Speaker 1: Welcome to the Solid Verbal.
Speaker 2: I'm that for me. I'm a man, I'm forty. I've
Speaker 2: heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy.
Speaker 2: You want to be happy for dake Edo State.
Speaker 1: Is that? Whoo whoom? And Dan and Tye welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Solid Verbal. Boys and girls. My name is
Speaker 1: ty He'll the brand joining me over there.
Speaker 3: In snowy in Windy in bomb Cycloney, New York City.
Speaker 3: Dan Rubinstein, sir, how are you are you surviving? I
Speaker 3: am in the eye of the snow clone. Tie, I
Speaker 3: am in the eye.
Speaker 2: I worked from home today, which I as everybody that's
Speaker 2: ever listened to this show knows, I'm a little bit soft. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's okay. I'm self aware enough to admit that I'm excited, though,
Speaker 2: Ty as, I'm sure you are. So it's I don't know,
Speaker 2: someone like twenty two degrees right now tomorrow as we
Speaker 2: record this Thursday evening, we are heading down to Sonny
Speaker 2: and I assume Nope, it is not warm. It is
Speaker 2: thirty degrees right now in Atlanta. Let me ask you
Speaker 2: a very important logistic question, Dan, because as you know,
Speaker 2: we've got a lot of moving parts this weekend. We've
Speaker 2: got a big Facebook live stint going on pretty much
Speaker 2: all morning on Saturday morning. So go to Facebook dot
Speaker 2: com look up the solid Verbal. We'll be doing all
Speaker 2: sorts of videos there on the Alabama football page, on
Speaker 2: the Georgia Football page. We're going to be all over
Speaker 2: Saturday morning, So a lot of moving parts with that.
Speaker 2: We've got more moving parts with our live show, our
Speaker 2: big event that we've got planned on Saturday evening. Yes,
Speaker 2: in the great city of Atlanta as well. So we're
Speaker 2: going to be very busy while we're down there, which
Speaker 2: means that we both need to get there on time.
Speaker 2: And now, given the fact that we've got the bomb
Speaker 2: cyclone going off here on the East coast, are you
Speaker 2: prepared to pull a Dennis Quaid strap on the snowshoes
Speaker 2: and walk from New York City to Philly to catch
Speaker 2: a flight to get down in Atlanta? Is that the
Speaker 2: day after tomorrow? What movie is that?
Speaker 1: That is the day after tomorrow? That's what he had
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: That is the day. I will not be snowshoeing. I
Speaker 2: will be skyping in. If I can't get down there,
Speaker 2: I promise you I will be there in spirit and
Speaker 2: in some sort of digital form. No I will make
Speaker 2: it to Atlanta. I will make it to the live show.
Speaker 2: That would be ridiculous if I'm not there, and could
Speaker 2: not be more excited. And I see the sort of
Speaker 2: tickets ticking away. We've got about I don't know, eight
Speaker 2: or ten left. So if you're listening to this, hopefully
Speaker 2: you're listening to this before other people who might want
Speaker 2: to attend are able to grab them. So we really
Speaker 2: are looking forward to seeing everybody in Atlanta, and we're
Speaker 2: going to have a bunch of fun. We've got a
Speaker 2: cool planned show looking back on the season, looking forward,
Speaker 2: we're going to have some friends with us on stage
Speaker 2: at a certain points. So I am bursting.
Speaker 1: Tie, I'm very excited for everything. You're feeling better, right,
Speaker 1: I am feeling better. The voice is a little bit stronger,
Speaker 1: so got the cough, but it'll be away. It'll be
Speaker 1: gone by Saturday. Okay, I ask you a question, please,
Speaker 1: what are we doing on this here show today? Ty?
Speaker 1: As you know, we have made our hay over the
Speaker 1: last four to five months talking about as many teams
Speaker 1: and as many games in each of our shows as
Speaker 1: we could possibly fit in. We had to cut games out,
Speaker 1: We had to cut teams out because we try to
Speaker 1: keep it around forty five minutes, and most of the time,
Speaker 1: at least this season ended up going about seventy five minutes. Indeed,
Speaker 1: we still couldn't fit everything in. This is one of
Speaker 1: those rare shows where we are talking exclusively about one
Speaker 1: football game. One football game, the College Football Playoff National
Speaker 1: Championship Game presented by AT and T on Monday, January
Speaker 1: the eighth, at eight pm on ESPN. Got Alabama, Got Georgia.
Speaker 1: They will play. It's an all SEC affair for the
Speaker 1: National Championship. So we're going to devote our time here
Speaker 1: this evening to talking about one game. We threw ourselves
Speaker 1: into it. I'm excited that we didn't have a whole
Speaker 1: battery of other games we needed to dissect first. We
Speaker 1: can really just put all of our efforts here.
Speaker 2: I'm ready for this tie and I'm I think is
Speaker 2: ESPN doing the Mega cast? I think they are. They
Speaker 2: did it during the semi finals, so it's an all
Speaker 2: encompassing experience. I have an idea. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you want to hear it now about one more channel,
Speaker 2: oh should be added? Well, let's save that for our
Speaker 2: content here. Let's save it for the content. I have
Speaker 2: a lot of thoughts about Alabama, Georgia, and I am
Speaker 2: I have gotten more excited than I was earlier on
Speaker 2: in the week.
Speaker 1: Let's also say this, we understand that as college football goes,
Speaker 1: certainly they moved up National Signing Day this year or
Speaker 1: created a second National Signing Day season, I should say.
