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Speaker 1: And welcome to the link. Kick is Live. It is

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night, September fourth, twenty twenty two, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Academy Sports and Outdoors. Look at how beautiful that is.

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Speaker 1: That's better than anything We could have made. More on

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Speaker 1: that later until you have the Sunday Night reaction show

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Speaker 1: during the season, you only know half the story of

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Speaker 1: what you just witnessed. We're going to talk about everything

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Speaker 1: under the sun that happened in college football yesterday. Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about all that of Florida.

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Speaker 1: For my money, with the game of the day, and

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Speaker 1: for some reason, I'm taking a fair amount of strays

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Speaker 1: from that game. I have no idea why. We will

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Speaker 1: discuss in due time every given Saturday Tour Week two

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Speaker 1: destination before we go off the air tonight. We got

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Speaker 1: to get right into it because we got a game

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Speaker 1: kicking off in about an hour. Brooksville, Florida is tuned in, Weatherford, Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: tuned in, Dickson, North Carolina tuned in, and our friends

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Speaker 1: in Montigo, Page Amica are tuned in tonight. I just

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Speaker 1: got I've been in like seven states today, so we

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Speaker 1: just flew back in from Fayetteville, watched as much as

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Speaker 1: A lot of you tuned in on the Instagram Live

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Speaker 1: channel over the weekend. You saw the story you saw

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Speaker 1: Friday Night Lines, which is not available via replay. It's

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Speaker 1: only available if you watch live. I strongly suggest you'd

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Speaker 1: be following over there on Instagram at late kick, Josh,

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Speaker 1: you got a lot of stuff from that game yesterday

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Speaker 1: when we were on the ground in Fayetteville that you

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Speaker 1: did not get I can assure you on the ESPN broadcast,

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Speaker 1: So thank you for that. Okay, let's dive into this.

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Speaker 1: We've got so many different directions to go. Sundays are

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Speaker 1: our favorite day in our favorite season. Utah and Florida

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Speaker 1: played a classic last night and Florida ends up pulling

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Speaker 1: this thing out. I got back to my hotel room

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Speaker 1: in time to see the ending of this thing. An

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Speaker 1: odds maker would tell you, for example, that home field advantage,

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Speaker 1: the swamp and Anthony Richardson, starting quarterback for Florida are

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Speaker 1: probably combined worth somewhere between six and seven points in

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Speaker 1: this game. They're wrong. I'm telling you they're wrong. I

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Speaker 1: think if you've got truth serum in Utah, they would

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Speaker 1: also tell you that's incorrect. Now, what I don't know

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Speaker 1: is how many points they're worth. But I can assure

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Speaker 1: you that environment that that crowd created last night and

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Speaker 1: number fifteen there, if you're watching, the dynamic that he

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Speaker 1: is as a player, especially in big time moments, worth

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Speaker 1: a whole lot more than a touchdown. And that's why

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Speaker 1: Florida's going to have a shot in pretty much every

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Speaker 1: game they play this year. We did the preview last week,

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Speaker 1: so I didn't have a strong feel. I slightly lead Utah.

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Speaker 1: I picked Utah to win the game. Close, could have

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Speaker 1: I did say, though, is if Florida pulls this out,

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Speaker 1: what we could be looking at is a game where

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Speaker 1: the breakdown is as simple as they had Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 1: and Utah didn't, and they had the home field and

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Speaker 1: Utah didn't. And I mean, it's a great game. I

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Speaker 1: strongly encourage you. If you did not see this, please

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Speaker 1: go to replay. It's probably the best game we saw

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Speaker 1: from it. Tell me you don't say the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen was the best player on the field. Wow he's good.

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Speaker 1: Wow he looks different. And I'm going to talk about

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Speaker 1: him more in just a second. I did think one

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Speaker 1: kind of interesting note, since these comparisons are going to

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Speaker 1: start to get made anyway. That's the first Florida player

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Speaker 1: with one hundred pass yards and three rushing touchdowns in

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Speaker 1: a game since one Timothy Tebow, formerly of Niee High School,

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Speaker 1: more famously of the University of Florida. A lot of

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Speaker 1: live chat already, and thank you for watching. By the way,

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Speaker 1: a classic fence writing answer, yes and no. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: Poops knows if we're going to be at that game,

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Speaker 1: not about this game. What I'm saying is it was

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Speaker 1: Florida this year, especially if they keep playing like they

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Speaker 1: They as a team, it's so obvious. Here was what

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Speaker 1: So Billy Napier one game in feels like Florida, feels

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Speaker 1: He should have already known his name. But yes, friend,

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Speaker 1: you need to know Anthony Richardson's name. He can change games.

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Speaker 1: probably do that for us. But man, they're pretty euphoric

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be fine. Now, I don't know with that

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Speaker 1: collection ultimately how high I'll expect them to climb this year,

429
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Speaker 1: But I mean, I thought they represented themselves very well.

