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Speaker 1: All right, wellcome in lay Cake is live.

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Speaker 2: It is Sunday night, September twentieth, the Year of Our Lord,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. We got full Week three reaction tonight, but

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Speaker 2: as I said on Twitter, it was outside of some

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Speaker 2: of a better term, slate yesterday. So we're gonna do

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Speaker 2: an abnormal amount of early Week four look ahead tonight.

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Speaker 2: I have also got two of our Grand season previews

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Speaker 2: that were unveiling tonight. We're gonna do Alabama, We're gonna

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Speaker 2: do Georgia. We're also gonna talk obviously about the Miami

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Speaker 2: game yesterday about Central Florida steamrolling Georgia Tech. But we

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Speaker 2: are doing our first two Grand season previews tonight. We've

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Speaker 2: got several more to roll out during the week. We

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Speaker 2: have got some stuff to talk about briefly with the

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Speaker 2: and we're going to discuss that and what ultimately that will.

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Speaker 1: All lead to.

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Speaker 2: All that plus started off two and three yesterday on

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Speaker 2: our Rama Noodle Express. Don't worry. Don't worry about that.

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Speaker 2: We will have our early best bet for Week four tonight.

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Speaker 2: to get to tonight, and we've got a loaded week.

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Speaker 2: It is full blown game week mode on here from

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Speaker 2: now until the end of the season, obviously, and we

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Speaker 2: We got the SEC cranking up, so it's go time. Now,

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Speaker 2: pack these shows with as much as you could possibly

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Speaker 2: we get to anything week four related, we have to

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Speaker 2: revisit what happened yesterday, and what happened is well, Manny

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Speaker 2: Diaz and miamis shined. And I know there have been

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Speaker 2: a lot of people who are trying to see around

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Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of Miami praise handed

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Speaker 2: out today, and yes there is, and rightfully so I

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Speaker 2: think we can we can temper the praise and also

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Speaker 2: give just due to a very impressive first two weeks

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Speaker 2: say congratulations to Manny Diaz in this program. There is

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Speaker 2: a lot of uncertainty, obviously with everybody. But when you're

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Speaker 2: overturning so much quarterback position, offensive coordinated, when you're turning

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Speaker 2: a lot of that stuff, hey, it's not the easiest

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Speaker 2: Just kind of get the ground running in light of

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Speaker 2: expectations early. It's not the easiest thing to do in

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Speaker 2: the world. And so they beat Louisville yesterday forty seven

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Speaker 2: thirty four. We predicted the outcome correctly. The style of

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Speaker 2: lower scoring, we didn't get. That's one of the many

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Speaker 2: So let's hand out the praise. Let's pump the brakes.

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Speaker 2: Just a tad on the Miami's back conversation, which was

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Speaker 2: lazily the headline in about half a dozen articles or

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Speaker 1: But let me.

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Speaker 2: Assure you the excitement here is genuine, it is authentic,

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Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent real. The most important word to

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Speaker 2: based accounts to follow on Twitter at statso War is

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Speaker 1: Buddy Parker I saw him last night.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if this was before the game

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Speaker 2: yesterday at some point Miami three plays accounting for one

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Speaker 1: This may have been at the end of the game.

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Speaker 2: They had fifty two plays, so three plays equals one

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Speaker 2: the point he was making was not so much let's

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Speaker 2: But I also think there's a lot of merit to

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Speaker 1: Versatility.

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Speaker 2: So I say all that because I want you to

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Speaker 1: You got to also take into account that.

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Speaker 2: Was week two for a program that, in its own right,

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Speaker 2: This is not, by any stretch a finished product offensively

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Speaker 1: This was a really good win.

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Speaker 2: But when we're talking about what is the Miami offense, ultimately,

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of reason to be excited. I

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Speaker 2: There is as much reason to be excited about this

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Speaker 2: I didn't say be more excited about Miami twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: Some of you didn't even have the dignity and class

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Speaker 2: High on Georgia Tech, have been for a while, and

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Speaker 2: and nothing would change about my opinion. Here we are,

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Speaker 2: or for worse, nothing's changed about my opinion of this team.

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Speaker 2: I'd add, not to my knowledge, And I asked Colin

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Speaker 1: I have extremely high expectations for what.

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Speaker 2: maybe as early as next year. But my point is,

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Speaker 2: huge names in the recruiting world. DJ Dale justin at

440
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:14,159
Speaker 2: boyd By, Dylan Moses back this year. Christian Harrison his

441
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,920
Speaker 2: second year has the chance to be everything for Alabama

442
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,520
Speaker 2: that I think Nikobe Dean will be for Georgia. Those guys,

443
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,680
Speaker 2: if they're all healthy and they are as we expected

444
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 2: them to always be, Alabama should be elite at every

445
00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 2: one of those positions.

