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Speaker 1: All right, Welloe Man Late Kick is alive. It is

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, November seventh. The over Lord twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: just walked in the door, Colin, I'd say out fifteen

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Speaker 1: or twenty minutes ago, fresh from the airport. An unmitigated

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Speaker 1: disaster of a travel weekend which was sandwiched on each

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Speaker 2: Great trip to college station.

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Speaker 1: Tuesday's Late Kick Extra podcast will detail all this.

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Speaker 2: Let me give you a little tease. Let me just

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Speaker 2: give you a little sneak pee.

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Speaker 1: I had to drive a twelve person van across Texas

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't even the worst part of the trip.

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Speaker 2: So yes, we're gonna save that for Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: I know I have a very cheery disposition right now,

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Speaker 1: and I can fake the smile. I am my rate underneath.

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Speaker 1: But at least I didn't get upset this weekend. We

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Speaker 1: went one to oh In fact, rom Manudle went seven

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Speaker 1: and three this weekend, so we were jam packed. We

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Speaker 1: are high at top downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Little quiz for

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Speaker 1: you to start the show. Little quiz if a tree

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Speaker 1: beat Georgia. That's the college football quiz right now, because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of that stuff going on. And then

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Speaker 1: there's Georgia splattering folks left and right, and it seems

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Speaker 1: like every week now, Georgia starts a game and I

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Speaker 2: Buddies Georgia looking a little vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: And then I checked the score ten minutes later, and

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Speaker 1: Well that's the way an anaconda works. It's just it

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Speaker 1: suffocates you. And then all of a sudden you say,

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Speaker 1: I once had a life and now I don't. But

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Speaker 1: outside of Georgia, Wow, what a weekend. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about it. Obviously, Ohio State gets by Nebraska. Dare

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Speaker 1: I say, Alabama survives a beleaguered LSU team, which is

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Speaker 1: lot to talk talk about. There a lot to talk

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Speaker 1: about on several fronts. It's Sunday Night, that means it's

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Speaker 1: rapid reaction night, and we're going to touch on too

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Speaker 1: many games to count. We've got a jam packed show

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Speaker 1: and I've got several different angles. One of the benefits

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Speaker 2: Lot of time to just think about some things.

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Speaker 1: And this, fortunately for me, is an avenue with which

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Speaker 1: We're going to leave it all on the show tonight.

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Speaker 1: Early best bets coming up. We had a great week

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Speaker 1: on the ram Noudle Express. I've got four of them

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Speaker 1: for you tonight. And there is a strong and I

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Speaker 2: We've been picking it up throughout the day.

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Speaker 1: So without question, a jam packed show and without question,

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Speaker 1: with you, guys, I don't know how so many of

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Speaker 1: Because we essentially spoiled the ending for you if you

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Speaker 2: And well, the season was over.

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Speaker 1: Dan Mullen even went as far as to say, this team,

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Speaker 1: You still got a month of the season as of

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Speaker 1: I'll be happy to listen to it, but you've got

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Speaker 1: You might as well have Miss Bouchet in your ear

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Speaker 1: telling you do not trust week one results. Do you

437
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,760
Speaker 1: remember in the summer when you and I would talk

438
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,159
Speaker 1: just freely and casually as friends do in the summer

439
00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,879
Speaker 1: about Alabama, and I'd do some of the Q and

440
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,399
Speaker 1: a's and some Bama fans, you guys would ask what

441
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,639
Speaker 1: should the expectation be this year? I mean even you

442
00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,879
Speaker 1: guys in and around the Bama program. You knew you

443
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,080
Speaker 1: were losing a whole lot of talent, but you got

444
00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,480
Speaker 1: talent on campus still, and all those recruiting classes. You

445
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,720
Speaker 1: don't just write them off. But the question was, how

446
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,560
Speaker 1: good can Bama really be this year when you lose

447
00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,200
Speaker 1: so much first round talent off one side of the ball.

448
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:34,480
Speaker 1: Let's remember those names, DeVante Smith, Jaylen Waddle, Mac Jones,

449
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,159
Speaker 1: Najee Harris, so many guys that are just very very

450
00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,359
Speaker 1: hard to replace, and you lost them all at once.

451
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,880
Speaker 1: And so what we talked about as we were leading

452
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Speaker 1: up to that Miami game. That's who Alabama opened with

453
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Speaker 1: in Week one, is we were talking about how it's

454
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Speaker 1: going to be a struggle early on. Eventually they'll find

455
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: a rhythm and they'll be whatever maximum version of themselves

456
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 1: they can be. But it wasn't going to be any

457
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Speaker 1: kind of seamless transition. And what I can saying was

458
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,920
Speaker 1: people need to get comfortable with the idea of Alabama

459
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,919
Speaker 1: struggling offensively, maybe still winning games, but just having to

460
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:09,880
Speaker 1: do it a little bit different way than you're used

461
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,200
Speaker 1: to seeing. Then the Miami game happened and they won

462
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 1: forty four to thirteen, and I let it happen to me.

463
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,400
Speaker 1: I let it fool me a little bit, and all

464
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it made me seemingly look dumb because

465
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 1: I'd been sitting there telling you, hey, Miami, they've They've

466
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Speaker 1: been given a lot of points in this game, and

467
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Speaker 1: Alabama's going to have a lot more trouble than I

468
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Speaker 1: think the perception would lead you to believe of replacing

469
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Speaker 1: all this offensive talent.

470
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Speaker 2: And then they blow Miami out. It was a live

471
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Speaker 2: Week one lie to you.

472
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Speaker 1: Since then, what have we seen, Well, we've fast forwarded

473
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Speaker 1: a couple of months, and they've lost out right to

474
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M. And they squeaked past Florida, and

475
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 1: they squeaked past LSU six yards total rushing yesterday, even

476
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 1: when I factor out the sack yardage, they barely rushed

477
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Speaker 1: for thirty yards.

478
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Speaker 2: Bama folks used to brag.

479
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Speaker 1: Deservedly so about holding Leonard Fournette under thirty five total

480
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:01,879
Speaker 1: yards rushing.

481
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Speaker 2: LSU won up to you.

482
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Speaker 1: Last night in your own building. They did to you

483
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Speaker 1: what you did to Fournette once upon a time. The

484
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: only difference is this is not exactly a stone wall

485
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 1: of an LSU defensive fortress that we're talking about this year.

486
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Speaker 1: But how did this happen and what does it mean?

487
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Speaker 1: Because it's very strange. Two hires that should have been

488
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Speaker 1: Grand slams for Alabama are drawing a lot of heat

489
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Speaker 1: today and I'm not so sure. I don't agree with it,

490
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: although I'm not one, as you well know by this point,

491
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Speaker 1: to sit here and question individual play calling or individual

492
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Speaker 1: technique that's being taught, number one, cause we don't really know.

493
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Speaker 1: And secondly, I'm not the guy who's equipped to do that.

494
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Speaker 1: I'm going to leave it to the experts on Twitter.

495
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Speaker 1: But Doug Marone goes from being an NFL head coach

496
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Speaker 1: to being tasked with coaching Alabama's offensive line, and it

497
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Speaker 1: seems like that is a legitimate move.

498
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Speaker 2: It seems like that's a ball or move by Nick.

499
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Speaker 1: He's just racking up former NFL head coaches to be

500
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 1: positioned coaches. Well, their offensive line has looked poor outside

501
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 1: of isolated spots, their offensive line has looked poor. And

502
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: if you do listen to people who have coached the

503
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: position for a living, they will talk in a lot

504
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 1: more intricate detail about it not just being a talent issue.

505
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 2: It's scheme specific.

