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Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal ull that.

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Speaker 2: For me, I'm a man, I'm forty.

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Speaker 3: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to

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Speaker 3: be happy, you want to be happy for dake Eda State?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Whoo whoo and down and tie Daniel? What

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Speaker 1: the hell happened in the second half of that Florida

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Speaker 3: Dominance absolute, very impressive around the fields, incredible bounce back

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Speaker 3: at times. Pure dominance. Yes, what a game.

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Speaker 1: Florida State knocks off LSU forty five to twenty four,

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Speaker 1: powered of course by an electric second half which we'll

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Speaker 1: get into. I'm tie, he's Dan. This is a solid

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Speaker 1: verbal thanks for coming on back. This one escalated quickly.

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Speaker 1: It was LSU seventeen to fourteen at halftime. A few

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Speaker 1: mistakes across the board on both sides, some curious decisions

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Speaker 1: across the board on both sides in the first half.

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Speaker 1: To me, it felt like it was moving a little

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Speaker 1: too quickly for both these teams, like they had spent

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Speaker 1: an entire offseason reading the headlines, trying to play act

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Speaker 1: almost as the contender that they were supposed to be sure,

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Speaker 1: and then in the second half, Florida State just kicked

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Speaker 1: the ever loving crap out of LSU. They I think

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Speaker 1: took a beat at halftime. They came out a little

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Speaker 1: bit more focused and recentered, and they ripped off thirty

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Speaker 1: one straight points to build a big lead. They did

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Speaker 1: at the end that eventually made the score what it was.

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Speaker 1: But I think the second half that we saw in

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Speaker 1: this game for Florida State was probably the single most

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Speaker 1: impressive thing that I saw all weekend. Florida State looked

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Speaker 1: like the best team I saw play all weekend, and

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Speaker 1: for sure that's going to change how we talk about

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Speaker 1: the Noel maybe how we talk about LSU moving forward.

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Speaker 1: How much of this game did you watch? What were

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Speaker 1: your initial impressions?

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Speaker 2: Eventually all of it.

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Speaker 3: I was very tired and fell asleep in the middle

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Speaker 3: of the second half, so I watched the majority of

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Speaker 3: the second half again essentially this morning. The takeaways were, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think you're right about the first half, and some

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Speaker 3: jitteringness from both teams. We saw some wild decision making

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Speaker 1: It jump pass the jump pass. There was the jump passes.

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Speaker 3: It was very anti te Bow with that in his

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Speaker 3: own end zone, yeah, or end zone ish, and then

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Speaker 3: there was like the pump and then release for an

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Speaker 3: interception after the muffed punt recovery I believe it was

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Speaker 3: lot to like about LSU in the first half in

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Speaker 3: on the ground, which obviously is a crucial element of

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Speaker 3: a lot of Florida State's offensive success, and I think

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Speaker 3: to be a very quiet Harold Perkins, who was not

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Speaker 3: really rushing the passer all game, but he was more

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Speaker 3: used as a spy, so I don't know, really know

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Speaker 3: how you sort of quantify his effect, but certainly the

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Speaker 3: Florida State rushing attack was kept down for a large

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Speaker 3: because that's where their bread seems to be buttered with

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Speaker 3: Lawrence Tolfeeley and Trey Benson, So that was an interesting

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Speaker 3: and impressive element to this game. We talked about this

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Speaker 3: in the offseason, especially when we shined a bright light

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Speaker 3: on LSU and whenever it was over the summer, that

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Speaker 3: they needed chunkier plays in the passing game. And that's

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Speaker 3: of a lot of the short passes at Notre Dame

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Speaker 3: excuse me, Ian Book. And so what Jayden Daniels is

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Speaker 3: able to do is crazy impressive with his legs and

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Speaker 3: he's a playmaker. But they're not stretching field in the

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Speaker 3: way that I'm sure a lot of LSU fans will

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Speaker 3: Garrett Nussmeyer, who certainly is just like I'm going to

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Speaker 3: I think Bill Connolly wrote about this at ESPN, was

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Speaker 3: what that meant in the game, right, They didn't let

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and back to the LSU side of things, Dan,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're right. We were promised all off season

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Speaker 1: performance is what this was. This is a big game, Brian,

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Speaker 1: this is a big game, Brian performance. The offense definitely

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Speaker 1: even before that, it was just whatever. Jaden Daniels could do.

