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Speaker 1: year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. Yeah, we're going

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Speaker 1: just growing mildly to moderately concerned about some of you who,

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Speaker 1: and you believe that you can afford to overlook this week.

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Speaker 1: You cannot. You cannot. In fact, we know it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Immunity to everything. We know it's coming, we just don't

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Speaker 1: know when I am taking unprecedented steps on Tonight's show.

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Speaker 1: I have listened as the future commissioner of this great

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Speaker 1: People will be so far behind the curve on them.

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Speaker 1: Well I'm out of the curve. Well, actually, actually I'm

429
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Speaker 1: just on the curve because I actually watched them play

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Speaker 1: the other night. The audacity, by the way of ranking

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Speaker 1: teams after you watch them play, Utah number eight, USF

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Speaker 1: is ranked for me, I've got them twenty fifth. The

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Speaker 1: AP is like USF us what they played already? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know who they played. They played the team every

435
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Speaker 1: single one of you were picking to go to the

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Speaker 1: playoff from the G five. Why do I get the

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Speaker 1: sneaking suspicion, by the way that if Boise would have

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Speaker 1: won that thing by three, they'd be ranked. But since

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Speaker 1: USF one going away, they're not ranked. I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 1: Pre season rankings. Nothing wrong with preseason rankings. Remember I

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Speaker 1: don't even do rankings. Except for this right now. But

442
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Speaker 1: I've always told you I got no problem with preseason rankings,

443
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Speaker 1: but you got to be able to come off of

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Speaker 1: those rankings once the season starts. You got to be

445
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Speaker 1: able to keep about ten percent of your preseason belief

446
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 1: and first few weeks ninety plus percent of your guidance

447
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,640
Speaker 1: should be based on what's happened on the field. Well,

448
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 1: they convincingly beat a playoff projected team in Boise State,

449
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Speaker 1: so they ought to be ranked. So they are. For me.

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Speaker 1: I've got South Carolina number ten. I've got them the

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Speaker 1: same as the AP does. I've got Ohio State number one,

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Speaker 1: the same as the AP does, so I don't have

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Speaker 1: much disagreement there. I know there was some talk about

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Speaker 1: whether Ohio State should be one or LSU should be one.

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Speaker 1: If I'm ranking teams, guys, this is not that difficult.

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Speaker 1: That team just won a national championship. They just took

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Speaker 1: on an elite opponent, high level opponent, and they beat

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Speaker 1: them and led fourteen to nothing in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Like until someone knocks them off or they look extremely vulnerable,

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Speaker 1: or someone else just looks above and beyond dominant. Don't

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Speaker 1: overthink the room. Ohio State's the number one team in

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Speaker 1: the country. Ole Miss, I've got five spots higher than

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Speaker 1: the AP. I've got ole Miss at fifteen. I think

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Speaker 1: the AP's got them at twenty, right, Jesse. They sure

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Speaker 1: they went up and down the field on Georgia State.

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Speaker 1: They got some impressive athletes. And I was watching that

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Speaker 1: because we had Georgia State plus the points and that

468
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Speaker 1: didn't go the way we wanted it to. They ran

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Speaker 1: it up on Georgia State. They go on the road

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Speaker 1: this week to Kentucky. It's the kind of game where

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Speaker 1: they have everything to lose and virtually nothing to win.

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Speaker 1: Because they go smoke Kentucky, people will say it was Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: and then if they don't, they'll plummet because they lost

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Speaker 1: to Kentucky. I think they'll take care of business this week.

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Speaker 1: I believe in them, Elaine, I believe in you again.

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Speaker 1: Don't embarrass me this week. LSU number two team in

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Speaker 1: the country. AP's got him at number three. LSU just

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Speaker 1: went on the road. Not only did they win a

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Speaker 1: game on the road, I actually if you just watched

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Speaker 1: the game, you understand there were a couple of calls

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Speaker 1: that kept that from being a game where LSU won

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Speaker 1: with margin on the road in the building of the

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Speaker 1: preseason ACC title favorite. So yes, LSU way up there.

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Speaker 1: Number two. I got Oregon the same as the AP.

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Speaker 1: I've got him number six. Here's another team that not

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Speaker 1: a lot of people watched last week, Tennessee. Tennessee was

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Speaker 1: impressive to me. If I'm going to sit here and

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Speaker 1: question Tennessee the preseason and then some of the things

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Speaker 1: I questioned are strengths of their Week one win over Syracuse,

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Speaker 1: I'm rewarding that I've got them number thirteen. The AP

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Speaker 1: has them twenty two. Guarant Look, I will guarantee you

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Speaker 1: that the game against Syracuse happened and not a lot

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Speaker 1: of people watched it because it was in a window

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Speaker 1: where other big games were happening, and people just looked

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Speaker 1: and said, Okay, well they beat Syracuse. That's not a

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Speaker 1: big deal. They their offensive line, the quarterback play defensively,

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Speaker 1: just so many things I had question marks about Tennessee

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Speaker 1: on one game sample size. I know that's all we

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Speaker 1: have to go on. We're not projecting with this. This

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Speaker 1: isn't power ratings. There's rankings. Tennessee's thirteen. I don't know

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Speaker 1: why people aren't higher on them after their Week one performance.

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Speaker 1: Very impressive Texas, all right, what do we do with them?

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Speaker 1: I dropped him a fair amount because I've got to

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Speaker 1: go on body of work, and the body of work

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Speaker 1: for Texas right now is a loss. But it's a

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Speaker 1: lost number one team in the country. Fair. They did

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Speaker 1: rally back, they gave themselves an outside shot to win

508
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Speaker 1: it late, but that offense was shaky. Matt, Patricia will

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Speaker 1: do that to you. As it turns out. I put

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Speaker 1: Texas at eleven. I put them a little bit lower

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Speaker 1: than the AP which has them at seven. And it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you're ranked, obviously, and plenty of plenty

513
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Speaker 1: of opportunities to rebound, but I gotta come down on

514
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Speaker 1: you pretty harshly when you're as anemic offensively as that,

515
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Speaker 1: when you can't get it done inside the ten yard line. Again,

516
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Speaker 1: it's a lingering issue that we saw crop up last year.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put Texas at eleven right now. Iowa State,

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty in line with what the AP thinks they're

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Speaker 1: They've got them sixteen. I've got Iowa State fourteen. We

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Speaker 1: will see them in person Saturday morning Central time against Iowa.

