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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to Lake Agys Live. It's Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: August thirty. First, we have it on a record. It

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Speaker 1: is official the last day of August, and we are

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Speaker 1: headed trained long into a loaded college football weekend. It

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Speaker 1: is the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty one. It

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Speaker 1: is a jam packed show. Tonight. We got a big

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Speaker 1: Noodle Express coming in mere moments. How classy of us.

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Speaker 1: We're not even gonna make you wait until the end

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Speaker 1: because you already got the pick earlier today if you

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Speaker 1: are at late Kick Josh. We are not only adding

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Speaker 1: to the Rama Noodle Express tonight, two cars of five

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Speaker 1: so far on the train for this week. We are

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Speaker 1: breaking down on multiple angles all the big games this weekend.

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Speaker 1: We're hitting Georgia Clemson right off the top. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: hit Bama and Miami. We're gonna hit Penn State, Wisconsin. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hit North Carolina, Virginia Tech. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: Thursday show, we're gonna loop in Lsuucla. I'll probably do

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Speaker 1: got a lot to get to this week. Again, make

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Speaker 1: sure you're not missing any shows. Also tonight, several more

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Speaker 1: things that we're looking forward to. I enjoyed that segment

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Speaker 1: see Travon Henderson run the ball Thursday night for Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: social channels at Lake Kick Josh. We're headed to Charlotte Friday.

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Speaker 1: That means I can give you all kind of access

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Speaker 1: following on those channels. It's not like we're doing it

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Speaker 1: Q and A. And we had a wide ranging mail

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Speaker 1: So we went all over the place, but we got

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Speaker 1: The first thing Clemson will try and do, the first

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Speaker 1: Even Nick Saban has done some rotating with He talked

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Speaker 1: as recently as last week about how I don't know

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Speaker 1: how we feel at center right now, we're still a

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Speaker 1: little unsettled at center. Well, if he's telling you the truth,

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Speaker 1: and I think he is, doesn't really lie about his

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00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,080
Speaker 1: own team a whole lot at the press conferences, then

431
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Speaker 1: get yourself in a situation where you earn the right

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Speaker 1: to rush the passer, you can't let him run on

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Speaker 1: you seven yards a clip, and then you still earn

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Speaker 1: the right to rush the passer. And how balanced can

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Speaker 1: Miami be offensively? Everyone's excited about Derek King's return. I'm

436
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Speaker 1: excited about Derek King's return, but see the thing about

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Speaker 1: this is it's only exciting if he possesses the ability

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Speaker 1: to do things other quarterbacks can't. And I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: today's version, not in the past. Today's version of Derek King.

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Speaker 1: The last time we saw him was laid out on

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Speaker 1: a field and he was getting carted off because the

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Speaker 1: season was over in the bowl game, and it's been

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Speaker 1: well documented. I don't need to retell the story. But

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Speaker 1: this is game action. This is not off season work

445
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: what did I just say summer workouts? And this is

446
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Speaker 1: not fall camp either. This is live bullets. They can

447
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Speaker 1: tackle you to the ground. In fact, they want to.

448
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: They want to hurt you. And so number one, when

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Speaker 1: we talk about balance, we're not talking about stats around here.

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Speaker 1: Is Alabama convinced that you'll run it or throw it

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Speaker 1: on virtually any down and distance. And secondly, do you

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Speaker 1: possess the ability to convince them you can hurt them

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Speaker 1: with your legs and hurt them with your arm, because

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Speaker 1: a lot of times we go into these games and

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Speaker 1: folks say, oh mobile quarterbacks, Nick Saban's worst nightmare, and

456
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Speaker 1: they're over there saying, if this guy runs for sixty

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Speaker 1: three yards today, so be it. We're not about to

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Speaker 1: let him pop pass us over the top in the

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Speaker 1: RPO game and burn us the way John Franklin, the

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Speaker 1: third whoever it was Nick Marshall did back in the

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Speaker 1: day again starving, we're not letting that happen again. And

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Speaker 1: so if he wants to run for fifty or sixty,

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Speaker 1: so be it. He's not beating us through the air. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you possess the ability to put more than one

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Speaker 1: hundred on I'm rushing the ball, then all of a

466
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Speaker 1: sudden they do have to commit to it a little

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Speaker 1: bit more so, Jesse, let's go ahead and take a

468
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Speaker 1: look at what the model says about this game. I

469
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Speaker 1: was looking at this and early on in the kind

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Speaker 1: of spring summer months when they release some of the

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Speaker 1: games of the year, we noticed a trend, and it's

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Speaker 1: not shocking. Bama was a little bit overrated relative to

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Speaker 1: what our numbers thought. So pretty much every point spread

474
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Speaker 1: right now in the futures market, the Vegas number is

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Speaker 1: about a point to two points fatter than our number,

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Speaker 1: and it's no different here the Caesars line. The Vegas

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Speaker 1: line is Alabama minus nineteen. Our number internally is Alabama

478
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Speaker 1: minus eighteen. I'm really really curious about the level of

