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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in Lake Kick is Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Sunday night, September thirteenth, the Year of Our Lord,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. We are in full blown regular season mode

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Speaker 2: and we're gonna be that way from now until we

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Speaker 2: crown a national champion. Knock on wood, probably the first

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Speaker 2: of about five times. We're gonna do that tonight. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: my advice to you is, do not miss a show.

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Speaker 2: We jam pack these shows with as much information as

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Speaker 2: we can get in. There's not one thing that we're

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Speaker 2: gonna harp on for a very long time. There's a

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Speaker 2: ton of stuff that we're gonna spend like two three,

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Speaker 2: four minutes on, including this intro. So subscribe to the

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Speaker 2: channel if you haven't already. Can't state that in strong

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Speaker 2: enough terms. Got a ton of good stuff come in

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Speaker 2: your way. Some will be on the show, some will

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Speaker 2: never be seen on the show, but we'll all be

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Speaker 2: seen on the channel. We have got, as I said,

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Speaker 2: a lot to talk about tonight, the Big ten. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we woke up this morning various reports. Oh we're gonna

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Speaker 2: get a vote today. We're gonna talk about that in

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Speaker 2: just a second. We're gonna get you the very latest

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Speaker 2: there I know a lot of you have been watching

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Speaker 2: NFL today, A lot of you have been actually out

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Speaker 2: living your lives, unless you've been in Nashville where we

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Speaker 2: got like half a year's worth of rain today training effect,

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Speaker 2: fascinating atmospheric science phenomenon.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to talk about tonight, but the big

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Speaker 1: twelve night Maarish Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Don't necessarily know that all hope is lost for the conference,

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Speaker 2: but we're gonna discuss that Georgia Tech. This has given

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Speaker 2: us a perfect reason to pull the first piece of

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Speaker 2: archived footage since I've been at twenty four to seven

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Speaker 2: from my independent Late Kick days, and we're gonna show

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Speaker 2: that footage. Colin's gonna roll it for you a little

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Speaker 2: bit later tonight, looking forward to that. Find any excuse

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Speaker 2: that we can to pull old Columbus Georgia footage and

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Speaker 2: drop it on the new version of Late Kick. Here,

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Speaker 2: We've got intel from a number of SEC camps. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of stuff going on.

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Speaker 1: If you watched.

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Speaker 2: Clemson play this week, you saw Brian Braze and you

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Speaker 2: saw Miles Murphy, and you probably heard if you heard

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Speaker 2: it once, you heard it a thousand and times. The

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Speaker 2: color commentators inform you that.

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Speaker 1: These are true freshmen. My gardeners are fresh one.

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Speaker 2: There's probably a couple more that haven't started their seasons

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Speaker 2: yet that you need to know about.

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Speaker 1: We're going to tell you about them tonight.

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Speaker 2: And also, let's be real, probably if several dozen of

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Speaker 2: you two who knows, maybe a couple of hundred of

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Speaker 2: you are just tuned in because you're degenerate gamblers, And

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Speaker 2: I'm not hating on it, and I'm not judging you.

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Speaker 2: I am saying that in season mode for Sundays around

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Speaker 2: here involves us handing out our early best bet for

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Speaker 2: the upcoming week, and we will do that before we

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Speaker 2: go off the air tonight. So with that in mind,

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Speaker 2: let's dive in. We are jam packed the Big ten.

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Speaker 2: If you were watching.

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Speaker 1: College football yesterday, you woke up.

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Speaker 2: And you breathed a sigh of relief. We made it

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Speaker 2: not to the finish line, but to the starting line.

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Speaker 2: At least we made it. Take you back Thursday. We

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Speaker 2: told you here on Thursday. The deadline is not near.

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Speaker 2: The deadline is here. Something has to happen, And by deadline,

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Speaker 2: I mean you gotta make a decision. If we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have October football in the Big ten. And to put

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Speaker 2: important is because I really couldn't care less if they

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Speaker 2: that pans out. My point is, give us October football

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Speaker 2: So then we fast forward aga into yesterday morning and

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Speaker 2: And here we are Tomorrow is now today, and it's Sunday,

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Speaker 1: No vote, Colin, we got no vote today.

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Speaker 2: So we were going to go to sleep tonight knowing

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Speaker 1: All we know is that again there's that.

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Speaker 2: Phrasing as early as tomorrow, and cautious optimism, those are

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Speaker 2: The players still in the dark, the coaches still in

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Speaker 1: And you want to know what my evidence there is.

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Speaker 2: My evidence is, when is the last time that Big

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Speaker 2: or five reporters did answer, it's been a while. In

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Speaker 2: the lyrics have stained. It's been quite a while.

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Speaker 1: And what that.

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Speaker 2: Tells you is the focus here is still mainly on

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Speaker 2: and that really is how a politician thinks. And that's

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Speaker 2: largely the kind of figures we have involved here. That's

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Speaker 2: not unique to the Big Ten. What is unique to

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Speaker 2: it or not. We're sitting here, I mean, folks are

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Speaker 1: We still have time.