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Speaker 1: You might be wondering, oh man, when's Bama gonna pop up?

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Speaker 1: Win's Bama gonna pop up? I don't have them ranked.

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Speaker 1: Alabama's unranked for me. The AP's got them twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Why would I rank Alabama. There are twenty five bodies

525
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Speaker 1: of work better than Alabama's right now. Indiana, I don't

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Speaker 1: have ranked. I saw him struggle to put old dominion away,

527
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Speaker 1: took old dominion in the points. By the way, if

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Speaker 1: you were listening on Friday night lines, the AP's got

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Speaker 1: them twenty third. Not a ton of disagreement there, But

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Speaker 1: I don't have Indiana top twenty five. Oklahoma is very

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Speaker 1: very conflicting for me, cause in the JP pole I'm

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Speaker 1: high on Oklahoma. Well, the model is at least and

533
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Speaker 1: I picked Oklahoma to beat Michigan this weekend. Who I

534
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Speaker 1: have ranked nineteenth, But I do not have Oklahoma ranked.

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Speaker 1: I think I have in twenty six. So just outside

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Speaker 1: the top twenty five. They're coming off a bad year.

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Speaker 1: Remember it's tough for me to reprogram my mind to

538
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Speaker 1: talk like this. But in rankings terms, why has Oklahoma

539
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Speaker 1: earned a top twenty five ranking. They came off a

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Speaker 1: bad year, yet they made moves and if I'm predicting.

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Speaker 1: I will predict Oklahoma to be a top twenty five team.

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Speaker 1: But they couldn't run the ball last week against Illinois State.

543
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Speaker 1: They struggled to run the ball. Matier looked good against

544
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Speaker 1: inferior competition, but hey, I could say that about him

545
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Speaker 1: at Washington State. I've yet to see him against legit competition,

546
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Speaker 1: which happens this weekend against Michigan. But I've got Oklahoma

547
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Speaker 1: just outside the top twenty five, and the AP has

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Speaker 1: them eighteen right now. Penn State AP's got them two,

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Speaker 1: I've got them four. It's just I've not seen them

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Speaker 1: play anybody. I just saw what Miami and LSU and

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Speaker 1: Ohio State did, so I'm rewarding those three. It's not

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Speaker 1: a punishment on Penn State. They've got plenty of opportunities

553
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Speaker 1: coming up. I've got USC ranked twenty third. I've got

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Speaker 1: USC this is arguable. They could be twenty third, they

555
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Speaker 1: could be twenty sixth. I think that there's again a

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Speaker 1: little pulse out there, maybe a little more pulse than

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Speaker 1: the public is ready to admit. They scored like one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven points week one against a high

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Speaker 1: school team. I got USC twenty third. You can debate that.

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Speaker 1: That's fine. Georgia, I've got fifth, the AP has fourth.

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Speaker 1: No real difference in an opinion there. Illinois, I'm with

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Speaker 1: the AP on them. So there's a lot of agree

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Speaker 1: here with the AP. I've got Illinois twelfth, the AP

564
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Speaker 1: has them eleventh. SMU same deal. I got SMU eighteen,

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Speaker 1: the AP has them seventeen. I also agree on Texas Tech.

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Speaker 1: They're at twenty fourth. All right, here's one that will

567
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Speaker 1: probably be a little controversial, but I just think it

568
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Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. If we are ranking teams based on

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Speaker 1: their body of work, why is Clemson number eight in

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Speaker 1: the country. Clemson got stoned in their own building a

571
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Speaker 1: game that honestly on the scoreboard was a lot closer

572
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Speaker 1: than maybe it could have been or should have been.

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Speaker 1: At the end, that was dangerously close to LSU stretching

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Speaker 1: that thing. And I got Clemson at twenty one. That

575
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Speaker 1: is not that impressive a showing at all. I think

576
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Speaker 1: their offense is very limited right now. There's a ways

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Speaker 1: to go for that team. So I'm divorcing myself of

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Speaker 1: preseason expectation. Doesn't matter what I thought about Clemson preseason.

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Speaker 1: This is the rankings world. Right. This is how it's

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Speaker 1: supposed to work, Jesse. Right, that's what y'all told me.

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Speaker 1: So if we're going based on what we've had actually seeing,

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Speaker 1: Clemson's not a top fifteen team. They're number twenty one

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Speaker 1: right now. That's where they're parked. Be happy to be ranked.

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Speaker 1: You did play my number two team, I will grant you.

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Speaker 1: You could have scheduled a creampuff in one by forty,

586
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,719
Speaker 1: but yet you didn't and you lost. So you're at

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Speaker 1: twenty one right now. Let's see Florida. I'm a little

588
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: bit lower on than the AP. Obviously the JP pole

589
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: would disagree. But I've got Florida seventeen. AP's got him thirteen.

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00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: Let's fill this out, Bradley, I got A and M twentieth.

591
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: AP's got him nineteen. I've got Georgia Tech ranked. Georgia

592
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: Tech committed the crime of playing too early. They go

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Speaker 1: out to Colorado, they turn the ball over three times

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Speaker 1: in the first quarter and still win the game. I

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00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: think Georgia Tech's impressive Haines King may not survive half

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Speaker 1: the season if they play him like they did the

597
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: other night. So we're gonna work on that. But I

598
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: got Georgia Tech ranked. So I mean, I don't get

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Speaker 1: what's so difficult about this. As far as I can tell,

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Speaker 1: rankings are judge a team based on merit instead of

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Speaker 1: what they would be favored by against who on a

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Speaker 1: neutral field. This seems very easy. People are making it

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. Jesse at seven thirty two.