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Speaker 1: efficiency Alabama's offense has to start this game, because I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be knife through hot butter

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Speaker 1: at all. But what I'm equally as excited to watch

482
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Speaker 1: is whether it's gonna matter, because man, I go back

483
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Speaker 1: to last year and I remember watching Miami go up

484
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Speaker 1: against Clemson, and the most demoralizing aspect of that is

485
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Speaker 1: their receivers couldn't even get off the line. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Clemson shut them down cold. And that was not an

487
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Speaker 1: elite Clemson secondary. This is a pretty elite Alabama defense,

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Speaker 1: specifically in the secondary. And so those perimeter matchups, the

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Speaker 1: Josh Job and Jalen Armor, Daves, Brian Branch in the secondary,

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Speaker 1: those guys when you have to account for Will Anderson, who,

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Speaker 1: along with Tippodeau on the West Coast, may very well

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Speaker 1: be the best overall players, especially defensive players, in the country.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how in the world, minus turnovers, minus

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Speaker 1: not offensive touchdowns, I don't know how we're finding Miami

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Speaker 1: getting into the mid to upper twenties range, which is

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Speaker 1: where you would minimally have to be to win this game.

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Speaker 1: So we're not gonna take him to win. We'll take

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Speaker 1: Alabama to win. But what I do think is Miami

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Speaker 1: possesses enough ability to hang around. Maybe it's garbage time

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Speaker 1: or maybe Alabama's stretching him at the end. I think

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Speaker 1: they can hang around enough to cover barely. There's no

502
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Speaker 1: strong feel here, So we're gonna take Alabama to win,

503
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Speaker 1: but we will take Miami plus the nineteen. Again, there's

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Speaker 1: no strong feel because there's not a lot of skill

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Speaker 1: in predicting how that fourth quarter is gonna go. I

506
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Speaker 1: don't think there's any skill in that. Actually, let's move on, boy.

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Speaker 1: This game is This game is very enticing. We gave

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Speaker 1: serious consideration to going to this next game. We ended

509
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Speaker 1: up in Charlotte, but I really thought about this one

510
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Speaker 1: Penn State at Wisconsin. This is not one of those

511
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Speaker 1: neutral site games. This is a true road environment. Whiskey

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Speaker 1: minus five and a half. That's the current number, and

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Speaker 1: that number has gone up over about the last twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours or so. This is a noon Eastern time

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Speaker 1: kickoff on Fox. Get the chores done in the morning,

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Speaker 1: get back home. This is not a situation where your

517
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Speaker 1: early window is a lot of secret, wet bag of

518
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Speaker 1: garbage type games and then you get three thirty window

519
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,479
Speaker 1: that's when you got to be there. No, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: This is This is almost as good as it gets

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Speaker 1: the entire day. And I think it's the most consequential

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Speaker 1: game in Week one because you can paint a path

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Speaker 1: for Clemson and Georgia. But there's gonna be a lot written,

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot said about the outcome of

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Speaker 1: this game, even if it's narrow twenty three twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Either way, there's a default setting. Maybe you've noticed it

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Speaker 1: with Penn State football, and I don't necessarily blame you

528
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Speaker 1: for having it. But the default setting around Penn State

529
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Speaker 1: is it'll be close, but fill in the blank, and

530
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Speaker 1: your blank probably consists of, well, Sean Clifford against a

531
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: really good defense on the road with a new offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that he can overcome a good Wisconsin team.

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Speaker 1: That's probably what your default setting is. And even if

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Speaker 1: you're a Penn State fan, half of you may hold

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Speaker 1: that default setting. But even if you don't, I don't

536
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Speaker 1: think you can blame a whole lot of people for

537
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Speaker 1: feeling that way. There are plenty of folks out there

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Speaker 1: you can find to tell you Sean Clifford's a good,

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Speaker 1: solid quarterback. There are infinitely fewer people that you can

540
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Speaker 1: find to tell you Sean Clifford, now that's a dog.

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Speaker 1: He'll get it done when you're in the foxhole, when

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Speaker 1: it's fourth quarter winning time. He is the Reggie Miller

543
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Speaker 1: of State College PA. Not many people saying that could

544
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Speaker 1: it all change? Could Mike Eursicch formerly Tom Yursitch on

545
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: this show? Could he be the magic elixir could get

546
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Speaker 1: a guy like Noah Kine back to full strength? Could

547
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Speaker 1: that be the difference, could be We'll see. Hey, that's

548
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: why they play the games. But it stands to reason

549
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,959
Speaker 1: there is a lot still to be proven for this

550
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: Penn State team and this Penn State offense. So if

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Speaker 1: it is a quarterback quarterback matchup, if it is a

552
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 1: shot for shot, your guy better than my guy in

553
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, I think a lot of you trust

554
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: Graham Mertz. Now I think there is and it may

555
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: be fair unfair, a lot more blind trust being invested

556
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: into Graham Mertz. But I get it because I remember

557
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: what people were saying last year, myself included, and then

558
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: it kind of went off the rails because they had

559
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: a ton of injury and COVID related issues where they

560
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: never had that full offense on the field. Well, we

561
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: get to see it now. All those guys are back,

562
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: A couple of them came back who didn't have to,

563
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: and so we get to see it now. So here's

564
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Speaker 1: the rub. I'm going to go back to Sean Clifford

565
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Speaker 1: for a second because that is the crux of this game.

