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Speaker 1: The welcome sort of relieving thing that Kirby Smart told

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Speaker 1: number one guy at his position in the country. He

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Speaker 1: chooses Alabama over George, a huge recruiting win for nick Son.

434
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Speaker 1: But he misses that year. Then he misses the following year,

435
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Speaker 1: and you know what happens. Once guys start getting hurt,

436
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Speaker 1: especially at Alabama and doubly especially at the tailback position,

437
00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,840
Speaker 1: you just start to assume, right or wrong, they've been

438
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Speaker 1: recruited over. And not only has Trey Sanders not been

439
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Speaker 1: recruited over, sounds like he's genuinely back to pre injury form.

440
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Speaker 1: And here's the important part. Here's why he's going to

441
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Speaker 1: get a lot of touches this year. If he maintains

442
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Speaker 1: this trajectory, not only is he a very good tailback

443
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Speaker 1: in the classical sense of the position, he also had

444
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Speaker 1: a touchdown reception yesterday. I think it was over the

445
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Speaker 1: middle if I heard correctly. And so he is a

446
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Speaker 1: guy that they're using a lot in the passing game too,

447
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Speaker 1: which is very, very pivotal. It's the same thing you

448
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Speaker 1: saw him do to high level with Najie Harris last year.

449
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Speaker 1: But it's something I've paid attention to with Bama's tailbacks.

450
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Speaker 1: It's one thing to have a bunch of names there.

451
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Speaker 1: They got a bunch of high level names there. But

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Speaker 1: the reason I have circled a guy like Jase McClellan,

453
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Speaker 1: and the reason, if what we're hearing about Tray Sanders

454
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Speaker 1: is true, the reason you circle a guy like Tray

455
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Speaker 1: Sanders is because when they're on the field, you're not

456
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Speaker 1: really telling a defensive coordinator anything. That defensive coordinator does

457
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Speaker 1: not have sheets of tendencies presented to him on Monday

458
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Speaker 1: that tell him when Tray Sanders is on the field,

459
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Speaker 1: it's eighty three seventeen run to pass ratio. It's not

460
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Speaker 1: that that's a guy who is very versatile out of

461
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Speaker 1: the backfield pre injury. Sounds like he's back to that

462
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Speaker 1: form post injury. So that's very good, very very active

463
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Speaker 1: in the passing game, so that I know what he

464
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Speaker 1: is as a runner, as a receiver, that's very good

465
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Speaker 1: news for them. The questions are relative with Alabama, but

466
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Speaker 1: if you want to start spotting vulnerability with them, I

467
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Speaker 1: think their biggest questions happen the closer you get to

468
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Speaker 1: the ball. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, it's not.

469
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you relatively speaking. Now, they had I want

470
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Speaker 1: to say, Evan Neil Owens, Kendall Randolph were out for

471
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Speaker 1: either all or most of discrimmage yesterday.

472
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Speaker 2: So I mean that's an interior guy. That's both their tackles.

473
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Speaker 1: So there was a lot of mixing and matching up

474
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Speaker 1: front on the offensive line.

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Speaker 2: Not exactly sure how much to.

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Speaker 1: Take away because of that, And I'm not exactly sure

477
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Speaker 1: that those guys would have missed an actual but I'm

478
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Speaker 1: not sure about their offensive line in general. Again, I

479
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,639
Speaker 1: want to stress it's a relative sort of deal. I

480
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Speaker 1: feel very good about their offensive line. I don't know

481
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Speaker 1: compared to past units, how elite they are, how close

482
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Speaker 1: they are to meeting that standard. I will tell you

483
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Speaker 1: they believe JC Latham is eventually going to be a

484
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Speaker 1: factor this year. Now, that's a true freshman, five star

485
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Speaker 1: offensive tackle. He got in the rotation some yesterday. They

486
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Speaker 1: have worked him occasionally with the ones rotationally at practice.

487
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Speaker 1: If you were to see him slide in there, it

488
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Speaker 1: would probably end up being at right tackle. He got

489
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Speaker 1: a fair amount of reps yesterday because Kendall Randolph ended

490
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Speaker 1: up spreading his ankle. But Randolph's the guy that Nick

491
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Speaker 1: Saban's spoken very highly of. They've got some options on

492
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Speaker 1: the offensive line.

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Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is, I.

494
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Speaker 1: Don't know that they're upside matches some of these incredible

495
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Speaker 1: NFL future First the second round of laden offensive lineman

496
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Speaker 1: they've had in the past, but it may there's a

497
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Speaker 1: couple of these guys going in the first round. Two.