Speaker 1: And there's been news going on all around the college
Speaker 1: football ether that we're not going to have ample opportunity
Speaker 1: to address on this show. We understand though, that the
Speaker 1: National Championship Game is not going on into vacuum. There
Speaker 1: are other things happening. Rich Rod is out at Arizona unexpectedly.
Speaker 1: We've got Dave A. Randa getting pretty much the sun, earth, win,
Speaker 1: and fire everything you could possibly want in a new
Speaker 1: contract to remain at LSU as defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: He's the new governor of Louisiana as per my understanding
Speaker 2: of his privileges. Yeah.
Speaker 1: On the flip side, you've got Notre Dame refusing to
Speaker 1: go up and meet Mike Elko, therefore meaning he is
Speaker 1: leaving to take the same job over at Texas A
Speaker 1: and m would Jim both Fisher Yes, And then on
Speaker 1: top of all, of it. We've got players declaring for
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft in drobes.
Speaker 2: You know, Josh Rosen and Sam Darnold declared. There have
Speaker 2: been a few of them throughout college football. Derwin James
Speaker 2: has declared early, Malik Jefferson I believe they have until
Speaker 2: like January nineteenth. There's some big names, ty, this should
Speaker 2: be a pretty loaded draft up top Vitavea from Washington,
Speaker 2: who I believe was the Pac twelve defensive Player of
Speaker 2: the Year. Eddie Pinero the only good thing about Florida's
Speaker 2: offense this year for you know, the kicker obviously, Cameron
Speaker 2: Petway at Auburn and Carrie on Jon also carry On Johnson.
Speaker 2: Yeah that both of those the running backs for Auburn.
Speaker 2: So Sam Hubbard Ohio State had a huge game against
Speaker 2: USC and the Cotton Bowl. So yeah, we'll go through
Speaker 2: you know, draft eligibility. And Saquon Barclay's obviously the other
Speaker 2: just an enormous name signing with I think Jay Z's
Speaker 2: yep Rock Nation. There was a picture of the two
Speaker 2: of them, so very cool. I hope all of these
Speaker 2: guys have long, healthy careers.
Speaker 1: We promise at some point we will go into more
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Speaker 1: All right, that's how you know you're a man. Dan.
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Speaker 1: As I said earlier, the College Football Playoff National Championship
Speaker 1: Game presented by AT and T. They play it in
Speaker 1: Atlanta at Mercedes Benz Stadium, a stadium which honestly looks
Speaker 1: like it landed here from Mars.
Speaker 2: Have you seen this thing? I have seen the stadium
Speaker 2: and the most appealing thing to me about it because
Speaker 2: it looks like a very very nice place to watch
Speaker 2: a football game. They apparently the food there is not
Speaker 2: only reasonably priced, like you get a sandwich for five
Speaker 2: bucks or something like that, but it's all local, known
Speaker 2: Atlanta institutions that are the vendors, which I think is
Speaker 2: pretty rad. So if you're going to the game, I'm
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Speaker 1: If the outer shell of this stadium that I'm looking
Speaker 1: at here on my computer. If the outer shell of it,
Speaker 1: instead of being the silver like it is, if it
Speaker 1: were a translucent shade of pink or red, it would
Speaker 1: bear striking resemblance to the thing that covered up the
Speaker 1: museum in Ghostbusters two. Oh.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going somewhere else with that, because
Speaker 2: we've sort of alluded to it looking like a robot's
Speaker 2: b hole.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, not going there.
Speaker 2: Because when you started saying if it were pink, I
Speaker 2: was like, Tie, mynd God, now you're broadcasting blue tonight.
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Speaker 1: Monday, January eighth, eight pm on ESPN. A bunch of
Speaker 1: other streams which maybe we can look up before we
Speaker 1: bid fond to do here. It is Alabama at twelve
Speaker 1: and one overall, seven to one in the SEC. They
Speaker 1: are a three and a half point favorite over the
Speaker 1: SEC champion Georgia Bulldogs. They come into this game at
Speaker 1: thirteen and one and also seven and one in the SEC.
Speaker 1: Before we get into the actual conversation, here are some
Speaker 1: baseline numbers from Bill Connolly's SMP plus. I'm ready keep
Speaker 1: this in mind, folks. The S and P plus is
Speaker 1: an efficiency metric. It's based a tool. It's a tool.
Speaker 1: It's based on per play data. It doesn't tell you everything,
Speaker 1: Like most of these things, it's a guide. Right. Here
Speaker 1: are the relevant factoids. Alabama overall SMP they are second,
Speaker 1: Ohio State was first, offensive SMP plus ranking twenty second,
Speaker 1: defensive first. Georgia overall third, offensive eleventh, defensive eleventh. The
Speaker 1: one striking difference between the two is that Georgia's got
Speaker 1: a much better special teams unit. All that being said,
Speaker 1: the system per jectx Alabama to win by two point
Speaker 1: three points stan, so they're barely not covering, barely not covering. Okay,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about this game? So?
Speaker 2: I am relatively confident that Georgia has a pretty good chance.
Speaker 2: I don't know is that quantifying qualifying enough? Sure? No?
Speaker 2: I think this game should be close because both of
Speaker 2: these teams are complete. Alabama looks to be a little
Speaker 2: bit deeper, which is to be expected given the years
Speaker 2: jump that they have in recruiting on Kirby Smart. But
Speaker 2: it's not like Mark Richt and his staff at a
Speaker 2: below average job. There's a ton of familiarity in this game.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are going to look
Speaker 2: at the fact that Kirby was, you know, Nick Saban's
Speaker 2: longtime defensive coordinator, and sort of the push pull of
Speaker 2: the teacher and student kind of thing, which I think
Speaker 2: is not the most accurate way of looking at this.