506
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Speaker 1: Again, I'm not waiting into those waters because that's not

507
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 1: a language I speak, But people who do speak the

508
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 1: language hoopstar respect do look at Doug Moron and they say, man,

509
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: I expected more. And then you work your way up

510
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: the ladder a couple of rungs. And we're talking about

511
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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien. Bill O'Brien goes from NFL head coach to

512
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: being a college offensive coordinator. And again, these are guys

513
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Speaker 1: who are highly thought of, and it's just again, if

514
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Speaker 1: you talk to some people who coached the game themselves,

515
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: I did a couple of times, because trust me, I

516
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: had time sitting in a lonely airport terminal. Today they

517
00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: just look at it and they say, look, I'm not

518
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Speaker 1: throwing the guy on.

519
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 2: The trash heap. Wholesale is just what they're doing.

520
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 1: Fundamentally, schematically, it didn't make a whole lot of sense

521
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: given the pre snap looks, for instance, and how much

522
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 1: cushion at times on the outside you have by the

523
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: way of LSU defensively playing you, you know, there are

524
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 1: just some things that would be automatic go tos, staples,

525
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: quick undernease stuff, slants and whatnot that you just didn't

526
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Speaker 1: see a whole lot yesterday that would have greatly alleviated

527
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Speaker 1: some of the pressure. You look at the sacks and

528
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Speaker 1: the pressures that LSU got on Bryce Young. It wasn't

529
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Speaker 1: always it was at times, it wasn't always defensive linemen.

530
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Speaker 2: It was corners and it was linebackers.

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Speaker 1: That's just blitz is getting home and inability to pick

532
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,719
Speaker 1: it up and LSU having no qualms about doing it

533
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: because you have no answer for it. Who So yeah,

534
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Speaker 1: I mean you expect that kind of stuff early in

535
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Speaker 1: the game. Then you expect Alabama to settle in it.

536
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: It was just it was a game where they never

537
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Speaker 1: really settled into it. So we said all last week

538
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: that we were looking forward to this LSU game. Why

539
00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: not because we thought it was gonna come down to

540
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 1: the water even though it did. But I had circled

541
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: this Alabama game coming out of the bye because I

542
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: said to you last week, for better or for worse,

543
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Speaker 1: I think we'll have a good indication of what Alabama's

544
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Speaker 1: going to be through the stretch run. Well, I have

545
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: no clue if last night is what Alabama's going to

546
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Speaker 1: be through the stretch run. But if it is, they're

547
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Speaker 1: not going to Atlanta. If it is, you may see

548
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Speaker 1: other representation from the West.

549
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 2: It may be Texas. A and M.

550
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Speaker 1: Do you guys realize, by the way, how close A

551
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: and M was to grabbing control of the SEC West

552
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: last night? Because you did not fathom that it was

553
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 1: possible for LSU to beat Alabama. You had not allowed

554
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: your mind to go there. And a lot of folks

555
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: started having to google SEC tie breakers and whatnot last

556
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: night and realized, wait a second, A and M.

557
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 2: They just beat Auburn.

558
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 1: So they got two conference losses, but they got the

559
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Speaker 1: head to head over Alabama. If BAMA loses here, that's

560
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: their second conference loss and head to heads the type,

561
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, And we were that close and they're

562
00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: still not out of the woods. Alabama could easily go

563
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: in lose to Auburn, and A and M runs the table.

564
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: Guess what you got. You got Aggie's Bulldogs in.

565
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,439
Speaker 1: The SEC championship game if Texas A and M is

566
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Speaker 1: able to take care of business.

567
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 2: So that's a big if.

568
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Speaker 1: I mean A and M's playing Ole missed this week

569
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: another single digit point spread, but it was good to

570
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: really see I think things finally come into focus. Now

571
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: it's not good if you're a Bama fan necessarily, but

572
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Speaker 1: it makes a lot more sense because now we have

573
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Speaker 1: proper context, and we got a really proper back and

574
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Speaker 1: drop because we have a plenty big enough sample size

575
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Speaker 1: with Bama that we know who they are. They're a

576
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Speaker 1: really good team. They're not a great team. They're certainly

577
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: not an elite team. This is a really good team,

578
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: which by Bama standards means it's one of the lower

579
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: caliber teams that Nick Saban has had in a while.

580
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: But that's all relative because we know even the lower

581
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: caliber teams that Alabama under Sabin has had are still

582
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: capable if things go right, of winning a championship.

583
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Speaker 2: Here's the difference.

584
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Speaker 1: The difference is this team because they're just quote unquote

585
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: really good, they are susceptible to real world problems. You're

586
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: used to watching Bama and knowing that you could count

587
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: on them doing what Georgia did yesterday, where even if

588
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: they struggle for a quarter, eventually they're gonna beat you

589
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: by four or five touchdowns. You know, even the close games,

590
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: even the games they struggle in. There's just this minimum

591
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: baseline of talent you have to have and if you

592
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 1: don't have it, they will drown you eventually.

593
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 2: Bama doesn't have that this year, at least.

594
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 1: They don't have that talent performing at that high level.

595
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: And as a result, they're just like the other really

596
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: good teams out there.

597
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 2: Now.

598
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: They may be a step above a Michigan State, for example,

599
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: but you watch Michigan State beat Michigan, then they lose

600
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,959
Speaker 1: by double digits to Purdue.

601
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 2: How does that happen? Well, when you are not elite

602
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 2: or you're not great, then you fall into that variance

603
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 2: tub and you never know what you're gonna draw out

604
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 2: and that's the reality of Alabama football right now.

605
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 1: They're in that group of teams that is simply really good.

606
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 1: Really good means you're gonna be favored. Really good, what

607
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: means you should win those games up until the SEC

608
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:03,719
Speaker 1: Championship game.

609
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 2: Bama will be favored in every one of them.

610
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: But it also makes inexplicable, seemingly inexplicable results like last night.

611
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: It brings them into play, whereas in any other year

612
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: you never would have that in play. Last year's BAMA team,

613
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: even if they don't show up, they end up pulling

614
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: away in that kind of game. They got away with

615
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: legal felonies against LSU last year. Yes, there's a lot

616
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: of filtration going on with what I wanted to say

617
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: based on what I actually said. This year's team's just different.

618
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: So the talent and the experience are the separators. That's

619
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Speaker 1: what's pushing Bama this year.

620
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 2: Florida.

621
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Speaker 1: Even the talent and more experience on some levels of

622
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: that roster, it pushed Bama a and m definite talent,

623
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Speaker 1: definite experience.

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00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 2: You saw LSU last night.

625
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,239
Speaker 1: There's that minimum baseline of talent and there were some

626
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: experienced guys along that defensive line that gave Alabama problems.

627
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 2: Here's the bigger issue.

628
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: Georgia fits both of those amateurs as good, if not

629
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: better than any team I just listed. They got a

630
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 1: ton of talent, and they got a ton of grown

631
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: men physically and on their birth certificate, they got a

632
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: ton of grown men. So that's where Bama is right now.

633
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, you know, we're going to talk

634
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: about these other teams in just a second. Ohio State, Bama, Oklahoma.

635
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: I don't believe any of them have played to their

636
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 1: potential yet, and I don't think we're gonna make it

637
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: to December with none of them catching some kind of stride.

638
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: I don't know who it's going to be. I don't

639
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna be a one for three, two

640
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: for three, or three for three. I think it's coming

641
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: from someone. You just run out of time. The calendar

642
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: says November now, so you start running out of time.

