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Speaker 1: Welcome to Lake Kick is Live.

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Speaker 2: It is Sunday night, May twenty ninth, on the eve

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Speaker 2: of Memorial Day, this year of our Lord twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Working this weekend so you can enjoy not having to. Hopefully,

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Speaker 2: we jampacked tonight high a top just a radiant and

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Speaker 2: beautiful downtown Nashville, Tennessee. We got coaches on some hot

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Speaker 2: seats out there, a lot of pressure being felt. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna talk about it tonight because there are a number

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Speaker 2: of coaches, especially in the ACC that really need to

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Speaker 2: get it done this year. Nick Saban says some things

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Speaker 2: sometimes and we accurately describe it as a warning. Then

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Speaker 2: the casual crowd out there falsely interprets everything Nick Saban

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Speaker 2: says as a warning. Well, it's not. Sometimes he just

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Speaker 2: says normal things like the rest of us. We will

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Speaker 2: differentiate between the two tonight. There are a number of

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Speaker 2: very tight quarterback battles that will directly impact conference championship

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Speaker 2: races fall. We are going to break down the very

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Speaker 2: latest and give you the latest intel we have on

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Speaker 2: several of those tonight, and her feelings will be hurt.

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Speaker 2: There's no way around this. We are going to give

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Speaker 2: our top five college football programs since two thousand and two,

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Speaker 2: not two thousand, two thousand and two. So we're going

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Speaker 2: back a nice clean twenty year stretch. And it's easy

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Speaker 2: at the top. It's a lot harder than you may

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Speaker 2: think it is when you get down towards four or five.

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Speaker 2: They're watching us in Morgantown, West Virginia tonight. Idaho Falls,

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Speaker 2: Idaho is tuned in. How about Raretanga down in the

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Speaker 2: Also Mobile, Alabama tuned in. I don't have a lot

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Let's dive into the show tonight

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Speaker 2: because we have some pressure to talk about. Matt leads

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Speaker 2: us off a rare question to lead off the show, Colin,

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Speaker 2: here's a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit better indpoint here.

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Speaker 2: Question from the peanut gallery out there? Which coaches are

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Speaker 2: under the most pressure for the upcoming season? Checking in

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Speaker 2: from Ames Iowa, Iowa State hopes you can make it

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Speaker 2: back on this year's tour.

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Speaker 1: I do too.

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Speaker 2: I do too. Balls are forever in their court, I

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Speaker 2: do too. So which coaches are under the most pressure?

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Speaker 2: I got different kinds of pressure out there, you know that.

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Speaker 2: I think there's competitive pressure and then there's job security

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Speaker 2: pressure where you could actually get fired if you don't

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Speaker 2: do a certain amount of something this year.

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Speaker 1: Well, I want to start with Scott Frost.

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Speaker 2: We've talked a little bit about Nebraska over the last

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Speaker 1: It's right there.

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Speaker 2: Everything Scott Frost needs to have a much better season

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Speaker 2: than he has so far is right there. As we

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Speaker 2: USC the most work in the transfer portal of any

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Speaker 2: Power five program out there. I think the number is sixteen.

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Speaker 2: The amount of kids they've taken. Their over underwin total

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Speaker 2: The schedule is very favorable. Also, the transfer portal has

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Speaker 2: given them an infusion of talent, not the least of

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Speaker 2: a little bit better than that. It's not a ridiculously

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Speaker 2: high hurdle to clear here. If you're watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 2: first this year. So while I'm not suggesting, they're just

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Speaker 2: It is a make or break year in many ways

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Speaker 1: Everything you need to have lined up is lined up there.

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Speaker 2: Now. The next guy I'm going to talk about is

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Speaker 2: not under the same kind of pressure. It's a different pressure.

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Speaker 2: It's a more competitive pressure. Jimbo Fisher's got some pressure

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Speaker 2: this year. Job's not on the line. It's not any

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Speaker 2: him to be competitive in every game they play. You know,

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Speaker 2: they cannot have any of these three plus touchdown drubbings

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Speaker 2: and then me also just kind of satelliting around them.

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Speaker 2: What I need to see from them this year is

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Speaker 2: I need to see improvement in the passing game. You

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Speaker 2: I need them to be competitive in every game, and

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Speaker 2: one of the stories of the season. Better than eight wins,

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Speaker 2: much improved passing game, no double digit losses to anyone,

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Speaker 2: I'm looking for. They play a very very difficult schedule.

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Speaker 2: so I'm not going into great detail on the A

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Speaker 2: next coach I want to speak about, and producer Jesse

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Speaker 2: and I are just lounging about the office a little

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Speaker 2: I didn't see that coming, But then again, I think

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Speaker 2: Brian Harson's done a lot of things right over the

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Speaker 1: I know that.

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Speaker 2: But if we are too well document this, then we

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Speaker 2: understand all the turmoil that was around that program. A

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Speaker 2: go through spring. Now, you know, when we're talking about

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Speaker 2: this wouldn't make sense many other places. It's Auburn, and

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Speaker 2: so at Auburn, you know, you got some external forces

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Speaker 2: everyone in the SEC West, play one of the toughest

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Speaker 2: I think they had around the twentieth ranked class this

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Speaker 1: You gotta play him every year.

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Speaker 2: You got to play Kirby every year, at least until

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the number is. I think we'll

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Speaker 2: But I will say this just observationally, I think Brian

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Speaker 2: in the marketing of himself very often. Well that's in

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Speaker 2: going to the speaking engagements, and then today, Lo and

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Speaker 2: Behold the Brian Harson podcast. That's not the actual name

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Speaker 1: I'm saying all that to tell you I think he

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Speaker 2: Whatever the knocks are against him that he believes he

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Speaker 2: All Right, then there's this entire like chunk of the

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying is, I don't think Norvelle is in

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Speaker 2: Right now, Florida State fans want seven eight wins. You know,

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Speaker 2: That is doable. They've had two good portal halls. That's doable.