Speaker 2: I just I really think it comes down to quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: and I think it comes down to how aggressive these
Speaker 2: offenses are because they have big challenges in these talented defenses.
Speaker 2: So there is an element of to me, especially with Georgia,
Speaker 2: and I know we're going to sort of talk about
Speaker 2: all facets. How much do they view this as we
Speaker 2: need to throw everything we possibly can in every possible scenario,
Speaker 2: in every possible phase, but mostly offense and special teams
Speaker 2: because they should be most confident in their defense. How
Speaker 2: much are they willing to play like that from the
Speaker 2: opening kickoff? And if they are, I think they've got
Speaker 2: an excellent chance to put themselves in position to win
Speaker 2: the game late. If they don't, I think we could
Speaker 2: get a very boring even if the score is relatively close,
Speaker 2: Even if it ends up like I don't know, twenty
Speaker 2: seven to seventeen or something like that. I think that
Speaker 2: throws a lot into doubt. If Georgia says we are
Speaker 2: just going to do and play how we always play,
Speaker 2: that is to me the big picture. That is the
Speaker 2: thought that I have had repeatedly when thinking about this matchup.
Speaker 1: I want to get back to the thing you said
Speaker 1: about this being about quarterbacks in a moment.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: The other important note which needs to be mentioned these
Speaker 1: teams didn't play in the regular season. They are in
Speaker 1: the same conference, they do have some common opponents, and
Speaker 1: in this case they actually share the same loss. Both
Speaker 1: of them lost to Auburn. Alabama, as you know, lost
Speaker 1: to Auburn in the Iron Bowl twenty six to fourteen
Speaker 1: last week the regular season. Georgia lost forty to seventeen.
Speaker 1: Back in the second week of November. Had Georgia been
Speaker 1: a little bit more careful on special teams, you know,
Speaker 1: it's probably a closer loss. But that's water under the
Speaker 1: bridge now forty to seventeen. They obviously bounce back and
Speaker 1: won over Auburn in the SEC Championship game, So perhaps
Speaker 1: some of what we saw Auburn do can be a
Speaker 1: little bit instructive on both sides, the Alabama side as
Speaker 1: well as the Georgia side. Let's get back to the
Speaker 1: quarterback point though, Why do you feel this comes down
Speaker 1: to quarterback play.
Speaker 2: So downfield throwing. I like Jake from a little bit
Speaker 2: more than Jalen Hurts, which is sort of strange to say,
Speaker 2: because Jalen Hurts has aggressively been in this position before.
Speaker 2: This is his second year in a row, after a
Speaker 2: true freshman year, going to the National Championship and acquitting
Speaker 2: himself well in the National Championship game. He wasn't great
Speaker 2: against Washington, but he made plays. He put Alabama in
Speaker 2: a position to win at the end of the game
Speaker 2: against clumbs and last year, and the defense just couldn't
Speaker 2: hold on against an excellent quarterback in Deshaun Watson. He
Speaker 2: has I mean, he did not throw the ball downfield
Speaker 2: all that well against an excellent Clemson defense. He struggled
Speaker 2: against Auburn. You saw the sort of drives coming to
Speaker 2: a halt in the red zone or green zone or
Speaker 2: whatever the case when you were in opponent territory. That
Speaker 2: I just have questions because throughout the year, even close
Speaker 2: wins against a techs, A and M or Mississippi State,
Speaker 2: in close wins, it has been difficult at times for
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, when put into an obvious passing situation third
Speaker 2: and eight, third and eleven, third and six, whatever the case,
Speaker 2: where a defense does a good enough job spying him,
Speaker 2: keeping an extra man in the box so he can't
Speaker 2: just scramble for that seven and a half yards to
Speaker 2: keep a drive going that when he has to take
Speaker 2: a snap, assess, go through a progression or two step
Speaker 2: into the throw and hit a nine yard out, hit
Speaker 2: an eleven yard pass up the scene, whatever the case is,
Speaker 2: that he has been a little bit hesitant and he's
Speaker 2: just been a little bit off with his throws. So
Speaker 2: it concerns me if we're looking at this game in
Speaker 2: a vacuum, although all things told, if we're looking at
Speaker 2: this sort of holistically, Jalen Hurts has more at his
Speaker 2: disposal on both sides of the field to sort of
Speaker 2: make up for any deficiencies he might have in those situations.
Speaker 2: And also Alabama might not put him in those situations.
Speaker 2: Damien Harris might pick up seven yards of carry and
Speaker 2: he'll only have third and two's or whatever third and threes.
Speaker 2: That's the worry for me about Jalen Hurts. It on
Speaker 2: the other side, is Jake fromm is the kind of
Speaker 2: quarterback that Alabama wants to face, or at least prefers
Speaker 2: to face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you're kind of getting into my point here.
Speaker 2: Right, and I will I will let you take it
Speaker 2: from here, but sort of broad strokes, Jake from is
Speaker 2: not going to extend plays in the way that And
Speaker 2: it sort of annoys me that people when talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, well, Alabama's got a weakness. They struggle against
Speaker 2: excellent offenses with excellent mobile quarterbacks, like so does everybody,
Speaker 2: so does literally every tame in college football. So that
Speaker 2: is that would be the concern. But yes, when you
Speaker 2: look at the teams that have succeeded against Alabama, it's quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: And this is this is sort of an echo of
Speaker 2: everything we've said for a long time. It's the sort
Speaker 2: of fearless quality that Johnny Manzel and Deshaun Watson and
Speaker 2: Chad Kelly and even in that game against Trevor Knight,
Speaker 2: that those types of quarterbacks have had with bigger receivers
Speaker 2: to challenge Alabama's physical cornerbacks and to throw the ball
Speaker 2: downfield with little to no abandon right. And I'm not
Speaker 2: sure that that fully describes a very good, if not
Speaker 2: great quarterback, and Jake from I don't know if that
Speaker 2: describes his style and game well.