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Speaker 2: But any process wherein coaches and players are the last

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Speaker 2: who have done a great job facilitating messaging from the

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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful, just like you are.

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Speaker 2: But there is as we sit here again Sunday night,

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Speaker 2: What will that vote include? What will that vote conclude?

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Speaker 2: Your guess is as good as mine. Now, let's talk

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Speaker 1: The Big Twelve had a night maarish Saturday.

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Speaker 2: You saw it, and I saw it, and everyone sitting

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Speaker 2: It was you know what it looked like because I

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Speaker 2: know my fascination with trains, It was kind of like

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Speaker 1: There's no middle.

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Speaker 2: It's just a couple of engines and they're big and

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Speaker 2: If you missed this yesterday, Iowa State paid not ul

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Speaker 2: So most people watched this and they laughed unless you're

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Speaker 2: understand that. Now. I was happy that the Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: Understand why a lot of you were laughing.

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Speaker 2: I was watching and I had a little bit different

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Speaker 2: I was saying, this seems to be a wide open

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Speaker 2: You think that's crazy right now, only because it does

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Speaker 2: But as I said, Texas looked great against Mighty UTEP

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Speaker 2: but not the whole Big twelve, make no mistake.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I heard Barton Simmons refer to it as having no

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Speaker 1: There is no middle ground here.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like a couple of mansions and then

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Speaker 1: And that may be.

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Speaker 2: And again we haven't seen Oklahoma State TCU, so we'll

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Speaker 2: see about them, but right now it's TEXASLU and it's

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Speaker 1: But how could this work?

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Speaker 2: How could potentially this conference sneak not one, but two

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Speaker 2: it is very unlikely, not impossible, but very unlikely that

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Speaker 2: from that conference to warrant two spots in the College

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Speaker 2: football Playoff. Again, I've got two SEC teams predicted to

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Speaker 2: it's it's gonna be really hard to do. Let's just

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be really hard to do. So are they

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Speaker 2: gonna have two resumes good enough from the SEC? Let's

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Speaker 2: just say it for at the time being. No.

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Speaker 1: I watched Clemson yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I've never used the word lock in September, but they're

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Speaker 2: That's the next question. And they may they send somebody

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Speaker 2: that looks good enough. They may not send somebody that

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Speaker 2: Yesterday Georgia Tech got a really big win, and we're

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Speaker 2: I was on there and I was fielding some hate,

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Speaker 1: I called it. This was from May of twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 2: There's a very specific brand in blueprint that Georgia Tech's

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Speaker 2: Was that shirt read, by the way, Colin? I think

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Speaker 1: Nothing happened yesterday.

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Speaker 2: That reverses the idea that they still have a lot

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Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what it does prove. It proves

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Speaker 1: I don't advise you eat them, but if you did,

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Speaker 2: So you got all the mistakes in the world, you

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Speaker 2: Point being Jeff Simms ends up at George Tech and

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Speaker 2: Sometimes when you talk about changing and or turning a

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Speaker 2: tell you what greatly expedites that process. A dynamic playmaking quarterback.

440
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Speaker 2: We saw it happen at Clemson. We've seen it happen

441
00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,679
Speaker 2: at a number of places. It seems like, oh, some

442
00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,520
Speaker 2: things are going right, some things are going wrong. When

443
00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,399
Speaker 2: you got that kind of guy and he's only a

444
00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,680
Speaker 2: true freshman, and that's the face of your program, and

445
00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,440
Speaker 2: that's the guy kids are seeing on Saturdays, it opens floodgates.

446
00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,480
Speaker 2: I think they had completions to ten different receivers yesterday.

447
00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,080
Speaker 2: It opens floodgates. And the perception now you will see

448
00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,879
Speaker 2: manifest itself on the recruiting tra You're not gonna have

449
00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,960
Speaker 2: to wait to the class of twenty twenty two, twenty

450
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 2: twenty three, and beyond this upcoming recruiting cycle. You'll see

451
00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,040
Speaker 2: because there's been this game in the ACC for a while.

452
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:10,880
Speaker 2: It's Clemson, and who's going to take that number two

453
00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,399
Speaker 2: spot and eventually challenge them. And I'm not telling you

454
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,919
Speaker 2: what's going to happen this year. I am unequivocally telling

455
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,840
Speaker 2: you I have bought all the stock I can and

456
00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,359
Speaker 2: then some in that program, and I think eventually Georgia

457
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:21,560
Speaker 2: Tech will be that team.

458
00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,000
Speaker 1: If no one else wants to do.

459
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 2: It, or if other teams want to come along with them,

460
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 2: They're going to be the constant. They're going to be there,

461
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 2: so they will continue to rise. They got a big

462
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Speaker 2: one this Saturday at home against Central Florida. Central Florida

463
00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 2: opens as an eight point favorite. Think that thing is

464
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,120
Speaker 2: sitting in at seven seven and a half right now.

465
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Speaker 2: Other Week one reactions. Some people are calling this week two.