446
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:28,320
Speaker 1: Alabama should be elite.

447
00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:30,879
Speaker 2: They got really good depth, I think, especially on the

448
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,440
Speaker 2: interior of their defensive lineup.

449
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,040
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, Past Rusher, I.

450
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 2: Think also is an extremely deep position for them that

451
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,719
Speaker 2: will only become deeper as some of those young guys

452
00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,879
Speaker 2: that were part of probably the best outside Russia class

453
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 2: that we've seen in quite a while.

454
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Speaker 1: Get their feet wet a little bit more.

455
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,919
Speaker 2: Second question goes straight back to quarterback, and it's not

456
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 2: Week one. Week one, Mac Jones is your starter unless

457
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,919
Speaker 2: Mack Jones walks off the job this week, and so

458
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,360
Speaker 2: Mac Jones week one. Bryce Young, I think will see

459
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 2: him in pretty much every game. I'm not asking a

460
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 2: quarterback question in the context of week one. I'm talking

461
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 2: about week eight. Week eight, they're coming out of a

462
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 2: bye week, They're going to LSU. We have fast forwarded

463
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,919
Speaker 2: a couple of months into the season. What is the

464
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,479
Speaker 2: Alabama quarterback situation there? Because I tend to believe that

465
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 2: while you have had some other battles across the country

466
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,320
Speaker 2: that have been labeled two quarterback situations, as we talked

467
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,680
Speaker 2: about last week, I view Alabama as a two quarterback situation.

468
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Speaker 2: I don't just view it in the classical context of

469
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Speaker 2: a fifty to fifty preseason battle. I view this one

470
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 2: as the kind of battle where the more talented, the

471
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 2: more raw talented option is going to be the backup

472
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Speaker 2: to start the season, and that's Bryce Young. And the

473
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 2: guy who's been there a long time and who has

474
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 2: plenty talented enough in his own right is going to

475
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 2: be your starter for the time being, and then we

476
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Speaker 2: get to see every week, we get to see Bryce

477
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Speaker 2: Young take reps, maybe in garbage time, maybe some more

478
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 2: meaningful reps, and we get to find out what he's

479
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,399
Speaker 2: about and if he is about what we think he's about.

480
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 2: And we I mean twenty four to seven Sports labeling

481
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 2: him the number one player in America regardless of position

482
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 2: this last cycle, and they don't typically with on those

483
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 2: quarterback evaluations too often these days. And if you think

484
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 2: they do, then look at his offer list if you

485
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 2: want to confirm that. So, if he is who we

486
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 2: think he is, I wonder about mid season, later in

487
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 2: the season, because we will have not only gotten to

488
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 2: see Bryce Young by them, we will have seen Ohio State,

489
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,919
Speaker 2: we will have seen Clemson a whole lot more than

490
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 2: we already have, and we will have a lot more

491
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 2: answers to the questions of what would it take to

492
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Speaker 2: beat them in Columbus or beat them that team up.

493
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: There in Clemson South Carolina? What would it take?

494
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,919
Speaker 2: And is the answer mac Jones and whatever Alabama is

495
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 2: or is the answer? Alabama's really really good, but they

496
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:42,920
Speaker 2: need to take it to.

497
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Speaker 1: Another level at quarterback. Third question, how severe is that shift?

498
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 2: From going Toua and Judy and Rugs to the aforementioned

499
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 2: mac Jones and you know, Devonte Smith and Jalen Waddle

500
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 2: still there, but Metchi and Baker the true freshmen you

501
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 2: just talked about, And that also ties into the possible

502
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 2: identity shift. I don't think that combination needs to be

503
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 2: nearly as consistently game changing explosive as they have been

504
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 2: in the past because of names like Nase Harris and

505
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 2: names like Brian Robinson, and names like Tray Sanders, the

506
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 2: guy you probably should have heard about last year if

507
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 2: not for injury. I think they'll be way more physical

508
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 2: this year offensively than they have been in the last

509
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 2: couple of years. And I think that'll be by design.

510
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: So the schedule analysis portion of this, what we like

511
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 2: to do is I don't like to do the put

512
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 2: your schedule up and just say when win loss when.

513
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a lot of skill in that.