430
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 1: I've already seen people try to try to paint trends

431
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Speaker 1: with Marcus Freeman. Guy's been a head coach there for

432
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 1: two games, one of them was a Bowl game, and

433
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:15,959
Speaker 1: you're already talking about how he struggles in second halves. Okay, personally,

434
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:17,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need a little more than a two game

435
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 1: sample size there, But that's fine. Third down last night,

436
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,080
Speaker 1: I think decided this game. Ohio State seven of thirteen,

437
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,640
Speaker 1: Notre Dame three of thirteen total plays. As a result,

438
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,400
Speaker 1: Notre Dame forty eight total plays, Ohio State sixty nine

439
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:36,439
Speaker 1: total plays. Nice. It's a game of extremes sometimes, and

440
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,919
Speaker 1: especially you know when you're only running forty eight plays,

441
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 1: A couple more third down conversions in a very close game,

442
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: one possession game. I mean, Notre Dame had the lead

443
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,080
Speaker 1: in this thing in the second half. That's what makes

444
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 1: the difference. But I'll tell you what Notre Dame does

445
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,280
Speaker 1: have to improve on if they're going to reach that

446
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 1: nine win or ten win type season. They can't be

447
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 1: running the ball for two point five yards per carry

448
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 1: at what thirty carries last night for seventy six yards

449
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,200
Speaker 1: when you've got a new quarterback and one who does

450
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 1: not have that dynamic presence like maybe an Anthony Richardson does,

451
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: you got to be able to run ball. And they

452
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,360
Speaker 1: really couldn't last night. And that is yet another tip

453
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 1: of the cap to Jim Knowles in the Ohio State defense.

454
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 1: This team right here, this team at Columbus Ohio, you

455
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 1: saw their starting point. That's what I believe you saw

456
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 1: their entry point to the twenty twenty two season. As

457
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 1: Mema said many times, a foolish man draws conclusions in

458
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 1: week one, a wise man makes observations in week one.

459
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mema. I couldn't set it better myself. I

460
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Speaker 1: need to update you on something that's over now. The

461
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: auction for Saint Jude's Children's cancer research that we were

462
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: doing had a flurry kind of a race to the

463
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Speaker 1: finish Saturday. The auction was for get this a thirty

464
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 1: minute zoom chat with me, moving pictures and everything. What

465
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Speaker 1: do you think someone bid on that? Originally we wanted

466
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: to go over one thousand dollars, then we hit that.

467
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: It closed at eight eighteen hundred dollars. Someone out there

468
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: management has not told me Whopstead is, even though management's

469
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: in the building right now or it was when the

470
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: show started. Eighteen hundred dollars. Someone out there is going

471
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 1: to talk to me and Jesse gets stats and the

472
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: info to determine how many dollars that is per minut it.

473
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: It's for a very good cause that I can assure

474
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 1: you that money's not going to us. That money's going

475
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 1: to Saint Jude's children's cancer research. So thank you guys,

476
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,159
Speaker 1: because we had a lot of bids on that, a

477
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: lot of you participated. Our audience always steps up anytime

478
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Speaker 1: we do anything. We've never done something quite like that,

479
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,959
Speaker 1: but anytime we've got someone in need or we've got

480
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: a good cause, you guys always step up. I had

481
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. I just didn't know quite how

482
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 1: high you would go. So as usual, you over I

483
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: underestimated you and you over delivered. Where were we yesterday?

484
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: We were in Fayette, Arkansas. The Every Given Saturday Tour

485
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: one point zero took us to Fayette the larkansaws for

486
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: Cincinnati versus Arkansas yesterday, and it's in contention for the

487
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,360
Speaker 1: best trip we've ever taken. I'll talk about that more

488
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: on the back end. Let's talk about the game first.

489
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: Arkansas ends up winning this thing thirty one to twenty four.

490
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 1: I think the venue determined the outcome of this game.

491
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: Trey Bittty and I I got on Walk and Talk.

492
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: By the way, those of you around Arkansas know exactly

493
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Speaker 1: how significant that is. Those of you who don't just

494
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: search Trey Bittty walking Talk on YouTube. I was the

495
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: first guest ever on Walking Talk. And so Betty and

496
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: I are walking around an empty Reynolds razorback stadium last night,

497
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: and I said, Betty, I think I think the venue

498
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: determined this game today. I was on the field yesterday.

499
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 1: You know me, I'll take the sunburn, get me out

500
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 1: of the press box, put me on the field. And

501
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,200
Speaker 1: there were so many times. Those of you who watched

502
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 1: the game know what I'm talking about. There were so

503
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: many times. Forget the overthrows, that's lack of execution on

504
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 1: the offensis part for Cincinnati, and we can talk about

505
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 1: that in a second. But man, there were several times

506
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: down in plus territory, down in the red zone where

507
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 1: Arkansas's crowd made it impossible for cincinnati to function. They

508
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: also backed them out of field goal territory another time.

509
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 1: It was a factor all day. I mean I was

510
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: over there close to the Cincinnati bench a couple of times. Chaos,

511
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: and you know, good and well, they've worked on it,

512
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: you know, good and well, they piped in crowd noise.

513
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: That's kind of like Utah trying to get themselves ready

514
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: for humidity. You can do all you want to, you

515
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: can only somewhat prepare for it. And especially if you've

516
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: got a new quarterback starting, there's only so much you

517
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: can do to prepare that guy, because there's only so

518
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: much simulation that you can do relative to what are

519
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,439
Speaker 1: real life football games. Like, well, Cincinnati played a real

520
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: life football game yesterday and they had trouble so much

521
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: so that Arkansas ended up winning this thing by seven.

522
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: I'll just say it like this. I think there were

523
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: more than seven points worth of impact put on this

524
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 1: game by that Arkansas crowd, and it was hot yesterday

525
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,479
Speaker 1: and this was in the middle of the afternoon. And

526
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: so I credit you guys, because that was a memorable

527
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: experience for me, a forgettable experience for Cincinnati because of you.

528
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: The feedback, though, is what I want to talk about

529
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: from our own Arkansas brethren, some of them. The feedback

530
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: I got was a very mixed bag about your own team.