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Speaker 1: To me. Do we really know what to expect? At

567
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: all a lot of people have their profile. If Shan

568
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: Clifford already developed Penn State quarterback for those unfamiliar, and

569
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: it is kind of an incomplete player. He has a

570
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: lot of good, very little great in him. He'll make

571
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Speaker 1: mistakes at key moments, there's not enough consistency. That's the

572
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: profile now, because that's what we've seen. What I'm asking

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00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: you is, is what we've seen an absolute indicator of

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00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: what we're always going to get. Because I have not

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Speaker 1: seen Sean Clifford in a Mike Heris at Shaw offense.

576
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him at least recently with Noah Kane

577
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: back there at full strength. I haven't seen him play

578
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: with now a fully seasoned combination at wide receiver of

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Speaker 1: Dotson and Parker Washington. I haven't seen that. Well. I

580
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: get to see it now. They're pretty darn good at

581
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: tight end too. And so what I'm saying is maybe

582
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: we get the same product we always got, and if

583
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 1: we do, then okay, the profile is complete. But surprises

584
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: have happened. Bigger surprises than this have happened. Penn State

585
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: having twenty four at a half this Saturday would be surprising.

586
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be the biggest shock in

587
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: the world. How they score him, I don't know, But

588
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: what does a winning stat line look like for him?

589
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be thirty eight to forty five.

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00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: You know, this is not the mid twenty's big twelve.

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00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: If he is a nice, solid eighteen for twenty four,

592
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen yards, a goose egg in the

593
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: turnover column, that's good enough to have you right there.

594
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of game that I think we're

595
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: going to see between Penn State and Wisconsin. So the

596
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: things I'm watching a couple of them here before we

597
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: start to make the prediction. Wisconsin's secondary. It's going to

598
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: be a fascinating matchup. They're good at all three levels.

599
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: Wisconsin's good at all three levels. But that secondary matchup,

600
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: Penn State receivers have got to win them, at least

601
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 1: a critical amount of them. I mean, you've got to

602
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: be open and so Dotson can do that, Parker Washington

603
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: can do that. What they're worried about at Penn State

604
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: is behind that. How many of these guys can we

605
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: depend on? Got some names we like, They show flashes

606
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 1: in practice, but the old adage is we don't want

607
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Speaker 1: to put you on the field. Once you show us

608
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: you can do it right. We want you to show

609
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: us you've done it so much you can't do it wrong,

610
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: then we want to put you on the field. Well,

611
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: a lot of times you don't have that luxury. Not

612
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: everyone's Ohio State where they can afford to watch multiple

613
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: track speed athletes walk out of their receiver room. It's

614
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: still have the best receiver room in the country, but

615
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: that's point one point two flat out with this Penn

616
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: State team. What kind of sense of urgency do they

617
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: walk out of that tunnel with? Give what we saw

618
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: last year, given the uncertainty around the team, but given

619
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: the positive vibes, the willingness to buy in still from

620
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: this fan base, myself included, I'm willing to still buy in,

621
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: but man, you got to show me a sense of urgency.

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00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: This is going to be an incredibly hostile environment. This

623
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: is not a neutral site game. This is Camp Randall Stadium.

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00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: This is, in our opinion, a top ten Wisconsin team.

625
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: Don't care what the AP says. This is a program

626
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: with as good as shot at contending as any has

627
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Speaker 1: had in recent years, and they may have a very

628
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: very potent passing attack this year, which I don't think

629
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Speaker 1: we've ever said on the show about Wisconsin football. You

630
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: got to overcome all that. You've got to have mental toughness,

631
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: and average teams succumb to that. Good very good, great

632
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: teams they can overcome that kind of stuff. But it's

633
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: up to you because the default, like we talked about

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00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,719
Speaker 1: on the front end, the back end, the default is

635
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: Wisconsin's got a huge edge here. They get to play

636
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: in their building and a lot of your first and

637
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: second year guys don't even know what crowd noise sounds like,

638
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: and so you're gonna have to deal with it. That

639
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: place is really hard to play. Even if they're making

640
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: it off at noon Eastern what time zones Madison, then

641
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: it's got to be Central time. Yeah, so either way,

642
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: it's early, but they'll be ready. Let's take a look, Jesse,

643
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: at what our model thinks about the game. Again. The

644
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: line right now out in the desert according to Caesars

645
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: is five or five and a half. When I went

646
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: on air, it was five and a half, and that's

647
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: moved up from four to four and a half as

648
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: of the last twenty four to forty eight hours. We

649
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: thought the number was right all along, we had Wisconsin

650
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: minus four and a half. Man, I gave serious consideration

651
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: to Penn State here. I even kind of segued to Jesse.