466
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Speaker 2: Some people called it week zero the week before therefore

467
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Speaker 2: a Week one. Listen, Yesterday was Saturday, and the two

468
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 2: days before that Thursday. So we had some football there.

469
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Speaker 2: So let's talk about what we saw. As I said,

470
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Speaker 2: you guys love the metaphors. What the Unibomber was to

471
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Speaker 2: the postal service, the sun Belt was to the Big twelve. Essentially,

472
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,639
Speaker 2: we already talked about the Big twelve side of this,

473
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Speaker 2: and I don't normally talk Sunbelt a whole lot on

474
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Speaker 2: the show because not a ton of you were Sunbelt fans.

475
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Speaker 2: But let me just tell you this, that Louisiana, Iowa

476
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:12,520
Speaker 2: State game.

477
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Speaker 1: I was texting back and forth with.

478
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Speaker 2: Tim Watts from over at Bama online dot com today

479
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 2: and I said, Timothy, because he lets me call him

480
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 2: by his full name, that's the name is Mom gave him.

481
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Speaker 2: I said, Timothy, if if I were to put generic

482
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Speaker 2: uniforms on those two teams yesterday, would you, with your

483
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Speaker 2: life on the line, have been able to pick out

484
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 2: which team was the Power five team and which team

485
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 2: was the Group of five team?

486
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Speaker 1: And for those of you who were watching, if we

487
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Speaker 1: take the.

488
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Speaker 2: Uniforms away and I just put generic uniforms on everyone,

489
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Speaker 2: could you pick out the G five and the Power five?

490
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Speaker 2: In fact, you probably would have mislabeled them. You probably

491
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 2: would have put the P five label on Louisiana because

492
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 2: they were the better team and they looked like they

493
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:51,879
Speaker 2: had the better roster.

494
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Speaker 1: And a lot of you are probably confused.

495
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Speaker 2: By that because you automatically just think, well, Power five,

496
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Speaker 2: there's so many inherent advantages, roster advantages that you know

497
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 2: by default. That's why they were a two touchdown underdog

498
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 2: or thereabouts eleven or twelve point underdog were.

499
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Speaker 1: The Louisiana rage occasions. There is a very dated.

500
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Speaker 2: Mentality I think when it comes to roster comparison that

501
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 2: still exists.

502
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Speaker 1: Today, still exist.

503
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Speaker 2: I want you to think along with me, things have changed,

504
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 2: the dynamics have changed. Your eyes weren't deceiving you. I

505
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 2: think Louisiana had a better roster. I think they had

506
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Speaker 2: a better team when they went up there to Iowa

507
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,640
Speaker 2: State yesterday. And that's crazy because you're thinking, not only

508
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 2: is Iowa State of P five, they're a nice solid

509
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 2: power five. Okay, well two things could be true, because

510
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 2: that could be true. But Louisiana went up there and

511
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 2: spanked them, and Billy Napier's guys look like they perfectly

512
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 2: well knew what they were doing. How does that happen?

513
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 2: TV deals is how it happens new TV deals. This

514
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,120
Speaker 2: is not twenty years ago. So I want to put

515
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Speaker 2: you in the mentality and in the mind and in

516
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Speaker 2: the shoes of let's say a three star receiver in Alexandria, Virginia,

517
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Speaker 2: and you're sitting there twenty years ago and you got

518
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Speaker 2: offers from Louisiana, and you got offers from Louisa Tech.

519
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 2: And so you want to play big time football, you

520
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 2: want to go to the NFL, you want to play

521
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 2: on TV. And then Oklahoma State walks in the door

522
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 2: or Kansas State walks in the door very last minute

523
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 2: they offer you. You're taking them. I mean, you're taking

524
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 2: the offers. P five means you are going to be

525
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 2: on TV every week. You're gonna have great facilities, You're

526
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 2: gonna get access to scouts. They're gonna know who you are.

527
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,919
Speaker 2: And you just couldn't get that at Louisiana. It is

528
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 2: not two thousand, it is twenty twenty. Everybody's on TV

529
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 2: every week. What inherent advantage? What major edge does me?

530
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Speaker 2: Three star receiver from Alexandria, Louisiana, What major edge do

531
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Speaker 2: I have going a thousand miles away from home in Manhattan, Kansas.

532
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Speaker 1: No knock on Kansas State.

533
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Speaker 2: But what advantage are they given me that I can't

534
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Speaker 2: get right here, going right down the road to college.

535
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,199
Speaker 2: The answer is nothing. I'm gonna be on TV. I

536
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 2: get to stay close to home so my friends and

537
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 2: family can come see me. The scouts know about me.

538
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 2: You can't hide anymore as the point. And so twenty

539
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 2: years later, with the proliferation of everyone having a TV deal,

540
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 2: there is far less incentive for a bunch of these

541
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 2: athletes from the South to leave the South. They're not

542
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 2: all going to play at Georgia or Florida or Alabama,

543
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: but they can play at a place like Louisiana, and

544
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 2: they can get access to top level coaching, obviously because

545
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 2: Billy Napi, You're probably gonna be at one of those

546
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 2: major stops sooner rather than later. And they can get

547
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 2: on TV, and they can get access to scouts, and

548
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 2: they can go to the league.