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Speaker 2: But again, you can't be dropping games that are inexplicable

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Speaker 1: So some of their coaches now.

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Speaker 2: And any of these new staffs that came in in

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Speaker 2: the boldness scale. Adam said, A and M is going

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Speaker 2: to struggle barely even become Bowl eligible. This is a

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Speaker 2: nine point.

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Speaker 1: Five on the boldness scale.

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Speaker 2: This is just borderline out of the realm of possibility

439
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Speaker 2: at this point. Having the kind of raw talent that

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Speaker 2: A and M does does not guarantee you a national

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Speaker 2: title or a conference title or anything like that. But

442
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Speaker 2: unless you are a complete moron, it does guarantee you

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Speaker 2: that you will not have disaster seasons. You cannot be

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Speaker 2: as talented as they are and as deep as they

445
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Speaker 2: are and be missing out on bowl game. That just

446
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Speaker 2: doesn't happen. That's not real world. So we're clearly predicting

447
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Speaker 2: in this tweet. A and M's a six win team.

448
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 2: He said, you barely make a ball. So I'm saying

449
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Speaker 2: that means A and M goes six and six, right,

450
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Speaker 2: what has to happen there? Well, last year they lost

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Speaker 2: their quarterback and still went eight and four. So this

452
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Speaker 2: year I got that quarterback and I got another win

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Speaker 2: in Max Johnson, So I got two viable quarterbacks, I

454
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Speaker 2: got a better overall team. I've upgraded almost everywhere offensively,

455
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Speaker 2: I'm loaded defensively, my lines of scrimmage look really good.

456
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Speaker 2: And I'm supposed to be dropping two games here. Somehow

457
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Speaker 2: I don't see that. But if I were to just

458
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Speaker 2: entertain the idea, here's how I'm gonna split the schedule.

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Speaker 2: They played Miami in Week three, and they got Arkansas

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Speaker 2: in Dallas the next week, and then they go to

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Speaker 2: Bama a couple of weeks after that. Even if they

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Speaker 2: lose two out of those games, if they lose one

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Speaker 2: of Miami in Arkansas and they lose Tobama, they're already

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Speaker 2: a two lost team. They still have to lose four

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Speaker 2: more games out of South Carolina, Ole Miss, Florida, Auburn,

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Speaker 2: and LSU.

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Speaker 1: I just don't see that.

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Speaker 2: And also, Ole Miss, Florida and LSU are at home.

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Speaker 2: I don't see that, and so they certainly will be

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Speaker 2: favored in most of these games.

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Speaker 1: I just I think it's a.

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Speaker 2: Disaster proof roster. Could they could they drop four games

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Speaker 2: or three games? Could they be eight and four?

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Speaker 1: Nine and three? Absolutely nine and three.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we'll be a terrible year for him,

476
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Speaker 2: but six and six I absolutely don't see that happening.

477
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Speaker 2: Next up, we're going back to the Power five conference

478
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Speaker 2: level here. This one's good too, Sammy said, for the

479
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Speaker 2: second time ever, we will have five different outright Power

480
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Speaker 2: five Conference champs than we did the year before. Watching

481
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Speaker 2: from Houston, Texas or Bristow, Oklahoma, depending on when.

482
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Speaker 1: The show airs. Just to be safe, we're gonna shout

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Speaker 1: out both towns.

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Speaker 2: Every Power five conference having a different champion than the

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Speaker 2: previous year.

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Speaker 1: How realistic is this?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking and I immediately have my eyes go

488
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Speaker 2: to the SEC because the SEC is probably your biggest

489
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Speaker 2: hurdle here. Bama won the SEC. I know this comes

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Speaker 2: as surprise to some people because you remember Georgia winning

491
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Speaker 2: the national title. They did fall to Bama, so we

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Speaker 2: are technically talking about conference champions here. Bama was the

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Speaker 2: SEC champion last year. They are the current odds on

494
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Speaker 2: favorite to win the conference again this year. So Bama

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Speaker 2: could ruin this all before we even look past the SEC.

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Speaker 2: But if Georgia were to be there, or if Bama

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Speaker 2: gets upset by A and M or Ole miss or

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Speaker 2: someone in the West, if the SEC is able to

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Speaker 2: produce a different champion, then we're in business. Because pitt

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Speaker 2: won the ACC last year, they are not the favorite

501
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Speaker 2: to win the conference this year. So Clemson or any

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Speaker 2: of a number of the other teams that we talked

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Speaker 2: about a little while ago, they could easily give you

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Speaker 2: a different ACC champion. In the Big Ten, Michigan won

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Speaker 2: it last year. Certainly, Ohio State is the overwhelming favorite

506
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Speaker 2: to win that conference this year. If not the Buckeye,

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Speaker 2: You've got Wisconsin, You've got Penn State. So there are

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Speaker 2: a number of viable candidates that could knock off Michigan.

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Speaker 2: In the Big twelve, Baylor won it last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're the fourth odds on favorite to win the Big

511
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Speaker 2: twelve this year. So Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State could all

512
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Speaker 2: have a lot to say about this.

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Speaker 1: There's a very very viable path to getting a.

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Speaker 2: Different Big twelve champion, but the SEC is in the way,

515
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Speaker 2: and the PAC twelve could be in the way because

516
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Speaker 2: Utah won the Pac twelve last year, and Utah, along

517
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Speaker 2: with USC, are co favorites right now to win the

518
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Speaker 2: Pac twelve. All of these are updated odds from Caesar Sportsbook.

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Speaker 2: So it's Utah, USC, Oregon kind of a three way

520
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Speaker 2: dance near the top there. I put this at a seven.