652
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: Jesse's from Penn State, and so I said, Jesse, what

653
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: do you want me to pick here? And then he

654
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: started as say Penn State. Baby. I said, Jesse, pretend

655
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: like everyone in your family depends on you making this

656
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: pick or else they do not get to eat again

657
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: for the rest of the month. And he said, Badgers win,

658
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: Penn State covers. And that's kind of where I am

659
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: right now. I'm going to take Wisconsin to win the game.

660
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: I think it's very very narrow. I think it'said either way.

661
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: It's a one possession game of five minutes to go.

662
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: It's anyone's game. But I think Wisconsin ends up winning

663
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: the game. Penn State covers the game. There's too much

664
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: similarity here, any strength that I talked about with Penn State.

665
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: There's too much matching point across the ball that I

666
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: can point out With Wisconsin. I want to remind you,

667
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, they've had some shaky reports here and there

668
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: from one person I've talked to for Wisconsin's camp this fall,

669
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: But I mean by and large, they get the pieces

670
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: back they never really fully got to jail with last year.

671
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: Their passing game, I think can surprise some people this year.

672
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: Now I'm talking this year. This is about this Saturday.

673
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: Stands to reason if I'm right about this year, it

674
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,239
Speaker 1: starts this Saturday. It's not going to be thirty eight

675
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: degrees up there yet, so prime conditions, prime atmosphere. I

676
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: think Wisconsin's going to find a way to get it done.

677
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, if I'm right about this, and

678
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: this is a narrow game, this is our number eight

679
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: team beating our number nine team by one possession at home.

680
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: We're not bumping Penn State if that does play out

681
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: that way. A couple of other games, and before we

682
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: even get to these games, I want to remind you

683
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: we're not doing LSU UCLA tonight. We're doing that one

684
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: Thursday night. We will do Notre Dame Florida State Thursday night.

685
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: So we are going to predict all the games. Indiana, Iowa,

686
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: We'll do that one Thursday night. There are a lot

687
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: of big games that we still have to get around to.

688
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: Bowling Green, Tennessee, No, probably not. They play Thursday night,

689
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: and so housekeeping note on that at the end of

690
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: the show. All right, let's talk about this Friday night game.

691
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: Though this one was really really intriguing. I gave consideration

692
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: to going to this one. Logistics did not work out.

693
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: But man, how about North Carolina lay in five and

694
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: a half at Virginia Tech. Again full houses in most

695
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: places across America. Well, if you can sell the tickets,

696
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: at least they don't have a problem with that. In Blacksburg, Virginia.

697
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: This is a Friday night six o'clock Eastern time kickoff

698
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: on ESPN, So you've got wall to wall. It starts

699
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: on Thursday Friday. This game we got a full slate. Saturday.

700
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: Sunday night is Notre Dame, Florida State, and then Labor

701
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: Day night in Atlanta. It is Louisville and it is

702
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: Old miss that is wall to wall, that is jam packed.

703
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: So let's talk about this game here. This is a

704
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: dynamics baseline. I know a lot of you may be

705
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: looking at this and you've looked at all the top ten,

706
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: top fifteen, top twenties, and you've seen the North Carolina

707
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: tar Heels, yet seen Virginia Tech. In fact, last time

708
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: we talked about Virginia Tech is when they upset the

709
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: Rama Noodle Express. At the very end of last year,

710
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: one of our most confident bets of the year was

711
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: Virginia and it just it was never close. I don't know.

712
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: It happened to us one time last year that we

713
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: just so whipped on a game, and it just so

714
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: happens it was against Virginia Tech. Are we salty about it? Yep,

715
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: we are. I'm not going to go as far as

716
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: to take it out on them with my pick, but

717
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: we're a little salty about it. But we've moved on.

718
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: So this is a dynamics play because I think if

719
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: this game were to be played in Week four at

720
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: North Carolina, it'd be heals minus two touchdowns minimum. But

721
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: right now there's uncertainty, and you have that fear that

722
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: there's going to be a wobbly tire on this offense

723
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: that goes out on the road. And this is the

724
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: kind of offense. It's not ground pound, and so if

725
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: things aren't fully calibrated and clicking on all cylinders, you

726
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: got the old crowbar and the bicycle spokes potential, you

727
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: fly over the handlebars and there's your face. It's street pizza,

728
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's a quagmire. It's thirteen

729
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: to six at halftime, and where's the offense. Everyone's got

730
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: that fear and the very back recesses of their mind,

731
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 1: and you got the home crowd to deal with, and

732
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: it's night. I don't know what that's ever mattered. But

733
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: when the sun goes down, apparently the home team plays

734
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: better football. And so it's only five and a half.

735
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: I'm going to show you in just a second with

736
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: the model thinks about it. But what should be the

737
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: deciding factor in this game for us? At least as

738
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: we see it is a glaring matchup advantage. I think

739
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: for North Carolina, Virginia Tech's wide receivers are gonna have

740
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: a field day against a lot of teams they play

741
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: this year. They've got the quarterback, for better or for worse.