514
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 2: And so what I like to do is I like

515
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 2: to take your schedule and look at all your opponents,

516
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 2: and I like to put a toughness rating one to ten,

517
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 2: ten being the toughest one being roast beef Tech. And

518
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 2: then I like to group them into different categories and

519
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 2: simulate your season one hundred times and on average, what

520
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 2: would your best case, worst case, and.

521
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Speaker 1: Most likely record scenario be.

522
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Speaker 2: So what we did with alabama schedule is we looked

523
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 2: at it and colin if we have that, let's roll

524
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 2: with that. And what we looked at specifically is how

525
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 2: many ten rated games.

526
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Speaker 1: Do you have?

527
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 2: Because for a team like Alabama, there's a big difference

528
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 2: in a ten rated game versus an eight rated game.

529
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 2: And Georgia is the only game I have them playing

530
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 2: that is rated a ten on the one to ten.

531
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Speaker 2: As you see, though they have four games rated eight

532
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 2: or nine, they got four rated six or seven, and

533
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 2: they got one rated five or less, and that is

534
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 2: that game at Arkansas in December, by the way, to

535
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 2: end the season.

536
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: Hey, weather forecast could change that.

537
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 2: The best case, worst case, and most likely record scenarios

538
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 2: for Alabama this year. Their best case any year is

539
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 2: ten to zero and it is no different this year.

540
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 2: Their worst case is seven and three. Their most likely

541
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Speaker 2: record scenario. Our models spit out eight point seventy five

542
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 2: and one point twenty five on average per one hundred simulations,

543
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 2: which obviously we had to round up. So we are

544
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Speaker 2: going to predict Alabama to go nine and one this year.

545
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 2: And that concludes our grand season preview for Alabama football

546
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty.

547
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Speaker 1: I hope you were entertained.

548
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 2: Please come back in about three seconds because we're doing

549
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 2: the Georgia Grand Season Preview two. And let's do it.

550
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 2: Georgia Grand Season Preview. Just when you thought it was

551
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: safe to assume about Georgia, just when you thought you knew, maybe,

552
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 2: just maybe what they would be offensively this year, Jamie

553
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,239
Speaker 2: Newman says, back, and then you start hearing the name

554
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 2: Dewan Mathis and Georgia fans know who he is, most

555
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 2: people outside of ath and say who, And then wait,

556
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 2: he's gonna start And that hasn't been made official, but

557
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 2: we firmly believe that will be the case for the

558
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 2: opener against Arkansas. And so now everything's thrown back into

559
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 2: an expectation tail spin, if you will. I'm not saying

560
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 2: it's dramatic and they're going six and four anything like that.

561
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 2: We'll get to record scenarios in just a second. But

562
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 2: there are no excuses here, regardless. No one wants to

563
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 2: hear excuses in the middle of the season. You definitely

564
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 2: don't want to hear him in the preseason. The mood

565
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 2: tracker as we get started here on the grand season

566
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 2: preview for Georgia is kind of if you're a Georgia fan,

567
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,360
Speaker 2: you're already bought in at this point. There's no turning back,

568
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 2: and so you're just kind of ready come what may.

569
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: You're ready to get hurt again. You think you have

570
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 2: national championship potential that hasn't panned out in the last

571
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,919
Speaker 2: three plus decades for one reason or the other. If

572
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 2: it happens again this year, it happens, but there's no

573
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 2: reason not to be fully bought in. Here areas of

574
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 2: focus for this twenty twenty version of Georgia football by

575
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 2: Ten Miles. It's got to be quarterback Dewan Mathis this

576
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,479
Speaker 2: whole surge in the whispers and intel and rumors and

577
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 2: we've heard the same thing as you have over the

578
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 2: past couple of weeks.

579
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: What is it?

580
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Speaker 2: Is it conngru it to Jamie Newman leaving, Is it

581
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 2: conngru it to JT.

582
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: Daniels not being medically cleared yet?

583
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 2: Or is Dewan Math is just an absolute stud, freak

584
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 2: athlete that has taken the job regardless of who's there.

585
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 2: That's something that we can talk about in just a second.

586
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 2: Also kind of tie into the quarterback situation and offense

587
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 2: in general.

588
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: This whole new offensive shift.