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming we're gonna have many different conference champs, but

522
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Speaker 2: going five for fives a little tough, so I gave

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Speaker 2: that a seven, and then this last one is an

524
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Speaker 2: extremely long shot. Jesse tempted me to put a ten

525
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Speaker 2: out of ten on the boldness scale. Here, Rand said

526
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Speaker 2: Auburn's gonna have two thousand yard rushers again for the

527
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Speaker 2: first time since he said seventeen. But in reality it's

528
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Speaker 2: all the way back in twenty thirteen. I think this

529
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Speaker 2: is a nine point nine to eight on the boldness scale.

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Speaker 2: This is not gonna happen. One of them is a

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Speaker 2: certainty to be a one thousand yard caliber back. Tank Bigsby,

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Speaker 2: no question about him. If he's durable enough to last

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Speaker 2: the whole season, yeah, he's in that conversation. He was

534
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Speaker 2: like an eleven hundred yard guy last year. So yes,

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Speaker 2: we've got one that that's not the chore here. The

536
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Speaker 2: chur is finding the second one. Jockquss Hunter is a

537
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Speaker 2: very good back, but just to give you an idea

538
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Speaker 2: of how far he would still have to go, last

539
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Speaker 2: year he put up five hundred and ninety three yards

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Speaker 2: total on what eighty nine carries. Okay, so he was

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Speaker 2: really good on yards per carrey average. Jackus Hunter had

542
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Speaker 2: six point eight yards per carry last year. To give

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Speaker 2: you an idea of how much added workload he would

544
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Speaker 2: need at that yards per carry rate to hit a thousand,

545
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Speaker 2: he would need another fifty eight carries to put himself

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Speaker 2: in position to be in one thousand rusher. They also

547
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Speaker 2: have Demur Austin coming in this year, a true freshman,

548
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Speaker 2: but one that they figure will insert himself into the

549
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Speaker 2: mix here. So what I see with Auburn is I

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Speaker 2: see Tank Bigsby being a feature back, and then I

551
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Speaker 2: see those two guys spelling him. But neither of them

552
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Speaker 2: is going to even approach the amount of carries that

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Speaker 2: it takes to get close to one thousand yards. So

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Speaker 2: I say that's like a nine to nine to nine

555
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Speaker 2: out of ten. That's really close. Also, here's a fun

556
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Speaker 2: little fact. It's not just an Auburn thing. Out of

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Speaker 2: every single Power five team last year, not a single

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Speaker 2: one of them.

559
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Speaker 1: Had two thousand yard rushers.

560
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Speaker 2: Now that's noteworthy, but it's also a trend in college

561
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Speaker 2: football in general. Not a single Power five team had

562
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Speaker 2: two thousand yard rushers last year. So it's not disrespectful

563
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Speaker 2: to say I don't think Auburn's going to do it.

564
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Speaker 2: You could have yourself a nice little prop bet and

565
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Speaker 2: say maybe no team's going to have a thousand yard

566
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Speaker 2: a couple of thousand yard rushers again, So good bold

567
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Speaker 2: predictions there. What do we have an eight, A five, nine,

568
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Speaker 2: a seven, and a nine point nine to nine that

569
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Speaker 2: averages out to one of the boldest bold prediction segments

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Speaker 2: that we've had. They're watching us in Sepulpa, Oklahoma tonight.

571
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Speaker 2: They're tuned in in Kodiak, Alaska. How about Midfield, Massachusetts

572
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Speaker 2: and Philadelphia, Mississippi. Thank you guys so much for being

573
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Speaker 2: tuned in wherever you are. Numbers are through the roof,

574
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Speaker 2: through the roof in May, no offseason, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to some more questions here.

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Speaker 2: I got to get to this.

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban went this one right here.

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Speaker 2: It made me. It made me laugh a little bit

579
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Speaker 2: because I just had a conversation about this with someone

580
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Speaker 2: the other day straight from Harlem, New York. Do you

581
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Speaker 2: think the Texas A and M NIL debacle was Nick

582
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Speaker 2: Saban sending another warning to college football. No at least

583
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Speaker 2: not in the classical sense. Okay, maybe he was sending

584
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Speaker 2: a warning not in the classical sense. For a while,

585
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Speaker 2: Nick Saban, when he would make these profound statements on

586
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Speaker 2: the state of the sport, he would be talking about

587
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Speaker 2: tempo based offenses, or he would be talking about the

588
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 2: transfer portal, or he would be talking about expanding the playoff.

589
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Speaker 2: There were a lot of things that he has said

590
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Speaker 2: in the past that people accurately put the warning label on.

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Speaker 1: He's warning you.

592
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Speaker 2: He's not scared, you know, he's not offended, as much

593
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: as he's telling you if that's the way you want

594
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 2: college football, then I will respond accordingly, and you're not

595
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 2: gonna like the result. That's the classic old Nick Saban warning.

596
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Speaker 2: I got to tell you, though, and this is a

597
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 2: little bit of breaking news. I don't think anyone else

598
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 2: has reported this. Not everything that comes out of Nick

599
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 2: Saban's mouth is a warning to college football. Sometimes he

600
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 2: just says things and I've given you my take, and

601
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 2: it's pretty informed.

602
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Speaker 1: On this particular matter.

603
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Speaker 2: I don't even think he knew he was being recorded

604
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Speaker 2: when he did that in Birmingham last week. I think

605
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Speaker 2: he believed he was in a closed setting. Long after

606
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: media had been swept out of the room and he

607
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 2: was talking with his people. And if you've ever been

608
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Speaker 2: in those settings, I've been in a number of them,

609
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Speaker 2: Nick Saban did and really say anything that was all

610
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Speaker 2: that out of the realm of what you would hear

611
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 2: a lot of other coaches do. It's it's the way

612
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: that stuff happens, kind of like a little mini pep rally,

613
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Speaker 2: but there's not a pom pom. It's just you're waving

614
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 2: a pomp pump through words that come out of your mouth. Well, anyway,

615
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Speaker 2: I say all that to say, no, I don't think

616
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 2: he was sending a message to college football, because I

617
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 2: don't even think he knew he was talking to college

618
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 2: football on that particular night. Now, since then, he apologized

619
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Speaker 2: for calling people out directly, but he said, I'm not

620
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 2: backing off the general message, and the general message was Yeah.