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Speaker 1: What should we do right here? Oh? We do well? Well, well,

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Speaker 1: all right, here's what we'll do, Jesse. I've got a plan.

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Speaker 1: I got a plan. So let's get cublicqueued up and

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Speaker 1: so Robinoel Express. I'm about to add two games too.

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Speaker 1: We are already Just to refresh you, the games were

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Speaker 1: already on and all of these numbers have moved. Some

627
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Speaker 1: say we're moving the line. I don't want to confirm that.

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you Northern Illinois plus seventeen and a

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Speaker 1: half ain't available anymore. We locked it in on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: James Madison plus fourteen and a half gone. We locked

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Speaker 1: it in on Tuesday. Illinois minus two and a half.

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Speaker 1: That thing crossed three. We locked it in on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Michigan Oklahoma over forty five and a half. Now that

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Speaker 1: one you can actually get better value on. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we have a difference of opinion FanDuel and I on

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Speaker 1: the way that game is gonna go anyway, lock in

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Speaker 1: right here. Two added best bets ole Miss. I cannot

638
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Speaker 1: believe this number is coming down to us ole Miss

639
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: minus eight and a half. Yes, yes, it's the squarest

640
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: bet in the world. I couldn't care less. People are

641
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: overthinking the room on this. They're winning by double digits

642
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: against Kentucky and Louisiana Tech is going into Death Valley. Well,

643
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: I guess they won the bragging rights last week. So

644
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: the real one at LSU. LSU's gonna win this Saturday convincingly.

645
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: I just don't think by thirty eight or more so

646
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 1: Louisiana Tech plus thirty seven and a half. That's another

647
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,080
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650
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651
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Speaker 1: this weekend, so just makes sure you're checking it out

652
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Speaker 1: over there. If you don't bet, that's fine. It's very

653
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: interesting to just go peruse watching that line movement right

654
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 1: before kickoff, who's expected to win, which totals are dropping?

655
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: Is there bad weather? Very interesting way to pass the time.

656
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: At the very least, and at the most you can

657
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: go make yourself some money over there. We appreciate it,

658
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: all right, Jesse, prove it to me. I don't believe

659
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: he's here. I don't believe we have cublic. We've actually

660
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: never had cublic in our new setup here, so I

661
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: don't know how this works. Well, there, he is here,

662
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: I am, and you sound clearer than you ever did

663
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: in the old building.

664
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jesse got to work on it.

665
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 3: Said that he wasn't going to allow you to pretend

666
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 3: like the technical difficulty was going to keep me from

667
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 3: being on the show again tonight. But I just appreciate

668
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 3: you waiting until thirty five million people were watching the

669
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 3: first quarter of the first NFL game of the season

670
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 3: to bring me on your show live when obviously everybody

671
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 3: is dialed in.

672
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: You think there's a design behind that, huh.

673
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 2: I know how calculated you are.

674
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you've talked about Alabama a

675
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: lot this week. You just do radio local Showah, yeah,

676
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: you just do radio and Birmingham Monday through Friday. Okay,

677
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: So I listened to you and McElroy a lot, so

678
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 1: I'm aware of what the tone of the show sounded

679
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: like this week for those unfamiliar, they kind of know

680
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: the stereotype, like if someone's in Seattle, they know the stereotype.

681
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: What's the state of Alabama? Like when Alabama loses or

682
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: god forbid both of them, Alabama Auburn lose the same week. Well,

683
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: this week we had Obama meltdown, we had an Auburn

684
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: win on the road at Baylor. What was the dynamic

685
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: like there.

686
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,479
Speaker 3: It's one of my most difficult times of the year

687
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 3: when it does take place the way that it did.

688
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 2: To actually host a radio show.

689
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 3: In Birmingham and it goes something like this, welcome back

690
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 3: in Macelroy and Cublic in the morning, eight hundred sixty nine,

691
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 3: eight hundred two three nine WJOX. If you'd like to

692
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 3: get in Pauz, go to phones, let people melt down live.

693
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 3: That's pretty much it. And the tone of those people

694
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 3: was that this is one hundred percent on the coaches.

695
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 3: The coach to board needs to be fired, that none

696
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 3: of the coaches there know what they're doing, and the

697
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 3: scheme was terrible, the design of the plays were terrible,

698
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 3: and sixty million is no big deal. Just pay it

699
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 3: out now, get it over with and let's move on.

700
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: Someone else's money. It's the easiest money to spend. I

701
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: don't know if you heard. By the way, I don't

702
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: know if you heard. Cule you don't even have to

703
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: pay it all at once. You can pay it in

704
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: annual installments. So when you break it down like that,

705
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: When you break it down like that, what is seventy

706
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: million dollars? You get to split it out to twenty

707
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: thirty one. It's kind of easy when you think about it.

708
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,240
Speaker 3: Think about it this way though, And just to entertain

709
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 3: the stupidity that is that conversation, I had a conversation

710
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 3: with the buddy mine today and he asked me that question,

711
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 3: and asked it because he thought he had spoken to

712
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 3: some people who know that led him.

713
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 2: To believe this could possibly be real somehow way.

714
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 3: And I said, well, let's take the follow up to that.

715
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 3: So let's sit sixty three too. Whatever it is, let's

716
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 3: just call it sixty yep. Okay, you're gonna have to

717
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 3: buy out the rest of the staff. You're closing in

718
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 3: on seventy At that point.

719
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 2: You're gonna lose a lot of guys of the portal.

720
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 3: Okay, Now this is before we talk about new coach,

721
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 3: and when you lose players, what do you have to

722
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 3: do replace said players? And you may have to pay

723
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 3: a premium to get those backs to your nil's going up.