531
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: So I know, I knew that there was going to

532
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 1: be some unhappiness because, like I said with Ohio State,

533
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 1: I knew there was going to be a little unhappiness

534
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,919
Speaker 1: amongst Arkansas nation because everything didn't look fluid. And again,

535
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: forget the amnesia that sets in over the summer. This

536
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: not your preview magazine. This is what real football looks

537
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: like when you're playing with college kids and you don't

538
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: have preseason games. That's what it looks like. You've got

539
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 1: special teams, iffy at best, you got turnovers, you've got injuries,

540
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: you got cramping, and you got just a lack of execution.

541
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 1: You got firing and missing, and that happens with a

542
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: lot of teams. In Week one, Arkansas was no different.

543
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: There was a time not too long ago, where they

544
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: would have dropped this game by three scores. Instead, they

545
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: won yesterday, and that just signifies the elevation of the

546
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: program overall. But what do we say? What did me?

547
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: Man say? Let's repeat it again. Wise men make observations

548
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: in week one. Foolish men draw conclusions in week one.

549
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: I had a lot of folks on the eye, Josh,

550
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: you know who you are, who were telling me Arkansas

551
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: looks like the fourth best team in the West at best,

552
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: fourth best team. How do you know, friend? First off,

553
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: you probably haven't even watched all the Western Division teams

554
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: play yet. Secondly, how do you know the Arkansas you

555
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: saw yesterday is going to be the one you see

556
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: when they played Texas A and M in late September

557
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: or when they play at Auburn in late October. You

558
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: don't You don't know what any of the teams are

559
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: going to look like, because I can't remember the last

560
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: team that looked the exact same in late October and

561
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: early November as they did in Week one. Now you'd

562
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: get worse, you could also get better. I don't know

563
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 1: that many of them stayed the same. So let's just

564
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: let's make observations observation was a clunky game yesterday and

565
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: Arkansas ends up getting the win. Anyway, that's just how

566
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: college football works. Arkansas threw it eighteen times yesterday. And

567
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: I think early on I talked to Kendall Brown's after

568
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: the game, whatn't about his offensive game plan. I suspect

569
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: that Kendall Briles probably wanted to throw that ball a

570
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: little more a little earlier on. And they completed it

571
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: past the Landers to start the first drive and then

572
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: ended up with an incompletion, and Cincinnati got the ball

573
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: and they went on a drive that feels like forever.

574
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: Even though they didn't score. It started to tilt that

575
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: game a little bit, and you start thinking to yourself,

576
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: here's what we can't have in this heat in Week one.

577
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: I can't have that road team over there where they

578
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: plus twenty plays run advantage on us in our own

579
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: building at halftime, because we're planning on turning these factors

580
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 1: and turning our size advantage against them in the second half. Well,

581
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: we can't do that if we've never been on the field,

582
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: and we hadn't been able to lean on them enough.

583
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: So they started to run the ball a little more.

584
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: They ran the ball okay by Arkansas standards. I don't

585
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: think they ran the ball as well as they will

586
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: end up running it when a lot of those pieces

587
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: fall into place. I watched their offense yesterday. I think

588
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: there's a different gear to the Arkansas offense, That's what

589
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, and I think that over time you'll

590
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: see that kind of coalesce into something that's a little

591
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: more balanced in terms of play calling. I don't think

592
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: they'll tilt as heavy into the run, ironic though it

593
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: may be because I got a good ground game as

594
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: they did yesterday, because I think they know when they

595
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: watch their defense little leaky on the back end, could

596
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: have been much leakier on the scoreboard on the back end.

597
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: When they watch their team overall, I think they know

598
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to score a little bit more, maybe

599
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: than they did yesterday down the road. So I still

600
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: believe there's a second gear for them. But I will

601
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: say this, there was a time in this game kJ

602
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: Jefferson comes through for them exactly that Richardson did in

603
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: the end for Florida thirty one to twenty four. Arkansas

604
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: with the lead fourth quarter, since he has just pulled

605
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: to within seven, there is four thirty left on the clock.

606
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: It's third and nine, and they know exactly like Billy

607
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: Napier and that Florida's staff, they know they got a

608
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: guy at quarterback who they can look at and say,

609
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: make it happen. And he did. kJ Jefferson made it

610
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: happen on third and nine. He gets the first down,

611
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: they extend the drive. Cincinnati never touched the ball again.

612
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: They bled the final five minutes off the clock in

613
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: a one possession game yesterday. Now, I didn't see Sam

614
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: Pittman smile a whole lot after the game, kind of

615
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: that euphoric smile. Aaron maybe a grin every now and then,

616
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: But one euphoric smile that came over his face was

617
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: when he talked about that final drive. Especially as an

618
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: O line coach, that stuff is sort of erotic in

619
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: a way. I think that's the word that I've heard

620
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: him used for It's kind of erotic to bleed that

621
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: final five minutes off the clock and they can't do

622
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: anything about it. Transfers are another key facet that decided

623
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: this game for Arkansas. I mean, Jordan Dominic had a

624
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: strip sack late in that game. Dwight mclothern had a

625
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: big pick for him. He came in there from LSU.

626
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: Drew Sanders from Alabama had a sack for him, Land

627
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: and Jackson had a sack. All those guys are integral

628
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: parts of this team, and all those guys are playing

629
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: positions that in a bygone era Arkansas would have had

630
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: to start from scratch. App They would have had to

631
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: go in recruiting and probably get a guy that did

632
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: not have a committable offer from Bama, and they would

633
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: have had to take a couple of years and develop

634
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: him and then as a junior it'd finally be on

635
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: the field. It's not the way it is there anymore.

636
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: And that's why you should not automatically just expect this

637
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: dip only because they had a good season the year before.