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Speaker 1: They're building the whole plane out of him. Again, Defensively,

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Speaker 1: they gave up almost five hundred yards. They surrendered nine

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Speaker 1: a laundry list of things here on the LSU side

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Speaker 1: I just expected more, especially in some of those key

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Speaker 2: No? Absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so it's week one. It's not a great loss

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Speaker 3: Because we saw Ohio State lose to Virginia Tech and

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Speaker 3: there's still pretty open questions about where, you know, the

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Speaker 3: the two words Leman. Yeah, man, that guy's a winter Runner.

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Speaker 3: He just is a Winter Wonder, Right, that's what we

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Speaker 3: give every single you know, secondary and corner a problem.

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Speaker 3: It seems that Florida State has ahead of it, but

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Speaker 3: it doesn't eliminate LSU from contention because you're allowed to

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Speaker 3: a lot about Harold Perkins that LSU fans didn't like,

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Speaker 3: about how the defense was weaponizing him. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: about the passing game that leaves a lot to be desired,

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Speaker 3: a lot about the running game, a lot about the

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Speaker 3: offensive game plan. In general, you has time to figure

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Speaker 3: it out. If they beat teams that will be ahead

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Speaker 3: you know, Tennessee, whoever is going to be put in

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Speaker 3: championship game. I don't think it eliminates them because you

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Speaker 3: still have to gamble on talent. You still have to

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Speaker 3: be better, and you know, essentially go twelve and one,

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Speaker 1: If they had lost by seven, I would agree with you.

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Speaker 1: Sure they lost by twenty one, it could have been more.

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Speaker 1: If not for that late seventy five yeard touchdown pass,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but what you're saying is, hypothetically, if they go,

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Speaker 3: if they run the table and go twelve and one

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Speaker 3: does it eliminate them in terms of what we saw

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Speaker 2: We'll look at it.

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Speaker 1: Look, it's week one. We could only answer this question

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Speaker 1: by making some assumptions. Your assumption is that if LSU

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Speaker 1: In that case, I would agree, Yeah, they're still in

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Speaker 1: the playoff. But I think if we assume that LSU

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Speaker 1: they will play the game. Yeah, right, So there are

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Speaker 1: other opportunities for LSU to show what it's made of.

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Speaker 1: But assuming that LSU is just sort of the team

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Speaker 1: some almighty form and run the table, I think they're done.

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Speaker 1: I think they're done by virtue of this loss. They're

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Speaker 1: done because you know what happens, and I saw Ario

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Speaker 1: Frin R. Wassman from The Athletic pointed this out as well.

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Speaker 1: You know this well as an Oregon fan, with how

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Speaker 1: they lost in Week one last season to the Georgia

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Speaker 1: Bulldogs by forty six points. Every single week you have

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Speaker 1: said and done, LSU has no answer for the fact

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Speaker 3: But you'd rather lose week one, right if you're going

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Speaker 1: That's all argue with us on social media. Let us

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you think Florida State, though, let's let's flip

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Speaker 1: Their ability to stretch the field, big wide receivers, the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine. I thought the defensive line came alive

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Speaker 2: Now that's all.

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Speaker 3: So, yes, I think Florida State's absolutely above where I

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Speaker 1: I don't know who did this. I don't know who's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Wyoming was I think pick to finish

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll use sharpie to say Texas Tech not a

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Speaker 1: We have three results in the Pac twelve that I

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Speaker 1: twenty seven to thirteen over Coastal Carolina. I also, I

437
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Speaker 1: couldn't help but laugh. I read on the Coastal Carolina

438
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Speaker 1: side some groans online about the Tim Beck offense.

439
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Speaker 2: Lived arm or speak at normal right.

