for that, matter are safe. About

789
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: your head coach doesn't. Matter that energy you brought yesterday.

790
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: Matters him walking around with The mic and his handcutting

791
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: the promo on the, field it matters to, Me but

792
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: ultimately acquiring the talent they've had the past couple of

793
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: cycles portal and recruiting and improving this, Year if they do,

794
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: that none of that noise matters, Anyway and they still

795
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: have full confidence as far AS i can, tell they

796
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,240
Speaker 1: still have full confidence in their guy. There all, right

797
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: let's move. ON i had something written DOWN i can't

798
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: say out. Loud i'm, sorry it just it's that way.

799
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: Sometimes let's talk ABOUT lsu for a. Second people texted

800
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: me during the. Show you, know you think you know

801
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: people until they text you during the only time of

802
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: week that they're not supposed to text. YOU lsu had

803
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: their spring game. YESTERDAY i have taken a random sampling

804
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 1: of the, country and it seems like there's a thought

805
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: ABOUT lsu that goes a little bit of something like.

806
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: This they caught lightning in a bottle and twenty two

807
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,720
Speaker 1: two they may fade a little bit in twenty twenty.

808
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: THREE i don't know if you have felt that. WAY

809
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 1: i don't know if you have experienced. That And i'm

810
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: not talking ABOUT lsu. Fans i'm saying, outsiders the outside

811
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: noise that you're supposed to block. Out i've gathered some

812
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 1: of that ABOUT, lsu which is. Interesting we'll talk about

813
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: it in a. SECOND dB is something that everyone's been

814
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: focused on down, there so defensive. Back they just they

815
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: got an entire secondary pretty much out of the, portal

816
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: and it was a work in progress. Yesterday it has

817
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 1: been a work in progress all, spring AND i cautioned

818
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: you guys that this is not going to be some

819
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: finished product at the end of. Spring anyone who thinks

820
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: that is setting themselves up for. DISAPPOINTMENT i think they

821
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: were down a couple of starters even within that. Group

822
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: yesterday they had a bunch of defensive linemen. Out so

823
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: the version that got put out there yesterday not exactly

824
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: the version they hope to start In week one Against Florida,

825
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: state but they leaned heavily on the portal work in.

826
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: PROGRESS i probably have a net of a little bit

827
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: more concern about the secondary coming out of spring THAN

828
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: i had going. In but it's not like a you,

829
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: know panic button level of. Concern it's just let me

830
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: keep an eye on it level of. Concern the best

831
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: case scenario was gonna be things look. Promising that was

832
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: gonna be the best case when you go get all

833
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: those guys out of the portal and you got a

834
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: bunch of coaching turnover and all that. Stuff that's the best.

835
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: Case so this is pretty much just like par for

836
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: the course normal when you consider what they went and.

837
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 1: Did but what is obvious is Why Brian kelly did

838
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: not take too long to announce That Jaden daniels is

839
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: going to be a starting, quarterback WHICH i found a little.

840
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: Peculiar peculiar shouldn't be a hard word to pronounce when

841
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: they were coming out of the bowl. Game he just

842
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: went ahead and, said, Yeah jaden And daniels is going

843
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: to be our. Starter And i'm, like whoa hold, on,

844
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: now maybe he, is but do we really want to

845
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: be announcing? That And Brian, kelly, well he didn't answer.

846
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: Me But Brian kelly did not. Hesitate and there's a

847
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: Reason Jaden daniels is the best quarterback they, Have so you,

848
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: know that's pretty much cut and. Dry he was ten

849
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: of eleven yesterday one hundred and sixty eight, yards two.

850
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: Touchdowns but Then Garrett nussmyer looked pretty good, too five

851
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: of eight one hundred and thirty nine two. Touchdowns it's

852
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: a good quarterback situation right. Now Remember Walker howard transferred

853
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: To Ole. Miss they got a pretty good quarterback. Situation

854
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: it's a different level of trust, though when you Watch

855
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: Jaden daniels. Play, NOW i don't know what it. Is

856
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: i'm not a quarterbacks, coach BUT i would venture to

857
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: think that they would listen to me say does he

858
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: look a little bit more? Trusting does he look like

859
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: he's a little bit better fit in this? Offense does

860
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: he look like he's processing? Things does the offense just

861
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: feel like it's flowing a little bit more. Smoothly they

862
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: would probably listen to me say that and, say, yeah,

863
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: yeah you're actually, right and here's. Why then they would

864
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: talk for an. Hour SO i Think i'm right about,

865
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: that And Brian kelly obviously does because he named him

866
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: the starter like months. Ago two names THAT i think are,