621
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Speaker 2: I think he was wanting to deliver a warning in

622
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 2: a much more general sense, But I don't think it's

623
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Speaker 2: the same kind of warning. Like he said, is this

624
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 2: what we want college football to be? Referring to offenses

625
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: several years ago, that was just telling you, if you

626
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: want it to be that way, I'm going to do

627
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 2: it better than you're doing it.

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Speaker 1: This kind of warning, if you want to call it, that.

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Speaker 2: Is I think a warning directed at the entirety of

630
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Speaker 2: college football. And I think whether you agree with him

631
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: or not totally beside the point relative to the fact

632
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 2: that I think he general really has concern about the

633
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: direction of the game right now. He's not alone, He's

634
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 2: not the only person who's spoken like this. So you

635
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: can either believe all these folks or hypocrites and they're

636
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 2: all just looking out for their own self interest blah

637
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 2: blah blah, or you can think the guys already got

638
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: seven national championships and more money than he knows what

639
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 2: to do with, and his legacy's been secured for a

640
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 2: long time. Maybe there is some authenticity in the concern

641
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 2: he has. Just maybe I say the same thing about

642
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Speaker 2: Debo and don't really care what you think about him,

643
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 2: don't care if you love him or hate him, But

644
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 2: there's authenticity in the concern they have.

645
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Speaker 1: So if there's a warning on.

646
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Speaker 2: What Nick Saban is saying, it's not the old fashioned.

647
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Speaker 2: If this is what you want college football to be,

648
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna burn it down in your way instead of

649
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Speaker 2: the old way I did it. I don't think that's

650
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Speaker 2: what he's saying. I don't think that's what he's saying

651
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Speaker 2: it all. So, no, I did not take it as

652
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 2: the same kind of warning that we've heard from him

653
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: in the past. Next up, this is one to pay

654
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 2: attention to. This is one that's going to continue to evolve.

655
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 2: Randy didn't hear no fell. I know that a lot

656
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: of you don't watch South Park, but if you have

657
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,959
Speaker 2: seen south Park in the past and you're looking at

658
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 2: the name of the tweeter here, Randy didn't hear Nobell.

659
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: That is very funny.

660
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 2: I know. I just mildly chuckled, but I'm laughing hard

661
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 2: on the inside. So Randy, we're just gonna keep it short.

662
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 2: Randy said, which quarterback battles are too close for you

663
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,239
Speaker 2: to make a call on right now?

664
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: Also?

665
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 2: How far can you throw a football? The answer to

666
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 2: the second one is it depends on altitude in time

667
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 2: of year. The answer to the first is a little

668
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 2: more lengthy. So let's dive in here. Let's go to

669
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 2: Texas A and M. So, Texas A and M. And

670
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 2: this is just quarterback battles that I think are still

671
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 2: up in the air. I don't think there's an answer

672
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 2: right now. Haines King is rehabbed, he's back from injury,

673
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 2: but Max Johnson is in the mix there. I kind

674
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 2: of went back and forth just when I spoke to

675
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 2: people during the spring about who I thought was leading.

676
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 2: The answer is, I don't think there is a solid

677
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: leader in the clubhouse. I had a little bit better

678
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: feel about Max Johnson, just be personally when they came

679
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 2: out of spring, I don't I don't think that's a

680
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 2: reflection of what the entire staff feels or anything like that.

681
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: But I think they're in a good position.

682
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 2: I don't think any of them are turned off by

683
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 2: where they are because they know they got two options.

684
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 2: This is not a situation where you're choosing from the

685
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: lesser of two evils. Jimbo Fisher's confident he can win

686
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 2: with both those guys, So you know, I'm not gonna

687
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: keep reiterating that ninety second in yards in passing him

688
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 2: twenty yards and more. That's just that's got to improve.

689
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 2: And I think he believes he's got two guys that

690
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 2: can do it. So A and M's one of them.

691
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 2: Stay in the sec West LSU where Mike Johnson came from.

692
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: That's another one. Jaden Daniels came in there through the

693
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 2: transfer portal from Arizona State. Some people talking to someone

694
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: today still believe that he will ultimately be the starter. Okay,

695
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: I'm not there right now. I think it's either a

696
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 2: Miles Brennan or a Garrett Nusmeyer deal. Ultimately, that's where

697
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 2: I think it's going to go because I think poise, precision, accuracy,

698
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 2: decision making. I think they're gonna end up having the

699
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: edges and enough of those categories over jad and Daniels.

700
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 2: Having said that, I don't think it's decided right now.

701
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: This is going to be another one to watch. I

702
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 2: think Garrettnssmyer is ultimately a guy who has a higher

703
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 2: ceiling than anyone else.

704
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: In their quarterback room right now.

705
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 2: But is he there yet? That will be the question

706
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 2: they have to answer in fall Camp, North Carolina is

707
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: a place to keep an eye on. I know a

708
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 2: lot of you have written him off, but I haven't,

709
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: and so quarterback here is undecided. I think some people

710
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 2: around Chapel Hill may have expected Drake may to just

711
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 2: take the job in spring. Most people around the program

712
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 2: still ultimately expect him to I expect him to. But

713
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 2: Jacoby Kriswall could not care less about what any of

714
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: you think, including me, because he's still battling for the job,

715
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 2: and they each have their own skill sets, so it's

716
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 2: not like, you know, a mirror image of each other.