742
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: We've got quarterback figured out there. He better not get hurt.

743
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: They got quarterback figured out there. But these receivers are

744
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: not bad. They're not bad players at all. But what's

745
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: going to happen is, let's make sure our screen wasn't

746
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: messed up there. That's going to happen is in this

747
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 1: particular matchup, I think North Carolina's got the corner play.

748
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: I think They've got the secondary play to match up

749
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: and if that is your fast ball for Virginia Tech

750
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: and North Carolina can just limit that thing. I am

751
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: not a believer that this Virginia Tech defense has made

752
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: any kind of significant strides from the over thirty points

753
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: per game they gave up on average last year. And

754
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: I think North Carolina, for all I care, they go

755
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: scoreless in the first quarter, they are eventually going to

756
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: find that groove. And when they do, because of that

757
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: matchup out why that is a vantage North Carolina. I

758
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: don't think West. I don't think Virginia Tech is gonna

759
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,959
Speaker 1: be able to trade points with him. So Jesse, let's

760
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: take a look at what we think, and I'm gonna

761
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: show you what the model thinks. And this is contrarian

762
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: because you've seen this number at seven and eight and

763
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: then it's dropped all the way to five and a half.

764
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: But our number has maintained as it tends to do

765
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: at North Carolina minus seven. And I'm rolling with our model.

766
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take North Carolina to win. I'm gonna

767
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: probably expect them to taste their blood a little bit

768
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: early in this game. But the second half of this game,

769
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: I think we'll tell a much different story than the

770
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: first half. So give me North Carolina a whim and

771
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: we think North Carolina will cover the five and a half.

772
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: We'll take it all the way up to a touchdown. Actually,

773
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: what about as we move south significantly to Austin, Texas.

774
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,479
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna wait. I'm kind. This is me being kind, Jesse.

775
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: I know you guys got a lot of elements there,

776
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: so we got all the time in the world. We

777
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: don't have a heart out on this show. Texas is

778
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: welcoming in Louisiana, Lafayette. I have made the executive decision

779
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: to call them Louisiana on the show. I know it

780
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: upsets a lot of people, but BILLI Napier follows us

781
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: on Twitter. We cannot take this risk, and so we

782
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: are taking Louisiana and we're marching them right into Austin, Texas.

783
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: This is not a trap game. Please stop calling this

784
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 1: a trap game. This is not sneaking up on anyone.

785
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: Everyone watched the Week one opener last year when they

786
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: went into Iowa State, into my house, into our house,

787
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: and they beat our cyclones no one has Louisiana sneaking

788
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: up on them. If Louisiana beats Texas Saturday, it's because

789
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: they were the better team and they overcame an incredible

790
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: road environment to do. So it's not a trap. Yeah,

791
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: y'all got to learn the definition what a trap game is.

792
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: I've barely heard anything about Louisiana the entire summer, and

793
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: they return every player that they return, like four hundred kids.

794
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: They got Billy Napier at the very top of a

795
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: lot of head coaching wish list, and it just other

796
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: than Alex Scarborough who did a really good feature on

797
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: him on ESPN dot com the other day, I just

798
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: hadn't heard a whole lot about him. Maybe I've had

799
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: my head in the sand, But I mean I do

800
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: this show a few times a week, so I tend

801
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: to think I've got my finger on the pulse. So

802
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 1: maybe they're sneaking around for some of you. I guarantee

803
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: that Steve Sarkisian can tell you everything you ever need

804
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 1: to know about this team. How will this whole Texas

805
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: quarterback rotation look? Well, there is somewhat of a skilled

806
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: way to answer this question. We got a starter announced,

807
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: so we know Hudson cars the starter. The other skill

808
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: is if I'm Steve Sarkisian, I have an idea of

809
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: what I want to do. I don't think it's decided though,

810
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: Like it's decided who's going to take the field to start.

811
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: But there's still a lot of conversation in Austin about

812
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: how many series will Casey Thompson get. Certainly, if this

813
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: was a battle this deep into camp, then it truly

814
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: not totally decided. Hey, that may be the case man.

815
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: But even having said that, Hudson Card's gonna determine how

816
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: this goes. You could go into a game and you

817
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: can have it nice and charted out. I'm gonna get

818
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: Casey Thompson one series in the first quarter. I'm gonna

819
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,439
Speaker 1: get him a couple of series before half. So three

820
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: series for Casey Thompson. Well, all right, scenario for you,

821
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: Hudson Card is thirteen for fifteen with two touchdowns on

822
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: two hundred yards passing already at the end of the

823
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: first quarter. Is he coming out? No answer is no,

824
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: he's not coming out. So your quarterback, you're starting quarterback,

825
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: will determine how the rotation works. If there is a rotation, Also,

826
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: I've had from the from the I've got an angle crowd,

827
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of people say this line's too big. Well,

828
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: it has come down significantly. I think it opened at

829
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: thirteen and it's down to like eight. Now we're gonna

830
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: take a look at it in a second. I've had