498
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Speaker 1: The defensive line, though, it's where I'm most interested, not

499
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Speaker 1: on the edges. But if they get full production from

500
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Speaker 1: any combination of the Tims Myths or the DJ Dales

501
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Speaker 1: or a Boygbee or Phil Mathis who's been there for

502
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Speaker 1: a long time, it's going to be a really, really

503
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Speaker 1: hard defense to move the ball on. Now, I don't

504
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Speaker 1: question the secondary is going to be very good. You

505
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: don't play lockdown defense in today's college football, but as

506
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Speaker 1: close as you can get to it, I think they

507
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Speaker 1: can do that in the secondary. It's their ability, or

508
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Speaker 1: lack thereof in the past, to defend the run, especially

509
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Speaker 1: in goal line situations, to stop the run, that's been

510
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Speaker 1: sort of it's been sort of demoralizing. They haven't always

511
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Speaker 1: lost games because of it. Most of the time they haven't,

512
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Speaker 1: but that's been one area with Alabama, and so I'm.

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Speaker 2: Interested with that.

514
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Speaker 1: I don't know that they got a full read on

515
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Speaker 1: that yesterday, but I'm very interested watching early in the

516
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Speaker 1: season how they hold up. If that run defense is

517
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Speaker 1: anywhere remotely close to years past. It's hard to find

518
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Speaker 1: other weaknesses for them defensively. And you look at the

519
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Speaker 1: schedule right now if you're watching on YouTube. They open

520
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Speaker 1: against Miami, of course, but the tests that I look

521
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Speaker 1: forward to the most is the one at Florida and

522
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Speaker 1: then obviously the one at Texas A and M because

523
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Speaker 1: their biggest early tests are not at home, and so

524
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Speaker 1: I'm adding in that road factor, which figures to be

525
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Speaker 1: a big time deal even for Alabama this year. A

526
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Speaker 1: lot of those guys have not played in a true

527
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Speaker 1: road environment and they're going to get a healthy dose

528
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Speaker 1: of it.

529
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Speaker 2: In week three and week six. So looking forward to that.

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Speaker 1: But listen, I had an email er, I had one

531
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Speaker 1: of you email me today and say, I've watched every

532
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Speaker 1: Nick Saban press conference. I don't remember him being in

533
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Speaker 1: much better a mood after a one scrimmage than this,

534
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Speaker 1: And I agree. I think he knows he's got another squad,

535
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Speaker 1: but they are not without vulnerability either. So from Tuscaloosa,

536
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Speaker 1: I don't think we can find a direct flight, but

537
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Speaker 1: let's do it anyway, and let's hop all the way

538
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Speaker 1: up to the Pacific Northwest. Some of you don't care

539
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Speaker 1: about Pac twelve football, but I'm telling you, if you

540
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Speaker 1: care about the national scene of college football, I think

541
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Speaker 1: you need to start paying attention to Oregon. So, Oregon

542
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Speaker 1: has their first scrimmage of the fall camp Yesterdayduck Territory

543
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Speaker 1: is are twenty four seven site. They've got wall to

544
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Speaker 1: wall coverage of this if you want to go check

545
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Speaker 1: it out. But the glaring takeaway when I pulled their

546
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Speaker 1: scrimmage intel report up was Anthony Brown, who is the

547
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Speaker 1: starting quarterback for Oregon. Five of eleven and four series

548
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: no points. Now they did some situational work later. I

549
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Speaker 1: think it improved a little bit. I'm not a big

550
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Speaker 1: fan of reading that. So Robbie Ashford is a guy that,

551
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Speaker 1: depending on who you listen to, could be anywhere from

552
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Speaker 1: the second to fourth best quarterback they have up there.

553
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Speaker 1: Sounded like he had the better statistical day. You don't

554
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Speaker 1: know how many reps he had against one defense, two defense, etc.

555
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Speaker 2: But I have no doubt this is Anthony Brown's job.

556
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Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is because Mario Christobal

557
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Speaker 1: has been perfectly clear that this is Anthony Brown's job.

558
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Speaker 1: But I think it's time we start watching Ty Thompson

559
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Speaker 1: a little bit closer. Not in week one or week two,

560
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Speaker 1: but I'm I'm very curious how much we're going to

561
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Speaker 1: be able to utilize, if we're orgon, how much we're

562
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to utilize the full extent of the

563
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Speaker 1: weaponry we have on this team. Because I am not

564
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Speaker 1: being overly hyperbolic when I tell you this is as

565
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Speaker 1: good a group of talented wide receivers and running backs

566
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Speaker 1: and tight ends even as I've seen them have maybe ever,

567
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Speaker 1: And you ask yourself, I don't want to use waste

568
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Speaker 1: because that's not the right word, but for lack of

569
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: a better word, are we going to see some of

570
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Speaker 1: that go to waste because we don't have the trigger

571
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Speaker 1: manned quarterback to make it all happen.