724
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 3: So now we're what eighty ish on top of that,

725
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 3: got to go hire a new coach that's gonna be

726
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 3: guaranteed money that somebody's got to come up with because

727
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 3: we're all scared of revenue sharing now, so we can't

728
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 3: use school money on that anymore. So now all the

729
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: folks that ponied up for all that, we either got

730
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 3: to go back to them, which we've been knocking on

731
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 3: their door weekly for the last couple of years anyway,

732
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 3: and we got to say, hey, we really like coach

733
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,720
Speaker 3: so and so, but he's probably gonna command one hundred

734
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 3: million guaranteed to come be the head coach.

735
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 2: Here because of what we just did to the last guy.

736
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: You're good for that, right, Oh? Sure, check after check

737
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 2: after check, and.

738
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 3: You're talking, I mean, honestly, Josh, you're talking an eighty

739
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 3: eighty five million dollar decision. Yep, maybe more if you

740
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 3: were to go down that route. And it's not realistic

741
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 3: in today's landscape of college football. So it's unfortunate that

742
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 3: a lot of it goes a certain direction because I

743
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 3: never think it's all players fault. I never think it's

744
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 3: all coach's fault, just like it's never one player's fault,

745
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 3: just like one play never decides a game.

746
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 2: But I will say this, I have lived through a

747
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: few of these.

748
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 3: I'm not going to act like and listen. I live

749
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 3: through the mics and saw that firsthand. I was here

750
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: the last time they played Ulm at Brian Dennyan lost.

751
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 3: I know what that meltdown was like. I don't know

752
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 3: about you, but this one feels like it got a

753
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 3: lot more toxic, a lot more quickly than a lot

754
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 3: of the others in the past.

755
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 2: And I don't necessarily know exactly what the reasoning is

756
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: for that.

757
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'll tell you why. I don't think that

758
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: leadership at Alabama necessarily consulted everyone who believes it's their

759
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: birthright to be consulted before they went and made the

760
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: higher of Kaylen Debor.

761
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,879
Speaker 2: I think what you're trying to say is he ain't

762
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 2: from the South.

763
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 1: That's exactly right, Saban. Now, Sabon was bored in with Tumka,

764
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: That's well known. Saban never absolutely Saban walked in town

765
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: with a straw in his mouth. But Kaylen Debor now, uh,

766
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: Kaylen de Bor, the Pacific Ocean, the Puget Sound. So

767
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. Now, I think you

768
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: get this, this kind of win win or lost lost stance,

769
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: depending on how you view it. Where Now we warned him,

770
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: you know, we warned old greg Burn there. This may

771
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: not work out, may not, by the way, may not

772
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: work out to where you get to reap all the

773
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: rewards and the benefits if they win. But you also

774
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: get to have the I told you so in my

775
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: back pocket if it goes sideways. And then so here's

776
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: what I wonder. And for anyone who's curious about what

777
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: we're talking about, it is a bad time in the

778
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: state of Alabama right now. There's been a lot of

779
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: talk about boosters unhappy and and hey, the unrest is real,

780
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: you know. That's what people keep telling me. It's not

781
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: made up. It's real. I don't doubt it's real. You know.

782
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: Manure is real. When I pass a cow pastor, that's real.

783
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: It's there. Not gonna do much with it, but it's real.

784
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: But I will ask you this and anyone. I guess

785
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: I could just speak into the void. So let's say

786
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: Cole Kublick is the biggest donor they have. Let's say

787
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: your picture is hanging up in the Malamour facility there

788
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: when you walk in, and everybody just steps to the

789
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: side when you stroll across campus. That's how big a

790
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: deal you are. I assume you want Alabama to win.

791
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: I assume that in your heart of hearts a perfect Saturday,

792
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: as you're up forty two to nothing in the fourth

793
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: quarter and the starter's coming out and you want to

794
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: see championships and blah blah blah. Do you think it's

795
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: best accomplished by running your mouth to writers and having

796
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: them anonymously citing you talking about how we're ready to

797
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 1: make a move if he doesn't get the job done,

798
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: or maybe keeping that in house. What do we think

799
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: gives the football program a better chance to succeed? Because

800
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: I keep looking at this and how laughable and how

801
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: much of a circus it is from the outside, and

802
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think some of the clowns inside the

803
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: circus really realize that, well, we have.

804
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 3: Seen what it looks like when it's the part that

805
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 3: you're describing about two and a half hours West. Yeah,

806
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 3: one coach ago when a lot of folks decided it

807
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 3: would be best to go to certain writers and make

808
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 3: up certain stories and have those printed and have those

809
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 3: on message boards, and it ended in an ugly divorce

810
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, everybody thought they were loving

811
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 3: what they had up until last Friday night that was

812
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 3: on rocky terms. So I personally would want it all

813
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 3: to stay in house as much as humanly possible, because

814
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:48,959
Speaker 3: I would want to be able to fix the problem

815
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 3: that not potentially caused. I think you know, like I know,

816
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 3: egos don't allow that to happen, and it's never going

817
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: to be the reality. So one of the biggest possible

818
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 3: downfalls of this higher switch or replacement was the amount

819
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 3: of people that had not had their tentacles.

820
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 2: On that place or in that place that.

821
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 3: We're going to be able to at least attempt to

822
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 3: do it and maybe get back inside there. Because I've

823
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 3: said it for a long time, Josh, I think you

824
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 3: and I have talked about this. The greatest accomplishment Nick

825
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 3: Saban had at Alabama was stiff arming certain people out

826
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 3: of there and removing their control. And he didn't do

827
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 3: it to them individually. He went to the administration and said,

828
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 3: get them away or it's.

829
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 2: Not going to work. And that's it, bottom line.

830
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 3: So stay away, let us do what we do, you

831
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 3: help the way you help, and we'll move on and

832
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 3: win championships.

