WEBVTT - Questioning Top 10 Teams + Camp Intel & Fall Tour Name 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:16.520 I don't know about you, but there was a point 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:18.840 today where I had twenty seven different windows pulled up 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.560 in the browser, just practice report after practice report after 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.760 practice report. I don't care that you're not wearing pads 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.120 yet I am bathing in this stuff. We're jam packed, 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.280 we're high top a very steamy, very humid, but still 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.159 beautiful downtown Nashville, Tennessee. On this Thursday, August sixth, of 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.200 our Lower twenty twenty six, you see a top ten. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.120 Some of you agree with it, some of you don't. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.120 But the coach's poll is out. The AP pole will 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.760 come soon, the JP pole will come soon. Immunity, But 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.920 you think to yourself, oh, this is et stone, this 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.519 is dried concrete. That's not true. There are questions for 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:52.360 every single one of you. I don't care how good 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.640 you feel right now, and I know because I've got 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.680 ten of them written. One at least one question for 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.120 all the top ten teams. I've got camp intel. We 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.440 could have five pages of it, but I'll try and 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.600 get through it in less than four hours. Tonight, it's 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.199 a huge, huge evening on the campus of Pate State. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.400 We're entering the fifth year because we can't count COVID. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.600 We're entering the fifth year where we will embark on 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:21.319 a season long cross country tour. And every good tour's 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.480 got a name. Guns and Roses did it, Fleetwood Mac 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.560 did it, Pete State does it? And I tonight am 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.040 proud to announce that we have arrived at a tour name. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.120 I think it's the best tour name we've ever had. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.360 I can promise you it's the best tour logo we've 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.120 ever had. But ultimately my opinion doesn't matter. You will 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.800 be the judge of that. We will announce it a 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.959 little bit later in the show. All that, plus, someone 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.360 wanted some sleepers and I circled four of them and 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.320 got vehement disagreement amongst the staff on at least two 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.760 pretty anti American disagreement if you ask me. But we'll 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.360 talk about it tonight. Greenville, South Carolina is tuned in Syracuse, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:03.600 New York, Spokane, Washington, and Flora, Mississippi. I, by the way, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.800 cannot pretend that I have not seen the rumors that 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.040 we may be doing a show outside this studio next week, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.280 maybe even on a campus, maybe even I don't know, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.160 sitting down with a coach, you know how you are 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.239 when you're on various CAMPI plural of campus across the country. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.119 But that's for next week. In the meantime, let's dive 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.640 into the show. Appreciate you guys being here, like the video, 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.880 and subscribe to the channel. That's really all I ask. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.040 It's free of charge, it doesn't sign you up for anything, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.400 and it helps us out a lot. The Coach's poll 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:33.760 came out the other day. A lot of people were 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.440 upset about it, mainly because poles make people upset no 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.480 matter what order the teams are in. But I don't 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.040 really care about that so much tonight. That's for later 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.080 in the show. As for right now, I started thinking 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.240 to myself self being ranked number one in the country, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.840 being ranked number six in the country, that's pretty lofty, 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.639 but it doesn't mean you don't have questions. Everyone's got them. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.000 So I was asking myself, what are my biggest questions 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.600 for at least the top ten teams, because I think 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.760 this is important as we roll through camps, because hopefully 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.440 we get some of them answered. But right now, like 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.240 at Ohio State, Ohio State's loaded. Ohio State may very 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.560 well go wire to wire and win the national championship. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.320 If I had to circle a question for him, I 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.920 would ask about difference makers on the defensive line, not 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.000 talent or lack thereof. It's Ohio State, so this is 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.240 all relative. I'm looking at difference makers on the defensive line. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.960 I'm looking at star power on the defensive line. You know, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.000 James Smith, for example, is a guy that was once 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.280 upon a time at Bama and he transfers into Ohio State. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.120 Am I watching at the midpoint of the season, going, man, 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.880 this is kind of like Caleb Down's two point zero. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.920 Not necessarily position only because they play different positions, but 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.119 just in terms of gaining big time impact players. Quai 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.320 Rusol kind of forgot about that. He transferred in from 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.320 Alabama too, But on the defensive line, I just want 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.720 to know early on, like we're watching the Texas game 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.920 and they're in town, what does it look like? Does 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:55.720 it look like Ohio State? Does it look like a 0:03:55.800 --> 0:04:00.320 vintage Ohio State product? And I don't wear Frank have 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.240 many questions with this team, So that's where I would 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.040 go with them, Notre Dame. I'm just kind of rattling 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.800 them off here, but we're gonna hit all the top ten. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.040 How dynamic are they going to be at receiver, because 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.560 there are not a lot of questions with Notre Dame either, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.960 at least to me now Jesse. When we were talking 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.280 about predictions the other night and my college Football Playoff 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.240 version one point zero bracket had them winning at all, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.880 I was told I'm better someone, several someone said, Josh, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.799 you're better than this, Like predicting a top four preseason 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.760 team to win the national championship. You're better than that. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.360 You know they don't play anybody like. Schedules are not teams, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.160 Ladies and gentlemen, I'll remind you again. But for those 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:43.919 of you who are schedule gazing and not looking at 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.960 the team, let me spoil it for you. It's going 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.560 to be a really good team. If you're counting on 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.799 them to fall off into the ditch early and often, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.600 you're probably going to be disappointed. But if I were 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.360 to circle a question, let's look at that receiver room there, 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.720 Jordan Faizon Jaden, greathhouse. These guys, I said in spring 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.599 I thought had the potential to be the best wide 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.680 receiver room that Marcus Freeman's had to this point. At 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.479 Notre Dame, they bring in some star power at tight 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.080 end too, But I'm looking specifically at receiver. If we 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.120 get later in the year, if they got to go 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.599 up against Brigham Young, if they're backs against the wall 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.359 and guys got to go up and turn fifty to 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.640 fifties into thirty seventies and whatnot, can they do it? 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.360 Can they do it against Miami? Can they do it? 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.760 Maybe even in playoff situations? Because I got a hard 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.240 time not seeing them in the playoffs, So Notre Dame. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:32.720 I'd say, how dynamic are they at wide receiver? At Oregon? Oregon, 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.680 I saw a lot of preseason number one hype four. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.359 A lot of people are picking Oregon to win the 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.520 National Championship. I don't have a problem with that because 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.840 it's August. Offensive line certainly is going to be the 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.359 key to how far they can go. But I would 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.760 also say offensive line, yes, very fairly, is the number 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.880 one question. Remember the rule that Memo always taught us, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.920 Questions are not weaknesses. Questions are questions. Weaknesses are weaknesses, 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.600 So this is not a weakness. But I just, in 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.240 my world of worst case scenarios, if I'm picking Oregon, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.560 I think, man, you know what I don't want. I 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.200 don't want to get to that USC game. What is that, Jesse, 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.520 like four weeks into the season or something like that. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.880 I don't want them to go on the road at USC, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.720 or maybe a couple of weeks later at Illinois, or 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.839 way later in the year at Ohio State. I don't 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.479 want to be sitting there saying to myself to this 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.400 team so loaded everywhere else, but this offensive line's holding 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.080 us back. So that would be a question. And also 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.279 remember this is a very very high level team that 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.000 will have a first year offensive coordinator and a first 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.120 year defensive coordinator. Now they're not new to the program, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.040 but I think this kind of snake bit Oregon last year. 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.480 They did such a good job that both of their 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.159 coordinators got head coaching opportunities, and Tijs Lupoy took the 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.800 col job and will Stein took the Kentucky job. But 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.320 because college football is stupid, are hiring season overlaps with 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.080 the playoff, and so you had guys doing two jobs 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.400 and whatever. I still think Indiana probably the better team 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.560 out of the two, but I don't think it helped 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.719 Oregon all in that Peach Bowl matchup. So you could 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.800 go the coordinator combo there as well, But I don't 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.440 think Dan Lanning is foolishly elevating guys who aren't ready 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:15.040 Texas Texas questions at Texas, well, everyone's got them. I 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.360 could say offensive line as a question at Texas. I 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.720 understand all the hype, I understand all the promise. I 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.640 understand all the hope. I've got it too. Hype, promise 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.520 and hope. I'm willing to buy into it at Texas. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.440 But remember the offensive line there. From a protection standpoint, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.000 last year, these are unfortunate paper poppers sixty first in 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.080 the country and sacks allowed per game second unfortunate paper 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.040 pop and you know how rarely that happens, especially with 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.920 preseason top five teams. They were ninetieth in overall rushing 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:50.840 yards per game last year. So again, hope springs eternal 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.760 every single August, and there is definitely reason to believe here. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.440 But I just I go back to games like the 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.240 Georgia game, because we were there, we were on the 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:03.240 field for that one and realizing, oh man, Texas has 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.560 still got a ways to go to match up with 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:10.080 that kind of team physically, but they've emphasized it, and 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.600 they've certainly recruited and they've certainly developed but offensive line, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.440 like they didn't go wholesale overhaul there. They liked what 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.400 they had. Just need to get another year under the belt. 