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Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, June third, the Year of Our Lord,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, jam packed.

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Speaker 1: I just spoke to you forty eight hours ago.

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Speaker 2: I think that's what we arrived at mathematically Colin two

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Speaker 2: days ago. Forty eight hours ago, and yet here we are.

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Speaker 2: We were busy out there, and I guess I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: call it. The newsroom really is just a bunch of

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Speaker 1: Laptop looks a little weird, tilted like that.

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Speaker 2: There we go, But we got a loaded show for you,

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Speaker 2: and I can I assure you it's going to be

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Speaker 2: loaded again Sunday night. We got some wild card teams

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Speaker 2: and really neither would surprise us. I'm going to hit

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Speaker 2: several of them. I think we have one from almost

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Speaker 2: every Power five conference. I'm also going to do something

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Speaker 2: that in and of itself could either take off or

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Speaker 2: crash and burn tonight, in the form of a segment

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Speaker 2: I was scrolling through two today. I saw the folks

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Speaker 2: at Football Scoop put up a tried and true content piece,

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Speaker 2: which is Nick Saban fill in the blank. In that case,

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Speaker 2: it was Saban's biggest wins at Alabama. While I was

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Speaker 2: that list for you and you can kind of guess

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Speaker 1: And if we don't, hey, it's June. So it's cool.

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Speaker 2: Transfer Portal winners and losers some of you, and I'll

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Speaker 2: be honest, even our own company here wrote that article

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Speaker 2: The transfer portal, the wins the losses. I got a

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Speaker 2: wild stat to throw at you. It's very much off

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Speaker 2: your radar. There's almost no chance that you know this stat.

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Speaker 2: And if you do hats off to you. You should

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Speaker 2: take my job. All that, plus part four in our

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Speaker 2: ongoing series about impact true freshmen this year. Hey, I

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Speaker 2: was going through my dms speaking of the Devil this morning.

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Speaker 2: I was looking at messages when I wake up. A

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Speaker 2: lot of you are insomniacs, so I get dms at

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Speaker 2: Of times as much as I can tell you about

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Speaker 2: the numbers that our show is doing and the traction

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Speaker 2: we're getting, and I thank you for that, and I

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Speaker 2: thank you tonight for that. But another telltale sign about

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Speaker 2: how much traction are show's getting and how much validity

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Speaker 2: those people reach out behind the scenes to say, either

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Speaker 2: I like the show, I watch it. We got coaches,

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking you for this time around. All right,

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Speaker 2: get to. Who would you say if I were to

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Speaker 2: About the twenty twenty one LSU team, it's talent versus team.

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Speaker 2: Arizona State A lot to like about them. They got

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Speaker 2: lot of that is validated. Arizona State's of the wildcard

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Speaker 2: We talked about this with like thirty three starters out

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Speaker 2: But what I do know is, for argument's sake, this

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Speaker 2: So that's the wildcard nature of Minnesota, all right now.

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Speaker 1: We'll know what they are by then. So those are

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Speaker 2: I see in college football this year, LSU, Arizona State, Minnesota, Ole,

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Speaker 2: Let's roll on here. So this is the part of

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to run down this list.

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Speaker 1: At this point. What I remember about this game is right.

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Speaker 2: So my view of this was stunned disbelief that Lane

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Speaker 2: But it was a classic survive in advanced situation, because

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Speaker 2: This was an undefeated team. It was a survive in

436
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:37,840
Speaker 2: advance game number eleven. This one was very emotional. Twenty

437
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,840
Speaker 2: eighteen SEC Championship game. Bama thirty five Georgia twenty eight.

438
00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,879
Speaker 1: Was on the field for this one. We'll never forget it.

439
00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,520
Speaker 2: I think it's probably it may be my favorite Bama

440
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,800
Speaker 2: game that I've been at because it was the one

441
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,240
Speaker 2: where it was the total inverse of the year before.

442
00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,160
Speaker 2: Tua is struggling, so they bring Jalen Hurts in. He's

443
00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,280
Speaker 2: been on the bench all year. They bring Sure enough,

444
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,120
Speaker 2: he leads a comeback against the same team he got

445
00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,760
Speaker 2: bingched against the year before. Storyline after storyline after storyline,

446
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,399
Speaker 2: what I remember is watching him take them down the

447
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,439
Speaker 2: field and they end up beating Georgia. The raw emotion

448
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 2: on the field after that game was incredible. You saw

449
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,840
Speaker 2: it in the postgame if you were watching on CBS,

450
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,960
Speaker 2: but up the tunnel afterwards once Nick Saban in particular

451
00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:28,680
Speaker 2: kind of got out of public view, balled his eyes

452
00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,480
Speaker 2: out standing right there watching it, just very very atypical.