549
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Speaker 1: What more do you need?

550
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Speaker 2: So a lot of people looked at this and they

551
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Speaker 2: were surprised. Arkansas State went to Kansas State. It was

552
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 2: kind of the same way. And I'm just telling you,

553
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 2: I think you'd be very surprised when you do these

554
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,479
Speaker 2: roster comparisons. In fact, I pulled up our twenty four

555
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 2: to seven sports roster comparison that we have right there

556
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Speaker 2: as a tool on the website.

557
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Speaker 1: I preach that it's criminally underutilized. Here's how I know.

558
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 2: I went there today and I compared the Kansas State

559
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: roster to the Arkansas State roster. Which team do you

560
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 2: think has more four and five star talent on the roster?

561
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 2: It ain't Kansas State. Did you know that before yesterday?

562
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,360
Speaker 2: Did you know that five minutes ago?

563
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 1: Yeah? So things have changed, and.

564
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of maybe a twenty or thirty

565
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 2: year old mindset as it relates to P five and

566
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 2: G five, it still exists.

567
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: Here's the reality.

568
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Speaker 2: The gap between the top five in the Power five

569
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Speaker 2: and then the next few. But the gap between the

570
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Speaker 2: top level, the top tier of Power.

571
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: Five, and anyone in the thirty to forty.

572
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 2: Range of Power five is far wider than the gap

573
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Speaker 2: between the thirty third best Power five team in the

574
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Speaker 2: country and Louisiana and Central Florida teams like that.

575
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Speaker 1: That gap has evaporated.

576
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Speaker 2: The big gap that you think exists is not between

577
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 2: Power five and G five. The big gap is between

578
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 2: the top top level of Power five and then a

579
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 2: couple of rungs down in Power five.

580
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: That's where the big gap is.

581
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Speaker 2: Because if I put Louisiana on the field with Alabama,

582
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 2: they're painting the walls with their blood. I put them

583
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 2: on the field with Iowa State competitive, if not the

584
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 2: better team being the G five team Now, as for

585
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 2: Florida State, yesterday they lost to Georgia Tech. We just

586
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 2: talked about that a second ago, and some of you,

587
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 2: judging by my inbox and Twitter d were surprised by that.

588
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 2: And so I want to ask you a question, one word,

589
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 2: three letters. Why why are you surprised? I guess I

590
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 2: can't sit here long that would be irresponsible. But why

591
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 2: are you surprised that this team lost? Is it because

592
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 2: of the point spread? Is it because they were nearly

593
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 2: a two touchdown favorite? Because they were at home? They've

594
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 2: recruited better, like the roster comparison tool would tell you

595
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: that Florida State's the more talented team, which they are.

596
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: Is that why?

597
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 2: Because I want to take you back to March and

598
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: the second that we went into quarantine and then springball

599
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 2: was canceled. I was sitting at this very desk, and

600
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Speaker 2: unfortunately I didn't have Colin dig through the archives for

601
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Speaker 2: this today, but I said at this very desk, and

602
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Speaker 2: I looked you in the eye, as I often do,

603
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 2: and I said, there is no major program in America

604
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Speaker 2: more ill equipped to handle what's about to happen.

605
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Speaker 1: Than Florida State.

606
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 2: The reason was very simple, Not only had they brought

607
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,479
Speaker 2: in an entire new coaching staff, you lose all of spring.

608
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Speaker 2: They at the time were very settled at quarterback. They're

609
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 2: trying to overturn a cultural problem down there too.

610
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: They had some off the field ups and downs.

611
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 2: And then also what they have to deal with that

612
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: a lot of other programs don't have to deal with

613
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 2: is expectation. Florida State's not a team yet, is what

614
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 2: I'm trying to tell you. They're not even a team.

615
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: They've barely had time to work together. And so they

616
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 2: came in yesterday and they looked terrible, which they should have,

617
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,360
Speaker 2: and they didn't have the you know what together, which

618
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 2: I would never have expected them to have.

619
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Speaker 1: And they lost. And no, it's not fun to watch.

620
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 2: But anyone drawing conclusions on Mike Norvelle's ability to lead

621
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: Florida State and talking about how this guy will he

622
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 2: better get his act together? What are you smoking? Let

623
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 2: me give you a little spoiler here. They're about to

624
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: get some more lumps upside their head over the next

625
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: few weeks because look at their schedule and look who

626
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 2: they have to play.

627
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: It doesn't get easier.

628
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 2: They're gonna play probably the meat of their schedule over

629
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Speaker 2: the next few weeks. They're probably gonna lose a few

630
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 2: of those games. They are not in a position right now.

631
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 2: I don't think at quarterback to be expected to be

632
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 2: at anyone. I don't really like the dynamic anymore than

633
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 2: being above average that they have it.

634
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: Running back blocking left a lot to be desired yesterday.

635
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: You know the simple concept of blocking, and so Florida

636
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 2: State was ill equipped to deal with the challenge put

637
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 2: in front of them. I don't even mean challenges in

638
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 2: Georgia tech. I just mean challenge as in a season.