643
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Buckeyes, let's talk about them. This was

644
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: a very very interesting situation for me personally. So Ohio

645
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: State beat Nebraska yesterday twenty six to seventeen. Very interesting

646
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: personal experience for me. I say that because I was

647
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: at the Auburn Texas A and M game. This game's

648
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: going on sort of simultaneous, I guess, and I thought

649
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: I was seeing Ohio State pull away and open up

650
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: an absolute.

651
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: Can on Nebraska.

652
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: That's what I thought I was seeing early because the

653
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: last thing my eyes saw before I took myself down

654
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Speaker 1: to the field for the game I was at was

655
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: I saw Smith and Jigba taking a ball about seventy

656
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Speaker 1: five somebody yards to the house and Ohio State going

657
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: up seventeen to three. And I think to myself, as

658
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: many of you probably did up here it goes. I

659
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: guess Ryan Day has this team's attention. They started off

660
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: a little slow, but here we go. Now they've turned

661
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Speaker 1: it on. So you can imagine my surprise when I

662
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: head up to the press box for halftime and I

663
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: look and it's a dogfight, and it is tense, and

664
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Speaker 1: there's some white knuckling going on in Columbus Ohio.

665
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 2: Look.

666
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Speaker 1: I think Ryan Day was dead on the money with

667
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Speaker 1: how he categorized this game.

668
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Speaker 2: This week.

669
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Speaker 1: We have talked about Nebraska ad nauseum, and we have

670
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: had them ranked even when they were three and five

671
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: and three and six, And I gave you the simple

672
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: explainer and it was the very simple explanation of, well,

673
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: there aren't twenty five teams that would be favored over them.

674
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 2: I mean, that's how simple and cutting dry it's been

675
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 2: for us.

676
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: There aren't twenty five better teams than Nebraska out there

677
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: on a given Saturday. There are twenty five better records.

678
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: But again, this is college football. What are one of

679
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: the three big lies out there? You are what your

680
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: record says you are?

681
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 2: Well, no you're not.

682
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: No, you're cause in this case going into yesterday and

683
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: now let's count yesterday's nine point loss against Ohio State.

684
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: Listen to this craziness.

685
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't give you any more credit for this,

686
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: but Scott Frost, they got an eight point loss to Illinois,

687
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: seven point loss to Oklahoma, three point loss to Michigan State,

688
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: three point loss to Michigan, seven point loss to Minnesota,

689
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: five point loss to Purdue, nine point loss to Ohio State.

690
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: That's crazy you add all that up. I mean, there

691
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: are teams getting beat by worse and that on one day.

692
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: That's the combined margin of loss. Now Nebraska three and seven.

693
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: I already looked at the japeople they rose.

694
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 2: So a little spoiler.

695
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: For you, Nebraska's going to be rated for US again

696
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: this week, higher than number twenty five. How is that possible, Well,

697
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Speaker 1: I think you saw pretty good indicator yesterday. How it's

698
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: possible because they're that kind of team. They're a good team.

699
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: They just happened to be on the wrong side of zero,

700
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: which is all that matters when it comes to record keeping.

701
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Speaker 2: In a lot of these games. Look, I saw some

702
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Speaker 2: criticism of c J.

703
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: Stroud, quarterback for Ohio State, and I'm not necessarily there

704
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Speaker 1: with you, guys. My biggest criticism as I've watched him

705
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: of CJ. Stroud has been his either inability or maybe

706
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: the better word is unwillingness to run the ball and

707
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: to get some tough yards when the play breaks down.

708
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about going full Zach Calzada mode and

709
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 2: lowering your shoulder with reckless abandon across the middle man.

710
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Speaker 1: There is some chunks afield that CJ. Stroud just has

711
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: given to him that he doesn't take. And I don't

712
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: know if that's a coaching point. That's why I don't

713
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: really go too far down the road of questioning it.

714
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: But look, he was thirty six or fifty four, four

715
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: h five through the air yesterday had two touchdowns, the

716
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: two picks, and then another one that very well could

717
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: have been a pick. Those were the criticisms that I

718
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: heard a lot. But look, also hear a lot of

719
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: people accurately criticizing Ohio State's offensive line right now with

720
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: good reason. I don't think the unit as a whole

721
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: has performed up to the level of capability that those

722
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: individuals should be performing at.

723
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Speaker 2: But you got to choose one or the other. I mean,

724
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Speaker 2: just one of our general rules around here is if

725
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: you got a first year quarterback, Bama's in the same

726
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 2: boat right now, worse than Ohio State.

727
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: You've got a first year quarterback who's putting up even

728
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: decent numbers, much less than numbers Young and Stroud are

729
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: putting up. And the a criticism of your offense is

730
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: the O line. You don't get to criticize the quarterback

731
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Speaker 1: as well. I mean, they're doing all they can and

732
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: even more probably than should be expected given that you've

733
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: got a question mark of an offensive line. Look, I also,

734
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: and I heard this criticism to a lot ransom safety

735
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: there for Ohio State got targeted a couple of times yesterday,

736
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: and I know you Buckeye fans saw that. I know

737
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: a lot of folks watch and saw that, and I

738
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: can tell you obviously future opponents will see that. So

739
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: there's some liability still on that back end. You don't

740
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: clean up every potential flaw you have just by moving

741
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: some coaches around, because it's the players ultimately still on

742
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: the field. So what's Ohio State gonna do the rest

743
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: of the way? Cause I thought this was a good

744
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 1: win for him. I know they're gonna get criticized because

745
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: they didn't cover and it's a some five hundred team whatever,

746
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: you know, we think a little bit deeper than that,

747
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: And so we telegraphed this thing all week. We took

748
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: Ohio State to win. We took Nebraska plus the points.

749
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: Ryan Day was right and what he said about that

750
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: game all week, Nebraska was a quality opponent.

751
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: Ohio State will not.

752
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: Get enough credit for going on the road and getting

753
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: the win because they're judged at a different level and

754
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: there are valid criticisms of the.

755
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: Team, but they won. And so now this week.

756
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Speaker 1: They're playing Perdue and we just talked about the potential

757
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: vulnerability points at safety. Well, it's interesting that Purdue comes

758
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: to town and your favor by twenty against them because

759
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: Perdue lit in Michigan State.

760
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 2: Up through the air this week.

761
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: Michigan State's vulnerable on the back end of the defense,

762
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: and so a lot of people look at that, and

763
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: then they look at Ohios and Hawaii State either I

764
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: guess stumbling a little bit. You know, maybe you caught them,

765
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: you clipped them on the jaw, and they're just staggered.

766
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: They're certainly not down.

767
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 2: There's not a three, four or five count.

768
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 1: But a lot of people, including myself, are just interested

769
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: to see how they respond. It's about response this time

770
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: of year. You know it's capable of, you know, you

771
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: haven't put it on the field yet, at least consistently.

772
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: How do you respond? Nick Saban's asking the same thing

773
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: about his team. Lencoln Riley's been asking the same thing.

774
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: That's what Ryan Day's asking this week. But as I

775
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: just said, with the Alabama game, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Bama,

776
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: I keep going to those three teams because I don't

777
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: think any of them have sustained the level of play

778
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: that I think they're capable of.

779
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 2: And I don't know which one of them or which

780
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: ones of them are gonna do it. I just I

781
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 2: think it's coming. It may be Ohio State, who does it.

782
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 2: I think it's coming.

783
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to tell you is, I don't think

784
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: when we get to the playoff, the conversation point will

785
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 1: still be it's Georgia, and then there's a huge gap

786
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: and then there's these other teams. That has nothing to

787
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: do with Georgia. George is playing phenomenal football right now.

788
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: It has to do with me thinking one or multiples

789
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: of these other teams are going to hit a different gear,

790
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: maybe down this November stretch. So that's independent of Georgia.