453
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,919
Speaker 2: It's something you could only have seen if you were

454
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,440
Speaker 2: standing right there. But it also showed the emotional investment

455
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,119
Speaker 2: that he had in a guy like Jalen Hurts, because

456
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,880
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts had every reason to leave, and he didn't leave,

457
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 2: bought into every aspect of what they had long since

458
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:49,679
Speaker 2: built there in terms of a team culture.

459
00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 1: And then he was there.

460
00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,600
Speaker 2: Not only was he there, he was ready when his

461
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 2: number was called, and he looked better as a passer

462
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 2: than he had the year before, even though he hadn't started.

463
00:20:59,160 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 1: So that was incredible.

464
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 2: See the number ten games Bama versus Texas A and

465
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,440
Speaker 2: m forty nine to forty two. This is twenty thirteen,

466
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 2: their second shot at Manziel. Now, forty nine to forty

467
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 2: two doesn't look out of place now. Back then, this

468
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 2: was really that first time you saw Mick saban be

469
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 2: made to look really uncomfortable and the first time that

470
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 2: you really watched them play a game where it felt

471
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 2: like they needed fifty to win, and.

472
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,200
Speaker 1: That's basically what they had to do. They had to

473
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 1: score fifty to win.

474
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 2: I also remember it was like one hundred and ten

475
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 2: degrees on the field for that one. But it was

476
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 2: a very uncomfortable spot for them and It was a precursor.

477
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,640
Speaker 2: If you go back and you look at what they

478
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,439
Speaker 2: had to go through to win that thing, it was

479
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 2: a precursor to what they were eventually going to have

480
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 2: to do several more times over the coming seven or

481
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 2: eight years to get us to present day. And probably

482
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 2: went a long way and convinced Nick Saban, I'm mnn

483
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,920
Speaker 2: have to change some things about my defense, but also

484
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to do that offensively too. Number nine

485
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 2: Bama thirty eight Georgia ten. This was a game in

486
00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,919
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen in Athens, Georgia.

487
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,200
Speaker 1: It poured down rain.

488
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 2: I was on the field for this one too, ruined

489
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 2: a lot of equipment. This was a classic situation. I

490
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 2: think it was a defining situation for Mark Rick at Georgia.

491
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 2: That was a fan base, and that was a program

492
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 2: that was dead set, convinced they were ready to compete

493
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 2: against the best in the country that day, and they weren't.

494
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,360
Speaker 2: And it wasn't close, and they got splattered all over

495
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 2: their home stadium. And to make it worse, or really

496
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 2: to make it infinitely worse, they had to go home

497
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 2: water logged afterwards. In fairness, most of them were gone

498
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 2: by the beginning of the fourth quarter. But I will

499
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,679
Speaker 2: tell you one of my memories from this one is

500
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,640
Speaker 2: they were up five touchdowns on Georgia. This was when

501
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 2: I think it was Nick Chubb whoever the running back

502
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,439
Speaker 2: for Georgia was, had that long streak of one hundred

503
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 2: plus rushing yard games and he was being held well

504
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,159
Speaker 2: under that and they end up breaking a long run

505
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,360
Speaker 2: thus Georgia to make it thirty eight ten and I'm

506
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 2: behind Bama's bench and Jaren Reed goes after Reuben Foster's

507
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 2: throat literally because Ruben Foster didn't fit a gap the

508
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 2: right way, and that's what sprung a leak and that's

509
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 2: what allowed Georgia to score and allowed them to get

510
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 2: that one hundred yard rusher.

511
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 1: Jaren Reed had to be restrained.

512
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 2: I mean, something really violent and really terrible was gonna

513
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 2: happen to Ruben Foster had he not been restrained on

514
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 2: the sideline. That's not even the only time I saw

515
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 2: a fight on Bama sideline that year. And they went

516
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 2: on to win the national championship number eight this past January.

517
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,199
Speaker 2: So I won't talk much about this one. Bama fifty two,

518
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 2: Ohio State twenty four. Just at that point Bama unstoppable,

519
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 2: and it didn't help Ohio state that they were without

520
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 2: a number of guys.

521
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 1: So I think we all remember that one.