717
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 2: Un let's just who cares flip a coin. That's not

718
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 2: the situation there. I think ultimately Drake may is going

719
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 2: to be that guy. But you know, I remember who

720
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 2: was that. I remember a few years ago. It was

721
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,239
Speaker 2: at the very dawn of the Jalen Hurts era at

722
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 2: Alabama and they had gone through the entirety of spring

723
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 2: and summer and fall camp, and Blake Barnett was a

724
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 2: five star West Coast kid, and everybody was talking about

725
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, but they were speaking about him in the

726
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 2: same context we're talking about Chriswell right now. It was

727
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is going to be good in the future.

728
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 2: But ultimately, I mean, Blake Barnett's going to win that job.

729
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 2: Why Because he's a former, highly rated kid. He fit

730
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 2: the more classical mold of what an Alabama quarterback had been.

731
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 2: And he took the field against USC to start the season,

732
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: and he was rattled and Jalen Hurts got a shot,

733
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 2: and he never relinquished the job. The reason I bring

734
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 2: that up is because I don't know how this is

735
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 2: going to play out, but I know a lot of

736
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: people are going to default to Drake May.

737
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: I guess I need to point that way. That guy

738
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: as am I right now.

739
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 2: But just because you're going to I hear Drake May's

740
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 2: name a thousand times over the summer does not mean

741
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,879
Speaker 2: every time you hear his name he gains that much

742
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: more of a margin on Jacoby Kriswall. It doesn't matter

743
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 2: if you say his name a billion times. It's still

744
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 2: neck and neck. So I'm telling you two or three

745
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 2: series in their opening game will be more valuable than

746
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 2: any preview, magazine season or any segment we do on

747
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 2: this show. Because this isn't football. Nothing's happening right now.

748
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 2: We're just talking in lieu of having football in front

749
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 2: of us. This stuff could change on a dime. That's

750
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 2: how close some of these races are. So this one

751
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 2: right here is one in particular I'm keeping an eye on.

752
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: Next up is Auburn. I did not leave Spring overly

753
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 2: confident that they have a guy they can just definitively

754
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 2: look at and say he's gonna lead us.

755
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: That's going to be a guy.

756
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 2: That we can win with.

757
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: But they're only out of spring. They have not gone

758
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: through fall camp yet.

759
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 2: Zack Calzada has not even really gotten to work himself

760
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: back into the rotation because he's coming off injury. So

761
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 2: maybe Zack Calzada is that guy Robbie ash For just

762
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,479
Speaker 2: gone on campus like ten minutes ago, just went through spring.

763
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: Maybe he's still that guy TJ. Finley. They know, for

764
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: better or for worse, what they have in him. I

765
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: have no clue which direction this is going to go.

766
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 2: This is probably the most up in the air quarterback

767
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 2: battle of all of them that we're talking about. I

768
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 2: have no clue which direction this was going to go.

769
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 2: I just know that whoever wins that job is going

770
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 2: to have to come pretty good. Ways before you're watching

771
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 2: Auburn and you're saying they got quarterback figured out. Now,

772
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 2: if the rest of these pieces fall into place, they'll

773
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,959
Speaker 2: be pretty good. There's a little ways to go before

774
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 2: they can say that. Down there some other teams just

775
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: keep an eye on, because I could talk about this

776
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 2: all night. Clemson DJ Dabos Swinny sounds very confident. Are

777
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 2: we as confident in djuy Angola, lay As Daboswenny, I'm

778
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 2: not yet.

779
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: He knows more than I do about his program.

780
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 2: Michigan Cade McNamara, JJ McCarthy, JJ McCarthy did not have

781
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 2: the surge in spring that some people expect. It doesn't

782
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 2: mean anything because both of them going to play. So

783
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: Michigan's got a very workable first month of the season,

784
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 2: so you'll see both of them. I think that's That's

785
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 2: a quarterback battle that's pretty unique in that Jim Harbaugh

786
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 2: does not have to have it figured out by week one.

787
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 2: He liked to.

788
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: Maybe he even plans to.

789
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 2: They are one of the teams that can afford to

790
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,720
Speaker 2: take a battle into the season and probably not risk

791
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 2: an unexpected result. Notre Dame, Tyler Buttner and Drew Pine.

792
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 2: Tyler Buttner is thought to eventually be the favorite. There

793
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: some injury concerned with him, but overall, I just want

794
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 2: to know the level of play I'm gonna get from him.

795
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: Jackson Dart and Luke Altmeyer at ol Miss still neck

796
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 2: and neck, so kind of the same way with North

797
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 2: Carolina and Drake May. You're gonna hear people assume Jackson

798
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 2: Dart's gonna take the job. I do too. I assume

799
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 2: he will. Has not happened yet, though still got time.

800
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 2: Hasn't happened yet at Texas. I'm not talking about them

801
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 2: as much as some other folks are because even though

802
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: it wasn't decided in spring, it will be decided. I

803
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 2: think that's gonna be Quinnyewer's job. It will just take

804
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks in the fall. But I don't

805
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 2: think if you had truth serum injected into that coaching staff,

806
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 2: they believe that's going to be a battle until week one.

807
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: I don't think they believe that. So those are some

808
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 2: quarterback battles to keep an eye on. You've got to

809
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 2: stay updated on that. I know it's only one position,

810
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 2: but it is the position. You gotta stay up to

811
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 2: date on that. Next up, a very interesting question that

812
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 2: I will give like a trick answer to think about models,

813
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 2: think about ways to win a game. So, Barrett Listener

814
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 2: from Melissa, Texas, what programs do you see attempting to

815
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 2: replicate Georgia's defensive football focus in order to win? Which

816
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 2: do you think will be successful? I guess another way

817
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 2: to put it would be which programs should attempt that approach.

818
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. I appreciate that. My answer

819
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: is none. I don't think anyone's going to try it.