833
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 2: And they did. No other coach has been able to

834
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: do it to the effect that he did.

835
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 3: I would imagine that Cale in to Bore struggles with

836
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 3: a lot of people that now feel like, well, Nick's gone,

837
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,479
Speaker 3: so I deserve my time to be back in there.

838
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 3: And it's not necessarily comfortable to have to manage that,

839
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 3: especially now with nil and you need the money that

840
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 3: those guys can provide, and you probably need it more

841
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,879
Speaker 3: times than you ever needed annually. It's tough, but you're

842
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 3: not going to be able to keep them from keeping

843
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 3: their mouths shut and getting their way. I'm not just

844
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 3: reverencing Alabama here, I'm referencing Mega Booster in general. At

845
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 3: big program. They're all going to want to get their

846
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 3: message out through certain people.

847
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 2: It's just it's it's how they operate.

848
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: It is it's amazing. So I've talked to you about this,

849
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: but I want to talk to you about it on

850
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: the show. So that was like a sledgehammer to the face.

851
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: The result was like A said, let me tell me, hold.

852
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 2: On, I gotta go back real quick. I forgot to

853
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 2: do this.

854
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 3: It's not necessarily rough times in Alabama right now, because

855
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,439
Speaker 3: I mean, Auburn did just run for three hundred to Getst.

856
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 2: Baylor on the road Friday night. So it's it's not

857
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 2: all it's not all bad. Dred Dilfrid did win his opener.

858
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: You know, that's not an undersized Baylor front. I was

859
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: told that was. That was a front that was ready,

860
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: willing and able to take on the task, and then

861
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: the task found them and not so much. So, if

862
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: you're done interrupting, I do want to talk to you

863
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: about the Alabama out come itself, because that was a

864
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: sledgehammer to the face to me. So you've got their

865
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,760
Speaker 1: game this weekend, actually, so great timing on your part.

866
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: But I remember talking to you throughout spring, throughout summer.

867
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: You go over there and watch and practice. I go

868
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: over there and watching practice. We both talked to a

869
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: lot of people who watch in practice. Was there ever

870
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:24,720
Speaker 1: any inclination forget about any one person's viewpoint collectively people

871
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: you trust? Was there ever any inclination that any kind

872
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: of threat of what we saw last Saturday was on

873
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: the horizon, because I will tell you the feedback I

874
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: got it was swift, and it was immediate, and that

875
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 1: was Don't you feel like an idiot now for saying

876
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: what you said about your observations when you watched in

877
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: practice and the vibe that you got from them. Look,

878
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: I fully admit, Hey, man, I could whiff, So look

879
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: beyond me. I mean, you've probably talked to a dozen

880
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: people who were around that program in the fall. It

881
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: all sounded pretty much the same to me. I noticed

882
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: a lot of people saying what I was saying. That

883
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: was what took me so much by surprise. But I

884
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: kind of wanted you to share some of the feedback,

885
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: you know, some of the generic intel that you had

886
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: gotten and then how badly it didn't sync up with

887
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: the result.

888
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: Well, there's four or.

889
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 3: Five people that either played there or have been there,

890
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 3: that were at practices this fall that I spoke to

891
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 3: that said similar things. It's not the exact same thing

892
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 3: that you did. The physicality seemed like it had rammed

893
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 3: up a little bit. That might be the oddest part

894
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 3: of what we're talking about and what we saw on

895
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon that it was fast.

896
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 2: Guys look athletic. A couple of guys looked like they were.

897
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 3: In better shape than they had been in the previous

898
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 3: year or years. And that didn't seem to be sloppy.

899
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 3: They're not dropping snaps. There's now procedure penalties.

900
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 2: It was clean.

901
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 3: It was crisp, And that's from Ian McElroy told me that.

902
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 3: And I trust his opinion and his eyes when he's

903
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 3: there watching that, probably more so than anybody because of

904
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 3: his history there and what he does and how he

905
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 3: knows ball. I talked to Corey Reimer about it. We

906
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 3: had Tyler watch on the show who does Radio. He

907
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 3: talked about it. I mean, it wasn't just you that

908
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 3: was saying that. I mean it was eight nine, ten

909
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 3: people who I spoke to that all said the exact

910
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 3: same things. And I think we spoke at Media Days

911
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 3: and I brought it up to you. I said, this

912
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 3: late momentum for Alabama of not just being able to win,

913
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 3: but deep in the playoffs, national championship, I just feel

914
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 3: like there's a lot of people jumping on board with that.

915
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 3: And I think some of it was that people generally

916
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 3: got to see them and felt great about and felt

917
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 3: great about. I mean, Greg and I talked about it

918
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 3: on our show. Which team did you fear more or

919
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 3: feel better about?

920
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 2: Either way? Really?

921
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 3: Alabama last year, Alabama this year, And when you started

922
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 3: going through position by position, there were a lot of

923
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 3: reasons to be a little bit more concerned if you

924
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:37,879
Speaker 3: were playing against them.

925
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: About this team this year.

926
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, it's one of the biggest oddities

927
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,879
Speaker 3: I have seen in college football in a long time.

928
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 2: And I've shared this with you.

929
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 3: The reason for that is there are a lot of

930
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 3: people on Sunday posting their clips of you know, Bray

931
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,919
Speaker 3: Hubbard not chasing a guy or safety's not running after

932
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 3: a guy twenty yards in front of the field.

933
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 2: That's scary, and you don't like that. It's not good.

934
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 2: But Josh, that was That wasn't even.

935
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 3: A third as bad as the stuff that I saw

936
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 3: that I was concerned about.

937
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 2: And the things that I was concerned.

938
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 3: About was the lack of physicality and the fact that Alabama.

939
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 2: Absorbed for almost four or full quarters of that game.

940
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 3: And by saying that, what I mean is striking their

941
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 3: opponent from the defensive line position, from the linebacker position,

942
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 3: from the safety position, striking their opponent from the offensive line,

943
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 3: tight end running back position.