522
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 2: That's the one I will speak the least about, even

523
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 2: though sadly it's probably the one Jesse has the most

524
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 2: material for. Sorry, Jesse number seven. This was a national

525
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 2: championship game that I just mentioned twenty sixteen. It was

526
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 2: in Glendale, Arizona. It was Bama forty five Clemson forty.

527
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: I wanted to.

528
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 2: Fly into Sky Harbor, which is the Phoenix International Airport,

529
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 2: and the prices were absurd and I was working a

530
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 2: station in Columbus, Georgia at the time.

531
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 1: We were the only station out of three in.

532
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 2: Columbus that got credentialed for the game, but yet they

533
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,479
Speaker 2: couldn't sell advertising for it.

534
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: So I'm told I'm not gonna have my trip paid for.

535
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 2: Well, I was already credential so I said, you know what,

536
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: I'll go myself. I flew into San Diego, much more affordable,

537
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 2: drove six hours across the desert, went to the game

538
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 2: essentially as a spectator, even though I was credentialed. So

539
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 2: I just stood on the field watched because I wasn't

540
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 2: gonna work for free or be it for me to

541
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 2: work for free? And it was the time where Clemson

542
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 2: was still trying to shed that whole clemsoning thing, which

543
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 2: I never said on my show, but a lot of

544
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 2: people did. I thought they validated themselves a lot even

545
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 2: in a loss there. And so what I remember the

546
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 2: most about that is Bama gets the win. Afterwards, Jonathan

547
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 2: Allen and that defense, they're unhappy with themselves because they

548
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 2: gave up forty. So there are more scuffles on the

549
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 2: Bama sideline as they're winning a title. As the clock's

550
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,239
Speaker 2: tiken down, they're aggravated. I mean, they're going after each other,

551
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 2: and then they have to be celebrated and say, let's

552
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 2: celebrate the championship.

553
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: Then we can fight in the locker room. What's next here? Boy?

554
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 2: This was a classic twoenty twelve SEC championship. Bama thirty two,

555
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 2: Georgia twenty eight. This was my first taste of sports

556
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: talk radio in Columbus, Georgia. Right on the Chattahoochee River.

557
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 2: It's the border of Alabama and Georgia. Perfect positioning. You

558
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: cannot imagine the build up for this thing. And Georgia's

559
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 2: got the lead, and Bama with TJ. Yelden and Eddie Lacey,

560
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 2: they just take over on the ground in the second half.

561
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 2: They just run right at Jarvis Jones over and over

562
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 2: and over again, and they end up winning that thing.

563
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 2: And you cannot imagine with the way that thing ended Georgia,

564
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 2: I think they run out of time on.

565
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: Like the six yard line.

566
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 2: You cannot imagine how many calls we took on sports

567
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 2: radio and Columbus over the next however month, however, many

568
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 2: months of callers saying we were one place short, we

569
00:25:58,760 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 2: just ran out of time.

570
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: And that's a fan base that convinces themselves.

571
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 2: You know, we pretty much had equal opportunity to go

572
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 2: kill Notre Dame in the national title game, and they did.

573
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 2: That's how close Mark Rick came to a national title.

574
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 2: Could have been one play. Of course, I always offered

575
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: the counter argument, well, if we're adding time on the clock,

576
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 2: let's just add two minutes and give Bama another chance.

577
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 1: After you score. It's not the way football works. Obviously.

578
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 2: The number five game is a very weird game. I

579
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 2: was at this one. This was the National title game

580
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. It was at the Rose Bowl.

581
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 2: It was Bama thirty seven, Texas twenty one. This is

582
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 2: the one where Colt McCoy goes out at the beginning

583
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 2: of the game. Now, I tell you it was weird

584
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,679
Speaker 2: because you have this complete paradox of emotion. Bama has

585
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 2: yet to win a title under save and they won

586
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 2: their first title this night. But I remember a lot

587
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 2: of folks, at least that I was around, it seemed

588
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 2: like they were having to manufacture what they thought the

589
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: celebratory nature was supposed to be winning a title because

590
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 2: there was that lingering voice in the back of their mind.

591
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 2: It's still lingering in Austin, Texas. Now no one talks

592
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 2: about it elsewhere, but it's still lingering, and it's four words.

593
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 2: I guess if Cole hadn't got hurt, five words, what

594
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 2: would have happened. And there was that lingering just kind

595
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: of not doubt, but kind of question in the back

596
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 2: of Bama fans minds. And so it was a weird

597
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 2: feeling because I was at that game in the SEC

598
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: Title Game a month earlier. The SEC Title Game was

599
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 2: more emotional. We're about to talk about it in a second.