Speaker 1: And that's my point, okay, because this whole thing in
Speaker 1: college for every college football game, comes down the schemes
Speaker 1: and matchups, in particular matchups, and that's where I get
Speaker 1: hung up. We made this point many moons ago. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at the teams that Alabama has lost
Speaker 1: to over the last six years, including twenty seventeen. So
Speaker 1: we know about Auburn, we know about Deshan Watson and Clemson.
Speaker 1: We had Ole missed two years in a row. We
Speaker 1: had Ohio State in the playoff, we had Auburn and
Speaker 1: the Kick six, we had Oklahoma in the Trevor Night
Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl Game, and then we had Johnny Manzel back
Speaker 1: in a Texas A and M game in twenty twelve. Yes,
Speaker 1: the common denominator and all those losses is what you said.
Speaker 1: It's a spread offense, it's a mobile quarterback. It's pro
Speaker 1: caliber wide receivers, either of the big and physical variety
Speaker 1: or slightly smaller and more versatile variety, but still very good.
Speaker 2: And I would add tight ends to that as well.
Speaker 1: Those are the kinds of teams that Alabama has long to.
Speaker 1: Those are the only teams that Alabama has lost to
Speaker 1: over the last six seasons. It does not mean they
Speaker 1: necessarily struggle against those teams. They've played other teams that
Speaker 1: fit that bill, but those are the kinds of teams
Speaker 1: that this Alabama squad under Nick Saban has lost to.
Speaker 1: That's the common denominator. What I get hung up on
Speaker 1: is that Georgia is not one of those teams. And
Speaker 1: I don't feel like Georgia can contwart itself enough to
Speaker 1: become one of those teams in time for this game
Speaker 1: on Monday Night. In fact, Georgia is an awful lot
Speaker 1: like Alabama pre Jalen Hurts, pre Blake Simms, Alabama. Call
Speaker 1: it like the mccaren era.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You need to go back to twenty eleven against LSU
Speaker 1: to find a game that Bama lost to a power
Speaker 1: rushing team. So is all this to say that Georgia
Speaker 1: won't win the game. They can't know, of course, not
Speaker 1: Like you said, it's a razor thin margin. But despite
Speaker 1: Alabama's staff changes over the years, I still like the
Speaker 1: defensive continuity. Just with having Nick Saban as the coach,
Speaker 1: I have to pick Alabama here, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to put the car before the horse. We got a
Speaker 1: lot more to talk about. But I think it's a
Speaker 1: low scoring game. I think it's defensive minded. I trust
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts to make a big play when it counts.
Speaker 1: I think he's seen more action like this than a
Speaker 1: guy like Jake from who's been very good and has
Speaker 1: not shot himself in the foot at all this season.
Speaker 1: But I still trust a little bit more in Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts and the overall depth that I think Alabama brings to.
Speaker 2: Bear interestingly, so to flip it, just because we talked
Speaker 2: about the concerns with quarterbacks and Jake Fromm being you know,
Speaker 2: less experienced than Jalen Hurts, and Jalen Hurts struggling in
Speaker 2: certain situations. You have many interceptions Jalen Hurts through this
Speaker 2: year against teams with winning records.
Speaker 1: It's either one or none.
Speaker 2: It's zero. It is zero. And if there is anything
Speaker 2: sort of big picture that helps to define what winning
Speaker 2: quarterbacks do, they don't screw up. They do not give
Speaker 2: the defense anything. And I think Jake From through three
Speaker 2: he had like fourteen touchdowns to three and a.
Speaker 1: Bad as a true freshman.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's not bad at all. He led
Speaker 2: against winning FBS team, so this is not just winning
Speaker 2: SEC teams. Jake From led the SEC in efficiency ratings, whatever,
Speaker 2: yards per attempt, touchdown passes like he was. I think
Speaker 2: we can sort of get stuck in the like Jake
Speaker 2: From is underrated, jack From is very good. Jake From
Speaker 2: throws with a certain amount of confidence and even mechanics,
Speaker 2: like he steps into his throats, he throws with rhythm.
Speaker 2: He is a quarterback way ahead of his age. He
Speaker 2: throws like a young junior, something like that where he
Speaker 2: has seen things when in fact he started because Starter
Speaker 2: got hurt and that started what against Notre Dame right
Speaker 2: in his first game, he goes South Bend against a
Speaker 2: very good defense, sorry about Mike Helco and looks totally
Speaker 2: poised and you know, is not the reason why they
Speaker 2: overall won that game, but he didn't lose that game
Speaker 2: for them. And what he did against not great but
Speaker 2: pretty good Oklahoma defense. Then throughout the season Auburn's defense
Speaker 2: twice we've seen what Jake From looks like, struggling and
Speaker 2: helping to cost his team a big game. But aside
Speaker 2: from those moments. Jake fromm has been nothing but just
Speaker 2: ruthlessly efficient. And it's not screens, ty, it's not slants,
Speaker 2: it's play action downfield. The question now remains, if the
Speaker 2: run is taken away and Jake from does have to
Speaker 2: throw the ball thirty five times, I don't know how
Speaker 2: many times he threw it against it. It might have been
Speaker 2: that many against Oklahoma. It appears now twenty nine times.
Speaker 2: He didn't crack thirty all year long. So if he
Speaker 2: has to throw thirty plus times, what does that look
Speaker 2: like for Georgia, That's to me a pretty significant question.