791
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: That's me saying George has done everything, and then something

792
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: they should do. I wonder if one or more of

793
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: these teams are going to Let's move on. Let's now

794
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: go to where I was yesterday. And by the way,

795
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: thank you for being tuned in. I know I had

796
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: the computer over here and I cannot look at the

797
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: live chat as much as I want to, but here

798
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: h e y hey, Okay, there we go. So I

799
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: just waved that you and said hey in the live chat,

800
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: thank you so much for tuning in live. You will

801
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: be rewarded momentarily because we've got four best bets coming

802
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: up Texas A and M twenty Auburn three. Not a

803
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: single offensive touchdown was scored in this thing. Texas A

804
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: and M defensively shined, Auburn defensively shine. But I was

805
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: walking around last night and I look on the ground

806
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: and I found this, And this is a receipt, and

807
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: all it says at the bottom is state of Alabama.

808
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,399
Speaker 1: And so if anyone in college station owns the entire

809
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: state of Alabama, this is your receipt. This obviously is well,

810
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: that was a lame attempt at humor. This obviously is

811
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 1: a win over Auburn coming off the heels a month

812
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: ago of a win over Alabama, and A and M

813
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: now owns the state of Alabama this year. It's not

814
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: a sentence you thought you were going to be saying

815
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: when Zack Calzada was struggling to move the ball down

816
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: the field against Colorado.

817
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,439
Speaker 2: But he's come a long way, Zack Calzada. I don't

818
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 2: know that.

819
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: They give out individual game MVPs, nor would he have

820
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: gotten it yesterday if it was a piece of hardware. Oh,

821
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: he's got so much respect in that locker room. He's

822
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: got so much respect from that fan base. I'm going

823
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: to talk about it in a second. But man, so

824
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: there's a good Casey Musgrave song out right now called Justified.

825
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: Since she lives in our neighborhood, let's give her a

826
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: shout out. Sure, she's watching the show. But there's a

827
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: lyric in the song that says, healing doesn't happen in

828
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: a straight line. Well, that's very apropos because just as

829
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 1: Casey Musgraves tells you healing doesn't happen in a straight line,

830
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, in my own less musical way, building

831
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: a program and progress as you do it, that doesn't

832
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: always happen in a straight line either. And that's one

833
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: of the biggest misconceptions that I think college football fans have.

834
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: You look at a coach takeover year one, year two,

835
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: year three, and you think, if you charted out, they're

836
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: supposed to be this data point, this day to point,

837
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: this day to point, and you're supposed to be able

838
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: to draw a line and it looks nice and neat.

839
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: And that's not the way sports works. That's not the

840
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: way competition works. When the other guys recruiting is you

841
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: know what off, and their players are playing there you

842
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: know what off. Sometimes you lose sometimes you win, you

843
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: just lose more than you win initially, Then it's about

844
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: a wash. Then you start winning more than you lose.

845
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: But if you try and marry yourself to week to

846
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 1: week results, you'll drive yourself crazy. I mean, think about

847
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: Texas A and M, and think about when Jimbo Fisher

848
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: took over. You know, they play Clemson closed that first

849
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: year and an M was rocking, But then what did

850
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: they do when they lost to Mississippi State. So it's

851
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: an up and then it's a down. And of course

852
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: they got blown out by Bama a couple times, but

853
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: they beat Florida at home, and it's a down. Then

854
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: it's an up, and then they win the Orange Bowl

855
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: last year, and then this year they dropped back to

856
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: back games Arkansas Mississippi State. So it's up and then

857
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: it's a down, and it's another down, and then they

858
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: upset Bama out of nowhere at home, and your sky high,

859
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: and now.

860
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 2: You've got a winning street going. Well, what would that

861
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 2: look like if you plotted it out? It looked like spaghetti.

862
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 2: It's all over the place. Progress is happening there, It's

863
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 2: just not always happening in a pretty little, perfect straight line.

864
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 2: Like you wanted to.

865
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: So yesterday, Texas A and M holds Auburn to a

866
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 1: season low total offensive output.

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00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 2: This is what you should do when you're.

868
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: Coming out of the by and you're relatively speaking, not

869
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: as healthy as you're going to be. All year, Auburn

870
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: had two hundred and twenty six total yards offense. Yesterday

871
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: they had seventy three yards on the ground. That's two

872
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: point five per clip, pretty close to a padlock stat

873
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: To be honest, if you told me Friday, I would

874
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 1: have needed to know the turnover situation. But Bo Nicks

875
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 1: did not complete a pass over fifteen yards all day.

876
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: And what does that mean.

877
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: Well, if you do that to a classic quarterback, that

878
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: means that you did not allow him to stand in

879
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: the pocket and pick you apart and hit a couple

880
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: of deep shots. But with Bo Nicks, when I tell

881
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: you he didn't complete a ball over fifteen yards all day,

882
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 1: that means you did not allow him to get out

883
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: of the pocket. And you did not allow those Auburn

884
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: wide receivers to do what they're best at, which is

885
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: improving on broken plays. Because that's how Auburn would have

886
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: beaten Texas A and M. You would have had a

887
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: lot of stagnation even if Auburn won offensively, but there

888
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: would have been these blips on an otherwise dull radar

889
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 1: screen where bon Nicks made something happen out of nothing.

890
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: Anim avoided those plays yesterday, and because of that, they

891
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: choked away any shot Auburn had at winning this game.

892
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 2: They kept bon Nicks contained.

893
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,959
Speaker 1: There were no offensive touchdowns for Auburn, for that matter,

894
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: there were none for Texas A and M. I think

895
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: lost in this game was a really good effort on

896
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: the part of Auburn defensively. But you talk about the winners.

897
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: I mean that's the way it goes. Zach Calzada quarterback

898
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: for Textas A and M. Let me tell you something.

899
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: He did not start the year as their starter.

900
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 2: Haines King did. But man, it's tough to.

901
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: Find a quarterback out there with more universal respect inside

902
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: a program. Now. I know, if you're watching at home

903
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: and you're not a fan of the team, sometimes this

904
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: doesn't come through. It depends on how much the broadcast

905
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: team wants to focus on it. And I have not

906
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: watched the replay, so I don't know how much they

907
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: focused on it yesterday. But Kalzada tucks the ball and

908
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: goes over the middle and gets lit up by smoke Monday,

909
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: And initially it looked like he was concussed, and that's

910
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: what the word around the sideline was.

911
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 2: But he wasn't concussed.

912
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: He dislocated his shoulder, so they had to pop that

913
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: thing back in place on the field. He goes in

914
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: the medical tent. I thought he was done. That A

915
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: and M sideline thought he was done. And he comes

916
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: back out and ends up winning the game. Am ends

917
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 1: up winning the game. There's been so much progress there.

918
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a testament to Jimbo Fisher. This

919
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: is the kind of stuff that's not lighting up the

920
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: scoreboard in the stat sheet. But you got to be

921
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: so proud of that if you're Jimbo Fisher in that

922
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,280
Speaker 1: offensive staff, because you're seeing it again. It's plot points

923
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: all over the place. But if you draw that line

924
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: and you cluster it all, it's trending upwards. It's trending

925
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: in the right direction. Zack Calzada man, when that crowd

926
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: thought he was done again, I don't know what they

927
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: showed on TV, but that crowd when they thought he

928
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: was done to the last it was like a WWF

929
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw Circle late nineties chant of Zach Calzada's name,

930
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: just echoing one hundred and nine thousand and change. Their

931
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,919
Speaker 1: second biggest crowd in Kyle Field history. They love him,

932
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: they love him, and they're fair in their assessment. Look,

933
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: they just like Zack Calzada. Does They know the deal.