831
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 1: that angle. Tell me, Oh, Louisiana's got this game, I say,

832
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: extremely interesting, Why is it? Well, Billy and Napier Okay,

833
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: odds makers know who he is. Well, remember the Iowa

834
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: State game last year they upset I was to Yeah, yeah,

835
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: odds makers are well aware of that. Well, you know

836
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: Texas has a new staff. That's cool. My point is,

837
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: have you just revealed any information to me that the

838
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: people who put that number out are not privy to

839
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: Because if you didn't reveal any information to me that's new,

840
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: you don't have an angle. You just have stuff that

841
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,479
Speaker 1: you know. So right now, Jesse effect, let's go ahead

842
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: and take a look at it. The Vegas number is

843
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: sitting there at eight, so it's there to be had.

844
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: If you are confident in Louisiana, they're giving you not

845
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: only some points, they're giving you well more than the

846
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: standard touchdown. They're giving you eight points there. And so

847
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: I thought for all the world as recently as two

848
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: weeks ago, that I was going to be on the

849
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: outright upset here. I want to be cool, I want

850
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: to be the guy who overthought the room. But I'm

851
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: not because we got a little problem. And the problem

852
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: is and the problem is one hundred thousand folks, and

853
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: the problem is a far superior talent roster with better

854
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: leadership now even in year one. And here's the glaring mismatch.

855
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: The glaring mismatch is the depth and size of the

856
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: Texas defensive front against this crew that Louisiana is about

857
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: to take in there. This is a very solid football team.

858
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: This is better than a lot of teams Texas will

859
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: face in the Big Twelve this year. But there is

860
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 1: a matchup that is going to become more and more

861
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: glaring as the afternoon goes on. And then on the

862
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 1: other side, if all else fails, if our guy Xavier

863
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: Worthy doesn't hang four scores, they can just hand the

864
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: ball off. And it may not work in the first quarter,

865
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: and it may not work in the third quarter, but eventually,

866
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: late third quarter, early fourth quarter, one yard turns into

867
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: four yards, four yards turns into seven yards and even

868
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: if it's boring at times, Texas, I think is gonna

869
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: win this game. And then, in a somewhat surprising fashion

870
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: for apparently a lot of you, I think Texas is

871
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 1: gonna win it and they're gonna cover it. I think

872
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna win the game by double digits. And our

873
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: model almost agree. It's got it at minus nine, So

874
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: our model actually likes Texas to win and cover as well.

875
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: My point, as I made earlier in the week, that

876
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: I want to reiterate right now. It's okay. If you're

877
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: looking at this and you're saying Texas is going to

878
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: get beaten, that's fine. It may very well happen a

879
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: week one crazy anything can happen. But my point is

880
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 1: if they don't get beat and you're calling for the upset,

881
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: don't be coming in the chat on Sunday night and saying,

882
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: I don't know why everyone's making such a big deal

883
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: about Texas winning. It was just Louisiana Lafayette. It's just

884
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: a G five team. Can't even find it on a map.

885
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: Can't do both of those, You can't do both. And also,

886
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: if you expect Texas to well, actually that doesn't work

887
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: the other way. I should have shut up. So just

888
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: forget about the last ten seconds of your life what

889
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: I just said. Gohes, don't be uh, I'm not gonna

890
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: edit that out. Don't be calling for the upset and

891
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: then pooh pooh the win when Texas gets it if

892
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: they do. That's all I'm saying. Or let's roll on here.

893
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: I got to remember how keeping note h k N.

894
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: I gotta remember to tell you something before we go

895
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: off the air. I remember what it was, all right.

896
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: So some things that in your normal day to day life,

897
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,720
Speaker 1: you're just driving around, you're at the office, you're daydreaming

898
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: about college football because it beats whatever else you're doing

899
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: in your life. Some things that just pop in your head. Well,

900
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: my mind works the same way. Or maybe I'm the

901
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: only one and the rest of you are looking at

902
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: me like I'm psychotic right now. But I got some

903
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: stuff I'm looking forward to. This stuff does not fit

904
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: necessarily nice and neatly in a game preview, but man,

905
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to some of this. Ohio State at

906
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: Minnesota on Thursday night. CJ. Stroud is a starting quarterback there,

907
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,919
Speaker 1: so number one I'm excited to see him, but number two.

908
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: Just because you're starting quarterback doesn't mean it's your team.

909
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: But maybe it is your team. See, I'm very, very

910
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: interested to watch Ohio State just function offensively. They got

911
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: all the skill and weaponry in the world. They got

912
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: a loaded backfield that I think will find its groove

913
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: a little bit later in the year. Very interesting to

914
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: see how much they play Trevion Henderson in game one,

915
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 1: game two, Game three versus you know in no remember

916
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 1: pass pro stuff like that. I mean, it's just hard

917
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: to have a new starter at quarterback and also put

918
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: young tailbacks out there because of the pass protection issues

919
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: and because of the limited ability and the limited leeway

920
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: that maybe sometimes you give a young quarterback. I'm very

921
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: excited to see that because if it's not his team yet,

922
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: eventually if CJ. Strodeerr guy, they'll be that synergy point

923
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: where it is his team. It's going to be fun

924
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: to watch. But some of that stuff takes a little while.

