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Speaker 1: Well, come in, Lake Kick is live.

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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday night, October sixth, to the Year of

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Speaker 2: Our Lord, twenty twenty. Tuesday is prediction day around here.

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of them tonight. Tennessee Georgia is

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Speaker 2: A and m It's all right. Before we went on

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Speaker 2: Coastal Carolina, Louisiana. Just Louisiana, drop the Lafayette. Well, first

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Speaker 2: Hurricane Delta rapidly approaches. A lot of games on the move.

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Speaker 2: Rumor is LSU is gonna have their game move tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Confirmed for all I know. I haven't kind of been

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Speaker 2: As I said, prediction Tuesday is upon us week six

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Speaker 2: begin Tennessee at Georgia. Georgia favored by well, they were

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Speaker 2: I believe Tennessee Georgia will be everything that you guys

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Speaker 2: And I believe that's the case this Saturday, that Tennessee

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Speaker 2: South Carolina doesn't possess that, Missouri doesn't possess that. You

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Speaker 1: Tennessee haven't played anybody? Like, make up your mind.

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Speaker 2: Now you've got to pick a compartment to live in

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Speaker 2: to one. I think it's twenty four. That's how confident

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Speaker 2: So twenty four, Hey, could we do it?

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Speaker 2: Three ways to score in a football game, but the

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Speaker 2: how would that happen? And one of them, I think

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Clemson. It's the first time we've done

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Speaker 2: Basically a summary of your viewership of the Clemson versus

434
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Speaker 2: Virginia game.

435
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Speaker 1: I fit that description too. I didn't watch much of

436
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Speaker 1: it live.

437
00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,040
Speaker 2: There were other games on, however, I have since I

438
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:35,919
Speaker 2: don't have anything else to do.

439
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,560
Speaker 1: They just paid me to watch football. I have gone

440
00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:38,560
Speaker 1: back and watched that game.

441
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Speaker 2: The thing that obviously stands out to you, whether you

442
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,159
Speaker 2: watched it or you just looked at a piece of

443
00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,080
Speaker 2: paper in the box score is Brendan Armstrong, quarterback for Virginia.

444
00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:48,760
Speaker 2: He had a two hundred and sevent yards passing. What

445
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,399
Speaker 2: caught my eye a little bit more as it pertains

446
00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,080
Speaker 2: to the Miami game is the eighty nine rush yards

447
00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,159
Speaker 2: he had I think on twenty two carries. It's not

448
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,640
Speaker 2: the greatest yards carry average in the world, but it's

449
00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,159
Speaker 2: not nothing either. So the reason you look at that

450
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,200
Speaker 2: is cause you understand Dearreck King and Miami. The biggest

451
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,440
Speaker 2: threat they have potentially to leverage into an upset special

452
00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,320
Speaker 2: is well he can use his legs. He's dynamic in

453
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Speaker 2: multiple ways. He's a true dual threat quarterback. Okay, so

454
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Speaker 2: if Brennan Armstrong did it, why can't Dearrek King do it.

455
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,560
Speaker 2: I don't think that's the craziest thing in the world

456
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Speaker 2: to suggest. Here's what I do think is probably a

457
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Speaker 2: little bit overlooked. As we look at highlights and b

458
00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,040
Speaker 2: roll of Miami running backs in their own zip code

459
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 2: running out of the backfield against Louisville, that was a

460
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,119
Speaker 2: fun time. Here's one thing I think we've overlooked. Virginia

461
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Speaker 2: is not about football team. That's the one thing I

462
00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,240
Speaker 2: think we've over looked at all this. You think about

463
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,720
Speaker 2: Virginia as, you know, something equivalent of what you find

464
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 2: on the bottom of your shoe after you go hiking,

465
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Speaker 2: and that is not what Virginia is. Contenders, they are

466
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Speaker 2: not trash, They are not somewhere in between the contender

467
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Speaker 2: and trash spectrum. We find Virginia just a little bit

468
00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 2: closer to contender status than trash status. So forty one

469
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,360
Speaker 2: to twenty three was Clemson's struggle game, and using.

470
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Speaker 1: Air quotes there, I think they'll take it.

471
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,760
Speaker 2: Brent Vinnables also rarely has his defense made a fool

472
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,679
Speaker 2: of two weeks in a row. And it's a stretch

473
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Speaker 2: to say they were made a fool of last week.

474
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Speaker 2: It's very relative. When do you ever see them have

475
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 2: two down performances in a row?

476
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Speaker 1: If you say down.

477
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Speaker 2: If we just let's use the point spread as a

478
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 2: garden variety metric, how many times.

479
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Speaker 1: Do you see them play down two weeks in a row?

480
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Speaker 2: Because they did last week according to that spread, I

481
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 2: wish we would have taken it because our system said

482
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,680
Speaker 2: to you, I was scared. I was the guy who

483
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 2: was scared to entertain it last week. So Dereck King

484
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 2: going back to the Miami quarterback here, they are not

485
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 2: going to allow him to run around on them. They

486
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Speaker 2: are not going to allow him to beat them with

487
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Speaker 2: his legs. They have the ability, They have plenty of talents,

488
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:44,880
Speaker 2: one of the best defenses in the country.

489
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Speaker 1: It's the best defensive coordinator in the country.

490
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,920
Speaker 2: They possess the ability anytime they want to to take

491
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,679
Speaker 2: away an element of your offense, whether you want them

492
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 2: to take it away or not, they're gonna take it away.

493
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Speaker 2: What would you take away from Miami? Would you take

494
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Speaker 2: away the scramble ability, would you take away the quarterbackxibility

495
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 2: to extend drives on you? Or would you make him

496
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 2: stay in the pocket? And find out if the whispers

497
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 2: and rumors out of Miami's fall camp were true those

498
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 2: rumors and whispers. I was doing the I was doing

499
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,359
Speaker 2: the Miami podcast with Ivans the other day and we

500
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 2: were kind of talking about.

501
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 1: The practice reports. Early on.