867
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: very very integral to that panning out To Jaden daniels

868
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: at quarterback being all he can. Be one of them

869
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: Is Noah kine at running, back who had a good

870
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: day yesterday and Who Brian kelly called one of the

871
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: sleepers of that. Team right. Now tailback has been an

872
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: area of concern for several years AT. Lsu so if

873
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: he's all of a sudden ready to take it up a,

874
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: level that's nothing but good. News And kyrien And lacy

875
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: at wide receiver had a good day, yesterday and that's

876
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: important because if WHAT i saw from him yesterday is

877
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: who he, is that's a three headed monster at wide

878
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: receiver outside of a couple of places in the, country

879
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: the likes of which no one else can, match and

880
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: those kinds of places Like, Columbus. Ohio so they're in

881
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: a really good position AT lsu right. Now that team

882
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: can be a very high variance team because also at

883
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 1: the end of spring you're listening To Brian kelly talking

884
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: and people are feeling pretty, good and you always want

885
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: to know what's the area or two that you're going

886
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: to focus, on and he, said, well our achilles heel

887
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: could be. Depth and that's not just one. Position so

888
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: anytime you have a team LIKE lsu and you just

889
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: don't get, injured they're capable of doing really special. Things

890
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: this team could go to the playoff if you were

891
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 1: to tell me they're not gonna get really banged up

892
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: badly this. Year that is a playoff caliber team that they.

893
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 1: Have but this is the real. World injuries do, happen

894
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: and you gotta hope and you got to pray that

895
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't disproportionately bite one position group more so than the.

896
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: Others because we play twelve of these, things and about

897
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: six or seven of them are going to be pretty

898
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: nip and, tuck one possession point. Spreads and if all

899
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: of a sudden you have a gutted interior offensive line

900
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: or you've got a gutted corner back. Room that's the

901
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: difference in eleven and one and seven and, five eight and,

902
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: Four and that's the way it, works and no one

903
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: cares about those. Excuses and that's why you start in.

904
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: Spring it's very small By Brian kelly starting in spring, saying,

905
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: hey it's okay to feel, good but just know we

906
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: do have an achilles, heel and it's. Depth, depth that's

907
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: what we got to worry. About he's not, wrong he's not,

908
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: wrong but he's got a pretty good. TEAM i would

909
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: say IF i were to just IF i were to

910
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: measure this team against the one they had last, year

911
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: this team right here should be better than the one

912
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 1: they had last. Year and the one they had last

913
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: year won The. West so that's no, guarantee it's some

914
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: repeat or. Bust but The College Football playoff national title

915
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,760
Speaker 1: odds in THE, SEC i mean you Got, Georgia, OBAMA.

916
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: Lsu those are the one two three in THE, sec

917
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: and nationally It's, Georgia, Bama Ohio, State MICHIGAN usc and

918
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: THEN lsu. Sixth so they are right up there in that.

919
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: Conversation if anyone was arguing with me and you disagree

920
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: and you Think i'm Just i'm just pumping LSU's, tires

921
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: Well i'm doing it along with the guys who built

922
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:57,439
Speaker 1: those big buildings out there In Las. Vegas they tend

923
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 1: to agree as. Well so real high variance program, though

924
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: really interesting program to watch this. Year all, right let's

925
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: talk about something fun here for a. Second not that

926
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 1: LSU's not, fun but where were you when The colorado

927
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: spring game was going on? Yesterday So, COLIN i wouldn't

928
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: end it, THERE i would endpoint it. Here colorado has

929
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: their spring game. Yesterday this was like one of those

930
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: bar or restaurant double take. Specials if you've ever experienced,

931
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: this you know What i'm talking. About let's say you're

932
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: let's say you're over at a restaurant of your, choice

933
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: go to the. Bathroom coming out of the, bathroom the

934
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: TVs are, on but they're on, mute so all you

935
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: can do is glance over and see what's on THE.

936
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: Tv and all of a sudden you glance over and

937
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: they're doing like a panorama shot Of, Boulder, colorado and

938
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: it's sold. Out they've got forty seven thousand plus in

939
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: there amidst the snow and the, cold and it's the

940
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: middle Of. April that's enough to warrant a double. TAKE

941
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,720
Speaker 1: i know because this happened to me. YESTERDAY i couldn't

942
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: watch it. LIVE i had to watch the. Replay and, yes,

943
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: yes here we. Are we're in a world WHERE i

944
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: make it a point to go watch replays of The

945
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: colorado spring. Game what a. Spectacle this, Was what a.