638
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: That's not the way it's going to work anymore. Now

639
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: here's the flip side of that coin. Success is not

640
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: a continuum. Success is not something that just because you

641
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: had nine wins last year, Okay, that's our starting point.

642
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: This year, you started zero again. To make that very clear,

643
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: that's how expectations get out of whack. You win nine games,

644
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: you start at zero the next year. You don't get

645
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: to carry it over Now what you can do is

646
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: you can carry a lot of the principles and a

647
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: lot of characteristics and identity over and hope that that

648
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: is duplicated and then maybe your outcomes a little better

649
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: because you built inch by inch in those departments, but

650
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: you don't carry anything over. And hey, that messages for

651
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: a lot of folks out there, a lot of teams

652
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: out there, and not just Arkansas. But I look at them,

653
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: the way they're being able to recruit, the way they're

654
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: being able to leverage the portal. They got the toughest

655
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: schedule in the country or one of tough schedules in

656
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: the country. They don't hide from that. I don't think

657
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: they're going anywhere though, but they'll be competitive in every

658
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: game they play. I think they will, much like Ohio State,

659
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: use this game as an entry point to twenty twenty two,

660
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: and then I think by the time Arkansas is in

661
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: mid October, I think they'll look back and Arkansas will say,

662
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: you know, if we could get Cincinnati again this week,

663
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: I think would win that game pretty comfortably. As for Cincinnati,

664
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: they lost a game yesterday. I thought it was one

665
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: of the biggest validation moments so far for Luke Fickle

666
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: at Cincinnati. Now, this is not anything he'd be interested

667
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: in hearing, and I'm sure he's tuned in right now.

668
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: I'd mute it if I were you, coach. It was

669
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: a huge validation point, even though they lost a football game.

670
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: I want you to think about how atypical it is,

671
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: or how maybe unprecedented it is, now that I think

672
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: about it, for a G five level program to be

673
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: able to lose the amount of talent did to the draft. Okay, first,

674
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: no G five program ever sends that amount of talent

675
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: to the draft. They lost quarterback, they lost their entire secondary,

676
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: They lost a ton of guys to the draft. Not

677
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: only did they do that, they start new quarterback on

678
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: the road in the backyard of a team that has

679
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: about as much hype behind it as any team in

680
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: the SEC not named Bama or Georgia this year, and

681
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: they come in there with expectation. This wasn't a huge

682
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: point spread. It was a six and a half point

683
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: line when the game kicked off, and they made every

684
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: kind of mistake you could make yesterday. I mean, if

685
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,239
Speaker 1: you watch the game, you know how many opportunities they

686
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: left on the field with overthrows, they had turnovers, which

687
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: is part of the game. I get all that, But

688
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: with all of those things, all of the procedural errors

689
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: going wrong, they still had a chance to win this

690
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: thing in the fourth quarter. That, even in a loss,

691
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: is such a testament to how good that coaching staff

692
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: is and how good they are at evaluating, how good

693
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: they are at developing, at getting a team. Here's how

694
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: I put it, getting a team as ready as you

695
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: reach reasonably should be expected to get a team to play.

696
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: They probably think they did a terrible job yesterday because

697
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: they look at all the errors and all the flaws,

698
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: and their standard is perfection. Their standard is to play

699
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: a perfect game as it should be. I don't have

700
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: to have that standard for him, because I just sit

701
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: behind a microphone, so I have a little bit more

702
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: realistic view. And my realistic view of the Cincinnati program

703
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: is you ought to be really proud of what you

704
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: did yesterday. Not happy, not content, but you ought to

705
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: be proud at how you represented yourself. Because now think

706
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: about that, the expectation for Cincinnati football is, even if

707
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: you lose a ton of talent, we just blindly believe

708
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: in that Bearcat logo. Enough, we're gonna put you a

709
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: six and a half point dog on the road in

710
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: the sec have at it. Fayeteville, Arkansas was amazing. This

711
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: may be the best trip we've ever taken on any tour.

712
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: Since I've done this show, we have never I mean

713
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: never been received like we were there yesterday. It's easily

714
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: into the hundreds. It may be closer to a thousand

715
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: the amount of people who came up and said, Hey,

716
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: love the show. Can I take a picture? Can I

717
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: get an Academy gift card? I mean, we handed so

718
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: many of those things out yesterday, But whether it was

719
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: ten people or a thousand people, you talked to every

720
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: one of them, same message, every one of them reading

721
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: from the same playbook. I was over at the facility Friday.

722
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: They let me get a workout in there. I appreciate that.

723
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: I took an entire tour of the facilities. Every staffer

724
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: you talk to, whether it's football operations, nutritions, strength and

725
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: conditioning coordinators, players, it's almost robotic. I mean they're very

726
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: different people, but it's almost robotic because there's such synergy

727
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: in the program. And I was talking to Jimo Walker,

728
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: who's the strength conditioning coach there, and I said, you've

729
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 1: been at Georgia and now you came here, like you

730
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: get it. You've been in places where you've seen it

731
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,280
Speaker 1: done the right way. But foolishly, a lot of people

732
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: who have not been inside the walls of a football department,

733
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: they think that stuff just happens. It doesn't happen. In fact,

734
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen. It's not happening at most places. It

735
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: is happening at Arkansas. That's why they're so happy, and

736
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: that's why they're so elated. And it happens to be

737
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: spearheaded by a guy who is essentially them. He just

738
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: wears a headset on Saturday and you know, makes a

739
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: few million more dollars than you ever will in your life.

740
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: But Sam Pittman's the perfect case study for what's unique

741
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: about college football. I mean, what they've got going on

742
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: in Fayette, well, you never find that in pro football.