572
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Speaker 2: And so that's a concern I have.

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Speaker 1: Granted, it's through one scrimmage, so we'll take it for

574
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Speaker 1: what it is through one scrimmage. But if they smother

575
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Speaker 1: teams defensively, this is a non issue. But if there

576
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Speaker 1: are some games where they have to trade points, which

577
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Speaker 1: I think they very well may be, and you got

578
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Speaker 1: all those wideouts out there, and their.

579
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Speaker 2: Tight ends are ridiculously talented.

580
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Speaker 1: They may have one of, if not the best running

581
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Speaker 1: back combos in college football.

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Speaker 2: And we look at the schedule here.

583
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Speaker 1: I mean, if they're playing Cal or they're playing at

584
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Speaker 1: UCLA later in the seasons where the majority of their

585
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Speaker 1: conference test comes. But if they're playing those teams, man,

586
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Speaker 1: and they can't put up more than twenty four twenty

587
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Speaker 1: six points on the board, and trust me, this offense

588
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Speaker 1: should be doing a lot more than that, you start

589
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Speaker 1: to question things. So again, keep in mind what I

590
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Speaker 1: just said. As we move on later in the season,

591
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Speaker 1: you got the Ohio State game in Week two, but

592
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Speaker 1: it's later in the season where a lot of their

593
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Speaker 1: bigger conference tests come. Now, this is really good news

594
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Speaker 1: the running back situation, very good news because of what

595
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Speaker 1: we're talking about here potentially being somewhat limited in incorporating

596
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Speaker 1: fully the wide receiver unit for lack of the ability

597
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Speaker 1: to at the quarterback situation. CJ.

598
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Speaker 2: Verdell and Travis Dye.

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Speaker 1: Again, if you're living in the South or you're living

600
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Speaker 1: in the Big Ten, those aren't two names that are

601
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Speaker 1: just right there on the middle of your radar. This

602
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: is an insanely talented running back duo. And when you

603
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Speaker 1: put both of them together, they check all the boxes.

604
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Speaker 1: Between the tackles, the different sizes, the different skill sets,

605
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Speaker 1: the ability to receive out of the backfield, pass pro

606
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Speaker 1: they got it all. And so they've got a couple

607
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Speaker 1: of guys here that if I were to put them,

608
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Speaker 1: let's say, in Florida Gator uniforms, the whole country will

609
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Speaker 1: probably be talking about them. Because it's Oregon. They're tucked

610
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Speaker 1: away in the Pac twelve a little bit. I don't

611
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Speaker 1: think everyone has their eye on him. Those two are

612
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Speaker 1: about as good as it gets.

613
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Speaker 2: In the country. And so early on.

614
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Speaker 1: If the passing game is not there, these are guys

615
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Speaker 1: that you can ride.

616
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Speaker 2: And I know some of you.

617
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Speaker 1: I think this is the way it works in college

618
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: football a lot of times in general, when you get

619
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Speaker 1: a very established impression of a team in your mind

620
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Speaker 1: to the degree that Chip Kelly did it when he

621
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Speaker 1: used to be at Oregon, you never shake it. And

622
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Speaker 1: so when you think Oregon tailback, you think five eleven,

623
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Speaker 1: one seventy, a lot more shifty, run around you instead

624
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Speaker 1: of run through you.

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Speaker 2: That's that's not this These guys.

626
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Speaker 1: These guys could suit up in any conference in America

627
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: and more than hold their own on any kind of

628
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: preseason all conference award list.

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Speaker 2: So they've got that.

630
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Speaker 1: Not only question that they've got that, But I wonder

631
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Speaker 1: if there's going to come a time this year, depending

632
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Speaker 1: on how the season starts to play out, if Mario

633
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: Christbaull and his staff look at each other and say,

634
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: it's just time to let our horses run. I'm talking

635
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Speaker 1: about the young guys. You got a guy like Justin

636
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: Flow or all those young receivers. They got three freshman

637
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: receivers they think as good as anyone's walking the door

638
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: up there. They got ty Thompson, true freshman quarterback, has

639
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 1: a ceiling that could deliver on being about as good

640
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: as anyone they've had walking the door there. Now, he's

641
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 1: not there right now, But I wonder if there's gonna

642
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: come time this year where they look around and say,

643
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Speaker 1: I don't for sure know what we're gonna get out

