WEBVTT - Spring Forecast (3/29/2017) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal I'm that for me. I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.680 a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.640 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.520 for day Edith State? Is that? Woo whoom? And Dan and. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:21.440 Tie welcome back to the solid Burbo boys and girls. 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.720 My name is Ty hilde Brand. I'm joined as always 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:25.759 if I'm a good friend and colleague can co host 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.440 many years. Way over there, beautiful New York City. It's sunny, Dan, 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:30.880 Dan Rubinstein, how are you? 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.480 I'm good. I'm in the audio mausoleum, which is now ventilated, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.120 and I'm wearing short sleeves here today. Ty Ok, I'm 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.280 wearing a polo shirt. I feel good. I went to 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.600 the gym this morning. Do you ever work out in 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:42.680 the mornings before work? 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.120 I used to try doing it in the mornings, but 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.040 I'm more of an afterwork kind of guy. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.879 I've been doing the aftercak thing now because when I 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:54.400 can get inspired in the mornings, yeah, I feel wonderful. Also, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.640 I'm getting married in two months, Ty, so it's time 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.600 to get swollen. So now what are you doing at 0:00:58.600 --> 0:00:59.600 the gym? Are you doing weight? 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.720 So? Trying to slim down? To fit into the suit 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.080 you haven't bought yet. What's your strategy here? 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.039 Oh, I just stand in the corner and creep on people. Okay, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.679 that's what I do. Now, I will because I still 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.360 have a bad foot. I do run when it's nice outside. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.520 But at the gym, I'll do some bike stuff. I 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.840 do some weights. I do a couple of machines I 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.440 just started doing. I don't know what they're called. Tie 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.040 those rope things that the sort of lasso rope things 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.119 I'm talking about, like that Jesse Palmer did it like Oklahoma. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.440 They're like they're these ropes that are attached to the 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.039 ground basically, and they're like fifteen feet long. Okay, and 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.720 you sort of whip them like you are, you know, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.720 heading out west in a covered wagon. That's a tough 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.199 tough workout right there, I tell you. Tie. My core 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:53.160 has been better, but it's improving, all right. How you doing? Tire? 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.000 Your sleeve short? My sleeves are short. I'm wearing the 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.960 custom uniform of the solid Verble my Haines white T shirt. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:00.840 Nice. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.880 But I too have gone to the gym, though I'm 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.120 not doing the rope thing. Spring has sprung Dan, it 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.359 has indeed, and with that in mind. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.760 We've got we've got a little bit of a what 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.640 is this a spring show, a spring forecast, We're calling 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.600 it spring forecast. You are a big You're a weather buff, right, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.640 Love weather? Yeah, love your weather, Love your dopplers? Do 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.240 you like? Do you have a preferred model? The European 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.600 the nam I'm more of a European guy. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.160 Okay, sure, I've I've got several weather apps on on 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.000 the phone. Usually go on number one Weather dot Com 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.280 app just for the for the quick glance at what's 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:36.760 going on. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.119 But I also have the hyperlocal look. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.560 That you can get for three ninety nine or two 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:41.960 ninety nine whatever they're charging now. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.760 For Dark sky I was gonna say that's if you're 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.160 into weather, you gotta go Dark Skies because they'll just 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.600 tell you you'll get an alert on your phone and it's 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.040 very ominous. It's gonna rain in four minutes where you. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.040 Are, and it's usually pretty accurate. I am in the 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.799 market though, for a new weather app. Okay, this isn't 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.560 an I'm in the market for a new weather app 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.200 because I thoroughly believe that they've screwed up the Weather 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.359 dot Com app they've hadded too many graphics and tried 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.560 to turn into like a social thing. This is going 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.639 nowhere on the football side, mind you. But no, that's 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.480 all just expressing my discontent with where they've gone with 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.560 the weather dot com app. So if anyone out there 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.120 has any suggestions, soliverble at gmail dot com let us know. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.359 Speaking of going nowhere on the football side, it's time 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.520 to talk spring football and Baylor. Okay, I don't know 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.240 what school I felt needed to be trolled and roasted whatever, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.160 but so tell them what we're gonna do here, Ty, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.400 This is sort of I wouldn't say it's thrown together. 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.119 We've done some prep work, but we have a spring 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.200 forecast and there's not a ton that anybody can glean 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.560 from spring football. But it's kind of cool to see 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.640 the rhythms that new coaches, new quarterbacks, new players, new freshmen, 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.440 new whatever, new systems, whatever, get thrown into the mix 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.760 during the springtime, and it's just sort of an installation process. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.440 But sometimes you see position changes. You know, wide receivers 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.440 become safeties, quarterbacks become safeties. Basically, it's figuring out who's 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.440 going to become a safety in the fall and it's 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.040 kind of interesting on a number of levels. So I 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.840 think we're going to go across college football and forecast 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.080 a little bit and decide how stormy things are getting 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.200 out of school, if the birds are chirping, if they 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.880 deserve just excellent spring break music, and we'll go across 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.839 the sport and really make some snap judgments based on 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.599 very little in the way of fact. It's a conjecture episode. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.279 Depending right exactly, depending on your perspective. It's either the 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.640 post postseason or the pre pre pre pre preseason. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.800 And I will say this, ty nobody pres better than 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:42.560 tie and down. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.159 That's right, baby, it is the pre pre preseason. We're 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.520 all start for content as a whole. I think we're 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.559 in agreement that people read way too much into spring 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.040 football and spring storylines. But that being said, it doesn't 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.680 mean they're not interesting. There is some interesting stuff here. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.400 It speaks to the appetite. It speaks to the appetite. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.000 We know, if you're listening now, you've got a college 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.440 fooble appetite. And so we've got a bunch of things. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.760 I actually have no idea what you've got on your list. 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.039 I think I tipped my hand a little bit and 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.640 showed you what I was. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.600 It's not a mystery episode. I'm just lazy, I can 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.200 I can tell you right now. So we got some 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.520 sound clips, We've got some topics in front of us here, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:24.360 things that we're interested in following now spring storylines, Dan, 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.239 why don't you? Why don't you kick off our spring 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.360 forecast here? All right, let's let's start with some stormy 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:34.279 weather tie because I want a happy ending. Okay, I 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:41.120 understand how that sounds. That's that's that's extra stormy. Okay, okay, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.400 it is extra stormy. Let's first talk about teams that 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.280 go into the spring with some tumult, with some questions 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.640 that it doesn't look great. And right now, I'm I'm 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:57.080 exceedingly curious about Baylor because I'm sort of rooting for 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.479 Matt Rule because I really like what he did at 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:04.279 Temple and Philadelphia and the Owls. But they are overhauling 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.240 scheme with not that many players, right, they are gonna 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.840 move towards a more power spread. I know there was 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.120 a higher away from Chip Kelly's staff when he was 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.920 with the forty nine ers, but like what what Matt 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:18.760 Rule and the Owls did last year at Temple they're 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.400 going to rely on power running, although they will spread 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.919 out and perhaps rely on some quarterback mobility. But the 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.360 numbers are not great and in a big twelve that 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.320 is sort of uncertain. It would have been a very 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.479 good year for Baylor to sort of see consistency. So 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.080 I am I am down right now on Baylor in 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.799 the short term, but curious to see what the new 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:46.800 look offense starts to look like in Waco. I agree 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.200 and disagree. Okay, why is that? 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.039 I'm I don't find myself all that interested in Baylor 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.240 right now? Okay, I'm curious to see what the new 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.640 direction is, curious to see what Matt Rule does, what 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.039 he installs, how he tries to move that program forward, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:02.919 what they do on offense, blah blah blah. Right, the 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.480 reason I'm not interested is because they gave him a 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.279 seven year contract. Even they will acknowledge he needs some 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.480 runway to rebuild what has gone south at Baylor. I 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.840 don't think you're going to see anything groundbreaking this spring, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.360 maybe even this season. I think it's going to be 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.440 a multi year effort in order to get Baylor back 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.640 to the promised Land. So for me, I might be 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.080 more interested at this time next year, to see the 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.400 foundation that he's built, to see now how he tries 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.360 to get them to the next gear. I am most 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.840 interested to see if Baylor can treat humans all right, Absolutely, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.920 that's what I would love to absolutely Baylor. So that 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.960 the sound clip is accurate, I agree with you on 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.200 many fronts. I don't find that I am as interested 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.520 as you might be. Do you have a stormy situation. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.800 Let's talk about the quarterback battle at Florida. Oh, I 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.040 have that down here as well. I just want to 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.400 know if this is going to happen or not. For 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:04.560 Jim mcelwaine, he was an offensive guy at Alabama. He 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.480 did a pretty good job, right, He did a pretty 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.480 good job of Colorado State on offense. That's really been 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.560 the one missing piece when he came over. He took 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.760 over for wilmust Champ, and they didn't have a reliable 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:20.880 quarterback situation, or just a reliable offense situation. We haven't 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.920 seen that yet. We thought we might see it with 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.280 Will Greer, but that went south in a hurry, and 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.640 since then they've kind of been stumbling over themselves trying 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.120 to figure out where to go next. And they had 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.000 that Treon Harris experiment, which no one felt good about, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.800 but they were relegated into against their will. Now it's 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.960 going to be who Felippe Franks, Kyle Traust. Both those 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.839 guys are young, and even if they have the best 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.480 offensive scheme in the world, there are going to be 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.040 some growing pains. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.000 Correct. I'm thinking this is more stormy than not, and 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.240 that's not something that Florida fans want to hear. Yeah, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.479 the Muschamp guys are gone, a lot of them on defense, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.640 and even if the quarterback situation improved where it was 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:05.000 last year and the injury problems dissolve and go away. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.240 Felibey Franks has a big Army's physically impressive. I think 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:13.160 he's something like six five big dude. The offensive line 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.120 not great last year. Need to take a few steps forward. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.160 And who is actually catching the ball for Florida? Even 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.839 if this quarterback whoever it is, turns out to be good, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.720 that's I mean, there's there's what's it's Tyree Cleveland is 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:32.160 one of the big hopes. But the numbers, the thin 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.199 nature of that Florida receiving core is pretty scary at 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.760 this point. And I know recruiting had an uptick this 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.160 year for Florida. Mcawayne close strong, but the amount of 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.080 certainty in Gainesville is even lower than usual, which is 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.640 saying a lot considering the tumultuous nature. And maybe that's 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.040 a good thing for him. I don't know. Maybe he 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.520 gets a pass because fans are going to be able 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.800 to acknowledge that up front. But it's been a while, 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:58.440 that's the point. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.160 It's been a while since I think a Florida fan 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.559 could look at you and say, I feel good about 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.720 our offensive slash quarterback situation. Maybe this gives you an 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.800 opportunity to start fresh, to build from the ground up. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.079 I think that's your best hope. But best case scenario 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.960 is a fair amount of growing pains. And so for me, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.560 that's that's a stormy situation. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.960 It's it's especially stormy because Florida's what won what They've 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.559 won the East two years in a row now under 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.520 Jim mcawain, and the sense I get from Florida fans 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:33.920 are sort of just like they're fine with mclwaan, but 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.080 not like the craziest, which is very strange to say 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.560 when you win a division two straight years in a row. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.720 So the expectations are obviously very high there, but there's 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.240 there's secret unease, I would say with mcawayne among the 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.040 Gator faith. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.640 The division championships have felt a bit like they've fallen 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:50.600 off the back of a truck. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.040 Yes, absolutely, so there's your uncertain all right, where were going? 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.480 Next to you? What's what's the forecast? Dan? Do you 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.200 know what? You have a Michigan thing down here? I 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.120 wouldn't say it's necessarily stormy. It might be a little 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:04.960 bit windy. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.880 not what's that indy? Okay? I got I have some 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.600 very specific forecasts. Oh what do you have for Michigan? 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:17.880 Let's go with this one. Let's talk too hot? 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:23.559 Okay, too hot for podcasting, too hot for wh Okay? 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:24.920 What do you got? 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.040 Michigan is going on a field trip. Yeah, this was 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.840 very hot a year ago. Just talk to coaches in 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.199 the SEC. Michigan has now decided that it's going to 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.600 take a euro trip in place of going down to 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.960 Florida for spring break, They're going to Rome, Dan, Yes, 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:46.000 have you heard about this? 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.000 Do you know about this? I know about the trip. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.240 It's to be educational in nature, right, of course, and 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.160 when did do you know the exact dates this is happening? 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.520 And I will I read the end of April. Oh, okay, 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.319 I will be in Rome the very pretty much the 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.680 very beginning of June as part of my honeymoon. Without 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.360 being so I would, I will miss the very educational 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.200 Michigan trip to Rome, which by the way, I'm in 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.839 favor of. Yes see, that's my thing. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.160 Someone's gonna find a way to be outraged by this, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.120 and it's fine. People are gonna cite like some schools 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.040 are haves and others are have nots. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.960 I don't care about that. This to me is a 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.600 cool thing. I'm interested in it because it's it's it's 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:37.000 odd m hm college football Rome, Okay, that's a weird pairing. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.880 They're gonna do, as I understand it, a week of 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.080 practice over there. They're gonna see some sites, They're gonna 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.040 do some charitable deeds and visit an orphanage. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.040 And some other stuff. Pr will put it spin on it. 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.760 They'll make it sound educational and charitable and all that. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.120 The reason that I am most interested. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:01.199 In this, Why Rome, Why not of all the gin 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.360 joints in all the world, In ancient city. They picked 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.760 me to eat really well. Have you been to Rome. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.760 I've not been to Rome. No. It's supposedly pretty dirty 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.199 and it's enormous and sprawling, but I'm looking forward to 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:17.520 eating well. The pizza crust is supposedly very thin, not 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:22.000 a fresh ingredients tie lot. It ancient wonders to absorb. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.120 I'm very excited, and I imagine Michigan people are as well. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.160 It's absolutely it's an odd pairing to me, like LSU 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.920 going to lambeau Field to play Wisconsin. Oh, it's a 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.920 perfect or Mississippi State going a U Mass last year. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.440 It just doesn't feel like it quite matches up. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.640 I'm not at all outraged by the fact that they're 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.920 going and other schools might not be able to afford it, 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.600 and I am, even though I'm a little bit over 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.319 horbaughed at this point. I am excited for the guaranteed 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.680 picture that you're gonna get of Harbaugh wearing a fanny 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:57.800 pack or doing something very touristy or immature in Rome. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.520 Because you know that's going to happen. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.040 I will I will give mister Howbaugh credit for this. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.320 I think he went away from Dockers. Did you see this. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:11.480 It's autia right, it is a slim fit. I believe Lululemon. Okay, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.360 with Breathless Wonder, we update you on Jim Harbaugh's pantaloons 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.200 that it looks good, Ty, I'm telling you. I mean 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.880 you've lived this firsthand. You go, slim fit. Things are 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.400 looking things looking up. So I'm down good decision making 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.400 early on in the spring. And here's the other thing 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.880 about Michigan that to me makes them a little bit 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.840 windy in the spring, and not necessarily windy in a 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.000 bad way. But I feel like we could be getting 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.800 you know, Mother Nature could be blowing in some changes today. Okay, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.640 And so I was I go into my trailer voice, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:49.400 what was that? Okay, mother Nature? Yeah, come on at WSBM. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:55.240 So we have a quarterback situation that is less than 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.040 up in the air, but it's a little bit crazier 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.840 than solidified. Right with the way Wilton Space finished the season, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.280 I feel like there is going to be more open competition. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.600 That has led on. Definitely, the offensive line is being rebuilt. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.560 They're still sort of playing running back by committee. The 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.440 big two receivers and Jake but are gone. That's Amri 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.320 Darbo and Jahu Chessen, the secondary is being rebuilt, a 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.840 lot of big losses up front. Taco Charlton could be 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.280 first second round pick. So I'm wondering, especially now also 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.760 that coupled with the loss of I believe Jed Fish, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.200 the quarterbacks coach and whatever passing game coordinator he moves 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.280 on to UCLA. I wonder if there is an element 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.560 of how Jim Harbaugh transformed in a number of ways 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:43.600 with Colin Kaepernick over Alex Smith when given that opportunity, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.920 I wonder, I still think the focus will be on power. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.760 I think it's going to be on big offensive linemen, 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.120 you know, sort of that man ball focus. But I 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.480 wonder if it looks the same. I wonder if they 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.680 go a little bit more power, spread that to make 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.920 things potentially a little bit easier for the young talent 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.480 in ann Arbor. I just I wonder if there is 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.920 somewhat of a transformation. It's what Pep Hamilton coming in 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.600 now from after he was fired from the Colts, and 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.240 you know he goes back with Harbaugh to Stanford. I 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.800 wonder if there is some of the latter Andrew Luck 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:19.160 elements without the having to focus on making big reads 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.520 I just I'd be curious, and I think it'd be 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:22.240 a wonderful thing. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.560 He's always been good regardless of personnel, right, so it's 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.520 not a stretch to say that, yeah, he could pull 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.640 the same trick in Michigan. There is some turnover at Michigan. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.120 It will be an interesting year to follow, to say 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.600 the least. But they're going to Rome, which I think 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.120 is cool. All the other stuff about Michigan football is valid, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.640 but going to Rome is a different kind of story, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.440 and I expect that we're going to get some cool 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.680 social media tales that come out of that one. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:52.360 Some pump yoores. Absolutely all right, what's our next forecast? 