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:25.280 We'll see. Speaking of Georgia, same question every year. This 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:26.880 is a really, really good team. It's a really high 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.400 level roster. It's an extremely high floor every year. I implicitly 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.920 trust Kirby Smart to have a contender on the field 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.760 every single year. And then you're gonna ask, man, but 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.760 do they have a star wide receiver? Do they have 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.640 difference makers at wide receiver? You'll notice this gets kind 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.840 of repetitive year in and year out. You're not really 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.000 gonna question them defensively. You could question pass rush. I 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.000 mean the Maris Williams we thought was going to come 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:54.040 in there, and he's hurt, he's out. But still Georgia 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.000 finds a way to manufacture production defensively in the years 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.679 where they don't have star power. This they do have 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.120 star power even maybe if not at pass rush, they'll 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.000 be fine there. This will be a high level defense. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:11.160 But again, if it comes down to big time championship 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.240 or playoff type situations, because that's probably the conversation George 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.120 is in again, do they have guys that can go 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.320 over over the course of one big twelve play drive. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.240 Do they have a guy that can do what Indiana 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.760 had guys do last year? Do they have guys that 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.800 can do what in Miami, not not holistically, but in 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.520 Spurts did My default is wait and see on that. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.520 It's not that Georgia needs it to win, It's just 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.120 that's my biggest question. If I'm asking if they can 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.480 go toe to toe and win three games in a 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.000 playoff type situation. Indiana is outside the top five. Not 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.880 my top five, but the coaches, the coaches across this 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.040 country looked at Indiana and said six six at best. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.120 You could certainly question Josh Hoover again. I want to 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.320 repeat for the second time, but not the final time. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.400 Questions are not weaknesses. It is totally fair to say 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.000 Josh Hoover huh well. Kurt Signetty obviously believes in him, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.200 that offensive staff obviously believes in him. Hasn't he turned 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.080 the ball over a lot? Yeah? Thirteen interceptions? You see 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.640 the graphic there. If you're listening on podcasts, you don't. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.480 But Bradley is confirming there by punching that button at thirteen. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.160 Its to his name last year. Here's the follow up. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:27.920 He had to throw the ball a whole lot more 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.680 last year then he will be asked to do this year. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:33.960 He had to shoulder a lot more of the offensive 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.679 load in theory than he would be asked to do here. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.920 But outside of that, because that's what everyone would go 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.040 to and with good reason, I'd also say DiAngelo Ponds 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.560 last year was insane, very very high level player, very 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.720 very rarely did you see balls even going to his 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.520 side of the field, And like, it's not that they're 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.080 going to fall off a cliff there. But when you 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.640 have a good corner that rotates out of your program, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.600 can go get in another good corner and you can 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.520 largely one to one backfilm when you've got like a 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.400 lockdown type guy. Those are hard to replace, not impossible, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.680 and sometimes you can go Oakland A's circle two thousand 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.760 and two, just place them in the aggregate, but it's 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.480 hard to replace. So I kind of wonder not early 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.560 because no one will test them early. But when they 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.200 get to the mid and latter part of the season, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.720 do we start to say, and that secondary maybe down 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.760 a notch, especially at CB one, maybe down the notch. Miami, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.840 I gotta be very careful here. So Miami, I think 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.200 the question would be offensive line play, to an extent, 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.160 defensive line play. But when I say that, I don't 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.280 know how you make an asterisk with your fingers. I 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.160 don't have a pen. I got four of them, but 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.839 I can't write. I can't write right now. The asterisks 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.960 to that entire concept of it being a question is 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.120 both of those may end up being strengths of this team, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.360 and Miami's O line and D line group of personnel 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.480 have an opportunity to be among the best, respectively in 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.120 the country at what they do. So it's definitely not 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.680 looking at it and saying uh oh, it's looking at 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.160 it and saying wow, hmm. But let's wait and see. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.880 You're going to start a true freshman at left tackle. Now, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.200 that true freshman looks like he could be in a 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.240 second year situation with the Baltimore Ravens right now. But 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.320 it is a true freshman at left tackle. You are 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:27.800 certainly replacing a hillatious pass rush combo. But then again, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.920 lost production is relative in this sport, and it's relative 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.120 to who you've got to fill those shoes, and in 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.679 some places, iconic game changing players walk out and you 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.040 got no answer. They've got answers at Miami, or they 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.200 think they do. That would be the big question. If 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:48.760 it's big, it's not a big question. It's like a 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.760 lowercase question mark. Texas Tech's very obvious. Texas Tech would 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.400 just be the quarterback. Texas Tech would be Will Hammond 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.960 because this team's loaded outside of him. Now he may 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.760 end up being part of the loaded equation. Again, we 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.920 don't know. Again, you have an injury situation that he's 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.800 coming back from, and then you had the Brennan Sowersby 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:12.640 story just dominate Spring in summer. But Will Hammond they 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.920 believe in. And I remember again, I'll remind people who 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.760 weren't tuned in in the spring. When we went out 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.920 there and I sat down with Joey maguire, it was 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.360 during the Brennon Sowersby stuff, and it was before you know, 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.920 like the injunction and before all the spectacle that ended 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:34.319 up taking place. He and they were of the opinion 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.800 that they probably weren't going to have Soresby, which ended 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.520 up being reality. And so his viewpoint on it was, Hey, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.480 I got a really good team, regardless of who the 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.920 quarterback is. I got a really good team. So like that. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.439 You could look at his coach speak. I didn't because 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.040 he didn't have to say it. But they think they 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.319 got a really good team. But they had a really 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.920 good team last year and then they ran into a 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.800 brick wall come playoff time. So the whole question is, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.480 does will Hammond offer them level up potential or do 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.240 we watch them all year and say, yeah, I mean 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:08.079 they're Big twelve good again. But what if they play Oregon, 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.080 what if they play Ohio State, what if they play Texas, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.600 et cetera. Especially what if they play Texas Ole Miss 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:17.960 Ole miss has got a tough schedule this year. But 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.320 that's not the question. The question here. I think it's 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.680 got to be pass rush. And it's okay if you're 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.160 number three in sacks last year, it's okay to fall 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.760 off a little bit. You got important guys departing for 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.160 LSU and whatnot. It's okay to fall off a little bit. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.040 You're number three one year, you're number thirteen the next year. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:42.280 That's fine. Is there significant regression that's a problem. If so. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.320 The other situation is the interior of their offensive line. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.760 I feel okay about replacing both offensive tackles at the 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.560 very least is a question mark coming into fall camp. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.120 And look, I don't want to call Trinidad Chambliss a 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.720 question mark. Far be it for me too. I guess 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.760 the only relative question you could have there for someone 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.680 like me who thinks he's the most dangerous player in 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:10.480 the country is what kind of adjustment does the league 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:15.000 make having seen him? Now? Everyone's trying to adjust. Some 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.000 of these dudes are so good you can't adjust to him. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.160 Like Cam Newton could have played five more years, I'm 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.600 not sure the SEC would have adjusted all that much 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.360 to him. How much adjustment happens to Trinidad Chambliss from 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:30.440 opposing defenses? And then Oklahoma very very easily offensive line. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.000 I mean, if I had to circle question marks for 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.720 Oklahoma offensive line and run game. Now, the trick here 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.280 is kind of like I said, with other teams, their 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.800 questions could end up being strengths. Doesn't have to be 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.280 the question marks at best become below average production units, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.720 especially when you got a cat like Fasusi in his 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.600 second year starting at left tackle. For all we know, 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.680 they may have the best offensive tackle in the country 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.360 by season's end, So it doesn't have to be that 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.160 way for all, well, we know they watched last year 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.760 that their struggles running the ball and said no more, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.360 and it ends up being a net neutral or maybe 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.840 even a strength portion of their overall offensive output this year. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.600 But how do you not circle those two things? This 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.960 question marks for Oklahoma coming end of the year. Think 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.160 I did good, Jesse. It's fifteen minutes and I questioned 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.640 the entire top ten skepticism everywhere. So I'd like to 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.280 welcome you all into the show tonight. I appreciate you watching, 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.320 especially if you're watching live. We need to have special 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.360 badges of honor that we hand out for that. I 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.600 had a question comment I don't even know. A stream 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.680 of consciousness come in and I've got to address this, 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.640 even though my instinct is not to, but I'm gonna 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:50.600 address this. Will from Princeton, Indiana said, I can't believe 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.320 the SEC has seven teams in the top thirteen of 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.480 the latest poll. Notice he didn't say which pole. That'll 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.080 be important In a second, he continues, it's really turning 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.960 me off from the sport. I guess it's what he 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.720 tried to say there. This is where you really want 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.880 to lean in. Why do you guys rig this thing? 