644
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: of these guys if we put them on the field,

645
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: But I know the upside is a lot better than

646
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Speaker 1: what we have on the field right now. And if

647
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna ultimately accomplish what we want to with this team,

648
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,919
Speaker 1: these cats are gonna have to play. I don't care

649
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: that they're eighteen years old. They have more upside than

650
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: the guys we have on the field. Now. That sounds

651
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: a little xboxy, I know that because those young guys

652
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: have to put the decision on the table, you got

653
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: to at least be performing consistently enough. You have to

654
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: at least have shown that coaching staff that not only

655
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: can you do it right, you rep enough to where

656
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: you don't do it wrong very often, or else they

657
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: can't make the decision.

658
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 2: You have to make it close. And so I guess

659
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 2: it's a two parter.

660
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: Are those guys gonna make that decision possible, and then

661
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: is that coaching staff going to pull the trigger. That's

662
00:28:58,520 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun team to watch. The other we're

663
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: going t is gonna be a fun team to watch.

664
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: That's a team with a ceiling. That's just it's higher

665
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: than just able to do some cool stuff in the

666
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: PAC twelve. All right, moving on, let's go to LSU.

667
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: Heard some things that were encouraging from Baton Ruge this

668
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: weekend they had their first scrimmage. I know there were

669
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: a lot of big fears when Edwar's ron brought into

670
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: new coordinators. Obviously, the fear coming off of a season

671
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: like last year is there just won't be any cohesiveness,

672
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: we won't have our act together, we will not have

673
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: improved a lot, and whatever these new coordinators bring, it

674
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: just doesn't stick. I think it's pretty safe to say

675
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: we can set those fears aside. Heard plenty enough good

676
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: things on both sides of the ball to indicate that

677
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: at the very least the roots have started to take here.

678
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: So now we find out how big a tree we

679
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: can grow, and now we dive in a little bit.

680
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: Sounds like from yesterday's feedback, at least Max Johnson had

681
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: a pretty good day. Garrett Nsmyer do some really good things,

682
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: probably had better numbers, probably in a lot more favorable

683
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: situation as a quarterback. LSU loves their depth and their

684
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: skill at wide receiver. And I don't think it's all

685
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: the guys that you would see listed as starters when

686
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: you flip open your favorite preview magazine and I go

687
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: over to Go twenty four to seven today and I

688
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: was reading Sunny Ships day after scrimmage Intel and he

689
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: started to mention that as well. He started to talk

690
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: about a couple of got Brian Thomas and Malik Neighbors.

691
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: Those are two young names. Most of you don't know

692
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: him if you're outside of Baton Rouge, but those are

693
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: guys who are making moves on incumbents right now. That's

694
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: one of the most fun things to watch in fall camp.

695
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: When you've got those all caps guys, which means they're

696
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: returning players, and then you got the lowercase guys, which

697
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: mean they're true freshman, and then you start to see

698
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: him creeping, creeping, creeping. There is no rule that says

699
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: you got to wait your turn. There is no rule

700
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: that tells Brian Thomas or Elikue neighbors out. You're a

701
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: good player, you got some skill, but patch you on

702
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: the head. We'll see you next year as a sophomore.

703
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: I think they're going to play this year. They may

704
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: end up locking down starting jobs before the year is overuse.

705
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: Those guys are playing far too well to be ignored.

706
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: And so that's one of the really good pieces of

707
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: feedback early from LSU. There are differing schools of thought

708
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: on this offensive line. This LSU offensive line is not

709
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: going to be a Joe A. Moore Award winner this year.

710
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: Joe A. Morris what I just said almost so, if

711
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: I'm going to clip this later, I need to say

712
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: it right. I don't think this LSU offensive line has

713
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: the potential to be the best in the country Joe

714
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: More Award, etc. But what I do think is there

715
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: are some different schools of thought, and I'm not nailed

716
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: down on either one of them. Yet. There's one school

717
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: of thought that would say, from let's say the coaching

718
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: staff's point of view, we have five or six, seven, eight,

719
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: well past five guys that we feel confident we can

720
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: put on the field. Now, you notice the trepidation in

721
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: my voice as I say that because I think it's

722
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: very guarded because at the same time, I think the

723
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: staff knows they're looking around and they're not really seeing

724
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: any All Americans scattered across either the one or two deep,

725
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: but they know they got guys we can put out there.

726
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: It's better than just throwing warm bodies out there. But

727
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: it's somewhere in between the warm body and the future

728
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: all American serviceable.

729
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: That's what they're looking at. Serviceable.