502
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Speaker 2: I remember seeing out of Miami camp down there and

503
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 2: the reviews about Dearic King were He's everything we.

504
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 1: Thought he was going to be.

505
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 2: But here's what we're really surprised by his ability to

506
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 2: throw the ball in classic passing situations.

507
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about on the run.

508
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 2: I'm talking about standing in the pocket and ripping one

509
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 2: fifteen yards across the middle.

510
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Speaker 1: They said they were seeing that in practice.

511
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Speaker 2: We haven't seen that to a large degree during the

512
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 2: season so far in competitive comp I mean, you know,

513
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 2: there hasn't been a whole lot of competition here yet,

514
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,120
Speaker 2: especially relative to what they're going to see Saturday.

515
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Speaker 1: Well, we got to see that Saturday, got to see it.

516
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 2: Got to see them victimize some very talented but green

517
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Speaker 2: players in Clemson's defensive front. But they have to be

518
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 2: able to throw the ball too, because Brent Vannam is

519
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 2: willing to look at him and say, listen, Dereck King,

520
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 2: if you rip us up, man, if you throw for

521
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 2: three to sixty against us, we'll tip our cap to you.

522
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Speaker 2: We don't think you can do it. Flat out, we

523
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,679
Speaker 2: don't think you can do it. And the more you

524
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 2: do it, the more risks you have to take. And

525
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,439
Speaker 2: I trust my defense eventually to confuse you enough to

526
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Speaker 2: make it be the difference on the scoreboard.

527
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Speaker 1: So how many firsts can Miami throw it Clemson?

528
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Speaker 2: Remember the blueprint here, We're going to talk disproportionately about

529
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 2: Miami because Clemson's favored for a reason. It's very easy

530
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 2: to talk about why they're favored. We try and find

531
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 2: the path to the upset, and then we'll give you

532
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 2: our prediction at the end. How many firsts does Miami

533
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 2: possess that they can show Clemson that Clemson will not

534
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 2: have seen so far, and maybe they don't have a

535
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 2: data point they can look back on in the past

536
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,680
Speaker 2: and say, Okay, to handle this, we need to look

537
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 2: back to that and see how we did well. I'll

538
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 2: tell you two of them. One of them's names Will Mallory.

539
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 2: The other one's name is Brevin Jordan. That's a pair

540
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 2: of tight ends they have at Miami, the likes of

541
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Speaker 2: which I don't think you have in a one to

542
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,880
Speaker 2: two fashion anywhere else in the ACC safe to say,

543
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 2: and you really don't have it anywhere else in the country.

544
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Speaker 1: Those are really good tight ends. They're versatile.

545
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 2: They can be in liners, they can be third down

546
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 2: and seven options, they can flex on you. So they've

547
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 2: got a lot of versatility there. And Miami is not

548
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 2: necessarily deep with a ton of true X type receivers.

549
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 2: They don't have a superstar guy in the slot that's

550
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 2: a sure future first rounder, but they do have that

551
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,160
Speaker 2: combo there along with Cameron Harrison, guys in the backfield.

552
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 1: Derek King himself is a threat.

553
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 2: But I'm thinking about third down situations and I'm thinking

554
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 2: about how they move the chains, how do they stay

555
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 2: on the field, thus keeping Trevor Lawrence off the field.

556
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Speaker 1: That's it.

557
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 2: Using those tight ends. And you got again some young

558
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 2: guys in that Clemson front. Maybe you give them looks

559
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 2: especially on third down they haven't seen before, and you

560
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 2: also may just trust your physical advantage.

561
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 1: Those two guys are big man.

562
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 2: I went to watch Miami play Florida on the field

563
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 2: to start the season last year. Those tight ends are impressive.

564
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 2: Brevin Jordan's a monster Widermeier at a and m is

565
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 2: a guy we're going to talk about in the second

566
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 2: Pitts as a guy at Florida, a little bit different

567
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 2: body type. There are some impressive tight end in college

568
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 2: football right now. Miami's got two of them. So that,

569
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 2: as I said, plus quarterback runs on third down, you

570
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 2: would hope that that gives you a little bit of

571
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 2: an edge there, and maybe you also find an age

572
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 2: in your special team's department because they got one of

573
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 2: the best kicker and punter combinations of Miami that you'll

574
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 2: find anywhere in the country too.

575
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 1: So we talked about Brent Venables.

576
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 2: What about on the other side, Manny Diaz looks across

577
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 2: the ball, and he looks across the way, and he

578
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 2: obviously sees Trevor Lawrence. If Trevor Lawrence beat you, Trevor

579
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 2: Lawrence beat you. But if you've watched Clemson so far

580
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 2: this year, they are heavily, I mean disproportionately heavily dependent

581
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 2: upon Travis etn. If you're going to depend on a

582
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 2: guy not named Trevor Lawrence, that's who you want to

583
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 2: depend on. I mean, he came back for a reason.

584
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 2: Surprised a lot of us. He came back for a reason.

585
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 2: He is obviously their leading rusher. He is one of

586
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,679
Speaker 2: their leading receivers. So if you're going to focus on

587
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 2: taking something away or limiting, I don't know if you

588
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 2: take him away or limiting, I mean that's where the

589
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 2: attention is going to be.

590
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: So someone needs to pop at the receiver position.

591
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 2: Outside of who already has they need a third option there.

592
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 2: You know, they really do not have the kind of

593
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 2: depth they've had at that position in years past.

594
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 1: They know that.

595
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 2: I guarantee you they're shaking their head as I say it,

596
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 2: because if you follow clumbs, and that's all anyone talks about, huh,

597
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: justin Ross not there this year, you don't have those

598
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 2: guys you normally had. They know, I mean, they also

599
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 2: know they have guys you don't know about yet. Hopefully

600
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 2: you know about one or two of them this coming

601
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 2: Saturday that you didn't before.

602
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: So all about swimming.

603
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 2: We always go back to this metaphor anytime someone's trying

604
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 2: to break in and ascend to the next rung of

605
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 2: the ladder.

606
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: It's all about the pool. Miami is in the pool. Now.