440
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Speaker 1: Beck Meyer syndrome continues long after the Meyer portion is

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Speaker 1: out of college football. Sure, Coastal had a safety with

442
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Speaker 1: three interceptions in this game, which was notable, But otherwise

443
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Speaker 1: UCLA got the dub we had didn't cover, though didn't cover,

444
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 1: didn't cover, Coastal covered, Coastal covered. Oregon State won forty

445
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Speaker 1: two to seventeen. I thought they looked really good.

446
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Speaker 2: Oregon State looked very strong.

447
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Speaker 3: It's San Jose State, and they did I guess a

448
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Speaker 3: better job against the Spartans than USC did defense early.

449
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Speaker 3: But the story to me is the comfort level of DJU,

450
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Speaker 3: the balance on that offense, and it's again it's San

451
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Speaker 3: Jose State. I don't think you extrapolate a ton from

452
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Speaker 3: a game like this, But what did I say at

453
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Speaker 3: least three or four times during our recap? Taking care

454
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Speaker 3: of business is underrated, because as we've seen throughout this

455
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Speaker 3: great land, especially in Big twelve country, not everybody takes

456
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Speaker 3: care of business. In Week one, Oregon State came out

457
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Speaker 3: and with the losses they had on defense, with obviously

458
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Speaker 3: coming off of a season that has generated bigger expectations

459
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Speaker 3: than I think the Beavers are used to having and

460
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Speaker 3: bringing in a quarterback who had huge expectations both coming

461
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Speaker 3: into this season and coming into his college football career,

462
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Speaker 3: and they took care of business for lack of a

463
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Speaker 3: better term, and they look like a really impressive team.

464
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Speaker 3: And I think the PAC twelve bigger picture. And I

465
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Speaker 3: didn't watch really much of Arizona. I don't know if

466
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Speaker 3: you did, but top to bottom, I don't know the

467
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Speaker 3: correct adjective. If the PAC twelve was the most entertaining,

468
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Speaker 3: is the most quality? It's Week one? Everyone won? Correct?

469
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Speaker 3: Taking care business underrated? Everybody seems to be at least

470
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Speaker 3: decent at something cal dropping fifty was unexpected to me,

471
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Speaker 3: So maybe Cal has a fun offense but the defense

472
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Speaker 3: doesn't keep up, or maybe they're just inconsistent week to week.

473
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Speaker 3: Stanford look quality given their roster situation and going on

474
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Speaker 3: the road and taking on Hawaii. So the bigger picture conversation,

475
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Speaker 3: at least to me about the PAC twelve and its

476
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Speaker 3: final voyage around the college football globe is there's a

477
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Speaker 3: lot to like and there might not be anything obviously

478
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Speaker 3: disastrous about any of these teams.

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Speaker 1: So that's pretty good it is. You mentioned Arizona. I

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Speaker 1: called them out quickly thirty eight to three. They've went

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Speaker 1: over northern Arizona. It took them a bit to work

482
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Speaker 1: out that King stands some issues early, but afterwards they

483
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Speaker 1: were sort of able to go and cruise control.

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Speaker 3: Dan, Yes, I agree. I think the Arizona schools will

485
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Speaker 3: be interesting. You know, we didn't really touch too much

486
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Speaker 3: on ASU going through what dust store delays and lightning.

487
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Speaker 3: I believe and Jade and Rashata had a really strong

488
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Speaker 3: first half, but things slow down in the second half.

489
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Speaker 3: Maybe they're the team that I wouldn't say obviously disastrous

490
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Speaker 3: but just needs time, right. But yeah, I think that's

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Speaker 3: that's an interesting narrative. Here's my question to you. Can

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Speaker 3: I ask you a burning question.

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Speaker 1: Please?

494
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Speaker 3: In the PAC twelve in any conference, do you think

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Speaker 3: the power dynamic at the top of a conference because

496
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Speaker 3: of Week one? So that's to say these teams are

497
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Speaker 3: in the elite tier or this team is clearly alone

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Speaker 3: at the top. However you're interpreting this question, are there

499
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Speaker 3: is there a conference? Are there conferences in which the

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Speaker 3: power dynamic is like I'm planting my flag today on Monday,

501
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Speaker 3: September fourth, I'm like, this is not the top of

502
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Speaker 3: the conference anymore, or this is clearly the top of

503
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Speaker 3: the conference that has been emphasized after Week one.