600
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 2: Fortunately I had other memories from that game. That was

601
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 2: the one where I got flown out to La stayed

602
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 2: in Brentwood, right off of Sunset Boulevard in the cul

603
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 2: de Sac where OJ Simpson had once lived.

604
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck still lived there. Conan O'Brien still live there.

605
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 2: So I go from living in west central Georgia, where

606
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 2: the loudest sound at night are cicadas, to being in

607
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 2: the middle of LA and being around a bunch of

608
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: people who have more zeros on the end of their

609
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 2: net worth than I've ever seen in my life. And

610
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 2: so that was a fun trip, even independent of the game.

611
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: First and only trip I've taken.

612
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: To the Rose Bowl. How about the number Yeah, the

613
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: number four game.

614
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 2: This was the twenty eighteen s Yeah, it's so weird

615
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 2: to see so many Bama Georgia games on here. This

616
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 2: is the best one to me. This was the twenty

617
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 2: eighteen National Championship game. This is second and twenty six,

618
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 2: This is overtime. This is again a dream scenario. I'm

619
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 2: working in Columbus, Georgia. I'm in TV. You have got

620
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: the two premiere brands in the market along with Auburn

621
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 2: going at it, and it's in Atlanta, and so I

622
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 2: don't know how you could write it any better.

623
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: Well, here's how you could write it better.

624
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 2: Have the game go to overtime, have a total flip

625
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: of emotion, have a true freshman named Tuatngua Bailoa come

626
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 2: off the bench and lead your team back and then

627
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 2: watch him cap it in overtime famously and be on

628
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: the field for it.

629
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: All. That was my night. That was my experience, that

630
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: was my view.

631
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 2: Even though the game was in Atlanta, one hour up

632
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 2: the road from where we were situated in Columbus, I

633
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 2: did not get back home until the sun came up

634
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 2: the next day. Time stood still. It was really a

635
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 2: weird night. It was a surreal night. Still, it's hard

636
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: to process all that we were able to experience that night.

637
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 2: Memory that will last the rest of your life. The

638
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 2: number three games way back two thousand and eight, it

639
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 2: was the blackout game Bama forty one, Georgia thirty. This

640
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: is Matt Stafford for Georgia. This is no Sean Marino

641
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 2: for Georgia, this is aj Green for Georgia.

642
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: And this is the.

643
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 2: Dog's trailer thirty one to nothing at halftime in their

644
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 2: own building, primetime in front of the world. There were

645
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 2: heated discussions on the softball fields of Columbus, Georgia in

646
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: the week leading up to this game about what was

647
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 2: going to happen, because Bama had not become established as

648
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 2: the king of the SEC by any stretch. They were

649
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 2: seven or eight point underdog in this game, and it

650
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: was so emphatic. The result looks weird because it's forty

651
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 2: one to thirty. Game was over at halftime. It's still

652
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 2: not when they fully took over. It's just when they

653
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: serve notice to a lot of the country. I'll tell

654
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 2: you when they took over in a second. The number

655
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 2: two game is the two thousand and eleven title game,

656
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: the rematch between BAMA and LSU.

657
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: It was a blanking.

658
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 2: I remember the supreme confidence Obama had going into that game,

659
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 2: even though they lost to LSU earlier in the year.

660
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 2: They were so convinced they were the better team. I

661
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 2: thought they were the better team too. You gotta go

662
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 2: prove it on the field. They did it in New Orleans.

663
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 2: Kevin Norwood huge in that game. I just remember asking

664
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 2: myself early on, how does an LSU team playing in

665
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 2: their own backyard look so helpless?

666
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: Here? There was no secondary pitch. The fastball didn't work,

667
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: and that was it. That was all she wrote.

668
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 2: But the number one game was the two thousand and

669
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Speaker 2: nine SEC Championship game.

670
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: I was at this.

671
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 2: One, absolutely number one. I totally agree with the guys

672
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 2: at Football Scoop. Florida is coming into this game with

673
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 2: the chance to be all time historic. They just won

674
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 2: the title the year before. They're going for the repeat.

675
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 2: They're more than a touchdown favorite in this game. And

676
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 2: Bama Kirby Smart, Nick Saban, they put on a defensive clinic.

677
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: This is the Rolando McLay era, the Dante High Tower era.