607
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: In order to swim, you gotta be in the pool.

608
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 2: But Miami is still hung out in the shallow end. Okay,

609
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: they've gotten their feet on the ground. But as was

610
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 2: the case anytime you were a kid and you're growing

611
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 2: up and am I five feet tall and my five

612
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 2: feet too? How far can I go into this deep

613
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 2: end and keep my head above water? Well there's only

614
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 2: one way to find out, And so you tiptoe you

615
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 2: a little way. Swimmys are off. Now this is big

616
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 2: boy time. We've got to learn to swim on our own.

617
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 2: Swimmers are off, and you start walking off that shallow

618
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: ledge and it starts getting deeper, and you just creep,

619
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 2: and you creep and you creep, and so you beat

620
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 2: you ab and then you go on the road another step.

621
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 2: You take care of Louisville, and then you come back

622
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 2: home and you yawn and take care of Florida State.

623
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: But now it's up to your nose.

624
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 2: You know, you're kind of tilting your head and you

625
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 2: draw that last breath of air, and then you step

626
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 2: far enough to where you can't touch the bottom anymore.

627
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 2: That's when you find out if you can swim. Miami's

628
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 2: taking the step Saturday. They're going to find out if

629
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 2: they can swim. There are a lot of aspects of

630
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: this program that have been overhauled already, coaching and player.

631
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 2: There are a lot of aspects of this team they

632
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 2: think they can trust, but they don't fully know if

633
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:42,719
Speaker 2: they can trust.

634
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: All football teams.

635
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 2: I make analogous to dams, and every dam has cracks

636
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 2: in it. The water pressure is going to get applied

637
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 2: across the entire dam from Miami Saturday, and they're going

638
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 2: to find out we got cracks. Everyone does. Clemson does too.

639
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 2: How big are they? How many of them do we have?

640
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 2: And can we still hold that water back enough? Even

641
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 2: with our flaws exposed? Can we swim? Can we hold

642
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 2: the water back? Water is so powerful, people, It's so

643
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 2: powerful that I don't need anything other than it to

644
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 2: explain college football. Fortunate because water's a whole lot easier

645
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 2: to figure out than zone blocking concepts sometimes.

646
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: So Colin, let's talk about our game capsule, shall we.

647
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 2: Clemson is a fourteen point favorite that's floated up north

648
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 2: of fourteen, but at least this stayed still for us

649
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 2: a little while today. Hey, how about this. We had

650
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 2: Georgia Tennessee. We had that line at ten for our

651
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 2: own in house model. We've got Clemson as a shorter

652
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 2: favorite too. So do you believe in Miami? Well, apparently

653
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 2: our model does. What do I think about this game?

654
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 2: I'm doing the same thing I just did with the

655
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 2: Georgia Tennessee line. I see no reason to differentiate. I

656
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 2: do not believe that Clemson is about to run away

657
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: and hide offensively in this game, as much as there

658
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 2: are firsts that Clemson's going to show Miami, the athleticism,

659
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 2: the speed, the ability to affect the quarterback like, there

660
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 2: are a lot of firsts that Miami will possess, at

661
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 2: least for this year's Clemson Tiger team, that they haven't

662
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,959
Speaker 2: seen yet. I'm not saying they're about to shut him

663
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 2: down by a new stretch. It would not surprise me if,

664
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 2: for instance, we went into the half with Miami tied

665
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 2: or in the lead that second half the deep end though,

666
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 2: that again, that's a big time hurdle. That's akin to

667
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 2: seeing Jared Garantano play am a stake free game for Tennessee. Well,

668
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: if Miami is able to control the second half of

669
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 2: a football game, control the fourth quarter of a football game,

670
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 2: when you take Clemson's best punch at home in a

671
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 2: meaningful game, obviously this is not the spring game, then

672
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: you've earned it. And I don't know that they can

673
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: necessarily take a step that far. I do think they

674
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 2: can be very competitive wire to wire with Clemson. I

675
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 2: will take the Tigers to win, but I absolutely will

676
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 2: take those fourteen points.

677
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: I'll take Miami to cover. I think they're going to

678
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: have a really.

679
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 2: Impressive, showing enough to where if they walk out of

680
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: there with a loss, there are no moral victories in

681
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 2: the sport, but really they're are, because if they walk

682
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 2: out having lost tepening thirty four to twenty seven, if

683
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 2: you don't feel better about yourself at the end of

684
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: that day, then you did. At the beginning of Saturday.

685
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 2: As a Miami Hurricane fan, I don't know what in

686
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: the world you've been watching. So we'll take Clemson to win.

687
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 2: We'll take Miami to cover the fourteen. Now let me

688
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: get to the game that I have this strange fascination with,

689
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 2: and also stay tuned. I see a lot of you

690
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: talking about it in the chat. We got some lame

691
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: Kiffin stories coming up. To wrap the show, we go

692
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 2: hardcore previews and breakdowns. But oh, we're gonna put a

693
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 2: bow on it at the end. We've got some Kiffin

694
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 2: stories to talk about and a best bet coming up,

695
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 2: So stay tuned. Florida is a seven point favorite on

696
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 2: the road at Texas A and M. This seems on

697
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: the surface like an easy game to figure out. You

698
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: just saw A and M secondary get torched, and you

699
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: have seen Florida torch. People's secondaries right. So that's what's

700
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 2: gonna happen Saturday. If you believe that, I suggest you

701
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: lay those seven points and lay them in a hurry,

702
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 2: maybe even get six and a half somewhere. This is

703
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: a noon kickoff eleven am local time in college station.

704
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: It's on ES.

705
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 2: I want to warn you of something. Colin and I

706
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 2: were talking about this in the control room before the show.

707
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 2: There is the Bama data point that has been thrown in.

708
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a fly in the ointment. It's

709
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: kind of like if you have a nice, nice batch

710
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 2: of brownies you're about to make, and it's all mixed up,

711
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: and then someone takes just a pinch of dog dropping

712
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: from the front yard. They drop them into the batter.