934
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: When you're playing football at this level, you're always going

935
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: to have competition, and so if you wanted to get

936
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: a head start and a sneak peek on twenty twenty two, look,

937
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: if he's the starter there next year, it'll be because

938
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: he's beat other talented guys out and that will come

939
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: when it comes. But right now, Zack Calzada is the

940
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: guy leading this team. Even if he doesn't have the

941
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: big stat line, he is a leader on that team.

942
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: So striking to me when I listened to pev in

943
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: those guys post game, a lot of defensive players, and

944
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: how they talked about Calzada. Let you know what the

945
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: dynamic in a locker room is like. And I'll tell

946
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: you another little interesting tidbit from talking to some folks

947
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: close to A and M after the game that you

948
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: just don't think about. I would have never thought about this.

949
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: You watch Kalsada run across the middle, and you watch

950
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: the way that he carries himself and the way he

951
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: delivers the ball sometimes and it gets the job done,

952
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: but sometimes it looks a little funny. And I never

953
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 1: would have thought about this most of the time. I

954
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 1: would venture to say ninety five plus percent of the time.

955
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: When you're watching a guy that's good enough to play

956
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: quarterback at the major college level, he physically developed early.

957
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: He's bigger, he's faster, he's stronger, or a combination of

958
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: those traits. But normally the genetics are just such that

959
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: those guys developed. They were looking like that or a

960
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: version of that by eighth or ninth grade, and then

961
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: they just they added some icing on top of that

962
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: cake eleventh and twelfth grade. That's why we're able to

963
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: rate quarterbacks so early in their high school tenure. Well,

964
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: Kalzada did not have it play out for him like that.

965
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: Kalzada developed a little bit later. Now here's what's interesting,

966
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: and I want you to think about this and how

967
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: this would impact you. You want to play the quarterback position,

968
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: you really got to start getting some specialized coaching and

969
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: training when you get in high school. Now, most of

970
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: the time guys are physically to the point where you

971
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: know what height and weight they're going to be playing at. Therefore,

972
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: you know how to tailor the way you build them

973
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: and the way you train them and coach them to

974
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: their skill set. Kalzada developed and was trained as an

975
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: undersized quarterback, and so he's got a lot of tendencies

976
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 1: that undersized quarterbacks would have. But now he's big. I

977
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: mean I stand next to him and look up a

978
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: little bit. He's big, and yet he still plays sometimes

979
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: with that five nine to five to ten mentality. I

980
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: mean you watch him over the middle of yesterday and

981
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,919
Speaker 1: you watch him bend over. Look, if he was five

982
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: ten or five nine and he'd been over, probably would

983
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: have gotten low enough.

984
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 2: Well, he's not.

985
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: He's big, and so he didn't get low in and

986
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,479
Speaker 1: he dislocated his shoulder. That's a very interesting thing because

987
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever had it presented to me

988
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: quite that way about other players.

989
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 2: But he's battled all year.

990
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: I mean, there have been some injuries that obviously you've

991
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: seen happen, maybe some stuff you hadn't seen happen, And

992
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: that's always the case. Listen, if you could see what's

993
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: underneath a quarterbacks jersey or a defensive lineman's jersey, when

994
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: you can see how many miles of tape are gone

995
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 1: through in that training room, and a brace here and

996
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: a different kind of apparatus or device there. Look, those guys,

997
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: no one is even close to one hundred percent. Unfortunately,

998
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 1: everyone gets graded on the same scale. They just assume

999
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: if you're on the field, you're a hundred percent and

1000
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 1: we're going.

1001
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 2: To grade you.

1002
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: Well, that's not always the case. And so a lot

1003
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: of times when you see a team and a program

1004
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 1: so effusive in their respect and their praise and adoration

1005
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: for guy, it's cause maybe sometimes they know what he's

1006
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: going through a little bit more than the crowd at

1007
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: home does a little bit more than the crowd in

1008
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: the stands does.

1009
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 2: Hats off to Zach Kelsida.

1010
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: That guy was a warrior yesterday and man, fireworks got

1011
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: started before this game got started. Walter Nolan, our number

1012
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: two composite player overall, I believe number one defensive lineman

1013
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: in the country committed to Texas A and M right

1014
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: before the game. You know, if I didn't know any better, Colin,

1015
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: I would say that was orchestrating. Far be it for

1016
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher to ever do something like that. They got

1017
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: Chris Marshall yesterday. He's a high four star guy too.

1018
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: They got a shot at the number one class. We've

1019
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: never said that before Jimbo Fisher in Texas A and M.

1020
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: They got a shot at the number one class.

1021
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 2: So when you're starting to map out the plot points

1022
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 2: and you're starting to try and chart the progression of

1023
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 2: Texas A and M football, you're really going to have

1024
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 2: to start taking recruiting as serious as you ever have,

1025
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 2: because they're still in it for a number of big

1026
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 2: time targets.

1027
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: They are selling College Station. I don't know how you

1028
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: couldn't have been in love with that environment if you

1029
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: were there yesterday. I don't know how they got that

1030
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: weather to be that nice either, but it did not

1031
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: hurt that it was about sixty eight and sunny through

1032
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 1: the duration of that game.

1033
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 2: So Texas A and M wins.

1034
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: I've got a lot more to say about that game

1035
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: and our experience in College Station on the Tuesday morning

1036
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: Late Kick Extra podcast. Had such a good time there,

1037
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: such great people. I mean, we get treated We've never

1038
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: been treated poorly. When we go on the road, some

1039
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: places go above and beyond. If you're watching on YouTube,

1040
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: look at this place. If I were to take you

1041
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: to one place on the college football map, that would

1042
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 1: just perfectly encapsulate what makes this sport so different. It'd

1043
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: be Kyle Field, It'd be College Station, Texas. It's like

1044
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,439
Speaker 1: a different universe. Some of you like to make fun

1045
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: of it because Texas A and M. I was talking

1046
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: to Colin before the show A and M. It seems

1047
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: they have like one hundred traditions totally unique to themselves.

1048
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you go around the country, you know this

1049
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: team and that team and this team, they'll all do

1050
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 1: a version of the same thing. A and M doesn't

1051
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: do a version of anything anyone else does. Okay, for

1052
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: better or for worse, depending on your perspective, that place

1053
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: is totally unique. What I love about the A and

1054
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: M fans is they couldn't care less about anyone whoever

1055
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: makes fun of it because they view it as number

1056
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:55,240
Speaker 1: one ours.

1057
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 2: Therefore you wouldn't get it anyway.

1058
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: And secondly, it's ours and therefore we don't really care

1059
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: which you think about it. And thirdly, we're winning, so

1060
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: we can't really hear you to begin with, So you're

1061
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: gonna have to speak up, get on our level, if

1062
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: you will. So Texas A and M football rolling right now.

1063
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: It was a good time to be there yesterday. It

1064
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: may not be the last time that we see them

1065
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: this year. Who knows what's going to happen with A

1066
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: and M. They're still in it. They're probably going to

1067
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: be ranked top ten in the playoffs come Tuesday, JP Poll, TBD.

1068
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 2: We'll see. But man, Texas A and M. If you

1069
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 2: told me that that's a team that had a bonafide

1070
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 2: potential SEC championship slash College Football Playoff top ten stretch

1071
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 2: run in them when I was leaving Arlington, Texas having

1072
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 2: watched them.

1073
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: Go down to Arkansas, and never would have believed you.