678
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: It's the night Nick Saban and Alabama took control of

679
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 2: the SEC and they've never relinquished it. I have never

680
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 2: been around more raw emotion. That's the game where they

681
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 2: showed Tebow crying on the jumbo tron, and it was

682
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 2: as if you were in the Roman Colisseum and the

683
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: entire arenas just frothing.

684
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: At the mouth.

685
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 2: Kill kill. Not quite that violent, but that's what it

686
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: was like.

687
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: Because at this point they hadn't rocked up a bunch

688
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: of titles.

689
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 2: They still had that collective chip on the shoulder mentality

690
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: as a fan base, and so it was unlike Bama

691
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 2: games are even today. Where you've got a sense of entitlement.

692
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 2: You can deny it if you want to.

693
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: It's there. They didn't have it at that point. They

694
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: went into that game as an underdog.

695
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 2: They came out of the Georgia Dome that night, rest

696
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: in peace, Georgia Dome as the favorite going into the

697
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 2: National Title game and the favorite every year in the

698
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: SEC from that point forward. So those were some of

699
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 2: the memories I had from those Alabama games.

700
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,239
Speaker 1: That was really fun to read through today, and it

701
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: was very opportunity that we could do it in now.

702
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 2: I wanted to bump van On down the list on

703
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: this next segment, but we are going to talk about

704
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 2: him a little bit. The transfer portal has just wreaked

705
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: havoc on what I call preview magazine season, because you

706
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 2: got to go to print at some point, and unfortunately

707
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 2: the transfer portal sleeps for no man or no magazine.

708
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: And so even after you have gotten that physical copy

709
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 2: of Anthlon or Lendy's in your hand, hey.

710
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: Things are still happening.

711
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 2: So you got to make sure you got the trusty

712
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: pen or the trusty red sharpie in your hand to

713
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: keep updating that magazine. God blessed Phil still for waiting

714
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 2: as long as he does. I don't know how the

715
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 2: rest of you do it. How about some winners and

716
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 2: losers here, because this is updated even from the last

717
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 2: time we've spoken. Oklahoma, even as the dust is starting

718
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 2: to settle here, Oklahoma is still the big winner for

719
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 2: me and the transfer portal, and it's really cause of Tennessee.

720
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: Eric Gray comes in. That's an impact running back.

721
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,719
Speaker 2: Why you Morris is an instant plug and play if

722
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 2: you need him on the offensive line. Key Lawrence can

723
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 2: affect your secondary in a very positive way. And Mike

724
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: Will for good measure, gets added to an already really

725
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: good receiving core from Arkansas.

726
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: He comes in.

727
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 2: I mean, Oklahoma has leveraged this thing the right way.

728
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley has leveraged it in a way that you

729
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: also would if you thought you were already pretty close

730
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 2: to a national championship this year, and this could be

731
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: what pushes you over the finish line. We're gonna have

732
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 2: to wait a few months to see if that's real, Georgia.

733
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: If it's not, Oklahoma is the other big winner in

734
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: the transfer portal, and you can make a solid argument

735
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 2: for both. I was doing Atlanta Talk radio earlier this week,

736
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 2: and you know they wanted to argue against Oklahoma. I mean,

737
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: it's fifty one to forty nine for me, so I'm

738
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 2: fine either way. But here's what I keep thinking about.

739
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 2: If you're a Georgia fan, imagine just taking a long

740
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 2: nap after you come out of the spring game. So

741
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: you got the g DA game, George Pickens has gone

742
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 2: down in spring practice, you lost your top option at receiver.

743
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: You know that you're very young and inexperienced in the secondary. Okay,

744
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: then you take a nap, and then imagine waking.

745
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: Up this week.

746
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 2: Eric Gilbert on the ross. It's gonna play wide receiver,

747
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 2: no less. But you've also added Tyke Smith at the

748
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: nickel position. You've added Darien Kendrick at the one corner position.

749
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,959
Speaker 2: You took Brandon Turnage from Alabama, who either is going

750
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 2: to end up starting for you at one of these

751
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 2: corner spots at the at very least, he's going to

752
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 2: provide valuable depth there. And so you're looking around and

753
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 2: you're saying, wait a second, a couple of these either

754
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 2: voids or potential question mark weaknesses on our team, all

755
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,959
Speaker 2: of a sudden, they aren't so void and they aren't

756
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 2: so questionable anymore. It's been a really, really good transfer

757
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: a portal off season for Georgia Alabama.

758
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: Context is key here.