713
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: You mix it up in there, you go cook the brownies.

714
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: Would you eat that? No, you wouldn't.

715
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 2: Someone would say it's just one drop, Yet a whole

716
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: pan of brownies is just one drop, doesn't matter. It

717
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: has soiled the entire batch. Well, sometimes the Bama data

718
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 2: point does that too. The Bama data point is this.

719
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 2: Obviously A and M just played Alabama. Florida hasn't played

720
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,959
Speaker 2: anyone the caliber of Alabama. And what Alabama does is

721
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 2: they take a great big baseball batch to the side

722
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: of your car nine times out of ten when you

723
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: play them, and you look very unimpressive coming out of there.

724
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: All your stats are out of whack, and the advanced

725
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 2: metrics are out of whack, and every model out there

726
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: that's meant to give you a more accurate read than

727
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 2: just a random final score.

728
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: Project and it's all out of whack.

729
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 2: Beware the data point because I could just as easily

730
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 2: have tossed, for example, South Carolina in front of A

731
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 2: and M last week. I can't guarantee you they would

732
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 2: have won, but they would have had a heck of

733
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 2: a lot easier time than they did against Alabama. So

734
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 2: point is A and M wouldn't be any different team.

735
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 2: You may perceive them differently, So beware the Bama data point.

736
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: Just understand how to interpret schedule.

737
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 2: There. We were talking about tight ends a second ago

738
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 2: in the Miami game. How about the tight end matchup

739
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 2: in this game? By the way, Weedermeyer, who is a freak.

740
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: Last year Baylor Cup got injured, which is kind of

741
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: like this year when Baylor Cup got injured for A

742
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 2: and M and everyone was worried about tight end.

743
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: I remember going to the A and M Clemson game.

744
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 2: Standing on the field pre game watching Weedermeyer warm up,

745
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 2: and I said, they got a hole at tight end?

746
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: Are you serious? Do you?

747
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: Does anyone else see this? Is this guy eligible? He

748
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 2: was eligible and still is. You got Weedermeyer. But also

749
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 2: on the other end, there is a strapping young man

750
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 2: by the Kyle Pitts who has just thoroughly dominated everything

751
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 2: in his path for Florida. Good tight end matchup, maybe

752
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 2: the best tight end matchup you see in college football

753
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 2: this year.

754
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: Let's talk about areas of focus. Here we go.

755
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 2: This is a really good game. Focus area number one.

756
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 2: I'm worried about Florida's defense. I will admit that I'm

757
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 2: sky high on Florida, but this is not a perfect team.

758
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: Remember the damns. Everyone's got cracks. Florida's. It just has

759
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 2: a great, big.

760
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: D just defense. That's the crack right now.

761
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 2: Now, I heard Brenton Cox talking to Day down there,

762
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 2: and he's adamant we get some guys back, things will

763
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 2: magically rectify themselves. I hope for our sake that's true.

764
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 2: Our sake because I put my stamp of an endorsement

765
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: on this team when I predicted them to win the East.

766
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 2: So I mean, I'd like to be right, but I'm

767
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,959
Speaker 2: certainly not going to marry myself to a prediction.

768
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: I'll hop off of it in a heartbeat. Eighty three plays.

769
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 2: That's how many plays this Florida defense spent on the

770
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 2: field last week.

771
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: That matter.

772
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: They won the game right here, You're right, can't take

773
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 2: that loss away from him or win away from him.

774
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: But now let's picture this.

775
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: Let's picture that defense that lacks championship caliber depth. The

776
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 2: front line guys haven't lit the world on fire. They

777
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 2: certainly don't have championship caliber depth. They cannot rotate the

778
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 2: way they want to. In other words, you take that

779
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 2: eighty three plays from last week and you come into

780
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: College Station. Here's where the concern is. The concern is

781
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 2: A and M's got a pretty good offensive line. A

782
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 2: and M did not play nearly as poorly as the

783
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 2: scoreboard would indicate against Alabama. If they're able to tilt

784
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 2: this thing early, if they're able to stay on the field,

785
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 2: tilt the total plays stack category, tilt that time of

786
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 2: possession category.

787
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that.

788
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: If you want something to watch specifically in this game.

789
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 2: Check midway through the second quarter time of possession. But

790
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 2: more importantly, check total number of plays that have been run.

791
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 2: Like Tennessee had a twenty nine to nine plays edge

792
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 2: in the first quarter against Missouri last week. Gave you

793
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 2: a pretty good indication of the way the game was going.

794
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 2: Check that total plays and then keep in mind eighty

795
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 2: three plays a week ago. Lack of quality depth here,

796
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 2: same guys on the field for Florida that could tilt

797
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 2: this early and it could draw it way out of

798
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 2: whack and take every prediction you had and just wadd

799
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 2: it up and throw it in the trash. And I'll

800
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 2: tell you how Jimbo Fisher is going to go about

801
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 2: achieving that in ways that he really, at least from

802
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 2: a design standpoint, did not do last week. And that

803
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: is doing what I've always advocated for them to do

804
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 2: with Kellen Mond, and that is use all of Kellen Mond,

805
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 2: that includes from the waist down.

806
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: He is a very good runner. He is very.

807
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 2: Adept at making plays on the run. But he's also

808
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 2: a very adept when things break down, which they tend

809
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: to do. Because Jimbo runs an NFL offense in nineteen

810
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 2: eighty six, in extending drives himself, you got to allow

811
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 2: him to do that Saturday and not just an impromptu fashion.

812
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 2: Make them account for him, and they will, but make

813
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: them have to account for him. Show them that they're

814
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 2: going to have to all day. I kind of switching

815
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 2: gears here. Cannot figure out how effective Florida's passing game

816
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 2: is going to be.

817
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: It's going to be effective. It's going to be very effective.

818
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 2: So if we're taking on the scale of one to

819
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: ten and ten is the best passing performance that you'll

820
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 2: have all year, they're going to be above a seven.

821
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 2: They're going to have success throwing the ball. What degree

822
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 2: of success are they're going to have thrown the ball?