946
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: Spectacle So Deon sanders accomplished everything he wanted to do

947
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 1: with that couldn't control the, weather and that set's about

948
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: the only thing that didn't go right, yesterday because everything

949
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: else went. Right how about the, Kickoff by the, way

950
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: kickoff was, great as was the hat That Deon sanders.

951
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 1: Wore So dion had a couple of quotes, afterwards and

952
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: one of them he kept going back to AND i

953
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: think he said it in the. Broadcast MAYBE i don't

954
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: know if they interviewed, him BECAUSE i watched the cutups

955
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: of the snaps of the, Game but he, SAID i

956
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: saw good things from GUYS i expected to see good things.

957
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: From and he said a version of that like two

958
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: or three. Times and basically what that, was what that

959
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: was translated, to, was, yeah the GUYS i brought here

960
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: at play mad pretty. Well the guys WHO i was

961
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: saddled with were, uninspiring and you won't see them much,

962
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: Longer which goes back to this conversation that we had

963
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: when he got, there and we've had it another couple

964
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: of times since, then and we're going to have it

965
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,280
Speaker 1: in very short. Time we're going to have it again

966
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: because there is a lot of roster movement that's about

967
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: to happen out, there and it is the new world

968
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 1: of college. Football AND i sat. HERE i sat here

969
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: when you guys wanted to inject nil and wanted to

970
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: inject the portal and you waved the banner of the

971
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: player's rights, era AND i sat here AND i, said all,

972
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: right sounds good with, me just to understand what you're getting.

973
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: Into and, no one ever asked what do you mean by? That,

974
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: well this is WHAT i. Mean if you're going down that,

975
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: Road i'm fine with. IT i have offered no. Resistance

976
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: but you got to, understand you're not a boy when

977
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: you're playing in that. World you're not a. Boy you're

978
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: not a student athlete. Anymore you're a grown. Man and

979
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: you're going, to for lack of a better, term be

980
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 1: treated as an employee. Would and so you get all

981
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: that freedom of, choice and therefore so does your. Employer

982
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: NOW i know we're not supposed to be using that,

983
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 1: word but why. Not it's coming down the road pretty eminently.

984
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 1: Anyway and so you want the freedom to move. Around

985
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: you want to say things, like, well coaches move all the,

986
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: time why can't? Players they. Can coaches get fired too

987
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,479
Speaker 1: when they don't do a good enough. Job coaches get.

988
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 1: Axed so you want to live in the world coaches live.

989
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: In you want to make, money you want to profit

990
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: off your. Nil that's, cool that's. Fine it's not all ice.

991
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: Cream there is there is some. Downside there's some flip

992
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: side to this coin you got to deal. With and

993
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: some kids on That colorado roster are about to find

994
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: out and some of them already. Have so that was

995
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: one thing that stood out to. Me the other thing

996
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: that is always, fascinating and With colorado it's been this

997
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: Way offspring is the needle mover. Effect this happens in pop,

998
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: culture it happens in, politics it happens in. Sports it

999
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: is just always mind blowing to me BECAUSE i get

1000
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: to see some of the numbers that there are people

1001
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: out there who the mere mention of their name stops.

1002
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: Traffic there are people out there who they're mere showing

1003
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: up to an event stops, traffic and the mere mention

1004
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: of them in a headline or in an article it's

1005
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: like a magnet to the eyes or the. Ears everybody.

1006
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: Stops even if you don't like, them they have that

1007
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: effect on you for some. Reason and there are very

1008
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 1: few of them out, there but there are some like you, Know.

1009
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: Bradley you probably know That zendea performed At coachella last.

1010
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: Night it's a big. Deal she's a needle. Mover And

1011
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: i've long Said Dion sanders is college Football's, zendeia and

1012
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: he's proven me right at every. Turn there were people

1013
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 1: watching The colorado spring game yesterday, who up until five

1014
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: minutes ago probably couldn't even tell you what city The

1015
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: university Of colorado was. In you certainly couldn't tell me

1016
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: the name of that. Stadium until, yesterday you probably had

1017
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 1: no clue what capacity. Was half of you were surprised

1018
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:10,320
Speaker 1: it snows there In, april and yet they're the eyes

1019
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: of the college football world were spring game At. COLORADO

1020
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: i don't know what it. IS i don't know what

1021
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: the science says behind. IT i just know there are

1022
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 1: a few needle movers in college. Football and it's not

1023
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: just winning that accomplishes. It there's this extra layer of.