759
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 2: Context is very important because if you just look at

760
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 2: the raw departures and arrivals, you could be led to

761
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 2: believe it's been a bad transfer portal cycle for Alabama. Well,

762
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 2: it's been nothing of the kind. You got to know

763
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 2: the context. You look at a guy like Ben Davis leaving,

764
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 2: that's a former five star linebacker. Ishmael Softer at one

765
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 2: point was one of the top rated kids in the country,

766
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 2: ended up I think being a high four star defensive lineman.

767
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 2: Ben Davis went to Texas, Soapter went to USC. Brandon

768
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 2: Turnage just mentioned him went from Alabama to Georgia. These

769
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 2: are highly rated kids. Kielan Robinson just entered the transfer portal.

770
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 2: These are all good players. But what's happening is the

771
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 2: net result is Alabama having a lot of the lower

772
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 2: portion of their depth charts shaved and then they're adding

773
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 2: pieces to the very top sort of cherry is on top.

774
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: Henry Tootoo is one of those at linebacker, Jamison Williams

775
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 2: is one of those at wide receiver, and just as

776
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 2: Nick Saban told you that's the net result. You've got

777
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 2: the rich getting richer. George is one of them, Oklahoma's one,

778
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 2: Alabama's one. But then we move on a little bit

779
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 2: and I ask you to kind of decide how you

780
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 2: feel about this. So I got my own feelings. Usc

781
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 2: USC lost some guys, They've added some guys. But is

782
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 2: this an example of rich getting richer? Or is this

783
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 2: an example of a program that it's not bad. I mean,

784
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 2: Southern Cal's going to enter the season ranked top twenty.

785
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 2: They played for a PAC twelfth title last year. There's

786
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 2: just not quite where they need to be. They're not

787
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 2: at the elite level. So is this a mid tier program,

788
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 2: a tier two using the transfer portal to springboard themselves

789
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 2: potentially into the presence of the other rich programs as

790
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 2: you like to call them. They lost guys, but they

791
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 2: got Keyante Ingram at running back. Really excited by the

792
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: way to see him come from Texas into an air

793
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 2: raid offense at USC could be dynamite, could be a

794
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 2: game changer on the West coast. They got Xavier and Alfred.

795
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 2: They got Chris Thompson from Texas and Auburn, respectively.

796
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: That's helping their secondary.

797
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 2: But they also, as I mentioned, got Ishael Sopcher, who's

798
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: a guy that at Alabama was not going to crack

799
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 2: the rotation. At Southern Caly very well may cracked the

800
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 2: rotation this year Taj Washington from Memphis as a wide receiver.

801
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 2: So these are a lot of guys that could very

802
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 2: positively impact Southern cal I'd call them a winner. I

803
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 2: know they lost some guys, I'd call them a winner.

804
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 2: In the transfer portal, here's the one I really wanted

805
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 2: to focus on, Florida State. Florida State's been bad on

806
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 2: the field. Florida State has been bad, but Florida State's

807
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 2: also a premier brand. So do we view this as

808
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 2: rich brand using it to get richer or do we

809
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 2: view it as downtrodden program using the transfer portal to

810
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 2: expedite the rehabilitation process.

811
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,479
Speaker 1: Because I think you could present it either way.

812
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 2: It's well documented at this point that Florida State has

813
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: landed six of the top one hundred names and the

814
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 2: transfer portal really big impact guys. Chief among them, of course,

815
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: Mackenzie Milton at quarterback. I want to know this though,

816
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 2: because I think this is going to be the blueprint

817
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 2: for new coaching staffs moving forward. If you come in

818
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: and you got to overhaul a culture, well you do

819
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 2: that through different ways. But if you've got to overhaul

820
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 2: a roster, you don't just have to do it twenty

821
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:50,800
Speaker 2: five at a time anymore.

822
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: And they're all coming from high school. You can use

823
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: the transfer a.

824
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 2: Portal to expedite part of that process. But it's one

825
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 2: thing to do it at a traditional brand. I want

826
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 2: to know if a non traditional brand could do it.

827
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: I want to know if the Louisville Cardinals needed to

828
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 2: do this, could they do it to this degree? They

829
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 2: don't need to, but I'm saying if they needed to,

830
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 2: could they do it to this degree?

831
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: That's what I want to know.

832
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 2: I want to know if a non traditional power brand

833
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: can end up doing that. I mentioned a bunch of

834
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 2: winners here, but oh my goodness, there are losers too.

835
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: I'm not going to mention a bunch of them, just one.