823
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 2: They were no match versus Alabama. Alabama carved them up.

824
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 2: The speed was very disproportionate in the advantage of the

825
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 2: Crimson Tide. It will be against Saturday. The matchups heavily

826
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 2: tilted towards Alabama. They will against Saturday. Also, Florida has

827
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 2: got a much better presence at tight end. All respect

828
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: to Miller, Forestall or Forestall, Miller shout out Vern Lunquist.

829
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 2: I think the edge goes discernibly to Kyle Pitts in

830
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 2: this matchup. So you got another element on third down

831
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 2: that you haven't had to worry about all year, at

832
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 2: least the likes of Kyle Pitts. All of those are

833
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 2: heavily tilted towards Florida. Here's what I think people are

834
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 2: not mentioning so much. Alabama's probably got one of the

835
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 2: best pass protection offensive lines in America. Run blocking, he's

836
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 2: left a little bit to be desired. Pass pro is spectacular.

837
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: Mac Jones had a lot of time to operate.

838
00:36:58,640 --> 00:36:59,240
Speaker 1: Last week.

839
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 2: We said, it feels like about the past decade in

840
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 2: a row, but especially the last couple of years. In

841
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: the preseason, what have we said about Florida. Florida fans,

842
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 2: what have you said? It's something like this. Tell me

843
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 2: if you've heard this before, We're gonna go as far

844
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 2: as this offensive line will take us.

845
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: And you're right so this game.

846
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 2: While you look at Alabama just bombing away on them

847
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 2: last week, there's another thing you need to know about

848
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 2: A and M. They got a pretty good defensive front too.

849
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 2: Guys like Bobby Brown. I thought that I was pronouncing

850
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: Lel's name right the whole time, and it'spparently Leal So

851
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 2: they recruited him straight from France. He's a monster. I'll

852
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: tell you that they can disrupt, they can get after you.

853
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 2: They played a great offensive line last week. Florida's offensive

854
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: line many things great, is not one of them.

855
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: They've been adequate.

856
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 2: They'd better be a little bit more than adequate Saturday,

857
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: cause in order to bomb away and do everything you

858
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 2: want to do in that passing game, obviously you need

859
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 2: a little bit of time. And even if they do

860
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: get pressure on Trask, oh, they'll still be success in

861
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:54,919
Speaker 2: the past game.

862
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: But then you sort of up the possibility that you

863
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: have some mistakes made too.

864
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 2: And if you want to, I know the formula for

865
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 2: a and M pulling this mild upset, yet tilt that

866
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 2: thing minus two torrent turnovers against you and in favor

867
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,439
Speaker 2: of them, and that would greatly help.

868
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: So, I mean, I.

869
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 2: Consider all the variety of weapons Kyle Trask has on

870
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 2: third downs and any down really, and it's hard to

871
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: stop them. We're gonna have a pick on this game

872
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 2: that extends well beyond just the side in a second.

873
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 2: So if you know that about your offense, if you're

874
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 2: Dan Mullen, how do you go about this? So I

875
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 2: think I don't know that you have to be hesitant.

876
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: I think you need to be aggressive. That is, that's

877
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 2: the DNA. That's what he's tried to instill in Florida's program, aggression,

878
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 2: and he is if he's asking it from you, then

879
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 2: he's going to replicate that and show that in how

880
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 2: they approach putting together a game plan and calling a

881
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 2: game plan. So with that in mind, I wonder if

882
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: they go for knockouts early. I wonder if they try

883
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 2: and throw haymakers and straight go routes early, because it

884
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 2: worked for Alabama last week, ma'am. And those in a

885
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 2: lot of cases were obvious passing downs and long third

886
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 2: and long and you still had receivers with two in

887
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: three steps of separation.

888
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: I don't say that sarcastically. You know how long a

889
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: step is.

890
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 2: A STEP's a pretty wide margin when you're running full speed.

891
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: They had steps worth of separation in some cases against

892
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 2: A and MSDBS. So if you're looking at it and

893
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 2: there's one right there, I believe that was a second

894
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 2: twenty something embarrassing. I mean, that guy's name is Jalen Waddle,

895
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 2: so well that's not Jalen Waller's just the next one.

896
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 2: So anyway, that means nothing to you if you're listening

897
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 2: on the podcast. If you're Dan Mullen, do you say

898
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 2: they did it, we can do it too. Do you

899
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 2: go for it early? Think they probably will, But what

900
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: if it doesn't work out. Let's just kind of speculate

901
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 2: wildly here. What if it does work out? Because I'll

902
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 2: tell you this, I think the typical blueprint for Florida

903
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 2: this year is to throw early, run late. I'm not

904
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 2: so sure that they may not at least contemplate the

905
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 2: inverse here. Mullin knows his defense better than me. He

906
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 2: knows what state they're in coming into this game. It

907
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 2: wouldn't surprise me if they call this thing with the

908
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 2: fact that they were on the field for eighty three

909
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: plays last week in mind, and not try and risk

910
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 2: a bunch of three and outs early, especially if they

911
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 2: trust their running game and they trust their underneath passing game,

912
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 2: and they especially if they know we got the shot.

913
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: Plays when we want them. So.

914
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: I talk about Florida's offense a lot, but listen, I

915
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 2: really really believe with as good as A and M's

916
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 2: offensive line has shown themselves to be able to be,

917
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 2: they're gonna be plays to be made by both teams

918
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 2: here and It's on Kellen Man, all of Kellen Man,

919
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 2: not just the throwing ability, It's on all of Kellen Mont.

920
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 2: They get Florida off the field early in the game

921
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 2: a couple of times, like I said, and they start

922
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 2: tilting that time of possession in those total plays.

923
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: AM's got a really good shot here.

924
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 2: It's is the best offensive defensive line Florida will have

925
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 2: faced all year. I don't think it's nearly as decided

926
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 2: a matchup advantage for Florida as I've seen some people

927
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: make it out to be. So let's look at our

928
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 2: game capsule, Colin. As we said, Florida is a seven

929
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 2: point favorite. I've made a case for A and M here,

930
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 2: but our mom likes Florida to stretch it past the touchdown.