820
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 2: I don't even think Kirby Smart plans on trying to

821
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 2: exactly duplicate the formula they just used. To be clear,

822
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 2: Georgia just earned a national championship and they'll remember it

823
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 2: for all eternity.

824
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: Good for them.

825
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 2: I was there. I was standing right there on the

826
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: field when it happened, and that was a generational occurrence,

827
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 2: especially if you're like me. I grew up in Georgia,

828
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 2: so I know the significance of that. But to talk

829
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 2: about a model or a blueprint, that team was very special.

830
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 2: I don't think I need to tell anyone that five

831
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 2: first round draft picks Nakobe Dean inexplicably not among that group,

832
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 2: even though he may have been one of, if not

833
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: the best defensive players.

834
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: Here's what you have to do it, because if.

835
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 2: You want to use that model, if you're outside of Athens, Georgia,

836
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 2: you watched them and you say, you know what I

837
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 2: want to do it Georgia's way, all you got to

838
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 2: do is go find you about half a dozen first

839
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 2: round caliber defensive players, and then you got to have

840
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 2: several more that will eventually be first rounders on the

841
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: depth Tart behind them.

842
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: That's point one.

843
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 2: Point two is you have to have quarterback figured out.

844
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: But what do I mean by that?

845
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 2: Se because I think a lot of folks are going

846
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 2: to look back on twenty twenty one with revisionist history

847
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 2: and say that Kirby Smart knew what he was doing

848
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 2: with Stetson Bennett. Stetson Bennett didn't even start the season

849
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 2: at quarterback.

850
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: That wasn't the plan. JT. Daniels started against Clemson.

851
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 2: JT. Daniels ended up having injury and Stetson Bennett stepped

852
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 2: in and then secured his legacy for all eternity too,

853
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 2: because he made the most of an opportunity. He did

854
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 2: exactly what they needed him to do. He did things

855
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 2: that I never thought he would be capable of doing.

856
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 2: I never thought Stetson Bennett. I think I said it

857
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 2: on the show several times.

858
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: I never thought.

859
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 2: Stetson Bennett would be able to maintain a level, just

860
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 2: a minimum baseline level of performance they needed to win

861
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 2: a title.

862
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: I was wrong.

863
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 2: He did maintain that is that the model someone else

864
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 2: is going to be able to use going forward.

865
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.

866
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 2: And then you also need to remember this, even with

867
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 2: all that talent defensively, we saw what happened when it

868
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 2: faced elite quarterback play an elite wide receiver play in

869
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: the SEC championship game, they got run. They atoned for

870
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 2: it in the National Championship game. A lot of people

871
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 2: want to talk about end wide receiver for Bama, point

872
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 2: being they won the title. But what I'm saying is,

873
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 2: think about the needle they had to thread. Think about

874
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 2: how much had to go right there. So you can

875
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 2: either try and do it like that, or you can say,

876
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 2: let's just go get a bunch of racehorse wide receivers.

877
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 2: Let's go get us an elite quarterback, and I include

878
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 2: Kirby Smart there. Kirby Smart just went through what he

879
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 2: went through, and he found out how tough it is

880
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 2: to win a national championship. But I guarantee you, when

881
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 2: Kirby Smart looks at the team he just had, but

882
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 2: he envisions the future of Georgia football, I guarantee you

883
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 2: he plans on being far more potent offensively. I guarantee

884
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 2: you he plans on having a lot more firepower offensively

885
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 2: and if Kirby smart, let's just say in twenty twenty

886
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 2: five they win the title that year. Maybe they won

887
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 2: more between now and then, but let's just safely look

888
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 2: down the road to twenty twenty five. So two or

889
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 2: three recruiting classes from now, whatever Georgia football looks like

890
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, I will almost certainly be willing

891
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,240
Speaker 2: to guarantee you offensively, it is night and day different

892
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 2: from what they want were in this past year. Because

893
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 2: they can be that, they're capable. They don't have to

894
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 2: they don't have to do it one way. They can

895
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 2: do it anyway they want to. It's kind of like

896
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 2: how Saban evolved. Okay, Kirby smart. He has the resources

897
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 2: and the advantage to be able to evolve the program

898
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 2: however he wants to. I don't think he wants to

899
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 2: rely on that specific set of ingredients always coming together.

900
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: I think he wants to remove a lot of the

901
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 2: margin for era. I think he wants to have a

902
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: lot of Jamison Williams on his team. I think he

903
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,919
Speaker 2: wants to have a Bryce Young on his team. Makes

904
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 2: things a whole lot easier. Next up, this is where

905
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 2: the feelers are gonna get hurt.

906
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: Let me settle in. Okay, it's gonna go bad.

907
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 2: One of you asked an innocent question that there will

908
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 2: be casualties here we go. Daniel said, I turned twenty

909
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 2: last month, so my college football memory only goes back

910
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 2: to the twenty eleven season when LSU lost the title.

911
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 2: Programs don't win championships, teams do. So what have been

912
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 2: the top five programs of the last twenty years? Waynesboro Virginia.

913
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 2: Number One's easy. It can almost fool you into thinking

914
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 2: two through five are also that easy.

915
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: They're not.

916
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 2: Okay, So program over team, please maintain your focus here,

917
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 2: program over team, what are we valuing? Well? You can

918
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 2: choose to value national titles. You can choose to value

919
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 2: winning percentage, conference titles, double digit win seasons. I just

920
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: told producer Jesse stats an info. I said, Jesse, take

921
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 2: all of it, throw it in a blender, and just

922
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 2: pour me out in the best five cups we can find.

923
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 2: Here's how we ended up shaking these out. Alabama's number one. Now,

924
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 2: this one's easy. They got six national titles in this

925
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 2: time span. They've got eight conference titles, sixteen double digit

926
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 2: win seasons. Looks like a typo but it's not and

927
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 2: the winning percentage is in the eighty percentile. And also

928
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 2: there are some sketchy years mixed in on the very

929
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 2: very front end of this. This is not all Nick Saban.