Speaker 1: I'm I think I'm most interested in the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football for both of these teams, primarily because
Speaker 1: both defenses are so darn good. There's just not a
Speaker 1: lot wiggle room. I'm so impressed with the Georgia story
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, I mean everyone's heard about Rokwan Smith,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, but especially that linebacking corps beyond him.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget about Big Lorenzo Carter, a long arm
Speaker 1: of the law at six six, or DeAndre Walker, who
Speaker 1: didn't have as many tackles, but he had just as
Speaker 1: many sacks and more tackles for loss. They go pretty
Speaker 1: deep in terms of playmakers on defense and their front
Speaker 1: sevens outstanding. They're good against both the run and the pass,
Speaker 1: a top ten defense on both fronts, as is Alabama.
Speaker 1: But I just wonder how much can either team change
Speaker 1: what they do normally on offense to really throw a
Speaker 1: curveball at these opposing defenses. With that in mind, I
Speaker 1: think Alabama is probably better equipped with Jalen Hurts, his
Speaker 1: mobility and some of the things that he can do
Speaker 1: to mold their offense to create a wrinkle that Georgia
Speaker 1: might not be able to do because they're much more
Speaker 1: of a power rushing oriented school.
Speaker 2: Here's a sort of follow up to the thought that
Speaker 2: we had been talking about of you know, what have
Speaker 2: teams done successfully against this, you know, vaunted Alabama defense
Speaker 2: and something those teams have in common aside from the
Speaker 2: sort of stylistic play of quarterbacks. And I'm sure Alabama
Speaker 2: is thrilled not to play Baker Mayfield. Sure it's teams
Speaker 2: can't run against Alabama. Even teams that beat Alabama can't
Speaker 2: run against Alabama. They have not given up i think
Speaker 2: five yards of carry even four yards of carry since
Speaker 2: and this is over a couple of years ago now,
Speaker 2: that Georgia game from twenty fifteen, which if you'll remember,
Speaker 2: it was something like thirty five to three, and I
Speaker 2: think it was Nick Chubb who ripped off like an
Speaker 2: eighty yard run. So that sort of skews it a
Speaker 2: little bit. So teams that do beat or hang with
Speaker 2: Alabama typically have to do it in all phases. But
Speaker 2: there's something else that that sort of can be done
Speaker 2: that Georgia has not done, and teams that have hung
Speaker 2: with or beat in Alabama have done. And it's if
Speaker 2: you can't get offense going with any sort of rhythm
Speaker 2: or any sort of consistency, there is there is a
Speaker 2: very specific wrinkle. And those offenses played with a little
Speaker 2: bit of pace, they played with a little bit of tempo.
Speaker 2: And even you know, Mississippi State this season, even Auburn
Speaker 2: this season, these weren't super fast teams, but they were
Speaker 2: top forty, top fifty in terms of plays per second
Speaker 2: or whatever, you know, whatever the tempo metric you want
Speaker 2: to use. Georgia is something like one hundred and tenth.
Speaker 2: Georgia is very deliberate with how they play. Hard to
Speaker 2: fault them the results have you know, they speak to themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but if they're not able to sort of get loose
Speaker 2: for six yards here, eight yards here, four yards here
Speaker 2: with Sony Michelle or Nick Chobb or Deandres whoever, I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's a gear they have to sort
Speaker 2: of wrinkle things up. But maybe they do. Maybe they do,
Speaker 2: Maybe they did it.
Speaker 1: Look again, George has been an awesome story on so
Speaker 1: many fronts. Kirby Smart rewire this team in two seasons,
Speaker 1: catching everybody by surprise. Hell, the way he rewired this
Speaker 1: team after Jacob Eeson got hurt in Week one that
Speaker 1: caught a lot of people by surprise. The defense has
Speaker 1: been so good outside of the first half, and maybe
Speaker 1: the Rose Bull and a few bumps along the way.
Speaker 2: As a whole.
Speaker 1: The way this team played within itself and to its
Speaker 1: strengths all year is one impressed me the most because
Speaker 1: they knew every step of the way exactly who they were,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of value in having a good,
Speaker 1: strong identity. What I wonder now is they go into
Speaker 1: this game not just about the wrinkles and can they
Speaker 1: produce them to throw Alabama off its defensive game, but
Speaker 1: if they do try to stay within themselves and try
Speaker 1: to beat it right up the middle, try to pound
Speaker 1: Alabama up front, try to wear them down the way
Speaker 1: they've worn down so many other opponents. Is that something
Speaker 1: they can do now? We know about some of Alabama's
Speaker 1: deficiencies at linebacker, but they've gotten some of those guys back,
Speaker 1: and you know how it is when guys go down
Speaker 1: with injury, other guys step in you sort of inadvertently
Speaker 1: build depth. Right. Sure, Alabama has been very strong against
Speaker 1: the run the entire way and really the entire tenure
Speaker 1: of Nick Saban. Is this a squad that's going to
Speaker 1: wear down over time if Georgia tries to come at
Speaker 1: them with Sony Michelle and Nick Chubb.
Speaker 2: I mean they're down a linebacker Anthony Jennings, who who
Speaker 2: is you know? I think just went under the knife.
Speaker 2: He played really well against Clemson but hurt himself. So
Speaker 2: they are not thin. But you know, no Sean Dion Hamilton,
Speaker 2: you know, they're not where they'd like to be health
Speaker 2: wise at a couple of key positions up front.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I just feel like they've they've been
Speaker 1: in this situation before. Yeah, you know, a power rushing
Speaker 1: team against Alabama is generally tough sledding, and I think that,
Speaker 1: above all else is part of why I feel so
Speaker 1: confident in going with Alabama.