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:52.840 Daniel? 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.800 So why don't we forecast? So we've talked about new 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.840 qbs in the past in terms of the transfer guys, 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.640 so Jared Stidham, Will Greer, Blake Barnett. We've talked about 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.120 who is the other one in our forestome Oh, Kyle Allen, 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.640 Kyle Allen. It doesn't appear that the huge name now 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.000 eligible quarterback in the Big twelve will actually play significant 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.040 time this year barring an injury. I of course speak 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.399 of Kyler Murray at Oklahoma, but he is a spring 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.240 game All Star. What I am curious though, a couple 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.440 of other names that are coming in as new quarterbacks 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.280 in big spots, and I imagine you have this as well. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.600 Kelly Bryant at Clemson. He is the odds on favorite 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.960 at the moment, I think to win the job out 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.479 just because he seems like the incumbent and not the incumbent, 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.080 but the incumbent backup to sort of ascend to that level. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.280 Do you believe in Clemson perhaps not keeping the train 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:48.880 rolling to the College Football Playoff, but Kelly Bryant being 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.360 in the system long enough and the coach is being 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.119 familiar enough with him to look good in the spring 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.600 and solidify his role. Or do you think it's more 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:57.960 open than anticipated. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.119 I'm secret rerooting by the lafers Eric Cooper because his 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.200 name is Xeric Zeric, of course, but you're right, the 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.080 odds on favorite is probably Kelly Bryan at this point. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:12.040 Hunter Johnson a name people are excited about. I'm not 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:17.280 sure how this translates, and I have faith that they 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.440 have recruited talent regardless of whether it's Brian or Johnson. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.960 They have done so well over the last couple of years, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.199 both on the recruiting trail and on the field that 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.520 they're going to be fine. Long term, they will be fine. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.320 I'm just not sure if they're going to live up 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.720 to quite the standard they've set for themselves the last 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.040 couple of years. And that, to me, I think is 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.679 what I am most curious about. To what degree can 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.560 they move forward in a post to Shaan Watson reality. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.840 Sure it should be noted whoever is starting at quarterback 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.880 will not have Mike Williams. I don't believe. We'll have 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:57.199 our Tavis Scott's and we'll have Hunter renfro, We'll have 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.159 Deon Kane, Mary McLeod. So weapons certainly there. Defensively, you know, 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.120 a couple of big losses up front, but Dexter Lawrence 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.920 people already talking about him as you know, a top one, 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.240 two three pick and next year's draft. Up front, Cordray Tankers, 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.719 Lee's gone, so rebuilding a number of key spots. So 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.760 even if Kelly Bryant is good but not great, I 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.439 think it would be fair to say, and this is 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:23.320 sort of previewing the season, curious to see what the 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.240 just quarterback battle looks like this spring, because I imagine, 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.159 you know, even with some thin defensive line issues in 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.520 the middle. I think they're going to be fine. And listen, 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.200 Brent Vnnables is still calling place. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.000 I think they will be absolutely fine, but it's going 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.000 to be a different look on offense. And let's be honest, 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.640 Deshan Watson won a lot of games for him. Mm hmm, 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.280 you want a lot of games for him? Can you 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.560 count on Kelly Bryant or Hunter Johnson. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:46.040 Or Zick Cooper? 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.520 Did I don't know you love Zeric? I am a 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.840 Zerch fan. Yeah, okay, but I mean I just I 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.600 don't know what I don't know. Can we count on 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.480 any of these guys? We haven't seen enough of them 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:56.159 to know anything? 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.760 Right, All right, Okay, don'll be fine. How do we 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.640 want to classify that? Uh? I think things are gonna 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.600 be a little bit windy, but that's okay, go windy. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.000 Let me feel that wind. Don't feel the wind. Okay, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:15.040 it builds. But I will say this, ty, no matter 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:20.000 what happens this year, I think they're gonna be. They're 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:21.840 gonna be. It's good, a lot of windy. They're gonna 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:26.080 be very hat There's a calming hangover effect that even 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.480 when you're not the greatest after you win a championship. 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.840 You just won a championship, and so you can play 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.560 my wild spring break song. Tie. That's how Clemson fings. 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:35.720 That's how clems and fans are feeling on the inside. Tie. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.920 All right, let me let me hold off on that one. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.480 Let's talk about the Auburn quarterback battle first. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.520 Okay, is this under the the guys of windyness? It's 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.359 windy Uh, it's also it's rain in sideways. True. 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.600 So we've got ourselves a good old fashioned QB battle 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.959