944
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 2: I thought eighty played well. I thought I thought Parker.

945
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 3: The most unfortunate part of this whole thing is nobody's

946
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 3: talking about how will Parker Brailes were played. He plays

947
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 3: rear end off and Jimmy Bernard also did. And that's

948
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 3: about it. And to see guys getting pushed around, to

949
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 3: see guys getting jarred back, I see guards double team

950
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 3: and and combo and climbing up to Deontay Lawson and

951
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 3: kind of having a free run.

952
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: I'm used to c J.

953
00:48:56,280 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 3: Mosley, Ruben Foster, Reggie Raglan, Rolonda McClain hop in that

954
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 3: helmet and it's like, the way I'm telling you, the

955
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 3: way it looks on film is like that offensive lineman's helmet.

956
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: It kind of like jars back and just like just

957
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 2: like that, and there's an offensive lineman.

958
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:16,879
Speaker 3: When I see that, you're like, ooh no, not good.

959
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 3: That's because the feet almost come off the ground. You

960
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 3: have to completely reset your body. By the time you're

961
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 3: they're doing that, they're shedding you off and they're going

962
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:24,479
Speaker 3: to make the play.

963
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 2: And it was either Paddy Cake.

964
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 3: Walk up to each other and hand fight like literally

965
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 3: my eight year old and five year.

966
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 2: Old will do or it was, and this was I'm

967
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: I'm because I've ever seen this in an album uniform.

968
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 3: Duck turns shoulder and take on block that way, not

969
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 3: even front side shoulder, literally the back of the back

970
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 3: side shoulder, so you're turning your back to the ball carrier,

971
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 3: which from a defensive perspective, it's no different than anything

972
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 3: else in sports. You want to shoot a basketball, you

973
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 3: probably to look at the rim. You want to hit

974
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 3: a baseball, you probably to watch the ball. How are

975
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 3: you going to tackle someone looking the way they're running.

976
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 3: It's not possible. So Alabama has been the enforcer for

977
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 3: a decade plus. They have been the striker for a

978
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,760
Speaker 3: decade plus. And I explained this on Read and React

979
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 3: Monday night when Roman and I got into it. A

980
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,760
Speaker 3: lot of people will say, oh, well, I mean whatever.

981
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 3: It's like, maybe they're faster, maybe they're more athletic. The

982
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 3: reason that's important is because for that period of time, Josh,

983
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 3: when that was happening, there was nothing you could do

984
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 3: about it. There was no play call, there was no

985
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 3: way to circumvent it, there was no formation when.

986
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 2: You had to go Monoi mono on that guy. He

987
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 2: was kicking your tail.

988
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 3: And that's why we have spread offense, triple option, hurry up,

989
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 3: no huddle, offense, air.

990
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 2: Raid because all those coaches said, with teams like that

991
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 2: that could do that, that were capable of that, we

992
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 2: have to have this to even be competitive.

993
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 3: And Dust did a good job of bringing some of

994
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 3: that out and they're guys got after them and won

995
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 3: the game physically, and that's why you got the outcome

996
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,439
Speaker 3: that you did. And I said, and I'll say it again,

997
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 3: the scariest part to me is if that's.

998
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,439
Speaker 2: Gone, how do you win?

999
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1000
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 2: Do you out quarterback people? Do you out offensive line people?

1001
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 3: Because that group didn't look like they're gonna just give

1002
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 3: solid protection all year. Are you just out pass rushing people.

1003
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 3: Is your defensive line that dominant to where they're just

1004
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 3: going to be in the backfield causing those kind of problems.

1005
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 3: Are your safeties covering everything up to where it doesn't matter?

1006
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 3: Because that didn't look like a reality. So if that

1007
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 3: portion of here's what we do, good luck, buddy, is gone.

1008
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, the board company are gonna have to

1009
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 3: scheme their pails off to win.

1010
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 2: Games this year.

1011
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people, even having watched Saturday,

1012
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: keep on circling the Georgia game. We were on the

1013
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: phone earlier today. You interrupted my workout for this. I

1014
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,879
Speaker 1: knew it had to be important. And so you've got

1015
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: them this weekend play u Ellmanroe. Then they've got Wisconsin

1016
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 1: coming in, then there's a bye, then they go to Georgia.

1017
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: It's better part of a month between now and that

1018
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: Georgia game. But what you're talking about all gets balled

1019
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: up into competitive character. That's basically what basically what we're

1020
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: talking about here. Let's just say it is a terminal

1021
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: issue with them. Competitive character. It's not a mirage. What

1022
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: we saw in week one is really it's there and

1023
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: it's not going away. We were talking earlier today. Neither

1024
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 1: one of us expect, you know, u Elmanroe to challenge

1025
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: to beat them this week. But we've both seen situations

1026
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: throughout history where a big favorite ends up winning a game.

1027
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: But there's so many oh moments, there are so many

1028
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: warning signs, so many so much red sharpie all over

1029
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: that game to where you say this is going to

1030
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 1: manifest itself in something ugly down the road. Likewise, with

1031
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 1: the Wisconsin game, that's a Big ten opponent coming in,

1032
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: not a great team in all likelihood. But point being so,

1033
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,439
Speaker 1: if we're talking through this and those flaws really are there,

1034
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: those are just permanent fixtures of the Alabama team this

1035
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: year or this yeah, this year, why is there such

1036
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: a certainty these next two weeks are all right, Well,

1037
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: we'll get it in order, and then when we go

1038
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,240
Speaker 1: to Georgia, like I've been told all week, the Georgia

1039
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: game will tell the tale. How do you know you

1040
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: won't learn a whole lot this weekend about that team?