Speaker 2: Now, recent results against the more quote like power you know,
Speaker 2: under center just hat on hat offenses have been good,
Speaker 2: but not excellent, And certainly George is as talented, if
Speaker 2: not more talented, than some of the teams that have
Speaker 2: succeeded against Alabama. Now, Mississippi State does not run under center,
Speaker 2: but they go straight at teams, you know, between tackles whatever,
Speaker 2: with Nick Fitzgerald, Aris Williams both you know, finding success
Speaker 2: at times against Alabama. And you know, a few years
Speaker 2: ago Arkansas, when they were more running power stuff than
Speaker 2: they were, more wide open stuff through the air, they
Speaker 2: had success against Alabama and LSU, and they got shut
Speaker 2: out last year, but it was still they allowed ten points,
Speaker 2: and only allowing ten points is certainly a huge, huge win.
Speaker 2: I think it's easy to argue that George's offense this
Speaker 2: year is ahead of where LSU's offense was last year,
Speaker 2: So I don't think it's a prohibitive issue. I just
Speaker 2: think the margin for air is so slim, and it's
Speaker 2: going to be fun to see because even against Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: the holes that Sony Michelle and Nick chub are running through.
Speaker 2: Those aren't accidents. That's good scot sound scheming. That's misdirecting.
Speaker 2: They do a good job sort of dressing things up
Speaker 2: a bit. But man, Alabama's tough to fool.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 2: Man, are they tough?
Speaker 1: They are. Let's talk about the Alabama offense. Now, sure
Speaker 1: we focused a lot on what Georgia Canner can't do
Speaker 1: to confuse Alabama. But here's part of the reason why
Speaker 1: I think I trust a little bit more and Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts in Alabama. Okay, now we know that they've got
Speaker 1: this multi headed monster upfront. I mean they've been very
Speaker 1: I guess generous in terms of who they've given the
Speaker 1: ball to. Just in a rushing attack. Right, Damian Harris
Speaker 1: Bo Garborough were the two main running backs who featured
Speaker 1: in this running game. Jalen Hurts also had nearly as
Speaker 1: many carries as both of them, actually more than both Garborough,
Speaker 1: so they can come at you a couple different ways
Speaker 1: in that rushing game. They also have Calvin Ridley out wide,
Speaker 1: who overwhelmingly had the most targets on the roster, had
Speaker 1: five tires, almost six times as many catches as the
Speaker 1: next closest guy. My question to you is knowing that
Speaker 1: if Georgia goes out and says, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna take away Calvin Ridley kind of like they
Speaker 1: took away you know, the running game for Oklahoma last week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take away Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the second half. We should add Ron Anderson
Speaker 2: ran crazy in the first half.
Speaker 1: Correct, That is correct. We're gonna take away Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 1: and we are going to devote all of our other
Speaker 1: resources to stopping Damien Harris to stop being Bo Scarborough.
Speaker 1: That still leaves a guy unaccounted for and Jalen Hurts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that a winning stratt? What is the strategy if
Speaker 1: you're the Georgia defense here.
Speaker 2: I assume that they're going to have to spy Jalen
Speaker 2: Hurts constantly and sort of play him laterally better than
Speaker 2: most teams can because they can't. Their linebacking corps is, arguably,
Speaker 2: when healthy and healthier than Alabama's right now, the best
Speaker 2: in the nation.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: So the thought is they are going to force him
Speaker 2: to play a more traditional take the ball, scan the
Speaker 2: field and make a throw. And so it's honestly, it's
Speaker 2: winning first and second down and forcing those. Third and
Speaker 2: six is third and sevens where Jalen Hurts has to
Speaker 2: think he has to take a beat and beyond. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's obviously easier said than done. He's got a very
Speaker 2: good offensive line in front of him. They can do
Speaker 2: stuff in the screen game to confuse and to sort
Speaker 2: of keep George's defense off balance. But it's a basic question,
Speaker 2: and the execution is a little bit more complex. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it is force Alabama into as many passing downs as possible.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see, I think with all that being said,
Speaker 1: then the things that we are watching collectively with Alabama's offense,
Speaker 1: we're watching to see how they do on first and
Speaker 1: second downs. Yes, are they able to get the ball
Speaker 1: out to Calvin Ridley? What kind of success does Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts have either as a passer or a runner or both.
Speaker 1: Where is he focusing more of his efforts? And then
Speaker 1: on the Georgia side, what kind of wrinkles, if any
Speaker 1: can they introduce? What kind of curveball can they throw
Speaker 1: at a very good Alabama defense? Can they wear that
Speaker 1: Alabama defense down over the course of sixty minutes?
Speaker 2: Another question I think worth asking as it relates to
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, is if he comes out and they go
Speaker 2: three and out three of the first four drives into
Speaker 2: the second quarter, do we see Tua. There were reports
Speaker 2: before the Clemson game, and I'm positive Alabama took this
Speaker 2: Clemson team very very seriously, that it would be a
Speaker 2: tight game. The whole way through. There were reports that
Speaker 2: Toa was going to see time on the field. I
Speaker 2: don't believe he ended up seeing time, But if there
Speaker 2: are reports for Clemson, I would imagine it won't be
Speaker 2: all that different against Georgia that they anticipate having the
Speaker 2: need at some point to show a different look to
Speaker 2: the Georgia defense, which to I think offers a little
Speaker 2: bit more unpredictable. I would say, sure, And I wonder
Speaker 2: how quick you know, Brian Dable and Nick Saban are
Speaker 2: to say Jalen Hurts has not found a rhythm against
Speaker 2: a tough defense. Let's see what the lefty does.