639
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 2: So I don't know why you were surprised by that.

640
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: So I've let you know what to expect over the

641
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 2: next few weeks for Florida State. This is not to

642
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 2: me an indictment or referendum on Mike Norvel. It may

643
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 2: not work out with Mike Norvel, but it will not

644
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 2: be because of what just happened yesterday. Notre Dame over

645
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 2: Duke twenty seven thirteen was a game I had an

646
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 2: eye on yesterday. I thought it probably played out about

647
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 2: as in tune with what I expected a game to

648
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 2: look like as any game yesterday. So Brian Kelly handled

649
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 2: this about as I expected a very low variance approach,

650
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 2: as we told you we expected it to be. We

651
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 2: expected them to just sledge hammer the bejeezus out of Duke,

652
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 2: and they did. Kyrin Williams goes for over two hundred

653
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: yards in his Irish debut.

654
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: Really good day on the ground for him.

655
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Speaker 2: But as sure as I was talking about the inbox

656
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 2: feedback about the Florida State game, a bunch of my

657
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 2: Notre Dame folks were in my inbox saying we looked, okay,

658
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 2: a little lethargic at times. We just got to get

659
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 2: more explosive. You're not getting more explosive. What are you

660
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 2: talking about? Ian Book is thirty seven years old.

661
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: He's not getting more explosive.

662
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: What are they gonna do bringing a quarterback coach over

663
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks? They are what they are offensively,

664
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 2: So you got one of two ways. You can really

665
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 2: go and expect Brian Kelly to go. And I'm gonna

666
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: spoil the ending for you on this one as well.

667
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 2: I'll tell you exactly the way he's gonna go. But

668
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: you can either try and scrap everything about who you are.

669
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 2: Remember two weeks ago they said we got our depth

670
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 2: chart set two weeks ago, like, there very few question

671
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 2: marks right now on this roster. They know who they are,

672
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 2: they know what they're gonna do, and so you can

673
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 2: either turn all that upside down for the outside shot

674
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 2: of putting an offensive, high risk, high reward product on

675
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 2: the field that could beat Clemson but also put you

676
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 2: at much greater risk of high variance potential upset losses.

677
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 2: Or you could just do exactly what they did yesterday

678
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 2: and you can trust your physicality and trust your roster edge,

679
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: and you're probably going to be favored against every team

680
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 2: outside of Clemson that you play, and you can give

681
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 2: yourself a puncher's chance against Clemson. If you're Brian Kelly,

682
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 2: which formula would you choose? I think a lot of

683
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 2: you in the xbox crowd may choose the former. I'm

684
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 2: taking the ladder all day long, and he's gonna take

685
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 2: the ladder. They are what they are offensively. I hate

686
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,479
Speaker 2: to be the barrier of bad news. I don't think

687
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 2: that's bad news. They announced that guy had an extension

688
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty four yesterday that apparently they decided like

689
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: half a year ago. They didn't do it because they've

690
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 2: been winning seven games. They've been like a back to

691
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 2: back to back double digit win program. So no, they

692
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 2: haven't won a national title. But outside of the crowd

693
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: that's been winning national titles every other year, there aren't

694
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 2: too many other programs that are comparable to what Notre

695
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: Dame's done. They got talent at quarterback coming in, it's

696
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 2: just not this year. So it's going to buy his time.

697
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: Play a solid, low variance brand of football, and they'll

698
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: get themselves a puncher's chance against Clemson. They won't be

699
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 2: favored because they're not as good as Clemson, but they'll

700
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: be favored in pretty much every other game, and they'll

701
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: be the better team in pretty much every other game.

702
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: So he handled it yesterday exactly how I thought he was. Now.

703
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 2: North Carolina played Syracuse yesterday and that score was a

704
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 2: little odd, I'll grant you that. When I walked in

705
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 2: the office and looked up at the TV and boy,

706
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 2: oh boy, all caps, one of my buddies text me

707
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 2: North Carolina period defense period spelled it with a C,

708
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 2: by the way, shamefully and inexplicably. Oh okay, Well, might

709
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 2: I suggest we just pump our brakes just a tad here?

710
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: Listen, I hope that they're a defensive juggernaut too.

711
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: Nothing would make me happier than to know that everyone

712
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 2: in Chapel Hill was wrong about the concerns about the

713
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 2: depth and quality of their defensive line.

714
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: That would be great.

715
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 2: Having said that Syrahcuse is bad, that's a bad football team.

716
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: How bad They ran seventy three plays yesterday and amassed

717
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: two hundred and two total yards. That's hard to do, guys,

718
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: that's hard to do if you're trying to suck at offense.

719
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 2: That is good for two point eight yards per play.

720
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 2: Again at a very very very low number. So I'm

721
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: not taking anything away from North Carolina. It was a

722
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: very work when like performance, and you know, I'm on

723
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: board with North Carolina, especially in the future of the program.