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.520 For the sec every year, despite the on field results 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.640 being what they are. Confiscate that dude shoe strings. It's 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.280 the first order of business, the second order of business. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.040 And just keep it up, Bradley, because I need to 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.960 really dissect this. This is an example of a crime. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.080 In search of evidence. Will is already convinced of something 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.360 that he can't possibly be convinced of because the the 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:39.000 you guys that issued that pole was not media. The 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.720 you guys that issued that pole the other day was 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.919 nobody in this building. It wasn't the Associated Press, it 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.720 wasn't anyone. It was the coaches, right Jesse. So at 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.960 the very worst, even if the coaches are shirking their responsibilities, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.760 it's their sids filling out the poll for them. In 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.679 either event, it's a smattering of people who represent conferences 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.640 in universities all across the country, none of whom cover 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.960 the sport for a living, none of whom talk or 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.639 write for a living. They coach for a living. They 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.160 don't have a mic in front of them. They gotta 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.199 whistle around their neck. They're professionals at him and the 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:18.840 last thing on this planet. That group of people hashtag 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.359 you guys, the last thing those guys are looking to 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:27.919 do is prop up the SEC. But Will's convinced that 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.360 it's happening to the point where it's turned him off 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.800 from the sport. So I would ask this, I would 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.120 ask very simply for Will to number one, just step 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.120 outside for five minutes. When you come back in, take 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.879 a deep breath. It's not the end of the world. 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.600 And then I would ask you, Will to pull out 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.240 a pencil and paper, not a pen because it's probably 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.040 going to be a lot of racing going on. And 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.560 I want you to number it one through twenty five. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.320 And I'd just be interested to see your one through 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:59.560 twenty five bias free SEC bias free, one through twenty five. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.600 And I'd just be interested to know how different it 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:09.440 looks from the coaches poll, the SEC bias infested coaches poll. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.800 What do you have, Will? You got the poll, by 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.080 the way, Jesse, Yeah, throw that up for me, so 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:20.399 to refresh everyone's memory, the corrupted coaches poll, the SEC 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.920 bias laden coaches poll had Ohio State Oregon one and two. 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.280 That can't be right, Jesse, Is that right? Wow? Okay, 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.200 So Ohio State, Oregon one and two. You got Georgia 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.840 Texas three to four. It's pretty extreme. Notre Dame's fifth, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.000 Indiana sixth, Miami seven. So the next time I see 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:44.240 an SEC team, there's a glob of them. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.480 Those are the SEC teams. Now, those teams are A 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:52.679 and M, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Alabama, LSU five teams. They 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.919 all got pretty high level talent rosters, which is largely 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.119 what you're going on with a preseason ranking. They all 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.560 did varying degre of good. Last year. A and M 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.760 playoff team, Oklahoma, playoff team, ole Miss, playoff team, Alabama, 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.360 playoff team, LSU went and got Lane Kiffin spent four 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.160 hundred bazillion dollars to become a playoff team. So if 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:18.000 not them, who who? Because the team's behind them. To 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:23.080 let everyone understand what we're talking about here, USC's behind them, 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.200 Brigham Young's behind them, Michigan, Penn State. I just want 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.080 you to stop me, will when you hear someone that 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:35.720 has egregiously been omitted in lieu of playoff Texas, A 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.040 and M playoff, Oklahoma, playoff Old Mess, playoff Alabama, you 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.280 get the whole, You get the story there. Who does 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.760 SMU get the shaft here did Jedfish and Washington get 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:51.639 robbed of their rightful place above four loaded rosters high 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:56.879 spenders with a playoff ticket punched a year ago. I 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.680 think what you'll find is that just because you don't 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:06.320 like something doesn't make it invalid. I despise speed limits 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:11.080 inside the major metro area of cities on interstates. Fifty 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.680 five miles an hour is a joke. I remember asking 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:16.880 a buddy of mine who was a cop one time, 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.639 how can you justify this? How can they justify this? 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.520 And he laid it out. I did not like the logic, 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.000 but there was logic behind it above and beyond just 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:27.640 we want to make a lot of money pulling you over. 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.760 And likewise here, well, I don't get the sense that 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.040 you have an SEC tramp stamp on your lower back. 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.359 Could be wrong, but I don't get that sense. But 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.360 it doesn't mean that seven teams in the top thirteen 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:44.199 being from the SEC is invalid or there's like an 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:49.320