Speaker 1: Well, I wonder, and that's assuming that he doesn't find
Speaker 1: the rhythm.
Speaker 2: But sure, yeah, that is assuming, and that is you know,
Speaker 2: he came in games during the season at all sorts
Speaker 2: of random points. A lot of the times Alabama was
Speaker 2: already putting teams away, but he was still coming in
Speaker 2: in the second quarter or something like that. So on
Speaker 2: a stage this big, and obviously they trusted Jalen Hurts
Speaker 2: last year as a true freshman, So I don't think
Speaker 2: that can be a legitimate question if Nick Saban's willing
Speaker 2: to play a true freshman. But I guess a true
Speaker 2: freshman backup is a little bit different. So, man, that
Speaker 2: would be something if middle of the second quarter Alabama's
Speaker 2: up three to nothing, if they're just like, well, let's
Speaker 2: see if we can throw something different at them.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to watch, another interesting thing to watch, and
Speaker 1: sort of a minor hedge that I just want to
Speaker 1: get on the record here please, So my final score
Speaker 1: prediction is twenty one to seventeen Alabama. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: a low scoring game. I think under the total of
Speaker 1: forty five. I guess what's said thirty eight points. I'm
Speaker 1: going with somewhere in the neighborhood. But in a game
Speaker 1: like this, where that margin is so razor thin and
Speaker 1: where defense really does carry the water on both sides
Speaker 1: of the game, it needs to be said how good
Speaker 1: Georgia is on special teams I.
Speaker 2: Was going to go right there. Continue Exhibit A.
Speaker 1: They blocked a kick last week in overtime against Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: They might not win that game if they don't block
Speaker 1: the kick. Who knows, right, But they blocked a big kick.
Speaker 1: Next play, they get a big run from Sony Michelle,
Speaker 1: they win the game. Exhibit B would be Rodrigo Blankenship
Speaker 1: and he's got the goofy mustache and maybe a fake name.
Speaker 1: I don't know, okay, but he hit all sixty one
Speaker 1: extra points this year. He kicked a fifty five yarder
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half last week against Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: That's a weapon in a defensive game like this. If
Speaker 1: you've got range out to fifty five, that's a damn weapon.
Speaker 1: And then I'd say Exhibit CE is George's punter whose
Speaker 1: last name I'm not even gonna try. I can't say it,
Speaker 1: Nazilek Sure, I'm gonna take your word for it, Dan.
Speaker 1: He has pinned teams inside their own twenty Yeah, nearly
Speaker 1: forty percent of his punts. And that's not sexy, and
Speaker 1: that's not something you're gonna see in a lot of
Speaker 1: scouting reports. But field position in a close, defensive minded
Speaker 1: game can sometimes mean everything you talk about how you
Speaker 1: doing on first and second downs. He's staying ahead of
Speaker 1: the chains. If you can't flip the field in a
Speaker 1: game like this, more often than not, you're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: Georgia has a lot going for it on that special
Speaker 1: team side of the equation that we at least need
Speaker 1: to make here if we want to be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Georgia has the nugget the wrinkle advantage.
Speaker 2: I think you know little thing. You know. They're incredible
Speaker 2: on third down. You know, against SEC teams, they were
Speaker 2: the best team in the conference converting third downs. I
Speaker 2: think there was something like forty or in the forties percent.
Speaker 2: They were nearly doing it once out of every two tries.
Speaker 2: So I think the point about special teams is correct,
Speaker 2: especially if we're looking at this game as having a
Speaker 2: razor thin margin. Because of the familiarity, it'll be tough
Speaker 2: to really get one over on each other. And by
Speaker 2: the way, Georgia's punter is a grad transfer. Do you
Speaker 2: remember where he remember seeing where he transferred from?
Speaker 1: No, I don't.
Speaker 2: That'd be the Columbia Lions. In all the football's one
Speaker 2: true city city, New York. So Georgia relying on that
Speaker 2: that northern college football flavor really is going under noticed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you're totally right. I give the advantage on
Speaker 2: the defensive line to Alabama. I give the advantage to
Speaker 2: linebackers barely because I think Russia Rashaan Evans is incredible.
Speaker 2: But to Georgia the secondary because of Mika Fitzpatrick, probably
Speaker 2: to Alabama. The offensive line to me is almost a
Speaker 2: toss up. But you know, I really like both of these,
Speaker 2: you know, running backs. I probably slightly give to Georgia
Speaker 2: because I love the home run ability of Sony Michelle
Speaker 2: and DeAndre Swift. Receivers. I think probably goes to Alabama,
Speaker 2: but I don't love either. You know, Terry Godwin's great
Speaker 2: and Cam Ridley's great, but they neither one of these.
Speaker 2: And you know, Alabama has Jerry Judy, a five star freshmen.
Speaker 2: It's probably Alabama. But there isn't a lot of decisive
Speaker 2: leans for me when you talk about position groups. But
Speaker 2: the special teams thing is big, and we're already forgetting that. JK.
Speaker 2: Scott is an incredible punter as well. Yep, And so
Speaker 2: it's uh, it's close, man. You have what twenty one seventeen.
Speaker 1: I am gonna go my official prediction, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: twenty one seventeen. Yeah, Alabama. I trust more in an
Speaker 1: Alabama's defense to stop Georgia's offense, and I do trust
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurst to make a big play even if everything
Speaker 1: else breaks down, whether it's him, whether it's Tua. I
Speaker 1: think the Alabama quarterback position is where they have enough
Speaker 1: room to add a wrinkle to make this game more
Speaker 1: confusing for the Georgia defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm going to go with and it's
Speaker 2: actually quite tough for me to see Alabama putting up
Speaker 2: more than twenty to twenty four points just because of
Speaker 2: what we saw from this offense last week against Clemson.