724
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is a lot more games are lost

725
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 2: than they are one in Week one, and this is

726
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 2: a tailtale example of probably a side of the football

727
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: that was made to look a whole lot better than

728
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: they actually are because of just totally complete ineptitude on

729
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 2: the side of Syracuse. And I'm not so sure if

730
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 2: Syracuse doesn't have a whole lot more concerns than just

731
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 2: what we saw in the football field yesterday. So point being,

732
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 2: we'll find out together good or bad over the next

733
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 2: few weeks. North Carolina is going to be a very

734
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 2: good team this year. I just don't think they're holding

735
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: everyone to under two touchdowns a game. And last, but

736
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 2: not least, and this kind of leads into a game

737
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to this week. Louisville beat Western Kentucky.

738
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: Most of you probably didn't watch that. Miami on Thursday night.

739
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 2: Took care of youab both did what they needed to do.

740
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 2: This Miami Louisville game. I'm not sure where they have

741
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 2: it slotted. I think it may be a primetime game

742
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 2: this week. This is an important game. It's a really

743
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 2: important game for both. Now here's the question which I

744
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 2: don't think we have answered yet. Like everyone looked at

745
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: the Big Twelve yesterday and they knew had Big twelve

746
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 2: teams been playing each other yesterday. You know, if Iowa

747
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 2: State were to play Kansas State yesterday, by default, one

748
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 2: of them would have won, and they'd be the same team.

749
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 2: But because one of them would be one, and oh,

750
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 2: you'd be looking at them saying some good things to

751
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 2: take away yesterday from Iowa States seventeen to fourteen win

752
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 2: over Kansas State, But they'd still be the same team

753
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 2: that you think is terrible today, you just wouldn't know it.

754
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: Well.

755
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 2: In the ACC, neither of these teams got upset. Louisvill

756
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: didn't get upset by Western Kentucky, Miami didn't get upset

757
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,479
Speaker 2: by UAB. So now they're gonna play each other. One

758
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 2: of them's gonna win. That's my first Bowl prediction of

759
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 2: the week. One of them is going to win Saturday.

760
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: One of them's gonna be two. And oh, how good?

761
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: Is it? A misleading too?

762
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: And oh, I think we'll learn a lot more by

763
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: actually being able to lay eyeballs on the game. But

764
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: that's something I'm looking really forward to. That's gonna be

765
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 2: one of the spotlight games we talk about this week.

766
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 2: Bet for this week, which has nothing to do with

767
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 2: the Miami Louisville game, is coming up.

768
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: It is an ACC game though, all right.

769
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 2: Really important weekend, not just in the ACC, in the

770
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 2: Big twelve where they played football, not just in the

771
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 2: Big ten where they had a lot of rumors and

772
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 2: whispers about playing football, but in the SEC. They are,

773
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 2: as of yesterday, a couple of weeks away from teeing

774
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 2: it up themselves, and we have been talking a whole lot,

775
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 2: specifically at Georgia and Alabama about different position battles going

776
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 2: to start. At Georgia, we told you on Thursday Dewan

777
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 2: Mathis has made this a serious quarterback battle. We not

778
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 2: only told you that after Jamie Newman opted out and

779
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: it was assumed JT. Daniels had that job on lock.

780
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 1: Not really.

781
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: We actually thought and still think coming out of this weekend,

782
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 2: Dewan Mathis is the favorite in the clubhouse to land

783
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 2: the starting quarterback job at the University of Georgia.

784
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: We hinted at that, and.

785
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: I also told you this was an important weekend, like

786
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 2: as big as it was for other reasons in places

787
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 2: where they're actually playing football. This was a huge weekend

788
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 2: in the SEC and for Georgia because they got to

789
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 2: decide on a quarterback. This is not a dynamic where

790
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 2: they can afford to take this thing into the season.

791
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: You got to choose a guy because.

792
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 2: You're running totally different offensive packages, You're running totally different

793
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 2: styles of offense with one versus the other.

794
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: One's JT. Daniels one.

795
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: The'ms Dewan Mathis, So I'm looking as the games are

796
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 2: going on elsewhere in the country. I'm looking at Dogs

797
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: twenty four seven dot com yesterday afternoon. Jake row and

798
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 2: the guys, Kip Adams, Rusty. They always have great intel

799
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 2: after scrimmage is over there. And sure enough Kirby Smart

800
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 2: obviously watching Lake kick when he was preparing for the scrimmage.

801
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 2: Fashioned that scrimmage where Dewan Mathis took every first team

802
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 2: rep in the entire first half of that scrimmage.

803
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: That's not an accident.

804
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 2: That is that coaching staff sitting around saying, we got

805
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 2: to figure out what this dude has like. We think

806
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 2: that coaching staff thinks he's too good to keep off

807
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,919
Speaker 2: the field. That was the mentality going into the latter

808
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 2: part of last week they had to find out in

809
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 2: that scrimmage. Now, the best intel that I got, the

810
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 2: best intel that Jake and the guys had over at

811
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 2: Dogg's twenty four seven was had a good day. There

812
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 2: were some positives to take away, there were some negatives

813
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 2: to take away. This is not a dude who's going

814
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 2: to move it up and down the field on that

815
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 2: Georgia defense, nor for that record, is pretty much anyone

816
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 2: else in the country. But now where do we sit

817
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 2: and where we sit is I still think if I

818
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: had to bet my money today, Dwan Mathis is the

819
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 2: ultimate starter there. Run blocking well ahead of pass protection

820
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 2: is the other very important piece.