1024
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: Persona there's these characteristics that you. Have there's, personality and

1025
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: there aren't many of. Them Like saban's obviously, Won. Kirby's

1026
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 1: let me give you an. Example Kirby smart's not one

1027
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,720
Speaker 1: of those. Yet And, kirby you can make the argument

1028
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: he's number one in the sport right. Now But i'm

1029
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: not talking about the guy who's winning at the highest,

1030
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: level talking about the needle. Mover it takes a little

1031
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: while to get. That dabbo is That, Deblas winny's got.

1032
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: That harbaugh's got it more Than Ryan day does in

1033
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: The Big. Ten so maybe we're talking about longevity mattering

1034
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Here dion's got, it because you've

1035
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: known his name. Forever dion's got. It colorado has got.

1036
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: It there is no bigger needle mover in The pac,

1037
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: twelve and there may not be a bigger win in college,

1038
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,399
Speaker 1: football but there certainly isn't won that far west west

1039
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 1: of The. MISSISSIPPI i would, say As Deon, sanders their

1040
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 1: schedule this year is what it. Is i've already spoken

1041
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 1: my piece on. THIS i was riding around my dad.

1042
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: Yesterday he, said what's their over under win total gonna.

1043
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 1: Be it's probably gonna be juiced a little, bit just

1044
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: because there are gonna be some folks who take the

1045
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: over no matter. What so maybe like three and a

1046
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: half is my. GUESS i don't know what it's gonna.

1047
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 1: BE i was never really good at guessing that. Stuff

1048
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: those numbers aren't out, yet but they went one and

1049
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 1: eleven last, Year so like three and a half or

1050
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: four or something like that are their odds to win

1051
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: The pac twelve. Championship ninth out of. Twelve here we.

1052
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 1: Go year one For Dion sanders could not have gone better, yesterday,

1053
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: THOUGH i mean we also got to see some of

1054
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: the new. GUYS i got to See Shudura sanders touchdown

1055
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 1: To Travis hunter deonce And Travis hunter could be a

1056
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: top five draft. Pick he could just pick either side

1057
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: of the. Ball is? This? Yeah look at? That, oh

1058
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: look at the? Throw so, yeah we got to see

1059
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: a little bit of. Everything yesterday snow stopped just in.

1060
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: Time we got to see a little bit of Everything colorado.

1061
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: Football DARE i, say must WATCH tv one way or

1062
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: the other this. Year, ALSO i don't want it to

1063
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: be lost on you that there was AN afflac banner

1064
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: in the end zone there As Travis hunter. Scored does

1065
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: anyone know where aflac's corporate headquarters? Are is It New?

1066
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: York is It? La is It? Chicago is it the

1067
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: logical fourth Choice, Columbus. Georgia, yes it IS aflac tower right.

1068
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: There on wenton, road driven by it a million, times

1069
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: including several times with. Me Mal all, right let's talk

1070
00:57:54,160 --> 00:58:00,479
Speaker 1: About nebraska spring. Game, nebraska forty, degrees, windy, miserable matter

1071
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: sixty six thousand and, change show up To Memorial, stadium big, crowd,

1072
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: anyway they always do it right At. NEBRASKA i want

1073
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: to do an exercise with you for just a, SECOND

1074
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: i want to, stop AND i want you to just

1075
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: say this sentence out. Loud nebraska Got Matt, rule and

1076
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: then imagine saying it this time last. Year just exhibit

1077
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: one million and one about how many things change in

1078
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: this sport and how wild the changes. Are we may

1079
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: have two of the wilder year ago headlines if you

1080
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: could fast forward in all of college football in The Big,

1081
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: Ten Matt rules At nebraska and Then Luke fickles At

1082
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: Wisconsin hoops amongst, Us hoopstead have seen it, coming and

1083
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: yet here it Is Jeff sims at quarterback out of

1084
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: all these quarterback. BATTLES i have this, weird morbid. Fascination

1085
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: it's not. MORBID i have this weird fascination With Jeff

1086
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: simms And Casey. Thompson they got a couple other guys

1087
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: in the mix up there. Too BUT i remember When

1088
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: Jeff sims transferred From Georgia tech To, nebraska there were

1089
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: just some people who, said, hey, hey knock on the,

1090
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: Door hey watch that. ONE i Know sims didn't light

1091
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: the world on fire At Georgia, tech but we think

1092
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: it's a really good. Fit that's the kind of guy

1093
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 1: That Matt rule takes and just puts his form of

1094
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: polish on, him and all of a, Sudden Jeff simms

1095
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: is in these. Conversations you never thought he'd be in and,

1096
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: well yesterday he was nine to, thirteen one hundred and

1097
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: thirty nine. Yards it wasn't you, know it wasn't a

1098
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: light in the world on fire. Performance but it's easy to.