836
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 2: I'm scrolling through Twitter today. Our buddy Brad Powers really

837
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 2: really good in the handicapping world. He's going through a

838
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 2: preview magazine. I don't even know which one he had,

839
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 2: but he had it in his hand, and he's a

840
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 2: guy who updates the rosters in the magazine to account

841
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 2: for what the transfer portal has done. And so Brad

842
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 2: tweets out a picture out of all teams of the

843
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bulls Too Deep. Why is that important? Jesse's got

844
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 2: a picture of it. I'm going to show you why

845
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: it's important. Because these magazines are freshly printed. They have

846
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 2: just now been distributed. If you've got one, it's probably

847
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 2: only a couple of weeks old. You know those circles

848
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: that you're looking at right here, if you're listening to this,

849
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,479
Speaker 2: we are showing you a picture that Brad tweeted out.

850
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 2: That's the depth chart for Buffalo. What are the circles?

851
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: Those are ten guys.

852
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 2: Already in the too Deep, the projected too deep for

853
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 2: Buffalo that are no longer on the roster because Lance

854
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 2: Leopold went to Kansas very late in the cycle and

855
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 2: he took ten of his players with him. Imagine being

856
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 2: on that roster, being a Buffalo fan, what.

857
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: Do you do? Because this is a loser. You don't

858
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: see this talked about a whole lot.

859
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 2: This is this is the impact potentially when you talk

860
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 2: about haves and have nots. If you're a lower tier

861
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 2: Team Buffalo has been really good. But if you're a

862
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 2: lower tier team less resources, that's what can end up

863
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 2: happening to you. You just randomly lose ten guys you

864
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 2: were gonna count on. Oh, by the way, the head

865
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 2: coach has gone too, but we still expect you guys

866
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: to be on the field this fall. A lot of winners,

867
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 2: but there are some losers. For all the winners, there

868
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 2: have to be losers. I'm going to wrap it up

869
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 2: tonight by doing kind of a continuation of what we've

870
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 2: been doing, and that is looking at a lot of

871
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 2: guys who you need to know the names, because these

872
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 2: are going to be impact freshmen all across the country

873
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 2: this year. We've spoken kind of jokingly, I'm not really

874
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 2: hating on preview magazines, but as I've told you at

875
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 2: the beginning of the segment every week now, the big

876
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 2: blind spot for preview magazines is they don't know which

877
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 2: true freshmen to take. Seriously, it's not their wheelhouse. They're

878
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 2: about storylines, they're about returning starters. They're not about knowing

879
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 2: that for instance, Xavier Worthy transferred from Michigan to Texas

880
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 2: and he's going to be one to watch. Maybe well,

881
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 2: we know, or at least we think we do, so

882
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 2: we're gonna give as good a guess as we can here.

883
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy is a name I just mentioned. We're gonna

884
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 2: start off with him. He's a wide receiver. There was

885
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 2: a whole big deal made when he committed to Michigan

886
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 2: over Alabama. Well he's not at Michigan anymore. He has

887
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,240
Speaker 2: transferred to Texas now. Talking to someone close to Texas today,

888
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 2: that coaching staff has every finger in that building crossed

889
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 2: that he can end up being an impact guy this year.

890
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,439
Speaker 2: I say they hope, because he's got to take a job.

891
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 2: He's got to earn a job. He can't just hand

892
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 2: it to him. Players in the locker room tend not

893
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: to like that. The reason he's so important is because

894
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 2: he has the speed element at receiver Texas has not had.

895
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 2: They moved to Sean Jamison in the first year of

896
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,959
Speaker 2: Tom Herman there. They had to move him from dB

897
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 2: to wide receiver just to try and manufacture speed, elite speed.

898
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: At that position.

899
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: Well, you don't have to manufacture it with Worthy. He's

900
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 2: got it the day he steps on campus. He's got it,

901
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 2: unlike anyone else in that ride receiver room has it,

902
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 2: but he's got to take the job. That remains to

903
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 2: be seen. Traveon Henderson at Ohio State. I've waited like

904
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,720
Speaker 2: four times to talk about him. I don't know why,

905
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 2: because he's probably going to be one of, if not

906
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 2: my favorite true freshmen to watch this year. This is

907
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 2: a running back for the Buckeyes. He was a number

908
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: twenty two overall rated player. He's going to be a

909
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 2: superstar as a true freshman. There's no other way to

910
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 2: put that. Ohio State has mastertigue. They got Mayan Williams.