743
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: I've got no problem with pro football. I'm just saying

744
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: I love this sport and like the Sunday sport because

745
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: you get stuff in the Saturday game you can never

746
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 1: get in the Sunday game. You can never get what

747
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,760
Speaker 1: you have going on in Northwest Arkansas with the jets

748
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: or with the Chargers. So you give me what they

749
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: got in northwest Arkansas eight days out of the week,

750
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: I'll take it, writes Barbecue. Appreciate you guys so much.

751
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: Everybody everybody up there made sure that we were taken

752
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: care of well above and beyond what we deserve. So

753
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: I needed to see it for myself. We had never

754
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: been to a game at Arkansas. I saw it, and

755
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: not that I already didn't buy in, but it's really easy.

756
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: I wish I could take some of you guys. You know,

757
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: some of my buddies who have also never been up there.

758
00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: So how about we judge a book by its cover

759
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: instead of never opening it up. I wish I could

760
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: take you guys up there. I've talked to management. They

761
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: will not fund the trip, and I know good and will.

762
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: You guys are too cheap to do it yourself. I

763
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: wish I could take you up there. Everything those folks

764
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: think about themselves is validated you just spend a few

765
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: days up there. So I mean huge hats off to

766
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: everybody in and around Fayetteville, Rogers, Bentonville's, Springdale, all those

767
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: folks up there. We appreciate it so much. Also, one

768
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: of the most unique little airports. It's in the middle

769
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: of nowhere. Man, Like I grew up in Harris County

770
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: in west central Georgia. There's a Cagel's. It's where they

771
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: just murder chickens all day and then I eat them.

772
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: Don't think I'm one of those folks. But other than that,

773
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: there's not really much in Harris County. That's kind of

774
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: like driving around rural Arkansas, except oh look, there's a

775
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: big airport. Cool. That's what having Hyson and Dady hunting

776
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: Walmart in your backyard will do. Hey, do me a favor,

777
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: since we've got over forty five hundred people watching live,

778
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: do your civic duty and like the video. You don't

779
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: even have to vote. Just like the video. Pick that

780
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: little thumbs up and Jesse will stop typing tell the

781
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: people to like the video. On the teleprompter. All right,

782
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: oh boy, it's that time of the show, Colin. Let

783
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 1: me gather my thoughts, let me gather my emotions. I

784
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: know what I think about this. Let me gather my emotions. Okay.

785
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: There was another game yesterday, yeah, featuring two ranked teams

786
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: not rated. One of these teams was not rated in

787
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: the jpeople Colin, here's where I want you to endpoint

788
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: the video. Georgia did all kinds of unspeakably evil things

789
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: to Oregon yesterday, and there's a certain tone that we

790
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: like to take when games get this out of whack,

791
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: and we really probably just need to take it to

792
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: the next level this year, Colin, go ahead and give

793
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: it to me. This was pure violence in Atlanta, Georgia yesterday.

794
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: And for those of you who allowed your children to

795
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 1: continue to watch this game after you saw what was unfolding,

796
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: I'm not here to tell anyone how it's parent, but

797
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 1: shame on you. This was what we call a Sarah

798
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: McLaughlin special. You've seen those pet abuse commercials. You've heard

799
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: that sad soft piano music in the background. If I

800
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: were broadcasting this game, if I were in the producer's chair,

801
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: that would have been the sound bead from about the

802
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: second Georgia drive on. It was a TVMA bloodbath. It

803
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: was a wood chipper, That's what it was that Orger

804
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:23,240
Speaker 1: got thrown into. So I am not watching the game live.

805
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: I am in the unique position where I see score updates,

806
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: but I don't get to see the game live. And

807
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: I've watched it since if you have not watched this replay,

808
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: let me save you some time. Any of you out

809
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: there who have seen Jurassic Park and you've seen that

810
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: scene where you first get introduced to the velociraptors, and

811
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,720
Speaker 1: the way you get introduced to the velociraptors is because

812
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: they take that cow and they drop it into the

813
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: velociraptor cage. That was this game yesterday terrible. What Jeff

814
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: Goldbloom looked like watching those raptors para part that cow

815
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: in like thirteen seconds flat. I looked like on a

816
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: plane with my earphones on watching this disaster in Atlanta.

817
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: It was really bad. Probably a lot worse than it

818
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: should be. It was really bad. So, like I was

819
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: telling you, I'm seeing the score, but I cannot watch

820
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: the game because I'm at the Arkansas game yesterday. So

821
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 1: instead I'm just getting score updates. So you can imagine

822
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: my surprise when I go back and I look at

823
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: the box score and I say, all right, let's see.

824
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: Let's see they probably ran for half a mile, didn't they. Nope,

825
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: Georgia's leading rusher had what less than fifty yards I

826
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: think it was. So then you ask, what did Oregon

827
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: turn the ball over nine times. No, No, what happened

828
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: is I saw Rusty manziel over on Dogs twenty four

829
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: to seven, or as the streets would call him, coach Rusty,

830
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: and he made the point that I'm about to make.

831
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go as far as Sam stealing it,

832
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: but I kind of am. That was a wake up call.

833
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: That was a little bit of a message. That was

834
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,320
Speaker 1: a recruiting tool as much as a football game for Georgia.

835
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: See there's been talk kind of behind the scenes. A

836
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: lot of fans say it too over the last couple

837
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: of years. Georgia. They play good defense, they run the ball,

838
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: but if you're a receiver, you got to get out

839
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: of there on the first thing. Smoking You got to

840
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: take the Jermaine Burton route. And he looked pretty good

841
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: at Alabama yesterday because you're not going to have your

842
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: talents fully utilized well, even though they're coming off a

843
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: national championship. I think Kirby Smart looks around and he

844
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: knows how unique that situation was. He had last year.