821
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: Of intel coming from Georgia.

822
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 2: And why that's important is because when I marry how

823
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: that offensive line looks with the two styles of quarterback

824
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 2: we have that we could potentially go with here and

825
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 2: I know run blocking's there, pass pro it's iffy. And

826
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 2: I know outside of George Pickens, I got some talented

827
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 2: but question mark types at receiver, and I know I

828
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 2: got one of the best defenses in the country. What

829
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 2: style of quarterback gives me the best chance to win?

830
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 2: I think it's the six to sixth guy who is

831
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 2: a serious threat with his legs and who can fall

832
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 2: forward and pick me up three tough yards when I needed.

833
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: That's why I think Dewan Mathis is going to start

834
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: at quarterback for Georgia. By no means is that settled yet,

835
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 2: But that is my feel on that quarterback situation right

836
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 2: now at Alabama. I'm going to be guarded in how

837
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 2: I phrase this, but when you've been around a little

838
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: while and you've talked to people at various programs. You

839
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 2: learn which ones to listen to and which ones not

840
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 2: to listen to. You all know the type, the type

841
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 2: that will tell you, oh, fourteen of these freshmen are

842
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 2: going to start this year. Everybody looks great, We're going

843
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 2: undefeated and could possibly challenge in the AFC West. Well,

844
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 2: that's great, and that sounds all well and good, and

845
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 2: that plays well in a message board.

846
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: That's not reality.

847
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 2: So you learn at Alabama and everywhere else who to

848
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 2: listen to. So let me put it to you like this,

849
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 2: the folks I've learned to listen to over the years,

850
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 2: the folks who, if anything, air on the side of

851
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: pessimism over optimism. To a man, they have touted Will Anderson,

852
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 2: who is a true freshman outside linebacker, as one of

853
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 2: the most impressive players they've ever seen in this program period,

854
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 2: this program being Alabama, the one that wins a national

855
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 2: title about every other year on average, the one that's

856
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 2: pumped out who knows how many dozens of players to

857
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 2: the NFL now. Will Anderson is a guy who rocketed

858
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 2: up our twenty four to seven Sports Individual Player ratings

859
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 2: and by signing day he was in the top ten

860
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 2: and you know, some people cried Bama bump.

861
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: Conveniently, they don't revisit.

862
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 2: That allegation after the ones who get the bump and

863
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: happen to be committed to Alabama end up shining.

864
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: But I digress, not to defend the rankings council.

865
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: Will Anderson's going to be a stud Will Anderson He's

866
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 2: going to play and play a ton of minutes from

867
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 2: day one at Alabama. He was part of an insane

868
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: edge rusher class that they signed. And you wondered, you know,

869
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,919
Speaker 2: Drew Sanders, Chris braswell, Anderson, like, which one of those

870
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 2: guys is going.

871
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: To be the first to pop all of them?

872
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: May I'm telling you Will Anderson is going to pop

873
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 2: and going to be really really good. Now, outside of that,

874
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 2: Nick Saban yesterday used a word, and if you've listened

875
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 2: to Nick Saban a while, you know there are just

876
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 2: certain phrases he uses, and when he says his offense

877
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 2: was efficient, that means they had a really, really, really

878
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 2: good day. He doesn't so much care about the big plays.

879
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 2: He cares about efficiency. So ultimately, when you're as talented

880
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 2: as they are, that's gonna win ninety nine times out

881
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 2: of one hundred. So here's what I left getting some

882
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 2: intel on Alabama scrimmage, thinking it's all well and good

883
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 2: to talk about efficiency, and it's great to have these

884
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 2: freshmen standouts that are gonna be on the field early

885
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 2: and often. But then I watched Clemson play, and if

886
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 2: Ohio State and the Big Ten get their way, we're

887
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: gonna watch Justin Fields and Ohio State play. And here's

888
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 2: what I sit here thinking. I sit here thinking to myself,

889
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 2: I know how they're gonna start the season. I know

890
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 2: mac Jones is starting there. I think I know he's

891
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 2: the best option for them right now. But they also

892
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 2: have a guy named Bryce Young who we know has

893
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 2: virtually limitless upside and certainly has the best upside, best

894
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: physical tools on that roster any quarterback.

895
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: That's what we think.

896
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 2: We know number one player in the country was Bryce

897
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,959
Speaker 2: Young this last recruiting cycle. If the time comes where

898
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 2: they end up in a playoff scenario against Clemson, who

899
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 2: do we think rhetorical question here, who do we think

900
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 2: at quarterback is best equipped by that point to put

901
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: them in position to beat Clemson or put them in

902
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 2: a position to beat Ohio State. That's the question I

903
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 2: wonder about with Alabama because with some changes that I'm

904
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 2: about to talk about, no elements, Colin, It'll take like

905
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 2: a minute. With some changes that I'm about to talk

906
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 2: about at A and M, this is the overwhelming favorite

907
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 2: in the SEC West right now. To me, there is

908
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 2: not a preseason close second to Alabama in the SEC West.