931
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 2: Our model likes Florida minus eight and a half. But

932
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you, especially when I consider

933
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 2: the numbers that I've thrown out there, I think I'm

934
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 2: going three for three in our focus games here. I'm

935
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 2: gonna take the favorite to win all three. I'm gonna

936
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 2: take the dog to cover all three of them. So

937
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 2: in this game, I am taking Florida to win outright,

938
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna lay the seven point. I'm gonna take

939
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 2: the seven points rather if you're gonna give them to

940
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 2: me with Texas A and M. However, we have another

941
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 2: opinion on this game. I'm not gonna give to you

942
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 2: this moment. But later in the show, we got another

943
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 2: opinion on this game. That has to do with the total,

944
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 2: because as much as I think maybe that side's a

945
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 2: little bit unpredictable, we've got a really good feeling about

946
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 2: the total. So we're gonna take Florida win. We're gonna

947
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: take A and M to cover. Those are our game previews,

948
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 2: But we got a lot more to talk about here,

949
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 2: don't we.

950
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: It is, at least for the moment, weather pending.

951
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: It is Lane Kiff and Nick Saban week, it is

952
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 2: ole Miss Alabama week. And so over the course of

953
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 2: the off season, when we didn't know if we were

954
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 2: going to have a football season, but we were still

955
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 2: having shows, what did we do well? I asked you guys,

956
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 2: what do you want to talk about? And you guys said,

957
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 2: we love stories, man, we want to tell us some stories.

958
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: What's it like on the row, what's this stadium like,

959
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 2: what's that coach like? And so I started the All

960
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 2: Access series brilliantly named we Focus Group that one, and

961
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 2: I told some Lane Kiffin stories.

962
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: Those did really good numbers.

963
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 2: So I figured, if we get a chance and U

964
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 2: something tells me we will during the season, I'm going

965
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 2: to share more Lane Kiffin stories.

966
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 1: It's that time. We're gonna share more Lane Kiffin stories.

967
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 2: Here there's a new audience, so I think a lot

968
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 2: of you probably didn't even hear it the first go around,

969
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna kind of revisit briefly part of the

970
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 2: story that I've already told. I'm going to expand on it, though,

971
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 2: So if you went to I think it was a

972
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 2: ESPN dot com today. I think Mark Schlaybaugh he kind

973
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 2: of did a timeline of Lane Kiffin and Nick Saban

974
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: and it jogged some old memories in my mind. So

975
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 2: shlay Ball, for example, was talking about how Lane Kiffin

976
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 2: was notoriously non punctual miss buses all the time, and

977
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 2: that just goes up Nick Saban's backside sideways because he

978
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 2: preaches that stuff to his players. You can't be letting

979
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 2: a coordinator get away with it if you're not going

980
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 2: to let his freshman right guard get away with it.

981
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,720
Speaker 2: So as Mark Schlabaugh chronicled on ESPN dot com today.

982
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 2: Pretty well known Lane Kiffin got left after the National

983
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 2: title game back in twenty fifteen.

984
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: This was a game I was at. It was out

985
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: in Glendale, Arizona.

986
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 2: Bama beats Clemson, and afterwards a number of us sort

987
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 2: of around the Alabama locker room and Kiff is just

988
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 2: talking to people. Typically the assistants don't get to talk

989
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 2: to the media at Alabama, but in the postseason they

990
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 2: can't control that. So you have to let your players

991
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 2: and your assistants talk to the media. So man Kiffin

992
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 2: loved it. He would have stayed there all night, and

993
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 2: he did, and he got left. The team left him,

994
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 2: the buses went to the hotel. They left him.

995
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: He had to take an uber or something to get

996
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: a ride to the hotel.

997
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 2: I saw that. I didn't stand out all that much.

998
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 2: I was just laying Kiffin right. So I remember seeing that.

999
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 2: The next year they go to the SEC Championship game.

1000
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: They win that.

1001
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: I'm about to revisit that in a second. They go

1002
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 2: to the playoff. They're gonna play Washington. They had these

1003
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 2: media availability days media days before those games, and it

1004
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 2: was in Atlantis at the Peach Bowl, so we're up

1005
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 2: there again.

1006
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: Kevin got left again.

1007
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 2: The buses took the team back to the hotel again,

1008
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 2: and Kiffn got left behind yet again, and he kind

1009
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 2: of made a joke about it. I think you'll be

1010
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 2: surprised to find out Nick Saban didn't really find it

1011
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 2: all that funny.

1012
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: So earlier that year, and we're gonna lead.

1013
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 2: Up to the SEC Championship game because that's where things

1014
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 2: really got fun behind the scenes, But earlier that year

1015
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 2: and really just the past three years twenty fourteen, fifteen,

1016
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 2: and sixteen, there were famous shots on the sideline at

1017
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 2: Alabama games of Kiffin getting his head chewed off. I

1018
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 2: only halfway say that figuratively. I mean Nick Saban jumped

1019
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 2: down his throat. The great part for Saban was he

1020
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 2: was essentially running a halfway house for coaches, and so

1021
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 2: Kiffin couldn't talk back. It was yes or no sir,

1022
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 2: Yes or no sir, because the only path that Kiffen

1023
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 2: had to ever being a head coach again was through

1024
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 2: Nick Saban. Do you know what a bad character reference

1025
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 2: from Nick Saban will do for you? And so Lane

1026
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 2: Kiffin had to mine his p's and q so he

1027
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,240
Speaker 2: took him chewing after chewing, after chewing, well, one particular chewing.

1028
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: I was privy to the Texas A and m Alabama

1029
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 2: game in twenty sixteen. It was in Tuscaloosa. Obama won

1030
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 2: like thirty three sixteen or something like that. I am

1031
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 2: no more than fifteen feet away from them. They're so Alabama,

1032
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 2: I think's in the red zone. So they're right down

1033
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 2: at the very edge of the coach's box and I'm

1034
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 2: standing right next to them, and Kiffin's there calling plays,

1035
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 2: and I don't know. It was probably third and one,

1036
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:46,919
Speaker 2: so I think he went like five wide or something

1037
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 2: like that, as he tended to do down to the

1038
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 2: goal line.