845
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: He had a generational defense. He played an Alabama team

846
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: that beat him the first time around because they had

847
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: those kind of athletes that they took advantage of at

848
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the SEC title game, then they didn't

849
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: have them anymore in the second half of the National

850
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: title game. I'm not trying to take anything away. You

851
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: won the National title, but I think moving forward, what

852
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: Kirby said is we've got to have those and we've

853
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: got to use them. We can't just get them and

854
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: not use them. We can't have ours go elsewhere and

855
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: do way better there than they were here, because that

856
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: just validates everything negative that people say about us in

857
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: the recruiting trail. They're not going to be able to

858
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: say many things negative about us. That's what they're going

859
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: to hone in on. So yesterday Kirby Smart saw fit

860
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: to just rain it all over Oregon because they pretty

861
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: much knew they could win this game however they wanted to.

862
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: And afterwards, Kirby Smart was not shy about what he

863
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: told Dan Lanning. He said, Dan knows, he said. Dan

864
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: will never say it out loud, but Dan knows we

865
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: got better players than they do. I mean, imagine some

866
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: people call that athletic arrogance. I call it the truth.

867
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: Imagine being so secure and being so unthreatened by a

868
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: team the AP has ranked top fifteen. Couldn't be the

869
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: JP the AP has ranked top fifteen. That you just

870
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: sit there postgame like you're with your Pappol on the

871
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: porch done in Bainbridge, and you say, well, yeah, we

872
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: beat them, but their players aren't as good as ours.

873
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you expect, pappol, Come on now,

874
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: they kind of suck compaired does at least? I don't

875
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:54,240
Speaker 1: think Oregon sucks. Here's the problem. Oregan was out athleted yesterday.

876
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: The gap athletically between Georgia and Oregon is not seven

877
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: touchdowns friends or six touchdowns or five touchdowns. That's not

878
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: the gap. The line on that game was big, but

879
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: by big, I mean about seventeen. That's the kind of

880
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: gap you're looking at. The problem for Oregon is something

881
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: else entered the equation, and it was the fact that

882
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: that staff in Athens kind of worked. That staff in Eugene. Now,

883
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: that's not a shocker, because that staff in Eugene is

884
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 1: brand new, and it's to be expected when you go

885
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: up against one of the best in the country, a

886
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 1: machine moving at full speed and you're starting from scratching,

887
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: you've never done it before. I know, everyone wants to

888
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: throw acid all over this thing and completely forget any

889
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: hope after you see this one example of kind of

890
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: born out on national TV. It didn't help, but this

891
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: is kind of what happens. They call it baptism by fire,

892
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what it was yesterday. Oregon will probably

893
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: be better for this down the road. I know it

894
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: doesn't feel good right now, but I'll get to Oregon

895
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: in the second. I got a couple of thoughts on them.

896
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: There were padlocked stats everywhere in this game. For those

897
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: of you who were new to this show, the padlock

898
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: stat is just the one stat where if I showed

899
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: it to you on Friday, you'd know how the game

900
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: was gonna end. You didn't need to watch it. Well,

901
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 1: they're all over the place. Every bit of the box

902
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: scor is a padlock stat. So I just look and

903
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: I say, if you told me Friday Georgia was going

904
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: to have nine yards per play. Per play, they averaged

905
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: nearly a first down every time they snapped the ball, yeah,

906
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: I'd probably feel pretty good about putting my money on Georgia.

907
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: There are no guarantees with this team, so let me

908
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 1: be real for a second. I know it's all fun

909
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: and games now in my home state today to laugh

910
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: about what happened yesterday, because it was a splattering in

911
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: every sense of the word. There was just organ all

912
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: over the place yesterday and Mercedes Been Stadium. It reminded

913
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: me of Bama opening against Miami. I think that was

914
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,720
Speaker 1: last year. Bama just painted the walls with Miami's blood

915
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 1: last year and you looked at him and you said

916
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: that team's unbeatable. Well they were unbeatable that day. A

917
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: lot of twists and turns to a season. I mean,

918
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: you can have a lot of injuries, you can have

919
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: cracks on your team that maybe your Week one opponent

920
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: wasn't built to expose, but someone else down the road can.

921
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 1: Football does not work like a lot of people would

922
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: suggest it works yesterday where all right, let's skip to

923
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: the national title. We already know who's gonna play. No,

924
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: you don't, No, you don't. You got favorites. And if

925
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: you want to try and chart that after week one,

926
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: be my guest, Georgia is starting at a really high level. Okay,

927
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: this is not me trying to knock them at all,

928
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: quite the opposite when you see where I'm going with this,

929
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: But it reminded me of the way Bama opened against

930
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: Miami and then Bama. I mean, they were a very

931
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 1: good team. They probably got a little bit inflated because

932
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: you watch what they do, You watch what Georgia did yesterday,

933
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: and you just think to yourself, even if they're only

934
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: eighty percent of what we're seeing today, isn't that still

935
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: good enough to beat everyone? Well, that's also not how

936
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: football works. But like I said, a lot of twists

937
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: and turns. Here's what I took away. This team's really good.

938
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: This Georgia team's really good. Probably great, that remains to

939
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: be seen, though we get the season to determine that.

940
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: I just want to remind you the rarefied air that

941
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: this Georgia program is in. They just came off a

942
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: national championship. And there are only about two or three

943
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: programs in America, sometimes only one at a time where

944
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: you look and you say, that team doesn't have to rebuild,

945
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: they can just reload. You know how hard it is

946
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: to get your program there. And Kirby Smart's got his

947
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: program there. And unlike Nick Saban at Alabama, who finally

948
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: figured out the way to do that after a long

949
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: time of perfecting that process of his this is the

950
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: first job Kirby's ever had at the head coaching level.