730
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: And so there are going to be some weak links

731
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: on this offensive line, even if they're healthy. Dere Rosenthals

732
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: out at left tackle, probably the only true left tackle

733
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: kind they had, and it's not going to be a

734
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: blind side. They got a left handed quarterback starting this year.

735
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think that's a unit

736
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: that stands to potentially be exposed at times. It's a weakness,

737
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: it's a flaw What have we talked about this whole show.

738
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 2: There is no flawless team.

739
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: I just spelled it out with Alabama, spelled it out

740
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: with Texas. I'll spell it out with Ohio State later

741
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: this week. This is not a year where we're entering

742
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: the season where you have a bunch of all world

743
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: elite flawless teams out there. That's never the case, but

744
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: it's especially not the case this year. You can win

745
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: a championship with flaws on your team this year. That's

746
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to tell you. So this doesn't rule

747
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: LSU out of anything now, having said that, they got

748
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: a long way to go. They certainly have a long

749
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: way to go, but there's no flawless team out there.

750
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: And so yesterday defense seems like it shined all over

751
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: the country. But yesterday LSU secondary and their defense overall,

752
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: their one defense played very well.

753
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: I think Ali Gay had a very good day.

754
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: But in the secondary, they were without Derek Stingley, they

755
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: were without Eli Rix, they were without mclothern. I don't

756
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: think played yesterday. Those are three big time, big time

757
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: defensive backs for LSU. All of them could do something

758
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: in the way of awards, semi finalist finalists at the

759
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: end of the year.

760
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 2: They got that kind of upside. None of them played yesterday.

761
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: The thinking is all of them will be back well

762
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: before the season starts, so they'll probably all suit up

763
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: against the UCLA. But the key here for LSU is

764
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: now and is going to be by time. So you

765
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: can keep developing because if you look at LSU's schedule,

766
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. They don't dive into the

767
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: defense like Georgia does. For example, Now they're going to

768
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: play a tough game on the road to start the year.

769
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: But I think we can all agree there are tougher draws.

770
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: If you're going to go on the road, then go

771
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: into the Rose Bowl and playing UCLA. Get how it

772
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: lines up, or listen if you're on podcast. They go

773
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: to UCLA favorite in that game, they play McNeese at home,

774
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: they play Central Michigan at home, then they go to

775
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: Mississippi State. So after week one, the next truly losable

776
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: game that you have is Week four, and still it's

777
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: at Mississippi State. The meat of the conference schedule hasn't

778
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: arrived yet. Then you get Auburn at home. Then you

779
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: go to Kentucky and then it's go time. You got Florida,

780
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: you got Old miss You've got Bama, you got A.

781
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 2: And M at the end of the season.

782
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: The point being, the run game is paramount right now.

783
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: Davis Price, I don't think played yesterday. Emery did some

784
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: decent things. If they can ride the running game, I'm

785
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: not totally sure. They can, yet they're hopeful, not totally

786
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,439
Speaker 1: sure they can if they can ride that running game,

787
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: and then they can start to bring some of those

788
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,439
Speaker 1: young receivers along and they don't have a catastrophic disastrous

789
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: start on the offensive line that ends up you know,

790
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: minus three, minus four turnovers in a game and they

791
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 1: have a freak upset. By the time they get to

792
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: that game against Florida, will know what kind of team

793
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,439
Speaker 1: LSU has. They it will be favored in every game

794
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: until then. They've got the pieces on this team to

795
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: be undefeated. Until then, they got the pieces on this

796
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: team to be undefeated when they go into Tuscaloosa to

797
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: play Alabama. They also got enough legitimate concern where they

798
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: could be a multi loss team.

799
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 2: By the time they go play Alabama.

800
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: The most fun team to watch, the most high variance

801
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: team in America this year, the LSU Tigers. So not

802
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: everyone scrimmaged this weekend. Now Auburn did. I'm gonna talk

803
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: about them in a second. Not everyone scrimmaged, Some people practiced,

804
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: some folks are gonna have midwek scrimmages. But there were

805
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: some other big time takeaways happening today and elsewhere around

806
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 1: the country. So some other camp whispers and intel start

807
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame. Jack Cone is indeed your starting quarterback. Now,

808
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: this was about as shocking as cold weather in International Falls,

809
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: Minnesota in December. But nevertheless, Brian Kelly makes it known

810
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: Jack Cone is the starter. So what happened, well, of course, immediately,

811
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: what happened is he got questioned. Now, I want you

812
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: to keep in mind a lot of the people who

813
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: are questioning Brian Kelly, he has a coaching care longer

814
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: than they've been alive, and he made the decision after

815
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: one and a half weeks of camp.