Speaker 2: A'llbe a very different style defense they're playing against Georgia,
Speaker 2: and we've seen Georgia completely lay an egg, whereas I don't.
Speaker 2: We've seen sort of an egg from Alabama, but I
Speaker 2: think less so than Georgia did against Auburn. I have
Speaker 2: this as Alabama twenty four to fourteen.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to get a defensive or special
Speaker 2: teams touchdown, and I think it's going to be a
Speaker 2: frustrating day for Jake from I really I think they
Speaker 2: start out well. I think things are scripted well early on,
Speaker 2: but I think Alabama sort of solves that puzzle coming
Speaker 2: up into halftime, and twenty four to fourteen feels about
Speaker 2: right for me.
Speaker 1: So we're going double Alabama here.
Speaker 2: Double Alabama, and I guess you have them barely covering.
Speaker 2: I have them a little bit more comfortably covering. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's so tough when Alabama feels like they're starting on
Speaker 2: second base with that defense, and I know George's defense
Speaker 2: is incredible, Alabama's defense is even a rung above that.
Speaker 2: And so I hope I'm wrong, and it's a much
Speaker 2: closer game and it's sort of a toss up at
Speaker 2: the end, goes to overtime, something crazy, I really do.
Speaker 2: But when you start ahead like that, because of what
Speaker 2: you're able to do, just in terms of not having
Speaker 2: to play so many guys up with the box and
Speaker 2: to be able to disguise so many things, I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be difficult for Georgia to score more
Speaker 2: than a couple touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Would a shootout be the most unlikely result of this game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you know, a thirty eight to thirty five
Speaker 2: game would be dumbfounding. But again, I and I'm only
Speaker 2: going to speak for myself. I'm a dumb person, So
Speaker 2: you know, take it for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: A lot of the games that you think are going
Speaker 1: to be defensive slug fests or on the flip side
Speaker 1: shootouts end up being quite the opposite. Yeah, so maybe
Speaker 1: maybe this game will surprise us. Nonetheless, two really good teams,
Speaker 1: two good stories. Alabama's been here before, They've been in
Speaker 1: the playoffs all four years. This is sort of Georgia's
Speaker 1: climb back into and.
Speaker 2: They're ahead of schedule, way ahead of schedule.
Speaker 1: This is their climb back up into the national relevance
Speaker 1: that they were so desperately seeking when they got rid
Speaker 1: of a very good coach and Mark Richt and decided
Speaker 1: to go Kirby Smart.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is uh and I say ahead of schedule,
Speaker 2: but this was probably going to be the year because
Speaker 2: of how much they returned from last year. You look
Speaker 2: at the number of upperclassmen on defense, it's a bunch
Speaker 2: of juniors and seniors along that front, and even secondary
Speaker 2: is you know, there's a ton of experience there. Georgia
Speaker 2: has I think a little bit of an advantage with
Speaker 2: health which probably can't be overstated for most teams. For Alabama,
Speaker 2: I feel like they're able to weather so much. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what Kirby Smart has done, and I always think the
Speaker 2: sort of x's and o's and scheme stuff. You know,
Speaker 2: he inherited these players essentially. I think the and you
Speaker 2: alluded to this earlier, the idea of him getting everybody
Speaker 2: on the same page both in the off season, both
Speaker 2: starting with last season, and then once Jacob Eason goes
Speaker 2: down and they go to a backup quarterback going on
Speaker 2: the road to a good Notre Dame team, and it's
Speaker 2: just the sort of day in, day out stuff that
Speaker 2: a lot of former Nick Saban assistants have struggled with.
Speaker 2: Whereas Kirby Smart, for whatever reason, if it's just his
Speaker 2: own makeup and constitution, if it's the fact that he
Speaker 2: spent so much time in Tuscaloosa and really waited for
Speaker 2: the right opportunity, the sort of day to day focus
Speaker 2: of this team has been incredibly impressive. And that's how
Speaker 2: they end up in a place like this, to be
Speaker 2: able to win both a thirteen to ten style game
Speaker 2: and then to go to the Rose Bowl three thousand
Speaker 2: miles away against a high flying Oklahoma team and be
Speaker 2: able to win playing that not style, but in that
Speaker 2: fashion and is I think it speaks to the sort
Speaker 2: of and total cliche that like play to play aspect
Speaker 2: of this Georgia team.
Speaker 1: All right, well, on that note, yes, one more time,
Speaker 1: I've got twenty one seventeen Alabama on Monday evening. I
Speaker 1: think they'll be crowned your college football national champion. Dan Rubinstein,
Speaker 1: my beloved co host, twenty four to fourteen Alabama.
Speaker 2: We agree, we agree? Anything else about the game that
Speaker 2: intrigues you? I mean I mentioned the Mega cast, sure
Speaker 2: that I think they're doing. This is what I really want.
Speaker 2: This is my dream. I just want. And I don't
Speaker 2: know how many channels ESPN has at this point. They
Speaker 2: should probably just do this with the SEC network instead
Speaker 2: of showing like radio hosts. I just want a scroll
Speaker 2: of Alabama and Georgia message boards, like a live updating
Speaker 2: feed of people just losing their minds. That to me
Speaker 2: reflects college football more than most things pretty accurately do.
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Speaker 2: And we have so let's review what is also happening weekend.
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Speaker 1: Oh, and final point, Yeah, where are we going after
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