1041
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 3: I think you will, And I think maybe the most

1042
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 3: intriguing part about this weekend is the folks that say

1043
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 3: what you just said, and that is they're gonna bounce

1044
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 3: back this weekend. They're gonna they're gonna punish them, draw

1045
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 3: them into the ground, smash them, and then come back

1046
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 3: against Wisconsin. And as you just stated, the scary part

1047
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 3: about that, and I want everybody to understand I'm still

1048
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 3: using if and maybe and could be because I don't

1049
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,240
Speaker 3: know if this is a real problem. It was one game.

1050
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 3: I'm not judging a team, I'm not judging a coach,

1051
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 3: I'm not judging a.

1052
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 2: Player on one game.

1053
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 3: Because I don't know all the extra parameters of what

1054
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 3: was going on, and the circumstantial evidence has not been

1055
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 3: presented to me. So I'm gonna give them another chance

1056
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 3: to show me who they may really be.

1057
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 2: The scary part, Josh, is.

1058
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 3: If that mentality and that competitive character is flawed, there's

1059
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 3: no reason to believe that they will do what Bamba

1060
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 3: teams of the past have done, or just other good

1061
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 3: programs in the past have done, and that is bounce back,

1062
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 3: smash face, go to the next game. Because I would

1063
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 3: imagine if you are weak minded in a way that

1064
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 3: it forced you to play the way you did last week,

1065
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 3: it's gonna be harder to get ready.

1066
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 2: For this game this week. Yeah, because no.

1067
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 3: One likes you right now, and everybody's telling you how

1068
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 3: bad you are, and no one's liking your posts, and

1069
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 3: no one's jumping on your Instagram lives, and no one's

1070
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 3: how many on your tiktoks and you're sitting there thinking

1071
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 3: what is happening? So that to me would be more

1072
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 3: concerning than any of it if it's a big if,

1073
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 3: because we don't know that's what's going on, and that's

1074
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 3: a real problem right now.

1075
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 2: Well, I think we find out this weekend if that

1076
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 2: is a terminal flaw or if.

1077
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 3: That was something that they allowed to creep in and

1078
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 3: it's not just that day, because if it happened that way,

1079
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 3: it creeped in during fall camp, yep, and it prevented

1080
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 3: them from excelling the way that they needed to to

1081
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 3: be competitive in that game. They didn't fall apart on

1082
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 3: Saturday morning in Tallahas. That happened in fall camp and

1083
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 3: prevented them, somehow someway from being able to put up

1084
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,240
Speaker 3: a better fight than what they did against Florida State.

1085
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: So that's the glass half empty part. But you talked

1086
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: about using the word if. I've tried to be very

1087
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: careful to do that this week too, because you never know.

1088
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: You don't have revisionist history on your side, you don't

1089
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: have benefit of hindsight. We're not sitting in December judging

1090
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: week one. We're in week two judging week one, So

1091
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: September is going to give us a lot of context

1092
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: on what Week one meant. Florida State maybe a top

1093
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: five team for all we know. I want to ask

1094
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: you this, though, how much would it shock you scale

1095
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: of one to ten if you fast forward to the

1096
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,240
Speaker 1: December and that team's in Atlanta playing for the SEC

1097
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: Championship anyway.

1098
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 2: Shock me, No, but I would be surprised.

1099
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: I would too, because.

1100
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 2: Here's the hardest part about it.

1101
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 3: Take the exact conversation that you and I had at

1102
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 3: SEC Media Days when you perfectly laid out the scenario

1103
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 3: of the difference between five and eleven or twelve.

1104
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, what again, here's another if.

1105
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 3: What if we just threw Alabama and Texas into that race,

1106
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, it's there's two more teams

1107
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 3: in there, and it's it's literally three through twelve or

1108
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 3: thirteen are all the same, and you got to fight

1109
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 3: that uphill battle the entire season and essentially play flawless

1110
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 3: football to even be in the mix for that. Because

1111
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:55,359
Speaker 3: the ones that are looking like they're at the top,

1112
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 3: maybe it's just Georgia LSU. Maybe Oklahoma shoots all the

1113
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 3: way up there, we don't really know. If one of

1114
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 3: the other two teams does, you're still going to have

1115
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 3: to play more teams than a lot of people thought

1116
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 3: could even be in the mix.

1117
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 2: For an SEC Championship game. Birth.

1118
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 3: So, I think now the thing that would surprise me

1119
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 3: the most is, though it appears is though we don't

1120
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 3: even have four teams in that upper quadrant of the

1121
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 3: SEC is probably a lot more crowded in the middle

1122
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 3: than we imagined at media Days, and we thought we

1123
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 3: had never really seen it that crediblefore since we've been

1124
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 3: watching football.

1125
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: So that would be the part that I would.

1126
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 3: Look at and say, I am surprised they ran through

1127
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 3: that shocked.

1128
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 2: No, they still have takeover players.

1129
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 3: They still have players that can dominate a game, and

1130
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 3: they still have a great coaching staff, and they still

1131
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 3: have depth that some other teams don't have. So to

1132
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 3: be the things that can be repaired, there are easily repaired.

1133
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 3: Proper pass sets not getting beat inside. Understand now, you

1134
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 3: can't change your agility and lateral movement, which I've been

1135
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 3: trying to tell people the whole offseason. Just because PFF

1136
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 3: says the guy's a first pick in the draft, Calm down.

1137
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 3: He hasn't been through two consecutive spring balls, and we

1138
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 3: just think he's better magically, like to say, lucky charms,

1139
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 3: things don't just happen. You earn things in football. But

1140
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 3: they still have guys that can go out and be dominant.

1141
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 3: Take the first series of the game. I mean, I

1142
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 3: posted like three clips from the first series, like, good lord,

1143
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 3: they've got that be tackle seven yards downfield. I might

1144
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 3: have just done that with the whole game, but the

1145
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 3: game was obviously one that wasn't going to allow them

1146
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 3: to play that way because what Forlorida State was doing offensively,

1147
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 3: I would be surprised. But Josh, you know this, there

1148
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 3: is almost nothing that can shock me in college football

1149
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 3: these days. Literally, we've seen more in the last two

1150
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 3: years that if you and I wrote a movie script,

1151
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 3: we've been.