951
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: Now he's several years in now, and he got to

952
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: learn under the very best to ever do it. But

953
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: still a lot of guys coached under Nick Saban and

954
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: went and crashed and burned fantastically on their own. And Kirby, smart,

955
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: after one year of getting his feet under him, has

956
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: never looked back. And they've gotten better and better and better.

957
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: And now they've got a program to where you win

958
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: a national championship. And if you didn't know better, you

959
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: would suggest complacency may set And there's a reason we

960
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: didn't talk about that at all with this team, or

961
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,439
Speaker 1: if we did, it was me saying they're not going

962
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: to have complacency concerns. It's because, well, number one, I've

963
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: got a fairly good read on the program, and number two,

964
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 1: I know how they operate. It's the same way Bama operates.

965
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,760
Speaker 1: They're just immune to some of the issues that affect

966
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: normal programs. Now they do not have immunity from the

967
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 1: consequences of success. There are some things that Georgia has

968
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 1: to deal with that you'll never have to deal with

969
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,959
Speaker 1: because they're that good. So there are a different little

970
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 1: bag of issues, but complacency is not one of them.

971
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: Number one, because hardly anyone talked about them all summer

972
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: because there were so many other off field issues going on,

973
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: not there, but in general. And number two, you can't

974
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: afford to get complacent there because of what happens in

975
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: practice every day, which is never seen by the public,

976
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 1: so you kind of conveniently forget about it. Those guys

977
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: can't get comp plays. It don't matter what they did

978
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 1: last year. They'll get their job taken. Hey, you see

979
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: that Starks kid yesterday, Malachi Starks. Anyone texts you that

980
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: name yesterday. Folks around Georgia have known about him for

981
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 1: a while. He's one of the best athletes they have

982
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: on their team right now. He's a true freshman. You

983
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: saw him flash yesterday on your screen. He will end

984
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: up being a top five draft pick, top ten draft

985
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: pick when all said and done. I'm saying that about him,

986
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,839
Speaker 1: and he has not played well. He's played one game

987
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: so far and I don't think started yesterday. No, he

988
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: didn't start. He is just an example of the kind

989
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: of alien they have on their roster that you've never

990
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 1: heard of before. And that guy is at practice every day.

991
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,439
Speaker 1: So I don't really care if you started last year,

992
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: if you have the slightest inkling of complacency in your bones.

993
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart just keeps bringing guys like Malachi Starks in

994
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: and so you can either get complacent or you can

995
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: do yourself a favor and look at the locker next

996
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:04,240
Speaker 1: to you and say, what is that a truth? A freshman? Yeah,

997
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: so I don't worry about complacency with Bama anymore. I

998
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: don't worry about it with them anymore. They are very good. Okay,

999
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: that's what we know about them. Now. We know that

1000
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: Alabama's really good. We will find out whether these teams

1001
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: are great in due time. But you know what was

1002
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: on display yesterday, A good old fashioned freeze Point special.

1003
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,240
Speaker 1: The freeze Points. First time we've broken it out this year.

1004
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: We only talk about it with the most elite teams.

1005
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: We use it frequently with Bama. We will use it

1006
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: with Georgia, Ohio State some years Clumson some years we

1007
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 1: use it. And that is the conversation that when those

1008
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: teams are at their best, there are only two or

1009
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: three or four teams even capable of playing with them.

1010
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: The same way that if you have a cup of

1011
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: water here, I'll use this coffee. If you have water

1012
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: and you put it in a room and it's thirty

1013
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: six degrees, it don't matter if you leave it in

1014
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: there a day or a year. It's not going to freeze.

1015
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: Thirty four degrees, thirty three degrees, thirty two point eight degrees,

1016
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: it's not going to freeze. There's a freeze point. It's

1017
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: thirty two point four degrees fahrenheit. And only when you

1018
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: get it at that number or lower do you stand

1019
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: a chance of that liquid freezing. Now the question becomes

1020
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: how much below thirty two point four can you go,

1021
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: because then it'll freeze quicker. In college football, there is

1022
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: a level of play, there's a level of athleticism, coaching,

1023
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: and overall caliber of play that you have to possess

1024
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: to stand a chance against that team Georgia against Bama,

1025
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 1: and mainly in big time games. I'm not talking about

1026
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: catching them napping, which you rarely do, but in playoff

1027
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: games when you have their full focus, there's a level

1028
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: that you have to have that hardly anyone has. And

1029
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: Oregon did not have the requis at freeze point yesterday,

1030
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 1: and so what you saw is the natural byproduct of

1031
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: when you get that team's attention for a solid four

1032
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: months and you don't meet the freeze point, there is

1033
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,479
Speaker 1: no limit to the amount of atrocities they can commit

1034
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: against you, and they could have made it a lot

1035
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: worse if they wanted to yesterday. So the other thing

1036
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: that I have to point out with Oregon is I

1037
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: think it's noteworthy that even as bad as it got yesterday,

1038
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,479
Speaker 1: you did not see ty Thompson at quarterback at all.

1039
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: I've been at the camp that It's a little bit

1040
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: laughable how secretive people are with their depth charts. You know,

1041
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: at Oregon this was an example. They were very secretive

1042
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: about who's going to start at quarterback up there. Well,

1043
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: it wasn't a secret. Everyone knew bo Nicks was going

1044
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 1: to start. Ty Thompson did not get in this game yesterday.