925
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: You could see this with Obama and Bryce Young for

926
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: all we know. I don't know how it's going to

927
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: pan out. That's why I'm excited to watch it. And

928
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if

929
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: Ohio State struggled a little bit out of the gate.

930
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: That's not the worst thing in the world. That North

931
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: Carolina Virginia Tech game, which we just covered a second

932
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: to go. I can't wait to see what kind of

933
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: team I mean, I guess comes out of the visiting tunnel.

934
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,879
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see what kind of team comes

935
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,879
Speaker 1: out of that visiting tunnel in Blacksburg, Virginia Friday night

936
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: against Virginia Tech. So I remember a couple of years ago,

937
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty seventh team Clemson went up

938
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 1: there and it was one of the best producer games

939
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,479
Speaker 1: I've ever seen with ESPN. They really hyped the home

940
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: field aspect, and it's still available on YouTube. I think

941
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: just the video of the pregame is on YouTube. And

942
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: that entrance and inner Sandman, I think we're looking at

943
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: it right here. Awesome environment and you watch from home,

944
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: and especially if you're in person, you're saying, I can't

945
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: believe that a road team is about to come in

946
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: here with grown men jumping around in Turkey outfits to

947
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: the tune of sixty five thousand or seventy thousand, I

948
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: can't believe a team's going to come in here and

949
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: I actually think they're about to withstand this environment. And

950
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: then Clemson came in and they took their hand and

951
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: they reached over to the volume button and they turned

952
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: it down. They took the lead immediately. They shut the

953
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: crowd up. They were never a fact of the rest

954
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 1: of the night, and Clemson cruised comfortably. That's what great

955
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: teams do, that's what some really good teams can do.

956
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the season, North Carolina fancies themselves

957
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 1: as a program that is either there or on the

958
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: precipice of being there. This is a game you may

959
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: not look back on a few months from now. They

960
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: win it and cut like we think they will. For

961
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: all we know, Virginia Tech would be a five hundred

962
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: team at best this year, but they're not five hundred

963
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: right now. They think they got the entire world in

964
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: front of them. That crowd does too. And if North

965
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: Carolina goes in there and they silence that environment and

966
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: they take control of a game like we've seen elite

967
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,240
Speaker 1: teams do in the past, that's a signifier. That's a sign,

968
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: that's something to tuck away. They didn't beat the most

969
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: talented team in the world, but they did something that

970
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,280
Speaker 1: is a hallmark of teams that are on the rise

971
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: to eventual Tier two, Tier one type status. Cannot wait

972
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: to watch that. What about Penn State at Wisconsin another

973
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: game we just went over, but I left a little

974
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: bit on the table. Apparently I can't wait in this

975
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: Penn State Wisconsin game for the few hinge moments because

976
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: that's absolutely what these games come down to. This probably

977
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: a little bit older school looking big ten game. It's

978
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: not forty four to ten, it's nothing like that. There

979
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: are a few hinge plays, bob plays, bounce of ball plays.

980
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: It could be one bounce, it could be one block,

981
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: it could be one fumble, it could be one two

982
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: yards either way that end up determining a game, and

983
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: then looking at the wild swing in perception off of

984
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: those just microscopic, tiny fractions of benches here and there,

985
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: because whichever team capitalizes on those one or two or

986
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: three hinge plays that will determine this game, they're going

987
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: to capitalize on it to the tune of being shot

988
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: out of a cannon into the twenty twenty one season,

989
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: and they're going to be taken to a different level

990
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: in terms of the national perception because Penn State. If

991
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: they win that thing, they got Auburn white out in

992
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, they'll be favored there and then

993
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: they'll be off to the races. Wisconsin's got a couple

994
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: more big time games in the first month of the season,

995
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: but they'll be off to the races. Really interested to

996
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: see which team capitalizes on that, and then the more

997
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: sadistic among us are also interested to see which wounded

998
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: animal walks out of Week one with a loss and

999
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: having to go into must win mode in September. That's

1000
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: always fun too. What about the first game we talked

1001
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: about tonight? What about Georgia and Clemson? J T. Daniels

1002
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: one of the biggest moments of his life, player or

1003
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: otherwise is this Saturday night. You can rep it all

1004
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: you want to, you can study film all you want to,

1005
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: you can go through summer conditioning, you can talk to

1006
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: your coaching staff, you can talk to your position groups,

1007
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: and you can even scrimmage and fall camp. But we

1008
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: all know there's eventually going to come a time where

1009
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: a crowd is it full throat and it's Saturday night,

1010
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 1: Week one, and you're huddled up there for your last

1011
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: instructions before you break it and you take the field.

1012
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 1: That's the beginning of a football season. Where's your mind

1013
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 1: at in that moment? As a quarterback, there is such

1014
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: immense pressure on you at this level, you can't simulate it.