930
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 2: He's only been there since seven, and that was a

931
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 2: seven season, by the way. He's just been so good

932
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 2: since then it hasn't mattered. So Bama's number one. You

933
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 2: know who I think the number two program in the

934
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 2: last twenty years is the LSU Tigers. You know why

935
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 2: because they've won three national championships with three different coaches,

936
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 2: and they've had the unenviable task of existing in the

937
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 2: same division as Bama the entire time, so they got

938
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 2: more national titles in this span than anyone else. And

939
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 2: they've been bumping heads with Nick Saban at the peak

940
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 2: of his dynasty the entire time. LSU's been really, really good.

941
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 2: LSU's pumped the NFL full of draft picks too. LSU's

942
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 2: won a lot of games too. They've had a couple

943
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 2: of down years, but you know what else they've had.

944
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 2: They've had a string of really, really good years that

945
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 2: you don't remember because they had to play Bama and

946
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: everyone remembers that. I think it was like eight or

947
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 2: nine year in a row streak that Saban had against

948
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 2: less Miles and the beginning of ed Oorzeron's tenure, which

949
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 2: wasn't all that long. You go back and watch the games,

950
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 2: they're like, it's there's one possession cliss Classic after one

951
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 2: possession Classic. So LSU has been very, very good. They've

952
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 2: been extremely good. They've got three national titles in that span.

953
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 2: They got four conference titles, ten double digit win seasons.

954
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 2: I take into account they won three titles with three

955
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 2: different coaches, and they've done it in the division sabans in.

956
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 2: Does anyone else think they would have had more success?

957
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 2: Take I don't care any other program we're about to

958
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 2: go and talk about. You park them in Baton Rouge

959
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 2: in the SEC West with Nick Saban. Who else is

960
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 2: winning three titles? I know Saban won one of them,

961
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 2: but the other two who's winning those? I don't think

962
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 2: anyone else is. So I'm putting LSU number two. Ohio

963
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 2: State is my number three program over the last twenty years.

964
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 2: Look at that winning percentage eighty four point nine. At

965
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 2: this point, I know what's being said in the chat,

966
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 2: I know what's being said in the comment section. Well,

967
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 2: They only got that high a winning percentage because they're

968
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten and they've got a week schedule.

969
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: The Big Ten is the second toughest conference in college football.

970
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 2: They have been for a large chunk of this twenty

971
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 2: year stretch.

972
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: And you know what I don't do.

973
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: I don't punish Ohio State because they don't have to

974
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 2: play Ohio State. You notice that, it's so common sense,

975
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 2: but people overlook this Ohio State schedule always looks softer

976
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 2: than everyone else in the Big Ten because they can't

977
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 2: play themselves. You don't get punished for that. That's a compliment.

978
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 2: And so they've got the insane winning percentage. They've also

979
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 2: got the national championship under Urban meyerback in fourteen. They

980
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 2: got another one under Jim Tressel. They're there every year.

981
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 2: They had that one hiccup year and then they were

982
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 2: right back again. So they're there every year. NFL draft

983
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 2: speaks for itself, recruiting speaks for itself. It's been a

984
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 2: very very stable program. They got eleven conference titles. They're

985
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 2: winning more than a conference title every other year over

986
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 2: the past two decades. Seventeen double digit win season. So yeah,

987
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 2: Ohio State, you could make the argument for them be

988
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 2: a number two, I would not argue if you put

989
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 2: them above LSU. I told you why I value l

990
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 2: is you more. Number four is the Clemson Tigers. Some

991
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 2: of you I asked earlier had them all the way

992
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 2: up at number two. I put them at number four.

993
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 2: They have seven, I believe, seven conference titles in this timeframe.

994
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: It's important to remember.

995
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 2: They had a really, really good solid run under Tommy

996
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 2: Bowden before he was fired. They were having a really

997
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 2: good solid run there, so they were not garbage before that.

998
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 2: They tailed off towards the end a little bit, but

999
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 2: they've got a winning percentage right there, kind of where

1000
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 2: LSU has been. They've got two national championships, they got

1001
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 2: seven conference titles, eleven double digit win seasons. But you

1002
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: know why I'm putting them as high as I'm putting

1003
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 2: them those two national championships.

1004
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:43,240
Speaker 1: Will want to get Nick Saban.

1005
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 2: So they also butted heads with the greatest dynasty in

1006
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 2: the history of the sport, led by the greatest coach

1007
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 2: in the history of the sport, and they knocked them

1008
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 2: out twice. I give a lot of credit for that.

1009
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 2: I don't think I mean all national championships are equal

1010
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 2: in terms of the you know on the screen there,

1011
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 2: but some of them are tougher to win than others,

1012
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 2: and you're doing it if you're getting two of them in.

1013
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: That era, that's tough to do.

1014
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 2: And they also, you know, they've kind of dominated a

1015
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 2: conference over there that should never be dominated to this degree,

1016
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,879
Speaker 2: but it has. That record's two hundred and sixty seven,

1017
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 2: by the way, the last twenty years. So I put

1018
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 2: Clumbs into number four this number five spot. I went

1019
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 2: back and forth, Jesse. I think I went back and

1020
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 2: forth three or four times over like a five minute span.

1021
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: So I trust me.

1022
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 2: I know the arguments for a number of programs. Here

1023
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 2: I put Oklahoma at number five. They edged out Georgia

1024
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 2: by the width of a sheet of paper. Here they've

1025
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 2: got them edged Okay, So I'm basically just doing a

1026
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 2: resume comparison here of Oklahoma and Georgia. They've got more

1027
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 2: double digit win seasons, they've got more conference championships if

1028
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 2: you care about such things. They've also got four Heismans

1029
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 2: during this timeframe. I know the rebuttal. The rebuttal is

1030
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 2: if we're Georgia, well, we don't care about Heisman's. Secondly,

1031
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 2: they played in the Pinball Conference for a long time. Thirdly,

1032
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 2: they were the only legitimate alpha in that conference for

1033
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 2: a long time, whereas we've been playing in the SEC.