1152
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 2: Laughed at a Hollywood.

1153
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: Yet you also never telling.

1154
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 3: Their coaches they're not playing in games and their starters

1155
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 3: after four games.

1156
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 2: Take that somewhere interesting.

1157
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: You also never know when a new normal is setting itself.

1158
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 1: You never know when you're in the process of a

1159
00:58:58,080 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: new normal happening.

1160
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 2: Like you that's a scary thought right there.

1161
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: Well, you just never know, Like it's I mean, we're

1162
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: talking about pretty much non negotiables, terminal, this terminal that well,

1163
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: that's because your entire life playing and watching this game,

1164
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 1: my life watching this game. There were a lot of

1165
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: things Alabama exhibited last week that if you see that,

1166
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: that's just going to be a problem that's going to

1167
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: derail any chance you have of doing this or that. Well,

1168
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: that's based on history. This based on certain pillars of

1169
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: college football throughout history. You never know when the things

1170
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: that win and the things that can be tolerated, or

1171
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: the things that really matter and are really correctable and

1172
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: aren't you never know when that's being rewritten right in

1173
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: front of your face. Like I remember when Ohio State

1174
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 1: lost that game against Virginia Tech that year. They go

1175
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: on to win the national title, and people were sitting

1176
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: there after week one saying how overrated. I mean, this

1177
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: is a historically overrated team. After Week one they go

1178
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: on to win the title. I'm sure they were conversations

1179
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: at that point pointing to this and this, which will

1180
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: be a terminal flaw on this team and it will

1181
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: keep them from going on. Now, we were probably talking

1182
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: about schematic based things instead of things from the neck up,

1183
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,919
Speaker 1: you know, things in here, maybe like we're talking about

1184
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: with this Alabama team. But I'm like you, I'd be

1185
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: surprised by it, shocked though. I hadn't seen the rest

1186
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 1: of these teams get pushed yet, I have to. I

1187
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: tend to believe Bama was the first high profile example

1188
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: of someone getting exposed this year. I'm not sure we

1189
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: don't have three or four more of them, some of them.

1190
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 3: Just more because there are so many teams that were

1191
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 3: way ahead of ourselves. On again, like you and I

1192
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 3: have said, we don't know. I said I was going

1193
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 3: to give it three weeks before I make any sort

1194
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 3: of definitive statements about anybody. It might need to be

1195
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 3: five or six. Honestly, you brought up Ohio State. They're

1196
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 3: a perfect example right here. None of us thought they

1197
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 3: were going to be as physical as they were last year.

1198
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 3: None of us thought that the defense was going to

1199
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 3: be able to operate at any kind of a similar

1200
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 3: level to what they did last year. Two edge defenders drafted.

1201
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, you had the best safety probably top

1202
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 3: three player in college football coming back.

1203
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 2: Okay, but could he mask everything? Look how they looked

1204
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 2: up front.

1205
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, they gave Texas's offensive line, which it's mostly new. Yes,

1206
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 3: a lot of problems, But how about the flip side

1207
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 3: of that. They went out there and pushed Texas around and,

1208
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 3: by the way, won that game without having the best

1209
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 3: player in college football get to seven catches. So they

1210
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 3: found different ways for a new quarterback and a limited

1211
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 3: best player on their football team to go out there

1212
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 3: and get a win, which at the end of the

1213
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 3: day is almost more impressive to me than going to

1214
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:29,919
Speaker 3: beat somebody forty to nothing. You take all the things

1215
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 3: and all these uncertainties and you say, we're not gonna

1216
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 3: let that beat us. We're not gonna lean on that

1217
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 3: to the point to where if it's not.

1218
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 2: Elite today it crushes us. We're just gonna go win

1219
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 2: a game. And that's what Ryan Day did.

1220
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 3: And so that's almost the flip side of what we're

1221
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 3: talking about right here is the team that everybody looked

1222
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 3: at and.

1223
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 2: Said no, no, no, no, no, no, probably not, I

1224
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 2: can't see it, definitely no. And they went out there

1225
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 2: and got a big yes.

1226
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Cube Show, we're doing it again this year,

1227
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Speaker 1: right doing it. We're doing it. Tell people where they can.

1228
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 2: Some guy commented on the on the on the SEC

1229
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Speaker 2: preview that we did.

1230
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 3: He's like, this fool says he's gonna watch every game

1231
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 3: and tell us what happened.

1232
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 2: We only been doing it for three years. Yeah, I

1233
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 2: mean sorry, guy.

1234
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Speaker 1: So so Cube Show. That's that's how you find it's there.

1235
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Speaker 2: That's out there somewhere in the interwebs. It's this guy's podcast.

1236
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Speaker 3: It's out there at Cube Show on Socials. You can

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Speaker 3: follow it there. Please subscribe. I think we're up to

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Speaker 3: seventeen thousand, of which sixteen five hundred can attribute directly

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Speaker 1: Do you think twenty k by Halloween? Like? Is that

1241
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: what we're aiming for right now?

1242
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 3: I feel like that's a stretch. We've been moving slow here. No,

1243
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 3: in the off season.

1244
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna figure it out.

1245
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 2: All right.

1246
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: Look, we're gonna do this. If your internet works, in

1247
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: my truck works, We're going to do this the entire year.

1248
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Speaker 1: So I appreciate you, Thank you as always.

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Speaker 3: I will say the advantage we have getting a twenty

1250
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:54,840
Speaker 3: thousand is we didn't take four weeks off before the

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Speaker 1: We go just do some film study. That's what everyone

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Speaker 1: tends to be doing these days. Work, goodbye, have fun

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Speaker 1: in Tescaloosa. Goodbye. Oh what do I need to do? Jesse?

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