816
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 2: I want everyone to understand what we're talking about here.

817
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: You got a guy who specializes in offense and quarterback

818
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: development and evaluation, who saw fit after one and a

819
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: half weeks of camp to make the decision. What that

820
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: means is it wasn't particularly close. So I get someone

821
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: in my inbox yesterday paraphrasing, why would he not go

822
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: with the younger choice. He'd have the same record, but

823
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: he'd have better potential upside. I have no clue how

824
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 1: to even respond to that, so I didn't. I just

825
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: moved on.

826
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,959
Speaker 2: He'd have the same record. This is a Notre Dame team.

827
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: It has a stretch in their season this year where

828
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,240
Speaker 1: they play six teams out of a seven game stretch

829
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: coming off by weeks.

830
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: A lot of those points spreads are going to be

831
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 2: single digit.

832
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: A lot of this team's season is going to hinge

833
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: on one possession one way or the other.

834
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: You're high.

835
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: You're high if you think that you can plug and

836
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: play quarterbacks here and you'd get the same record either way. Again,

837
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: it's pure Xbox mentality. It's just pure fantasy. It's in

838
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: another universe. Brian Kellen made the right call, he made

839
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: the only call. Jack Cone's going to be the guy,

840
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: and they're going to be a very good team this year.

841
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: Like I just said, even with Jack Cone, it's going

842
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: to be a razor thin margin for error. It's going

843
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: to be one possession here there. They're gonna have to

844
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: grind out games and hopefully, you know, those younger quarterbacks,

845
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,760
Speaker 1: Tyler Butner is a guy who everyone's excited about.

846
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 2: I was talking to an evaluator.

847
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: This week who said, I'm still not even sure about

848
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 1: Tyler Butner.

849
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 2: I know what the upside is.

850
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: But I'm not so sure that we got a full

851
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: chance to evaluate the kid. Coming out of high school

852
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: because he didn't play a senior year, and so the

853
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: point is remains to be seen but for the here

854
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: and now, because that's what the coaching staff coaches.

855
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 2: For the here and now, it's Jack Conees's job.

856
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,280
Speaker 1: Luke Dody at South Carolina looked like we had terrible

857
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: news Saturday. I mean, it looked like Luke Dody was

858
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: out for the year. And it turns out that he's

859
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: not out for the year. He's just out for an

860
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: extended period of time. The initial fear was he had

861
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: broken his foot. Someone stepped on him, I think in

862
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: the Friday practice, and so the initial fear was he

863
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: just fractured it, he had broken it. And Shane Biemer

864
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: steps to the podium more recently and says, nope, Thank

865
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: the good Lord above, it is not something that's going

866
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: to keep him out the whole year. It's only a sprain,

867
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: and we actually think we could get him back for

868
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: week one. Now. Luke Dody's questionable right now, but that's

869
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: huge news for them because they had already had terrible

870
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: news with the defensive back transferring out, and so they're

871
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: already gonna have score a ton of points to keep

872
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: up in some of these games. Much harder to do

873
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: that when you were projected starting quarterback is down and

874
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: out with a foot injury. At Oklahoma, I want to

875
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: spend a couple of minutes on this. I remember on

876
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 1: National Signing Day we were at this desk and Steve

877
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,439
Speaker 1: Wolfong and I were talking about the elite depth. That's

878
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: the key to Oklahoma's surge in many people's minds, mine

879
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: included as a legitimate National Championship contender. It's the depth,

880
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: and they've got elite depth, not just on offense, they

881
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: got it on defense too. Three names that I want

882
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: you to pay attention to right now, perfect case study

883
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: on the depth that they're building. Name number one, Clayton Smith.

884
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 1: Talked about him a lot on National Signing Day. For

885
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty pound true freshman, this is the

886
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: kind of guy who has an incredible skill set. Now,

887
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: he is relatively raw compared to some of the other

888
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: more veteran guys they have on that roster. But my

889
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,959
Speaker 1: point is, there was a time not too long ago

890
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: where this guy would come in and start on talent alone,

891
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: because Oklahoma wouldn't have the defensive depth to keep him

892
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 1: off the field. They would have had to have played him.

893
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: Clayton Smith is currently running what third and the question

894
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: currently with him is I wonder if the light will

895
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 1: flip on this year. If it doesn't, that's fine, we'll

896
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: put him in some blowout games and we'll get him

897
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: some reps. But they don't need him this year. It

898
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: would be nice to have him, They don't need him

899
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: to step up and play an integral role to their

900
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: Big twelve title hopes in college football playoff hopes. Name

901
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: number two, Ethan Downs, same deal here, six four two

902
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: forty true freshman, having a great camp, very much pushing

903
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: for a backup job behind Isaiah Thomas.