1034
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 2: And you just said you give credit for having to

1035
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 2: play around Nick Saban, So why not us.

1036
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: I get all that.

1037
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, there was the head to head

1038
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen. Yeah, I get all that. So as

1039
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 2: you can clearly see, even though I'm touting Oklahoma, I've

1040
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: made a really good argument for Georgia fractions of an

1041
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 2: inch either way. So if you want to call it

1042
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 2: a tie for fifth, that's fine. But I did not

1043
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 2: take the coward's way out. I am putting Oklahoma at five.

1044
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 2: But there is a justifiable argument both ways there. Florida

1045
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 2: had a shot here, but Florida had too much of

1046
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 2: a lull, whereas some of these other programs they have

1047
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 2: not really had lulls. So I went Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Clemson, Oklahoma.

1048
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: I saw some USC love, I saw some Miami love.

1049
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: The laws are too big for me. Can't have it. Lastly,

1050
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: this is our last question. Yeah, this is our last question.

1051
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: This is fun.

1052
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 2: So Robert, you know I wasn't going to put Robert's

1053
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 2: question in the show tonight, but one of our peers

1054
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 2: hated on him for using the word ancillary. So I'm

1055
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 2: going to put Robert's question in the show from a

1056
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 2: what is that Middle Othian from Middle Lothian, Texas? What's

1057
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 2: an ancillary component of college football that gets you almost

1058
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 2: as hyped up as the game itself?

1059
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: For me, it's.

1060
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 2: Uniform reveals and stadium renovations. Great question, Great way to

1061
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,800
Speaker 2: end the show here. The first one schedule releases and

1062
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 2: kickoff times. We're kind of in the middle of that

1063
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 2: right now, not so much the schedule releases. If I

1064
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 2: am college football commissioner, as I have told you, I

1065
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 2: will overhaul the way scheduling in the sport works.

1066
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: We will do like the NFL.

1067
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 2: We will follow our professional brethren in the sense that

1068
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 2: right before spring practice that's when we will announce your schedule.

1069
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: You will not know it before then.

1070
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,399
Speaker 2: It's completely ludicrous that some of you know who you're

1071
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 2: going to play in twenty thirty two. That's the first thing.

1072
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: Second thing, kickoff times.

1073
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 2: Love it, love it. It's like it's like it's just

1074
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 2: intoxicating when you are scrolling through Twitter and all of

1075
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 2: a sudden you see Fox or ESPN or CBS today

1076
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 2: have announced game times for certain matchups that happened a

1077
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,240
Speaker 2: lot this past week, and I love that the second

1078
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 2: one is also happening around this time of year, when

1079
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 2: odds makers and sportsbooks start putting out the early games

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00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 2: of the year spreads and over underwin totals, you might

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Take the day off work.

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Speaker 2: I work in sports media and I still consider taking

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00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 2: the day off work when that happens, So that is

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00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 2: a great time of year. And then I also love

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Speaker 2: to watch the early action and to see who bumps

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Speaker 2: up half a game or down half a game, which

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Speaker 2: points spreads start moving early. The third one is gonna

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Speaker 2: surprise it. I think a lot of you preview magazine

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Speaker 2: season is an ancillary component to college football that I love.

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Speaker 2: I do not bet my life on what is written

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00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,240
Speaker 2: in those pages, and I certainly think that the medium

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00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 2: has seen its better days because technology has allowed, you know,

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Speaker 2: some of the friends of this program that I talk

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Speaker 2: about a lot more as the season gets closer, to

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Speaker 2: keep a real time updated version of their college football magazine,

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Speaker 2: you know, buying a physical magazine once it goes off

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00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 2: the printing press it's done. Whereas if you got it digitally,

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Speaker 2: you can update stuff every day. You know, quarterback goes down,

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00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,800
Speaker 2: your entire Big twelve Power rankings go up and smoke.

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00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 2: Well not. If you have it digitally, you can just

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Speaker 2: update it. But it still means the exact same thing.

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Speaker 2: It still gives me the exact same emotion inside. To

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Speaker 2: be walking up and down the aisle at publics and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, there's Lindy's, there's Anthlon.

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Speaker 1: Is Phil is that Phil? Phil steals here too? That

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Speaker 1: is great?

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Speaker 2: And you know, I even go so far as to

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Speaker 2: rank the best smelling magazines because the first thing I do,

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Speaker 2: being the person I am, when I get those magazines,

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Speaker 2: is I flip through. Ah.

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Speaker 1: No one's even cracked this open yet.

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Speaker 2: That's great. The fourth thing, which is probably the stupidest

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Speaker 2: thing that I'm into is travel hype videos. No matter

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Speaker 2: how many times your team goes on the road and

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Speaker 2: your creative media department takes random videos of players walking

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Speaker 2: into their hotel or getting on a bus or getting

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Speaker 2: on a plane. If it's cleverly edited and it's got

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Speaker 2: a good audio bed with it, I'm into it. I'm

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Speaker 2: watching it from start to finish. So those are some

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Speaker 2: things that I love to watch. Really good show tonight.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys being tuned and have a great

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Speaker 2: Memorial Day and just do me one favor and one favor.

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Speaker 2: Only subscribe on whatever medium you watch or listen to

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Speaker 2: the show on, or ideally just do them all. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much. We really appreciate what you're doing for

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Speaker 2: the show. For producer Jesse, for director Column, for all

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Speaker 2: of our production executives, I'm Josh Pate.

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Speaker 1: Have yourselves a great start to your week.

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Speaker 2: Accountless