909
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 2: So I'm not thinking about SEC West. I'm thinking way

910
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 2: down the road, way down the road. So we got

911
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 2: a lot of time to figure that out. What I

912
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 2: was talking about with A and M, who.

913
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: I a few weeks ago thought was the biggest threat.

914
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 2: To Alabama in the West, Jamon Osmon is out. He

915
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 2: has opted out. That was the best returning receiver. Now

916
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 2: a lot of my AGI fans will argue, we got

917
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: some really talented younger options.

918
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do.

919
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 2: I think demand Demas is gonna end up being better

920
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: than Osmond would have been this year, point being, he

921
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 2: hadn't played a down in college yet. And so now

922
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 2: they're down Baylor Cup, the big tight end who was

923
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: returning from injury and now has to go on the

924
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 2: shelf again. And now they're down Osbon and so they've

925
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 2: had some opt outs there. I don't know what an

926
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 2: M is right now. I don't know what LSU is

927
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 2: right now. I don't know what Auburn is right now.

928
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 2: And while you never technically know who anyone is until

929
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: they play, and maybe even after they play, I don't

930
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 2: think there's a close second to Alabama in the West

931
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 2: as we start the season.

932
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: I don't think that. So that's what's going on in

933
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: the SEC right now. All right.

934
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 2: We every week during the regular season, So now, in

935
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: other words, in weeks moving forward, we end up giving

936
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 2: you five plays against the number.

937
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: Some of you bet these.

938
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 2: Some of you are just fascinated in listening to how

939
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 2: we arrive at the numbers. I try and tailor it

940
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: to where it appeals to all of you and not

941
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 2: just the hardcore gambling crowd. But since you are there,

942
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 2: what we call our five plays are the Rama Noodle

943
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 2: Express and they are intended to keep you from having

944
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: to live off a diet of rama noodles. We end

945
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 2: up by our Thursday show delivering all five of them

946
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: to you. These picks could come at any point. I

947
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 2: could give multiple picks out on Sunday. I'm gonna give

948
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 2: you at least one every Sunday. I could give multiple

949
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 2: picks out on Sunday. I could give one on Sunday,

950
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 2: four of them on Tuesday. I could give the rest

951
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 2: of them on Thursday. I could drop two of them

952
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 2: on the Blake Kick Extra podcast for all you know,

953
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 2: so really good incentive if you care about this stuff

954
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 2: to watch every show and listen to every podcast. Having

955
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 2: said that, this is the first regular week for us

956
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: of the season, and so tonight we unveil our first

957
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 2: best bet of the season. And since the Rama Noodle

958
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 2: Express is the entire package, what we have decided to

959
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 2: call the Sunday Pick. The early best bet is just

960
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 2: the seasoning, you know, the little packet that you have

961
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 2: in there and you put the flavor on. So the

962
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 2: Sunday Seasoning Special. This week we are headed to Duke.

963
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 2: Duke is favored by six. They're hosting Boston College. And

964
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 2: here you see the difference in the Vegas line and

965
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 2: our number. This is a noonkickoff. There are some conjecture

966
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 2: in the control room. In here, Colin says this may

967
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 2: be acc network. I saw ESPN three. Either way, it's

968
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 2: going to be hard to find for you. But as

969
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: the Vegas number opened today at five and a half

970
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 2: and went up to six, you see our internal number

971
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 2: has this thing well up over a touchdown. We like

972
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 2: Duke by double digits, and so our first of five

973
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 2: plays this week will be the Duke Blue Devils.

974
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: Minus six points.

975
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: Expect that one to move up to a touchdown and

976
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 2: that's why we want to move on that one now. Again,

977
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 2: we will have the rest of those no later than Thursday,

978
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 2: could come at any time. To be honest with you,

979
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 2: I don't like waiting till Thursday because I like to

980
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 2: get moves before those lines adjust, and so stay tuned,

981
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 2: is all I'm saying to you. We got a lot

982
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,240
Speaker 2: of folks in the chat right now. I really appreciate

983
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: you being here. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't

984
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 2: already clicked the bell very important because it sends you

985
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Speaker 2: notifications when we go on air and when we post videos.

986
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 2: And also subscribe to the Late Kick podcast and leave

987
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 2: us a five star review. And that's really all we ask.

988
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: A follow on Twitter would be nice as well. At

989
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: Late Kick, Josh, it's been.

990
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 2: A great show. It's been a great week. We're just

991
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: getting started. We will be back here at the.

992
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: Same time Tuesday night.

993
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Speaker 2: Until then for director Colin, for Jordan on the podcast side,

994
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Speaker 2: I'm Josh Pate.

995
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Speaker 1: God bless you a great start to your week.