911
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 2: I don't know how else to put this. It's just

912
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 2: going to feel different when Travion Henderson touches the ball.

913
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 2: He's five to eleven, about two hundred. You don't have

914
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 2: to sacrifice the size to get the speed. You don't

915
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 2: have to sacrifice the physical nature in order to get

916
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 2: the burst. When you see him in the open field

917
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 2: at the second level, in one on one situations for

918
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 2: the first time, your jaw is going to be on

919
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 2: the ground, and then you'll realize he can do some

920
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 2: things no one else on that roster can do. They're

921
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 2: gonna play him a lot as a true freshmen, not

922
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 2: out of necessity, but out of luxury. Jaren Bradley is

923
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 2: a guy that may be off your radar a little bit.

924
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 2: Jaron Bradley's a wide receiver for Texas Tech. Now, he

925
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 2: was our three hundred and seventy third overall rated player.

926
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 2: I want to say, so it's a little off the

927
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 2: beaten path, I'll grant you that, But this is really

928
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 2: interesting because of the fit.

929
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: It's really interesting. They got an air raid offense.

930
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 2: They run out there with Sunny Comby and Matt Wells

931
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 2: as the head coach there.

932
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: They want results from him this.

933
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 2: Year, don't we all, by the way, but they've got

934
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 2: multiple wide receivers to replace. Now, let me tell you

935
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 2: what's interesting about Bradley. He's six five, two ten. We

936
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 2: call that a ready made college football frame. Sixty five

937
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 2: to two ten is something God has to give you.

938
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 2: The strength and conditioning coaches can't give you that.

939
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: In the weight room. He had a really solid spring.

940
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 2: So, I mean, the coaching staff out there is already

941
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 2: all but as short of the fact that he's going

942
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 2: to figure very prominently into their starting rotation. But if

943
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 2: you combine the fit, the opportunity and the offense they're

944
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 2: running out there and the need to turn it up

945
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 2: a NACHA two that could be a guy Jaren Bradley

946
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 2: could be a name that by mid season in Big

947
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,720
Speaker 2: twelve play is on everyone's All American radar or Big

948
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 2: twelve all Big twelve team radar that wasn't nowhere to

949
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 2: be found in fact in the preseason. And lastly, I

950
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 2: want to kind of combine these two names.

951
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 1: At Oregon.

952
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 2: Troy Franklin was our number forty overall player. Dante Thornton

953
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,919
Speaker 2: was our number fifty six overall player. Both of them

954
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 2: are wide receivers. I've spoken at some length about the

955
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 2: potential for Oregon's receiver room. These guys are two of

956
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,919
Speaker 2: the big reasons why Oregon returns their top three pass

957
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 2: catchers from last year. So you may take a kind

958
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 2: of a blimps worthy view of Oregon and say that's

959
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 2: gonna be tough for a couple of true freshmen to

960
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 2: crack their rotation. But then you look at the Pro

961
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 2: football focused grades for that unit last year. None of

962
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 2: their receivers graded over seventy. So it's a classic case

963
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 2: of returning starters don't necessarily tell the whole story. I'm

964
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: of the belief that Franklin and Thornton both walk on

965
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 2: campus right now with as much raw ability as anyone

966
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 2: in that room, and I.

967
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: Think they're gonna be impact guys. I don't think it's

968
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: going to.

969
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 2: Take to the middle part or latter portion of the

970
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 2: season for them to make their presence felt.

971
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of competition there.

972
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 2: And it's a win win for Joe Morehead and his

973
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 2: offense up there to win win because if they're on

974
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 2: the field, it means they earn their spot and you

975
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 2: got a couple of really dynamic weapons and playmakers on

976
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 2: the field. But if they're not on the field, well,

977
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 2: it means that that wide receiver room collectively up their

978
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 2: game to the point where they're good enough to keep

979
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 2: talent like that off the field early on competition, it's

980
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 2: always a win win you've got competition in there. Those

981
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 2: are four more guys, really five that we think are

982
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 2: going to be impact freshmen this upcoming college football season.

983
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: And with that that is our Thursday show. Always thank

984
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 1: you guys.

985
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 2: Make sure you're following the Instagram channel and the Twitter channel.

986
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: I call them channels. Call it sounds guy at Late Kick, Josh,

987
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: we will see you again same time Sunday night until

988
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: then for director Emeritus column for Jesse and Crewe in Connecticut,

989
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: I'm Josh, Babe. Have a great rest of your Thursday

990
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 1: and God bless