1039
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: And so Nick Saban not fond of that.

1040
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 2: He was recruited powerful offensive lineman and running backs forever,

1041
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 2: and he doesn't do it. So they can go five

1042
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 2: wide on third and one, and so Kiffin does it,

1043
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 2: cause that's to lane Kiffin is and here comes Nick Saban,

1044
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 2: and I say, oh, I'm going to get to hear this. Yeah,

1045
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 2: I did bamazon offense. There is no crowd noise. I

1046
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 2: could hear everything. I've never experienced anything like that in

1047
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 2: my life. I've seen eminem music videos. I watched WWF

1048
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,439
Speaker 2: and the Attitude Era. Never a single Monday night did

1049
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 2: Stone Cold Steve Boston talked to Vince McMahon in half

1050
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 2: the manner that Nick Saban talked to Lane Kiffin. It

1051
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,839
Speaker 2: took the English language and it been it in such

1052
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 2: a way that I've never heard it bent before or since.

1053
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 2: I've never witnessed Gromman talked to another grown man like that.

1054
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 2: It was as if Lane Kiffin was a five year

1055
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 2: old child and he just stood there and took it

1056
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 2: and took it and took it and called the next play.

1057
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 2: I cannot overstate how incredulous I was. I did the

1058
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 2: you've seen the meme where the monkey just kind of

1059
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 2: looks out of the side of his eyes. I didn't

1060
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 2: want save and to even see me over there, so

1061
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 2: I just kind of I just kind of looked out

1062
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: of the corner of my eyes. And if you would

1063
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 2: have had footage of me, I would be a gift

1064
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 2: today because that was me. I was the sideway looking monkey.

1065
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 2: So with that in mind, as the season progresses, remember

1066
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 2: what happened Lane Kiffin and Alabama. They're putting up really

1067
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 2: good numbers. They're on their way to go into another

1068
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 2: national title. More on that in a second, as if

1069
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 2: you don't know how it turns out. So, Lane Kiffin's

1070
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 2: in demand. He's been three years, so he's paid his

1071
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 2: penance to society, the college football society at least. And

1072
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 2: Houston's got a job opening, or Jaron's going to have

1073
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 2: an offensive coordinator opening. There's several other jobs that look

1074
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 2: like they're coming open. So Jimmy Sexton is working the phones,

1075
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,919
Speaker 2: and he's Nick sabans Or, he's Saban's agent, he's Kiffin's agent,

1076
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 2: he's everyone's agent behind the scenes. And so Kiffin's in demand.

1077
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 2: Alabama's marching towards the SEC Championship game. Kiffin I can't

1078
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 2: remember if he announced it or not, but he said,

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Speaker 2: he let it be known. I'm not going to entertain

1080
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 2: any offers until after the SEC Championship game. So there

1081
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 2: we are in Atlanta. I'm on the field for this one.

1082
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 2: It's Florida versus Alabama. Alabama ends up winning pretty comfortably,

1083
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 2: as you tend to do against Jim mcawaine's Florida Gators.

1084
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 2: True to his word, Lane Kiffin apparently has not taken

1085
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 2: a phone call until after the SEC Championship game, but

1086
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 2: let me tell you how literal that was. So after

1087
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 2: the game, trophy presentation is still going on, players are

1088
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 2: still on the field. Lane Kiffin walks past me, and

1089
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 2: I say, it's probably my best interest to follow him.

1090
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 2: Let me just see what's gonna happen. I'll walk behind

1091
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 2: Kiffin down the tunnel. Jimmy Sexton is waiting there. His agent,

1092
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 2: Jimmy Sexon has a phone in his hand, with his

1093
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 2: hand over the speaker. I'm not making this up. I'm

1094
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 2: about to show you a picture of it for verification

1095
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 2: in a second, and he hands Kiffin the phone.

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Speaker 1: Kiffen has walked off the turf.

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00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 2: There the Georgia Dome, Rest in Peace, Georgia Dome, no

1098
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 2: more than fifteen seconds ago.

1099
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Speaker 1: He is on the phone.

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00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 2: Can't tell you who was on the phone, can't tell

1101
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 2: you who was on the other end, But that is

1102
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 2: that is the time between the SEC title game and

1103
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 2: him taking that call.

1104
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: Colin, do we have that picture?

1105
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 2: I rummaged through Twitter today and I went all the

1106
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: way back to twenty sixteen and I found it there.

1107
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: It is that's outside the locker room, that's on down

1108
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 2: the tunnel a little ways and the sense destroyed Georgia Dome.

1109
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think a lot of you I've

1110
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 2: ever seen Jimmy Sexton. He is very rarely seen. Well,

1111
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 2: that's him right there, and that's Lane Kevin on the

1112
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,320
Speaker 2: phone right outside the Alabama locker room. The rest of

1113
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 2: the team has not even come down the tunnel yet.

1114
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 2: So let me tell you how awkward this Scott. I

1115
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 2: told you. Sexton is Lane Kiffin's agent. He also represents

1116
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 2: Nick Saban. Saban comes down the tunnel a little ways

1117
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 2: later and walks by both of them.

1118
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: He has to walk by them to get in the

1119
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: locker room, walks by them as if he's never even

1120
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: seen them before, as awkward as I don't know what,

1121
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: walks back by them to go to the press room,

1122
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: comes back by them again after the press room, and

1123
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: never even stares at them, never says a word to him.

1124
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: And then everyone else is getting ready to pack up

1125
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: and leave, and.