1015
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: Where's your mind at that moment? Are you locked in?

1016
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: Are you like Kevin Costner? And for love of the game,

1017
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: do you just fine tune the mechanism where you shut

1018
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: the noise out? Or is the noise there? I'll be

1019
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: on the sideline. I don't have to focus like that.

1020
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: I can hear that noise. But if you're on the

1021
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: field and you got that exact same experience I got,

1022
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: you could get to capitated. You can't have that. You

1023
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: turn the ball over, You got all kinds of things

1024
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: that go haywire, And the functionality of an offense is

1025
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: totally dependent on that quarterback being able to get to

1026
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: a place mentally that very few people can get to.

1027
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: Truly hard to play this game, surely hard to play

1028
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: that position. And at this level it's a little bit

1029
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: different because you deal with stuff you don't deal with

1030
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: in a D three environment. They're not talking about you

1031
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 1: eight days a week on radio at a D three

1032
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 1: level school, you're not dealing with seventy five or eighty

1033
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: thousand people at that level. You are at this level,

1034
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: it's a privilege to play under that pressure, but man,

1035
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: it's a pressure cooking. Nonetheless, JT. Daniels that time is

1036
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: very soon at hand for him, can't wait to see

1037
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: how he handles it. And lastly, Louisiana Lafayette at Texas

1038
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: just touched on this kind of the same deal, isn't

1039
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 1: it as the whole JT. Daniels dynamic. There's been a

1040
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: lot of talk about Sark. There's been a lot of

1041
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: talk about this quarterback battle. There's been a lot of

1042
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: talk about whether this roster's going to be good enough,

1043
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: and whether this staff's going to be good enough, whether

1044
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback is going to be good enough. Whoever

1045
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: he chooses. There is good news or bad news though

1046
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: in every football season, depending on what your perspective is,

1047
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: and that is just that the season is eventually going

1048
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: to arrive. And at that point, it doesn't matter what

1049
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: anyone says. It doesn't matter if they're overly critical, overly praiseworthy.

1050
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: It's good news if you possess the ability to silence

1051
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,359
Speaker 1: all your doubters, make their opinion irrelevant. It's bad news

1052
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,439
Speaker 1: if you're going to validate everything negative that they said

1053
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: about you over the course of the past eight or

1054
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: so months. And that in and of itself is what

1055
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: I look forward to with this Texas Louisiana game, because

1056
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: we're rapidly approaching the time to be at hand where

1057
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what people are saying, because we got

1058
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,439
Speaker 1: a game every six and a half days, and now

1059
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 1: we get to find out does Hudson Card have what

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Speaker 1: it takes? Was that quarterback battle really a battle of

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Speaker 1: two guys who were capable of winning? Or was it

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Speaker 1: a battle of the lesser I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: lesser of two evils already did that one time, but

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Speaker 1: you know, the lesser of two average options. What kind

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Speaker 1: of quarterback situation do we have there? Aside from Xavier

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Speaker 1: Worthy in Whittington, I mean, Josh Moore, do we have

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Speaker 1: guys who can emerge as game changing wide receivers. We

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Speaker 1: get to find all that out now. So I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to all that. Okay, I'm so proud cause, unlike

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Speaker 1: the other night where I forgot to do an entire segment,

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Speaker 1: actually remembered our housekeeping note. So as you know this

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Speaker 1: schedules all over the place this week. So our schedule

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Speaker 1: is all over the place this week. Now, after we

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Speaker 1: get out of week one, it's always Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: eight eastern seventh Central. However, because we have a bunch

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Speaker 1: of teams kicking off a bunch of different times. This

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Speaker 1: Thursday night, we are starting the show an hour early,

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Speaker 1: seven eastern sixth Central. We'll get you out of here

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Speaker 1: in time to watch Ohio State Tennessee's playing, a lot

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Speaker 1: of teams are playing. And then on Sunday night, I've

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Speaker 1: got a quick morning flight back here, hopefully have most

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Speaker 1: of the show already put together because we're going to

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Speaker 1: start an hour early on that night too. So Thursday

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Speaker 1: and Sunday night, seven eastern sixth Central, start times. Tell

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Speaker 1: your uncle, tell your aunt, tell your friends, and we

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Speaker 1: are probably going to have the biggest cross that we've

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Speaker 1: ever had on the show. So I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: guys tuning in. You got a cat any sports and

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Speaker 1: outdoors on board, and you've got a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: things happening before us. Make sure can't stress it enough.

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Speaker 1: You're following those Instagram and Twitter accounts at late kick Josh.

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Speaker 1: You're going to be rewarded for that before the end

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Speaker 1: of this week, so make sure you're following. There. Can't

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Speaker 1: really say much more because it's not associated with the show,

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Speaker 1: so I can't say it, but make sure you're following.

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Speaker 1: You got late kick Josh for director Colin, for our

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Speaker 1: entire crew in Connecticut. Thank you so much for watching

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Speaker 1: on Josh Baatee. Have yourselves a great rest of the

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Speaker 1: evening and God Books