904
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 2: But notice what I just said again, pushing for a

905
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: backup job.

906
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: This Ethan Downs. Clayton Smith for that matter, five six

907
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: years ago, they're starting, no question in my mind, they

908
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 1: are being pressed into starting duty for Oklahoma. And now

909
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: you got Clayton Smith holding down a three spot with

910
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: room to move up. And you got Ethan Downs fighting

911
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: with Reggie Grimes for that backup spot.

912
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 2: Behind Aziah Thomas.

913
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: But the one to pay most attention to that you

914
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: probably will calls its quarterback Caleb Williams is having a

915
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: phenomenal camp for them. This was our number one quarterback

916
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: in this last recruiting cycle. He has done nothing to disappoint.

917
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: He's come into a program where the preseason Heisman Trophy

918
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: favorite resides at the QB one position, and he.

919
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 2: Has made a ton of noise.

920
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: Not to push for the starting job per se, but

921
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: he's having the kind of camp that if he walked

922
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: in and Spencer Ratler didn't exist, you, as an Oklahoma fan,

923
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: would end up saying, I feel totally comfortable with Caleb Williams.

924
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 2: I know he's a true freshman.

925
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: I know he's never started a game, but coaching staff

926
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: feels good about him, Locker.

927
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 2: Room feels good about him.

928
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: He's a grinder, he's a worker, He's totally wired the

929
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: right way mentally, it's got all the physical tools, good

930
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: decision maker, gonna only improve over time.

931
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 2: I feel good about him. That's the kind of guy

932
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 2: you're gonna have on your bench this year.

933
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: But also, as we have learned, you know, having a

934
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: good backup quarterback, you have no clue what's.

935
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 2: Gonna happen this year.

936
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: You have no clue if Spencer Rautler is going to

937
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: be all that we hope he is, But even if

938
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: he is, you don't know what in the world the

939
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: injury bug's gonna deal with you. But Oklahoma is one

940
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: of off the top of my head, I mean, not

941
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: knowing what Ohio State's quarterback depth chart's gonna end up

942
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: looking like. This is one of very few teams this

943
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: year that could afford to have a quarterback miss a

944
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: series or miss a quarter or miss a half or

945
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: a game and possibly roll merrily along. You're looking at

946
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: Oklahoma schedule right now. I mean, it's an interesting It's

947
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: an interesting draw they have because on one hand, you're

948
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, they should win every game, but at

949
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: the same time, they got a trip to Kansas State,

950
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: they're looking to go well, looking to avoid going over

951
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: three the last three years against them. Right before they

952
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: play Texas. Right after that they got TCU, which is

953
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: not going to be an easy out, and that's a

954
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: team who can put some points up on you. So

955
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: I'm saying the reason why I believe in Oklahoma is

956
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: because Oklahoma has built some depth now that you've not

957
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: seen them have before. I know some of you are

958
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: in the I got to see it before I.

959
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 2: Believe it camp.

960
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: So there's no skill in doing by the way, but

961
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 1: you have had it, you live your life. I am

962
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: a believer before I have seen it, and by it

963
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: I mean high level defensive play from Oklahoma up the

964
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: road a bit in Iowa where my people reside, specifically Aims.

965
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: We have spoken about this once before. This is going

966
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: to be a preseason top ten team at Iowa State.

967
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: I'll ask you again, do we believe there is an

968
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: area or multiple areas on this team that they are

969
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: capable of significantly upgrading? Because Michael Swayin over there the

970
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: other day he works for our Iowa State site with

971
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: twenty four seven sports.

972
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:49,959
Speaker 2: He found one.

973
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: He found one. I think it's a solid one too.

974
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: If you remember watching the Big twelve championship game, Iowa

975
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: State loses twenty seven to twenty one. Had bad turnover

976
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: I'm not going to call it luck. It's execution on

977
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's part, but they were minus two or three turnovers.

978
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: But one of the hidden yardage factors that really set

979
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: them up for a loss, along with the turnovers, was

980
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: they gave up a couple of big kickoff returns eighty

981
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: six combined yards against Oklahoma. They gave up one against

982
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: Kansas No one really cared about that, but it cost

983
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 1: them and it's been a massive point of emphasis for

984
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: that coaching staff, which you can afford to do when

985
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: your whole team returns. Not installing a whole bunch of

986
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: new stuff. They have made a place to premium rather

987
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: on kick return covers. They can't kick touchbacks. They got

988
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: to figure out something and that's what they've invested a

989
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: lot of time. And now that may sound like the

990
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: most boring practice Intel report that you've ever had, it

991
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: could mean the difference in two games this year they

992
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: went nine and three. Last year they weren't twelve and one.