1126
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 2: I did my usual look both ways, and then take

1127
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 2: one of the player's box lunches for myself because I'm

1128
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 2: addicted to food, And so I'm sitting there eating my

1129
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 2: Chick fil A, lukewarm Chick fil A, which is always

1130
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 2: the best kind of chick fil A and they're ready

1131
00:49:58,080 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 2: to head out of there. They got to head back

1132
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 2: to the air and fly back to Tuscaloosa. Keep in

1133
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 2: mind the stories. Kiffin's already missed two buses in the

1134
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 2: past year. Lane is about to miss the bus again.

1135
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 2: And I think it's it's not important who it was.

1136
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 2: One of the football operations guys. There is yelling at

1137
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin again. He's used to it by now, and

1138
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,479
Speaker 2: he's yelling at him. And Kiffin is still on the phone.

1139
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got two phones in his hand, and

1140
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 2: so he yells at him, do not take a shower

1141
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 2: or we're leaving you. So Kiffin says, okay, okaykay, let

1142
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 2: me just go get my stuff. Kiffin went in the

1143
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 2: locker room and took a shower. I can't even tell

1144
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 2: you whether the bus is left him that night or not,

1145
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 2: but I will say this, Remember how this unfolded.

1146
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: How crazy is this? If you were to have kind

1147
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: of taken a.

1148
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 2: Time out from college football and the last you remember,

1149
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffen was the head coach at usc Okay and

1150
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 2: then you just check out. What if you came back

1151
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 2: to find out not only was he fired on a

1152
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 2: tarmac and then he had to rehab his image under

1153
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 2: Nick Saban, of all people, one of the most risk

1154
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 2: averse head coaches in America, hired Lane Kiffen as his

1155
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator.

1156
00:50:58,440 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: It worked.

1157
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 2: They won back to back to back SEC titles, they

1158
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 2: won a national title, they were in two more college

1159
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 2: football playoffs, and then the week before the national championship game.

1160
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 2: To tell you how married Nick Saban is to process

1161
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 2: over results, he fired him. He fired his offensive coordinator

1162
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 2: with about ten days to go into the national championship game.

1163
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 2: How wild is that? Who else would do that? Everyone

1164
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 2: talks about the kind of stones you have to have

1165
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,399
Speaker 2: to make a quarterback change at halftime. That wasn't even

1166
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 2: the craziest thing Nick Saban had done in the past

1167
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 2: calendar year in national championship situations. Dude fired his own

1168
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 2: coordinator ten days before the national title. It may been

1169
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 2: closer than that. So the Lame Kiffin at Alabama story

1170
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 2: could be like a seven part docu series if they

1171
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 2: would ever grant Netflix access, if they could ever grant

1172
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: thirty for thirty full access. I cannot stress to you

1173
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 2: in strong enough terms of the numbers that would do

1174
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 2: in the viewership, that would do the last dance the

1175
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 2: Chicago Bulls story from ninety eight.

1176
00:51:58,760 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 1: That was great.

1177
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of dance we would be

1178
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 2: talking about with Lane Kiffin, and maybe a little bit

1179
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 2: different than the last one, although it probably would start

1180
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 2: with an L. It would be fascinating theater, I will

1181
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 2: just tell you that. So that was really fun to witness.

1182
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,399
Speaker 2: So you never know what you're going to see when

1183
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 2: you are just standing outside.

1184
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:17,240
Speaker 1: A locker room.

1185
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 2: Let's wrap it up with an added best bet this week.

1186
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 2: So the Ramnudle Express Sunday Night took off for this

1187
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 2: week with our first best bet, and that was Florida

1188
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 2: International minus four and a half.

1189
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,359
Speaker 1: We like them still, obviously we're not backing off them.

1190
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 2: We are adding a play tonight, and as I told

1191
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,720
Speaker 2: you earlier, it has to do with Florida and Texas.

1192
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: A and M doesn't have anything to do with the side.

1193
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 2: We're taking the over, and we are confidently taking the

1194
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 2: over at fifty seven. Do not believe rumors about hurricanes

1195
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 2: affecting this game. We expect nothing more than a nice

1196
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 2: northwesterly breeze which makes it cool and crisp, and don't

1197
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 2: care they're going to score a lot of points. Don't

1198
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 2: think precipitation is going to be an issue. They're not

1199
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 2: in the upper right quadron of this, so don't worry

1200
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 2: about that. But I will say I think scoring is

1201
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 2: going to be plentiful. We're talking about first to twenty

1202
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 2: four in Florida or at Tennessee versus Georgia.

1203
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: Probably more like a.

1204
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 2: First to thirty five, first to forty type deal in

1205
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 2: this game. And here's the irony. Think it'll be a

1206
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,919
Speaker 2: little bit plotting to start off with, and then they'll

1207
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 2: settle in and it'll be firework. So we like Florida

1208
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 2: and we like A and M to take it over.

1209
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 2: Fifty seven A reminder if you haven't already subscribed to

1210
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 2: the channel, because we're having really good numbers here and

1211
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:27,760
Speaker 2: we try and put on really good shows.

1212
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: We do three live shows a week.

1213
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 2: And also I'll tell you if you have not already

1214
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 2: listened to this morning's Late Kick Extra podcast wind Down,

1215
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 2: finish your day or start your tomorrow morning with that.

1216
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 2: We have some really good stuff there and it's all

1217
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 2: from you.

1218
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: It's all Q and A.

1219
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 2: So if you want to submit something for that, you

1220
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 2: can email me. Joshpait seven zero six at gmail dot com.

1221
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Speaker 2: You can follow me on Twitter. I would strongly encourage

1222
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 2: you to follow me on Twitter anyway half the time.

1223
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 2: That's where I hand out our best bets and go

1224
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:54,879
Speaker 2: back and forth with a lot of you guys during

1225
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 2: the week. But that's where you find a majority of

1226
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 2: our best bets at Late Kick Josh on Twitter. All

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Speaker 2: right on air A long time tonight just under an

1228
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,919
Speaker 2: hour so for director Colin, for Jordan on the podcast side,

1229
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Speaker 2: I'm Josh Pate. We'll wrap things up Thursday with a

1230
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,919
Speaker 2: final look at week six. Until then, have a great

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Speaker 2: rest of your week and God bless