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Speaker 1: I think mostly the top of each conference was emphasized.

505
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Speaker 1: I didn't see a whole lot that made me change

506
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Speaker 1: my mind. In most cases. The first team that came

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Speaker 1: to mind, though, when you mentioned this with Penn State,

508
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Speaker 1: and I still think Ohio State's going to be very good.

509
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Speaker 1: Obviously Michigan's going to be very good as well. But

510
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Speaker 1: we've talked about that that cobble let's say, of three

511
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Speaker 1: teams in the Big Ten East as being very very

512
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Speaker 1: important to how the season shakes out with respect to

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Speaker 1: the playoff, with respect to the conference. Just I think

514
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Speaker 1: overall our perception of how the season goes is going

515
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Speaker 1: to depend a lot on how those three teams and

516
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Speaker 1: when they play each other, how it shakes out. I thought,

517
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Speaker 1: from what I could gather on the Penn State side,

518
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Speaker 1: Drew Aller very much looked the part. It didn't seem

519
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Speaker 1: as if the moment was too big for him, and

520
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Speaker 1: he had a home night game against a Power five

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Speaker 1: opponent in prime time. There was a ton of pressure

522
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Speaker 1: on him to deliver, and he did just that. If

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Speaker 1: he can continue on that trajectory, and if Penn State

524
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Speaker 1: could maybe just shore up its interior defensive line and

525
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Speaker 1: develop a second threat for him out wide, that to

526
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Speaker 1: me maybe challenges the top of the Big Ten.

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Speaker 3: Okay, And you think it's because of Ohio State's wobbliness

528
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Speaker 3: against Indiana on offense at times, I think.

529
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Speaker 1: It's a combination of Ohio State's wobbliness and not knowing

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Speaker 1: which direction things go with Kyle McCord, as well as

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Speaker 1: if I harken back to what happened with the Michigan

532
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Speaker 1: game last year, in the first half of that Michigan

533
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Speaker 1: game and mostly in the second half, but in the

534
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Speaker 1: first half, especially, there were moments where Sean Clifford just

535
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Speaker 1: wouldn't it. I I can point to the exact moments. Yeah,

536
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Speaker 1: there are moments where he was not it. And I

537
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Speaker 1: remember distinct watching that game at a sports bar with

538
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Speaker 1: fellow Penn Staters wondering aloud, what would this have been

539
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Speaker 1: like if Drew Aller were in there?

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Speaker 2: M hm?

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Speaker 1: Could they have run different plays that would have maybe

542
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Speaker 1: stretched this Michigan defense in an interesting way? And so

543
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Speaker 1: I just think him stepping up and playing as well

544
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Speaker 1: as he did and showing all the reasons why people

545
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Speaker 1: are so hopeful changes things to an extent. It would

546
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Speaker 1: be very premature at this point to say that Penn

547
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Speaker 1: State is now the top dog in the Big Ten.

548
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Speaker 1: I'm not going there yet. But if any team that

549
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Speaker 1: we saw week one challenges that existing assumed power structure,

550
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Speaker 1: it's probably them, Okay, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, I think it's sort of like I have Washington

552
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Speaker 3: alone atop the PAC twelve right now because of their

553
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Speaker 3: quality of opponents and the manner in which they took

554
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Speaker 3: care of business. Doesn't mean that I am writing them

555
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Speaker 3: in as champion, because you know, Oregon hasn't played anybody

556
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Speaker 3: usc is yet to play anybody, but put up on

557
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Speaker 3: offense points that they should have against those teams. But

558
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Speaker 3: if you're comparing Nevada and San Jose State to Boise State,

559
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Speaker 3: I still think I have the Broncos as a more

560
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Speaker 3: impressive opponent to do what they did against than USC.