993
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: They went nine and three. They lost three games. One

994
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: was a conference championship game, but they lost three games.

995
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: Could literally be the difference in whether they're on the

996
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 1: fringes of playoff contention. And just a nice little story

997
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: that could lock down another New Year's six pol And lastly,

998
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: the Auburn Tigers had a scrimmage yesterday. Now there's a

999
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: lot new going on at Auburn. Obviously, Brian Harson's in

1000
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: there from Boise State, his staff's in there, and he's

1001
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: got a kind of eclectic mixture of some foreigners to

1002
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: the SEC and some natives to the SEC. But they're

1003
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: trying to have this offense in a lot of cases

1004
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: completely reprogrammed. I mean, they're doing something way different than

1005
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: Gus Malzon did. All the while they're trying to win

1006
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: eight or nine games this year. So defense is where

1007
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: it needs to be. That was my biggest takeaway from

1008
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: reading and talking to people close to Auburn. Derek Mason's

1009
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: got a defense they can win with. That may sound

1010
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 1: like it's an every year deal for Auburn. You can't

1011
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: take that stuff for granted, especially with the kind of

1012
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,280
Speaker 1: players they've lost last two years.

1013
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 2: You can't take that for granted.

1014
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: But everyone wants to know about quarterback bow KNICKX was

1015
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: bow Knicks yesterday, And by that I don't mean it

1016
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: pejoratively necessarily. I just mean he had some good and

1017
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: some bad, had some wow plays, turned the ball over

1018
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: multiple times. Now, unlike a lot of people who I've

1019
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: already seen draw the conclusion here, I know this is

1020
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: gonna sound.

1021
00:44:58,320 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 2: It's gonna sound.

1022
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: Very mundane and very war eglish. I'm gonna hold off

1023
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: for the time being making a definitive conclusion on what

1024
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: I think bo Nix is gonna be under this new

1025
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: coaching staff. Just all I ask of you is let

1026
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: me wait one more scrimmage or maybe even one or

1027
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: two games into the season. You know, Akron and Alabama

1028
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: State give you the ability to do that. I'm going

1029
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: to wait a little while longer before I make any

1030
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: kind of definitive call on where bo Nicks is going

1031
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: to be as a quarterback under this new regime. So

1032
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: that was a lot of what happened over the weekend. Now,

1033
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 1: there was a lot that we could not fit into

1034
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: the show tonight, both in terms of practice, intel and whispers,

1035
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: but also I had an entire segment that I really

1036
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: wanted to do on this whole alliance versus the SEC deal,

1037
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: which is not a pro wrestling angle. It's actually a

1038
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: real life thing that's happening in college football. Having said that, though,

1039
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: we kind of get a little heads up that there

1040
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: may be some traction there this week, you know. So

1041
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,439
Speaker 1: in other words, if you've got a Tuesday show, which

1042
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: we do, may I want to hold off until Tuesday.

1043
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's something. So I'm going to

1044
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: talk about that Tuesday night if you have missed it.

1045
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: We have gone to three nights per week by the way, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday.

1046
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: So really good show tonight. This is the way that

1047
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: we like to do every show during camp and when

1048
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: we get into the season. I mean we're cutting off

1049
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: well under an hour tonight. These shows will spill well

1050
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: over an hour when we're actually talking about games that

1051
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: just happened yesterday, well over an hour. We have got

1052
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: some things coming up in the way of grand season

1053
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: previews this week, going to do it a little bit

1054
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: differently than we have in the last couple of years,

1055
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 1: even back when we were independent down in Columbus. These

1056
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: are some of our most popular features, though we're adding

1057
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: some wrinkles to I think make them more popular, but

1058
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: they're not all going to be on the YouTube channel.

1059
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: Make sure you're following Twitter, Instagram at late Kick Josh,

1060
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: and the one other thing I always wait to the

1061
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: end of the show so that only the hardcores are watching.

1062
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: When you share our stuff on Instagram, in that story

1063
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: where you share it on Twitter, make sure you're tagging me.

1064
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: Great marketing. It's free, it's actually you working for us,

1065
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: and it's a one size fits all help.

1066
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 2: So thank you so much for that.

1067
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: All Right, we got to get out of here for

1068
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: director Colin, our entire crew down in Fort Lauderdale. I'm

1069
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: Josh Paid. Have a great start to your week and

1070
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: God bless