1074
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: So it's a very good coaching job happening out there,

1075
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: and a very good recruiting job now too. Several more

1076
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: games here, So let's rap and fire our way through

1077
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: what like half a dozen other things that caught my

1078
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: eye yesterday. Iowa State beat Texas yesterday, not in the

1079
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: first half, because no one beats Texas in the first half,

1080
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 1: but in the game, because everyone beats Texas in the

1081
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: second half. Yet another halftime lead, Yet another blown halftime

1082
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: lead in the second half.

1083
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 2: Texas.

1084
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 1: It's been the worst case to the best case to

1085
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: the worst case again when it comes to the whole

1086
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: quarterback dynamic. All the way back in preseason, we were

1087
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: talking about the whole Hudson card Casey Thompson thing.

1088
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 2: Every single late kick.

1089
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: It seemed like we were having a new quarterback update,

1090
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 1: and it ended up being Hudson card. But then they

1091
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: go to Arkansas and they get down and Casey Thompson

1092
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: comes in, and then Casey Thompson he's starting Red River

1093
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: and he shines and they lose, but he puts up

1094
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: big numbers and it looks like Casey Thompson is taking

1095
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,720
Speaker 1: that job by the throat. But it's a long season

1096
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: and people get a little bit of film on you,

1097
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: and they get a little bit of a chance to

1098
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,720
Speaker 1: diagnose you and what they would do against you, and man,

1099
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: it gets to be a long month of November October

1100
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: and then November. Like we said, it can seem like

1101
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: about thirteen weeks sometimes, And so that's what led to

1102
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: again kind of the merry go round at the quarterback position,

1103
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: and you're not doing that this late in the year

1104
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: and having a lot of success. If you are, you're

1105
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: very much the exception to the rule. So yesterday they

1106
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: played both guys and neither of them did anything particularly

1107
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: of note. And now Texas, I believe they are four

1108
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: and five and they've got Kansas at West Virginia and

1109
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: Kansas State coming up, and if I'm right off the

1110
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: top of my head, then being four and five, they're

1111
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 1: going to need two of those in order to make

1112
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: a bowl. And that's a team that had illusions of

1113
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 1: maybe fringe playoff contender status early in the season. Big

1114
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: Twelve Championship. Well that's all out the window. They got

1115
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: a very very poor street going right now. But they've

1116
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: got a direct five. A lot of criticism about sark

1117
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: No not even starting to go there. I certainly think

1118
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: there's an assessment that's done at the end of every

1119
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: season by the head coach, and so he'll do the

1120
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 1: same thing this year. I'm much more paid attention to

1121
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: their recruiting right now, honestly than I am their win

1122
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 1: and lost record. Iowa State though three losses right now,

1123
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: two of them are in conference, they still have a shot.

1124
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: They are a two lost team in the Big Twelve.

1125
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,760
Speaker 1: Still got a shot there, as I can tell. Best

1126
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: case would be Oklahoma winning every game except when they

1127
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: play them. Because Oklahoma still plays Baylor. We're going to

1128
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: be at that game Saturday in Waco, so Oklahoma at Baylor.

1129
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: Iowa State needs Sooners to win that game, you know,

1130
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 1: Iowa State need the Sooners to beat Oklahoma State down

1131
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: the road. They just need him to drop one in

1132
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,439
Speaker 1: Norman to them while they're at it. Tennessee forty five,

1133
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: Kentucky forty two.

1134
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 2: This sounded like a classic to me.

1135
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: I was listening to it on the radio driving my

1136
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: prison inmate van back from college station to Austin last night.

1137
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: And what a great story that's going to be on

1138
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: the Tuesday Morning podcast. One of the biggest recruiting billboards

1139
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: in college football right now is just what Hendon Hooker

1140
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: is doing under Josh Hipel at Tennessee. Phenomenal job of development,

1141
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: of coaching, of maximizing and utilizing the pieces you have.

1142
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: And to be clear, Josh Heipel and his staff first

1143
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: year there, and they came in under far less than

1144
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:02,800
Speaker 1: I I deal circumstances as you remember, and yet Hendon

1145
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 1: Hooker yesterday, fifteen of twenty three hundred and sixteen yards

1146
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:11,720
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. But they are getting the job done. And again,

1147
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: there are other teams out there with far more talented

1148
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 1: overall rosters that wish they could get the kind of

1149
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: production level that Josh Heipel has gotten in year zero

1150
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: slash year one, however you want to phrase it. At Tennessee,

1151
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: many good things can be said, many poor things can

1152
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: be said about SEC officiating. That's a course that we're

1153
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: seeing every week now. It just it totally boggles my

1154
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:39,359
Speaker 1: mind how what we're putting on the field as an

1155
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: officiating product in the SEC is tolerated right now. But

1156
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: it is, so I'm just gonna let it be. But

1157
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: I will say this as good a night as this

1158
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: was for Tennessee. They got the win, forty five to

1159
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: forty two. I told you over the last month a

1160
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: lot of people in Knoxville had this game circle.

1161
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: That's the one. Well, now you.

1162
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: Look at the box score, and remember when they played

1163
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: Old Miss they came out on the wrong side. And

1164
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: I said, compounding matters is they were on the field

1165
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: for over ninety plays defensively, and that caught up to

1166
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: him the next week against Alabama. Well, Tennessee plays Kentucky,

1167
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 1: and then they got Georgia. This time, Tennessee's coming off

1168
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: a win and they're playing Georgia this week. Lying on

1169
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: that thing is about twenty one Georgia by twenty one.

1170
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:25,360
Speaker 1: Georgia minus twenty one. Here is potentially a big problem. Yesterday,

1171
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,720
Speaker 1: this box score makes no sense. I mean, this thing's crazy.

1172
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: Tennessee ran forty seven plays. They scored forty five. They

1173
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: ran forty seven plays. That's pretty good points per play average.

1174
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: If you want to save yourself the math out there,

1175
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: why don't you take a guess at how many plays

1176
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: Kentucky ran in this loss.

1177
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 2: You think seventy nine? No, eighty nine? No, how about ninety.

1178
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: Nine total plays Kentucky ran yesterday? I think they ran

1179
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: it fifty times and threw it forty nine times.

1180
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 2: And so you got the whim.

1181
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: What kind of rice will your defensive roster pay when

1182
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: they play the University of Georgia, most physical team in

1183
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: this conference this coming week? In the second half, particularly

1184
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: some other very odd ball facets to this box score,

1185
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty one to six twelve, Tennessee got

1186
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: out gained and the time of possession. Shout out to

1187
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: our Buddy Parker stats of war fourteen minutes to forty

1188
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:22,760
Speaker 1: six minutes.

1189
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that's a big gap.

1190
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: It didn't end up mattering, but that's a big gap.

1191
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: So Tennessee wins. Congratulations to the Balls. Twenty one point

1192
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: dogs by far the most potent passing attack that Georgia

1193
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:38,959
Speaker 1: will have faced all year, and a lot of people

1194
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,959
Speaker 1: are excited to watch that, myself, including what about Cincinnati.

1195
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: I would say, outside of the Bama LSU game, more

1196
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: people wanted to talk to me about this game than

1197
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: any other game that happened yesterday, the Florida game, notwithstanding,

1198
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: since twenty eight Tulsa twenty. This is the high wire

1199
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: effect on full display. The high wire effect, to be clear,

1200
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: is once you get deeper and deeper into the season,

1201
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: the high wire just goes up a story, up a story,

1202
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: up a story. See, you start the year and you

1203
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: know you can't be affording to lose a whole lot,

1204
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 1: but you're like ten feet off.

1205
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,240
Speaker 2: The ground, and so if you fall, oh, it hurts.