561
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Speaker 3: Utah doing what it did with the backup quarterback is great,

562
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Speaker 3: but they're I think, big picture, going to go as

563
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Speaker 3: far as cam Rising takes them. So yeah, we'd like

564
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Speaker 3: to see what that looks like against other teams. And

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Speaker 3: I don't really have a great concept for Florida, but

566
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Speaker 3: still what they did was terrific, and so I just

567
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Speaker 3: we haven't seen fully formed Utah this year's iteration of

568
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Speaker 3: it yet. So based on a sample size of exactly one,

569
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Speaker 3: Washington is the clear most impressive complete team right now.

570
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Speaker 2: To me.

571
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Speaker 3: How they got stronger on defense over the course of

572
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Speaker 3: that second half subject to change in five to six days.

573
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Speaker 3: The Big Twelve is interesting to me, But you know,

574
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Speaker 3: what are you supposed to take away? Like I think

575
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Speaker 3: we thought Oklahoma was going to be much improved, and

576
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Speaker 3: the early signs are pointing to it. So I don't

577
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Speaker 3: really have much to change in the Big Twelve. Other

578
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Speaker 3: than saying I don't know if Texas Tech and Baylor

579
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Speaker 3: are competing at the top.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the ACC. For that point, I mean, I.

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Speaker 3: Thought, well, do you separate Florida State and Clemson.

582
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Speaker 1: Clemson hasn't played, Clemson hasn't played yet, Right, Clemson can

583
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Speaker 1: come out there and have a NASCAR offense with Garrett Riley,

584
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Speaker 1: and suddenly we're talking about Clemson in the same way

585
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Speaker 1: we did Florida State. Again, we're recording this early in

586
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Speaker 1: the day on Monday. We'll obviously cover the Clemson Duke

587
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Speaker 1: game when we do our next episode live on Wednesday

588
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: again out on YouTube YouTube dot com, slash at soliverble

589
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: or you can just go to soliverblelive dot com, super

590
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: matree hit subscribed to the channel out there. There is

591
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Speaker 1: I think a fair conversation to be had if Clemson

592
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Speaker 1: comes out and looks that good. But I'm not necessarily

593
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Speaker 1: counting on.

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Speaker 3: That well, and if they look that good, it's against Duke,

595
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Speaker 3: not LSU, so there's only so much you can take

596
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Speaker 3: from it. But yes, of course Clemson deserves every opportunity

597
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Speaker 3: to say we still belong at the top of the

598
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Speaker 3: ACC after winning. It does North Carolina winning the way

599
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Speaker 3: that they did against South Carolina vault them to not

600
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Speaker 3: the upper tier, but perhaps a conversation about which.

601
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Speaker 1: I need another week. I need another week answer.

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Speaker 3: They showed it on defense, they showed it. They had

603
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Speaker 3: a bunch of tackles for loss. They I think nine

604
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Speaker 3: they were, Yeah, they were. They showed more than I'll

605
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Speaker 3: speak for myself, than I expected on defense. I took

606
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Speaker 3: the the tar Heels to win that game, but didn't

607
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Speaker 3: see it going like that. Specifically, I don't think I

608
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Speaker 3: have anything in the Big Ten beyond saying like it's

609
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Speaker 3: going to be a while for at least the top

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Speaker 3: of the Big Ten West. I don't see Nebraska nor

611
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Speaker 3: Minnesota near the top of the Big Ten West, maybe

612
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Speaker 3: not even Iowa. Maybe this is Wisconsin's to waltz into. Otherwise,

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Speaker 3: I mean, you talked about LSU as a non playoff contender,

614
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Speaker 3: and I think most certainly had them in that top

615
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Speaker 3: tier conversation within the SEC. Do they fall out of

616
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Speaker 3: that like on any given week they could hang with

617
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Speaker 3: or beat anybody in the SEC? Or are you out

618
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Speaker 3: on them in that? Alabama Georgia rarefied air.