1099
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: See there were a couple Of there were a couple

1100
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: of eyebrow raising plays and eyebrow raising throws that made you,

1101
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: say oh, wait can he do that? Consistently now he

1102
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: didn't in the spring, game but could he do that?

1103
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: Consistently because if he, Could nebraska could could go to

1104
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: a bowl game next. Year Matt rule afterwards said something

1105
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: he said a few times About. Simms he, said he

1106
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: is a passer who happens to run a. Four that's

1107
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: how they view. Him it's not a run first. Guy

1108
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: he just happens to have elite, speed but he's not

1109
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: a run first. Guy i'm very. INTERESTED i think the

1110
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: receiver corps is probably. UNDERRATED i am very interested to

1111
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:14,120
Speaker 1: see what they end up doing with. HIM i think

1112
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 1: he's gonna end up being the. Starter there's a, very

1113
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: very fun Conversation Amongst husker fans going on right now

1114
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: about whether it'll be him Versus Casey. Thompson i'm always

1115
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: looking at these young guys in spring, games, Though prince

1116
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: Waul Uman, MILLAN i said it as fast AS i.

1117
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: Could he is a six four to two hundred and

1118
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: twenty five pound edge. Guy now WHEN i say two

1119
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five, pounds that's what he came out

1120
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: of high. School as they plan on playing him at

1121
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,959
Speaker 1: two fifty this. Fall he's he's an edge, rusher four,

1122
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: tackles three tackles for, loss a, sack a pass breakup

1123
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: yesterday all over the. Field they think they hit a

1124
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: home run with, him and he is testing the limits

1125
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: of how much weight one can gain between early enrolling

1126
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: and his true freshman. Year plus two twenty five to

1127
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: two fifty is a, chore but it's, doable AND i

1128
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: think he may very well get. THERE i think he's

1129
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: already playing at like two hundred and forty, pounds so

1130
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: we didn't have that much further to. Go they fumbled

1131
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: the ball eight times. YESTERDAY i said it was. Cold

1132
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: it's kind of. Miserable Eric, GILBERT i had forgotten had

1133
01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: transferred To, nebraska And i'm watching AND i think he

1134
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: had a couple of drop balls. YESTERDAY i think he's

1135
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: running as their third tight. End this is a former

1136
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: five star, guy Lsu georgia Now. Nebraska there may have

1137
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: been another stop along the. Way i've just a very

1138
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: very strange career. There but it's nice to at least

1139
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 1: look At nebraska and know that they've gotten the car turned.

1140
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: Around like one of the classic scenes In dumb And

1141
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: dumber Is i'm going to take a nap. Here you

1142
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 1: take the, wheel you, drive and they're out In, DENVER i.

1143
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: Think and so they they just take a right instead

1144
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 1: of a, left and they drive for eight, hours and

1145
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 1: so there's a big difference on. Way at eight, hours

1146
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: you wake up In california versus waking up in like

1147
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 1: the middle of The Great, plains and there it. Is

1148
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: you drove a sixth of the way across the country

1149
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: in the wrong. Direction that is what The Scott frost

1150
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: era felt. Like we thought we were going the right,

1151
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: way and we find out That John denver is full you,

1152
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: know it is full of and here we are. It

1153
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:27,160
Speaker 1: they're not not mountains ANYWHERE i expected The Rocky mountains

1154
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: to be a little rockier than. This, well we went

1155
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 1: the wrong, way but at least we got the car

1156
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 1: turned around, now or in that, case you traded in

1157
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: for a motorized, scooter but at least you're going the

1158
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 1: right way. Now it's gonna be a long and winding,

1159
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 1: road gonna be some downs before there's some. UPS i

1160
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: would argue this team's probably equipped to do a little

1161
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: bit more in year one Than Matt rules teams were

1162
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 1: At temple Or. Baylor so we may not have to

1163
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 1: settle for a two or three win season this, year

1164
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: but at least things are going the right. Way can

1165
01:02:57,640 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 1: we at least agree on? THAT i think we can all.

1166
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: RIGHT i think the Producer jesse memorial show that is

1167
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: only being done because he's sick nothing, more went well.

1168
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:10,680
Speaker 1: Tonight belchie stepped in. Flawlessly actually we'll have to grade the,

1169
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: tape but it went pretty. Well Director colin just battling

1170
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 1: in there as. Always we appreciate you. Guys we'll be

1171
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: back Here tuesday. Night The draft is On, thursday and

1172
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 1: it's just just whatever between us and THE nfl at this,

1173
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: point so we'll be Back tuesday. Night until, then have

1174
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: a great start to your. Week and for everyone, Here

1175
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm Josh. Bate take care And god bless