1206
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 2: It hurts.

1207
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: You may even break a finger or two. But you

1208
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: can fall ten feet. You can't fall ten stories. And

1209
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: now the problem with teams that haven't been there before

1210
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,479
Speaker 1: this late in the year is they're trying to walk

1211
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: the high wire, but instead of ten feet above the street,

1212
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: there are ten stories above the street. And you fall

1213
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: at ten stories, you don't have a broken peaky, you

1214
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 1: are street pizza, You're done. And Cincinnati is finding out,

1215
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: just like some other teams have before them, what it's

1216
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: like to walk that high wire this late in the year,

1217
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: at this kind of altitude. Cincinnati is a better team

1218
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: than Tulsa. They're probably more than eight points better than Tulsa.

1219
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 1: They one by eight yesterday. Now here's what's happening. The

1220
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:59,320
Speaker 1: camps have already formed on the Cincinnati front. You either think,

1221
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:03,320
Speaker 1: based on principle alone of them being undefeated, they belong

1222
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,399
Speaker 1: in the top four, or you believe that there's more

1223
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 1: to it than just how many games have you won,

1224
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,280
Speaker 1: because we have to have a more nuanced, properly contextualized

1225
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: conversation about strengthening schedule. And if you are in that camp,

1226
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: you had your opinion of Cincinnati probably lessened again yesterday.

1227
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 1: I think they're right where they should be, and I

1228
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 1: wouldn't really change anything about them after yesterday. But man,

1229
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: the similarities between the way they had to win, and

1230
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: the way Bama had to win pretty striking. Cincinnati had

1231
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: to make a defensive stand of their own.

1232
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 2: Couple of them.

1233
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: Actually, in the last portion of this game, they lost

1234
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford, ironically a former Alabama running back. Cincinnati lost

1235
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford in the second quarter, and so that really

1236
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: put a.

1237
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 2: Damper on their ability to run the ball.

1238
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 1: Bama lost a center yesterday and couldn't run the ball

1239
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: worth anything. So there's a lot of sensing Bama comparison

1240
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: to be had. Yesterday, Tulsa held the ball all game.

1241
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what the time of possession there was

1242
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: one of my most favorite stats in the world. But look,

1243
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: they ran the ball for three hundred on Cincinnati. I mean,

1244
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: so their holes. No one ever painted this as a

1245
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 1: perfect team. Credit to them for the win. If you've

1246
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: spoken about them in the proper context, you can leave

1247
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: it at that. If you've tried to manufacture top three,

1248
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: top four material out of this team, then you've got

1249
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: a lot of explaining to do that you shouldn't have

1250
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: to do because Cincinnati is not one of the three

1251
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: or four best teams in America, but they're also not

1252
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: outside the top ten. There is a very, very comfortable

1253
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: tier between that six to ten range where they should be,

1254
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: and teams in that range can win twenty eight to

1255
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: twenty against Tulsa and be told you should have done better,

1256
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: but good for you.

1257
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 2: Move on.

1258
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: That's where we have Cincinnati. Therefore, I'm not going to

1259
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 1: criticize them a whole lot. Credit them for winning. They

1260
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: did what a team in that range could be expected

1261
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: to do in one of their poorer efforts, and that's

1262
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: what Cincinnati did. Michigan State falls yesterday forty to twenty

1263
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:57,919
Speaker 1: nine to Purdue. I got a padlock stat for you. You

1264
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: tell me this Friday. I'm telling you boiler up Aidan O'Connell.

1265
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: Most of you don't know who that is. That is

1266
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: the perdue quarterback. How about forty fifty four, five hundred

1267
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: and thirty six yards passing, three touchdowns, no interceptions. As

1268
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: we said earlier in the show, and we've said it before,

1269
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: the back end of Michigan State's defense, that is the

1270
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: clear vulnerability spot probably for them as a team. Purdue

1271
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: and Jeff Bram knew it. Purdue and Jeff Brom attacked it.

1272
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: They'll look to do the same thing against Ohio State

1273
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: this week. But I thought our buddies over at College

1274
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: Football Nerds asked the really interesting question about Purdue earlier today.

1275
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 2: If I can actually.

1276
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: Pause long enough to pull their account up, I will

1277
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:41,880
Speaker 1: read it to you verbatim, but I want you to

1278
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: think about this while I kill time and pull it

1279
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: up here. It is actually I don't have to kill

1280
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: any more time, So I want you to listen to

1281
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: this closely and understand what they're saying through me. How

1282
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: much of our view of Purdue football is skewed by

1283
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 1: the fact that we don't realize they played two Power

1284
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: five out of conference games while some played none. If

1285
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,479
Speaker 1: you swap the Notre Dame game with just a bad

1286
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: G five team, Purdue would be seven and two, and

1287
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: among those seven wins, they would have two wins over

1288
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: top five teams Iowa obviously, and then yesterday against Michigan State.

1289
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: So what they're telling you, and this is dead on

1290
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: the money. It is a classic. You aren't what your

1291
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: record says you are. Deal What they're saying is Purdue

1292
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: chose to challenge themselves in out of conference play. Those

1293
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 1: of you out there who believe you just are what

1294
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: your record says you are. What you're telling me is

1295
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Speaker 1: you're saying if Purdue, they'd be the same team. If

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Speaker 1: Purdue were to remove Notre Dame from the schedule and

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Speaker 1: put Roast Beef Tech on there, win the game, you

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Speaker 1: know wins and win win the game, Well, it'd be

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Speaker 1: sitting there as a seven and two team, same team

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Speaker 1: you're seeing now because of a lighter schedule, would be

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Speaker 1: better in the win loss column.

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Speaker 2: Where would we have them?

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Speaker 1: And the answer is you'd have them right in the

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Speaker 1: thick of your top ten rankings, top twelve rankings, and

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Speaker 1: that have two of the best wins in the country, and.

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Speaker 2: That be the same exact team. Is the point?

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Speaker 1: Just like if Cincinnati had played Arkansas schedule this year,

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Speaker 1: then in all likelihood have multiple losses as the same

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Speaker 1: exact team, and you wouldn't have them anywhere sniff in

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Speaker 1: the top ten.

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Speaker 2: You are not what your record says.

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Speaker 1: You are exclusively in this sport, and a win is

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Speaker 1: not exclusively a win, nor is a loss exclusively a loss.

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Speaker 1: Those are two of the big lies in college football.

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Speaker 1: I'll probably do a segment Tuesday night about the big lies.

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Speaker 1: We had a third big lie that I had to

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Speaker 1: add to out today, and I put it out earlier today,

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Speaker 1: and the third big lie was going undefeated is the

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Speaker 1: hardest thing to do in this sport. No, friends, going

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Speaker 1: undefeated and college football is not the hardest thing to do.

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Speaker 1: I would suggest to you it's a whole lot harder

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Speaker 1: to go ten and two against Arkansas schedule than it

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Speaker 1: would be to go twelve and zero against Cincinnati's schedule.

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Speaker 1: Going undefeated is great. I'm not telling you it's easy.

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Speaker 1: Understand what I said, and I didn't say. I didn't

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Speaker 1: say it's easy to go undefeated. I said it's not

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Speaker 1: the hardest thing in the sport to do if you

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Speaker 1: do it against the schedule that we're talking about there

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Speaker 1: versus the schedule we're talking about over here. Two different things.

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Speaker 1: So I'll talk about that more Tuesday night. Hey, what

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Speaker 1: about North Carolina. Wake puts up a double nickel and

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Speaker 1: it's not enough. North Carolina beats him fifty eight to

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Speaker 1: fifty five.