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Speaker 1: I will not let anybody forget what I said about

620
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Speaker 1: LSU in the preseason, and maybe it's my detriment, but

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Speaker 1: I said, I could see a world in which LSU

622
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Speaker 1: loses to Florida State Week one and then beats Alabama

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Speaker 1: and finds a way to snake its way into that

624
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Speaker 1: SEC title game against Georgia and make things interesting. Right.

625
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Speaker 1: I still believe that LSU has that kind of potential.

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Speaker 1: And I agree with you that this might have been

627
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Speaker 1: the worst half of football we see out of them

628
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Speaker 1: all year, but that that loss is crippling in terms

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Speaker 1: of playoff contention, and even if they get better, I

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Speaker 1: just I don't know how you overcome that. I don't

631
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Speaker 1: think you overcome that unless Florida State kind of I

632
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Speaker 1: don't know, goes down the drain and there are other

633
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Speaker 1: teams around them that they end up playing that look

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Speaker 1: better than we expect. That.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it is well, you almost need Florida State

636
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Speaker 3: to look incredible though, right at the same time, right,

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Speaker 3: because then like losing week one and like, yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's the point. So Week four is looming awfully large

639
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Speaker 1: in the window when Florida State plays Clemson, a bunch

640
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Speaker 1: of so good that that weekend, however, the season is

641
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Speaker 1: certainly not over for LSU, which just it puts them

642
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Speaker 1: in bind, now puts them in a real bind.

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Speaker 3: I think you're not pouring dirt on LSU. You're just

644
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Speaker 3: shopping for shovels. You're just like, oh, what is what

645
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Speaker 3: does the hand feel look like? What's the total way?

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Speaker 1: Listen to this shovel and here and here's where this

647
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Speaker 1: gets really interesting and then we'll round things out and

648
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Speaker 1: get into some verboller questions. Where this gets really interesting

649
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Speaker 1: is there's so much pressure on that LSU program to

650
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Speaker 1: zoom past where it was under the previous regime, and

651
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Speaker 1: to a large extent, they did that last year in

652
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Speaker 1: near one under Brian Kelly was an incredibly successful first

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Speaker 1: year for Brian Kelly. And I think the hope was

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Speaker 1: among LSU fans and among us who cover that that

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Speaker 1: they would exceed what we saw last season. I think

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Speaker 1: they've got more talent. I don't know if what we

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Speaker 1: saw in week one exceeded anything. And the deeper we

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Speaker 1: go into this thing without LSU looking better, especially on offense,

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Speaker 1: there are going to be more and more calls for

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Speaker 1: Garrett Asmayer and I do look forward as perhaps still

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Speaker 1: a score Notre Dame fan for the moment at which

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Speaker 1: LSU has an in season quarterback controversy that Brian Kelly

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Speaker 1: has to navigate. And I'm telling you right now that

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Speaker 1: is his weakness as a coach. I think it's today,

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Speaker 1: but it might be coming. It's not today. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you right now, just get ready for it.

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Speaker 3: The funny thing is the top of the Jade and

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Speaker 3: Daniels experience at ASU was when he beat Oregon on

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Speaker 3: just incredible bombs down the field. I know, so he

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Speaker 3: has the ability, has ability, he has the receivers, he

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Speaker 3: has Malik Neighbors, you know, the young guys too, are

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Speaker 3: really impressed.

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Speaker 1: And he had looks, he had looks that far to

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Speaker 1: State game, and it didn't seem like he was willing

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Speaker 1: to pull the trigger. So I you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how you fix that. I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: a Mike den Brock or Brian Kelly or Jane Daniels thing.

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Speaker 3: So now can we say, I guess it remains unchanged.

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Speaker 3: If we kind of thought it was a Fresno Twulane

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Speaker 3: New Year's they both acquitted themselves well, Yes, the top

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Speaker 3: of the group of five conversations, certainly in the Mountain

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Speaker 3: West right now I think Fresno State going on the

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Speaker 3: road like they did. Tulane got a biggie this coming

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Speaker 3: week right with Ole Miss in New Orleans. So that's

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Speaker 3: going to go a long way if you're in the

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Speaker 3: if you're in the prognostication, no stra damis business right.