1045
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 1: And that is now two coaching staffs where we've seen

1046
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,800
Speaker 1: them unwilling to play him no matter how dire the

1047
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: situation looks. That tells you everything you need to know

1048
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: about his development. I'm not there, I'm not a practice

1049
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: I don't know a thing about it. I just know

1050
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:46,240
Speaker 1: the lack of decision to put him in games, especially

1051
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: one as ugly as yesterday when you could have gotten

1052
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: him work. If you trust him at all to be

1053
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: on the field, it speaks volumes. So it's bo Knicks.

1054
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning said it after the game, it's Bo Nicks.

1055
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: Look that team in the Oregon can still win the

1056
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: Pac twelve. I mean who in the world. Who in

1057
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: the world's the favorite the Pac twelve. Usc did what

1058
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,760
Speaker 1: they were supposed to yesterday. They didn't lose to Food.

1059
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 1: In fact, they put food in a blender. They beat

1060
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: Rice by half a million. Utah lost competitively. Oregon did

1061
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: what they did Atlanta. I don't know who the favorite

1062
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: is out in the Pac twelve. It's gonna tell me

1063
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Speaker 1: a lot how they look against Eastern Washington Saturday down,

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Speaker 1: you know, because Oregon got badly out coached yesterday in

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Speaker 1: case anyone didn't notice, and their secondary had issues too,

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Speaker 1: and Eastern Washington of the FCS variety is not exactly

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Speaker 1: gonna take it easy on them in the passing game either.

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Speaker 1: So let's keep an eye on that. Georgia really really

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Speaker 1: good team. That's about as far as I'm willing to

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Speaker 1: go for any team, Georgia or otherwise. After one week

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Speaker 1: we were in Fabville yesterday. Kickoff rapidly approaching for FSU

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Speaker 1: and LSU. I've got my eye on it. Don't worry,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it along with you guys. We were

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Speaker 1: in Fabville yesterday, had the time of our lives. I

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Speaker 1: got there one day early because we didn't have a

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Speaker 1: Thursday show, so I got there Thursday. I will not

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Speaker 1: be able to do that this week because we were

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Speaker 1: back to normal schedule this week. By the way, the

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Speaker 1: every given Saturday tour Fayetville, Arkansas for Cincinnati, Arkansas. Week one.

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Speaker 1: Where are we going this week? There is a Marquee game.

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Speaker 1: We've had it circle for months. This one not hard

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Speaker 1: to figure out. We're headed to Austin, Texas for Alabama

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Speaker 1: versus Texas. Why am I smiling so big? Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to see two big brands play against each other.

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Speaker 1: But also what time is kickoff? It's Big Noon time. Now.

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Speaker 1: I regularly get in trouble for praising Fox since I'm

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Speaker 1: a CBS employee, But the heart wants what it wants,

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Speaker 1: and I'm full Selena Gomez mode on this. I love

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Speaker 1: Big Noon Kickoff and I love it because there's about

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Speaker 1: a six thirty flight out of Austin back to Nashville

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Speaker 1: Saturday night, so I may be back here to watch

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Speaker 1: the late games. I cannot wait to get here because

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Speaker 1: I know it may surprise the people out there. I

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Speaker 1: have not been to a game at Texas either, and

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Speaker 1: I just look at the hospitality that we just got

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Speaker 1: at Arkansas, and I think if we get a fraction

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Speaker 1: of that at Texas, along with the fact that we've

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Speaker 1: got Saban versus sark we got Bama on the road,

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Speaker 1: I think we're going to have a really, really fun week.

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Speaker 1: And also, look, it's not going to be one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifteen degrees like people feared a few months ago

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Speaker 1: when they were looking at the schedules. Mid eighties. Best

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Speaker 1: I can do for you chancell rain mid eighties. But

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Speaker 1: gonna be a fun time. So a lot of you

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Speaker 1: in Austin and the surrounding area looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: you guys, looking forward to previewing this game a little

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Speaker 1: bit later in the week. The every given Saturday tour,

1108
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Speaker 1: it really starts to take shape after about the first

1109
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Speaker 1: month because then huge consequences on the line every week.

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Speaker 1: See everyone's record is pretty much on blemish still. But

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Speaker 1: then you get some blemishes and then I mean, already

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Speaker 1: this year, we've had some twists and turns in our

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Speaker 1: future scheduling, and even though I haven't shared it with

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Speaker 1: you guys. So we're headed to Austin with the Every

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Speaker 1: Given Saturday Tour for the first time ever. Last time

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Speaker 1: I was in Texas, famously, I ended up driving a

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Speaker 1: sixteen seater van because they were out of the car

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Speaker 1: I rented, and that was going to a Texas A

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Speaker 1: and M game. So we're hoping for better luck. I'll

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Speaker 1: uber if I have to, I don't care, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not driving that van around again, because I mean, I

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Speaker 1: had people walking up asking for lollipops. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to live that world again. That's not me. That's not

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Speaker 1: what I'm cut out for. So I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching Live Reminder, all I need from you.

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Speaker 1: like the video, I said it very slow. I know

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Speaker 1: everyone heard that. That's it. You appreciate you, guys being

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Speaker 1: tuned in Tuesday night, we're back. Thursday night, we're back,

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Speaker 1: going to Austin Friday, Sunday night, We're back. Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: every week, eight Eastern, seventh Central on Life Tonight. We

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Speaker 1: had to start her with tonight, so we're just getting started.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a great year. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for direct comming. You're sug Jess, I'm Josh Bathe

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Speaker 1: Have yourself is a great rest of your evening. Let's

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Speaker 1: go watch that bet the lsu A BLUs