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Speaker 2: I was relieved this happened, not because I was rooting

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Speaker 2: against Wake Forest. I'm indifferent on Wake Forest.

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Speaker 1: What I'm glad of now is we get to speak

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Speaker 1: about Wake in the proper context, because the way we

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01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: should have been talking about Wake the whole time is.

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01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 1: It's a great story. Dave Claws is doing great things there.

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01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: This is a phenomenal story in the world of college

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01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: football this year. And they're a very, very scrappy team.

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Speaker 1: That's the way we should have been talking about Wake.

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01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: They're no different a team today than they were going

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01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: into yesterday. But they were artificially inflated by some simply

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01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: because there was a gooseag in the lost column. Goes

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01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 1: right back to the little Dio tribe. I just had

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01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: about a minute and a half ago. Well, now they've

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01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: got a loss on their resume, so I don't have

1349
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: to listen to people give me hypotheticals about what an

1350
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:06,439
Speaker 1: undefeated Wake would be. Now we can talk about them

1351
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: in the proper context, and we can credit them, because

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01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to credit Wake, but I can't do

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01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: it when the standard out there was already overinflating them. Well,

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01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: now people won't have him overinflated anymore. Now even though

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01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:21,080
Speaker 1: they lost yesterday. It's going to sound weird. Credit Wake Forest.

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Speaker 1: You guys are having a great season. It's very very

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01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: nice to see. Happy for you guys. Go win the

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01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: rest of your games. Also, the last thing I wanted

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Speaker 1: to point out is Georgia Wood Chippard, Missouri, as they

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Speaker 1: tend to do every week forty three to six. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's not what stood out yesterday. Georgia beats pretty much

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01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 1: everyone they play along those lines scoreboard wise. But Stetson Bennett,

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Speaker 1: it is his show.

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Speaker 2: JT.

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Speaker 1: Daniels came in yesterday and you could actually you could

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01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 1: actually hear the hinges, rust and creak. You haven't seen

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01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: him in so long, and he did some good things.

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01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: He did some bad things, but it became obvious. I

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01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 1: mean obviously that's what they've seen him practice, and that's

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Speaker 1: why they've got stats and Bennett in this game. I've

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01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 1: made my feelings known on how they could maximize their potential.

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01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go down that road tonight, but

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01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: I did think it was noteworthy that Georgia did not

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01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: exactly pound the rock for like eight yards per carry yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and so for the first time in a while, whether

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01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 1: through necessity or choice, Tom Monkin and the offensive staff

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01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: asked Stetson Bennett to do more yesterday at quarterback than

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01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: they probably ever have, and he, with some exception, maybe

1379
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 1: some underthrows, he didn't have to pay the ultimate price

1380
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: for he didn't play bad at all. And I think

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01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 1: there's you know, there are camps that have already formed

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01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: on stets And Bennett, and you have got your opinion

1383
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: of him.

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01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 2: If you think he's.

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Speaker 1: The guy who can take Georgia to the national championship,

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Speaker 1: then obviously that's not going to change based on yesterday.

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01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: And if you think that he can get fat on

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01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 1: inferior competition, but when the pressure ramps up and you're

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Speaker 1: playing more high level teams and you have to score

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01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: out of necessity instead of choosing to be able to

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01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: work on things that he won't be able to answer

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01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: the bell, yesterday didn't change your opinion. So having said that,

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Speaker 1: it's always been a hard spot for us because Stetson

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Speaker 1: Bennett is like a model citizen, and you love the tenacity,

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01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: you love the competitive spirit he has, and yet you

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01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 1: also you make an observation and you want to be

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Speaker 1: true to your observation.

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Speaker 2: So I've just I've kind of walked the fence on

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Speaker 2: this and saying, yeah, I'll have to see them. Let

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Speaker 2: me put it that way, I'd have to see them

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Speaker 2: win a championship with Bennett quarterback to believe they're capable

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Speaker 2: of it.

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01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 1: But I'll pull for him. So I guess in a

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01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 1: way am I pulling for myself to be wrong? I

1405
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, so I'm very torn on the

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01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: whole Stets and Bennett thing. That is a lot of

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Speaker 1: what we saw yesterday. I also want to number one,

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Speaker 1: thank you guys for being here. It is time, as

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01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 1: we did last week, to let you know we are

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01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: going to again this week go all in on the

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Speaker 1: Ramnudle Express.

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Speaker 2: We did a way with limiting it to four or

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Speaker 2: five picks.

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Speaker 1: Last week we went up and down the model and

1415
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:04,320
Speaker 1: anything that was screaming at us we moved on. Well,

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01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: we went seven and three, and so that's a very

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01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: very good weekend. We have already got four that I'm

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01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: ready to put on the board for you right now.

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Speaker 1: This weekend, here we go. We're starting with a Wednesday

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01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: night special. Central Michigan is favored by three. They're at

1421
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 1: home against Kent State. We're taking Central Michigan minus three.

1422
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: Michigan is at Penn State. The Model loves Penn State.

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01:05:25,600 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 2: This week.

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01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 1: We just rode Penn State yesterday. We're hopping right back on.

1425
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: Penn State is at a pick. We like this all

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01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 1: the way up to minus two and a half, and

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01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 1: so if you're listening to me later in the week,

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01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: listen earlier and get on the numbers when they're out there.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of you are going to see minus

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Speaker 1: one minus one and a half. Yes, the answer is yes.

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01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 1: It's a play for us. We got it at pick

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Speaker 1: when we tweeted it out earlier. It's why it's always

1433
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: important be following. At Late Kick Josh, we're taking Texas

1434
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: Tech plus ten at home against Iowa State, and we

1435
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 1: are laying two and a half points with Miami on

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01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 1: the road at Florida State. In conclusion, Miami minus two

1437
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 1: and a half, Texas Tech plus ten, Penn State right

1438
01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 1: at a pick, and Central Michigan minus three.

1439
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 2: Again, there's a big.

1440
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: Whole month plus coming up right now. There's a lot

1441
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: that's going on during the week that doesn't always happen

1442
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,560
Speaker 1: on the show. Make sure you're following. You can tell

1443
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: ten of your friends to do it as well. At

1444
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: Late Kick Josh on Twitter and on Instagram. A lot

1445
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:24,080
Speaker 1: of good stuff from the sidelines and elsewhere yesterday. If

1446
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 1: you follow on Instagram, you see it in that story.

1447
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite things I do all week

1448
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: and all year is that Instagram story on Saturdays. And

1449
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,200
Speaker 1: I'm giving you as much access and information as you want.

1450
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: Those are the two things that you guys ask for

1451
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: over anything else, Access and information. All Right, good week

1452
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 1: started here and I have a feeling that it's going

1453
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: to continue, and we're building towards on multiple fronts. Just

1454
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: fireworks all throughout the sport in November and December. You're

1455
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 1: talking about upsets coming, you're talking about team separating, you're

1456
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 1: talking about hot seat, You're talking about potential programs making

1457
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: moves and recruiting that haven't been made in that kind

1458
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: of move. Do not miss a show this time of year, because,

1459
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Speaker 1: as you see.

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01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 2: We went an hour seven tonight.

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01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 1: Colin, I feel like we put about four hours worth

1462
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: content in this hour seven minute show. So thank you

1463
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 1: so much for you listening on podcast tomorrow. Thank you

1464
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: for making this podcast the fastest riser in this industry,

1465
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 1: in this section of this industry, and only more room

1466
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: to go up from here for a director, Colin, I'm

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01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: Josh paid. Thanks so much for watching. I have a

1468
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: great start to your week. We'll see you here again

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night until Dannel, God bless you