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Speaker 2: Now, that's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. All right.

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Speaker 3: It's question time right from arver ballers. Is that where

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Speaker 3: we're going right now?

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Speaker 1: It is question time. I did want to call out

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Speaker 1: that BYU won fourteen to nail over Sam Houston. The

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Speaker 1: highlight of that game, I think was Cosmo the cougar

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Speaker 1: jumping through the ring of fire. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you saw that clip the offense sawlip.

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Speaker 3: I didn't watch the game because too many people were

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Speaker 3: tweeting me about recording Divorjac as a BYU soundtrack to

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Speaker 3: where their offense is. So I'm gonna withhold judgment on

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Speaker 3: where BYU's offense is at the moment because I haven't

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Speaker 3: watched it. But results don't seem super promising as it

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Speaker 3: was the beginning of though what Keaton Slovas era.

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Speaker 1: The online commentary was basically, we need to be better

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Speaker 1: than this for chaganst big twelve teams and to close

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Speaker 1: things out, we had Rutgers by seventeen over Northwestern, and

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Speaker 1: this one was early on Sunday, you know, contrary to

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Speaker 1: the score. I don't know if there were vast expectations

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Speaker 1: for either of these teams. But on the Rutgers side,

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Speaker 1: I thought Gavi Wimsatt looked like he took a step forward.

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Speaker 1: Actually watched a lot of good game good I was

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Speaker 1: watching Ben Shelton defeat Tommy Paul in four sets at

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Speaker 1: the US Open. Ben Shelton clocked two serves at one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine miles an hour. The young American

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Speaker 1: from the University of Florida.

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Speaker 2: Moving over, Gators, Go Gators. Can you play quarterback?

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Speaker 3: I think he I want to say, because I've seen

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Speaker 3: clips have him throwing a football. I want to say

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Speaker 3: he played at some point in his career, but maybe

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Speaker 3: I'm just fully making that up. I mean, if he

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Speaker 3: can throw a football, that qualifies him. Let's put it

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Speaker 3: that way.

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Speaker 2: There's going to be.

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Speaker 3: An extra tier on Patreon just for Dan's tennis takes.

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Speaker 1: And on the Northwestern side, to be fair, promising enough

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Speaker 1: from Ben Bryant and his receivers they might actually be Okay, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean they were not twenty four to nothing for a

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Speaker 3: large with some season bretch of this game.

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Speaker 1: Okay, their line and defense are probably another story altogether,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I thought Ben Bryant the receivers, at least

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Speaker 1: to some extent, look somewhat competent. Anyway, Listen, Forballers dot

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Speaker 1: which we have not created but maybe we need to. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is where you also get access to our weekly game.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that on the Wednesday podcast. You

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Speaker 1: is everballers dot Com. Also on Tuesday evening, we're doing

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Speaker 1: a rewatch along on the Verballer Discord of the Colorado

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Speaker 1: TCU game. So if you crave the community atmosphere that

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Speaker 1: the key plays and moments from this Florida State LSU

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Speaker 1: game that we've been discussing for the majority of this

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Speaker 1: episode that is available at our premium Verballer tier, and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, is that the plan? Thursday is the plan of

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Speaker 3: verballers dot Com. Yeah, some x's and o's and scheme

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Speaker 3: stuff at the biggest plays and moments of what Florida

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Speaker 3: State did to explode in that second half and why

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Speaker 3: let see was sort of behind the eight ball.

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Speaker 1: So we've got questions here from the verballer hood that

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Speaker 1: we are going to answer now as part of the

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Speaker 1: exclusive Patreon portion of this episode, ranging from how Dion's

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Speaker 1: use of the transfer portal changes, how other coaches use

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Speaker 1: the transfer portal moving forward, biggest expectations in week two

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Speaker 1: and perhaps overlooked teams from week one as well as

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Speaker 1: those who really just need a win or a big

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Speaker 1: neck crack in week two. All these things and much

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Speaker 1: much more coming up now on our for Ball or

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Speaker 1: exclusive portion of this episode, Dan, I'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Stay solid, peace,