589
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 2: We came out of the bowl game and getting beat

590
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 2: like a drum by LSU and the SEC title game,

591
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 2: and it became obvious to everyone got to make an

592
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 2: offensive change here, and Kirby Smart agreed with you, and

593
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 2: so he made a change, and in came Todd Munkin,

594
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 2: and with that rumors of everything from well, we're going

595
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 2: to spread it out a little bit more to we're

596
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 2: going full on air raid, which was never going to

597
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 2: happen and certainly isn't right now. However, how big of

598
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 2: an adjustment will we see when you turn on the

599
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 2: Arkansas game in Week one? In other words, if you

600
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 2: were to have frozen yourself after the end of last

601
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 2: year and just opened the capsule for week one, how

602
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 2: different you don't even know about the changes, how different

603
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 2: would this offense look. My expectation is it's probably going

604
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 2: to look a lot more similar than you expected to,

605
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 2: only because even if they did intend on radically overhauling this,

606
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 2: a lot of that's probably been thrown out the window.

607
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 2: With having to play a quarterback that they probably weren't

608
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 2: planning on playing a month ago, or if we're to

609
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 2: believe the rumors out of Athens, even a couple of

610
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 2: weeks ago.

611
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: Consider the personnel.

612
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 2: Number one, consider the entire backdrop being one of the

613
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 2: best defenses in the country that you get to play

614
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 2: with so you don't have to score forty a game.

615
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: And then number two, just consider what are we playing

616
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,360
Speaker 2: with here. We got an offensive line where run blocking

617
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 2: is well ahead of pass pro. We got one shore

618
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 2: fire stud receiver and some other ones we think will

619
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 2: be good this year.

620
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: We got some studs at running back, and we.

621
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 2: Got a guy who is questionable in terms of decision

622
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 2: making because we hadn't put him on the field to

623
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 2: throw the ball against real competition. But we do know

624
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 2: he can run, and we do know he's an athlete.

625
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: What kind of offense would you run? Rhetorical I'll leave

626
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 2: that there. And number three the disruption factor here havoc

627
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 2: raid is so overused around Georgia at this point that

628
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 2: I'm just looking for new ways to explain what they're

629
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: looking for.

630
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: But it's really that how.

631
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: Much can we and how consistently can we harass the quarterback.

632
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 2: They've got to affect the passer. Because here's the thing,

633
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter versus Arkansas. To be brutally honest with you,

634
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 2: it's not gonna matter against Vanderbilt whether they can get

635
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: after the quarterback. Their roster is good enough in most

636
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 2: years of a ten game season to go eight and two.

637
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 2: I mean, their g helmet sticker can get thrown out

638
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 2: on the field, and that's good enough to go seven

639
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 2: and three, eight and two with nothing added in. But

640
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 2: in order to go nine and one or ten to zero,

641
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 2: it's gonna matter against the likes of Alabama or the

642
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 2: likes of in a college football playoff situation. If you

643
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: get that far the likes of a Clemson, Ohio State,

644
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: Florida in the regular season, you're gonna have to get

645
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 2: after the quarterback. I don't care how good your defense is.

646
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: This sport has shown us over the last few years.

647
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 2: Quarterback play at the college level has elevated to where

648
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: if you are in the elite tier offensively, there is

649
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 2: no defense known to man in this sport that is

650
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 2: shutting you down. Now, they may not give up fifty,

651
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 2: but if you face the elite of the elite in

652
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 2: this sport, they're scoring twenty four plus on you.

653
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: Now, if it's thirty four or forty four, that's a problem.

654
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 2: But the point is you've got to be able to

655
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 2: match it, and so you're gonna have to be able

656
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 2: to do something in turn terms of disrupting, because the

657
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: difference between holding them to twenty three to twenty four

658
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 2: versus them tacking on another touchdown field goal and that

659
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 2: being the difference in the game is how consistently can

660
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 2: you affect the quarterback. Don't have to be a sack

661
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 2: all the time, but there have been times, most recently

662
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 2: that LSU game watching Joe Burrow have the amount of

663
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 2: time it takes us to do an entire show to

664
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: stand in the pocket and just kind of watch things unfold.

665
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: I think at one time he yawned.

666
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 2: In the SEC Championship game and then kept right on

667
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 2: going with the same play that was happening before he yawned.

668
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: They got to get after the quarterback better.

669
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 2: And so there are guys, now I start you normally

670
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 2: start at edge rusher. Hey, I think guys like Nikobe Dean,

671
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 2: who is an inside backer for them, but not in

672
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 2: the classical sense of six three, two hundred and fifty

673
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 2: five pounds. That's the kind of athlete that can disrupt things.

674
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: Nolan Smith, Jalen Carter. These are the kind of guys

675
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 2: who can disrupt I don't care where it comes from,

676
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 2: but they need it, and they need it in waves,

677
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 2: not just one guy that you can game plan around

678
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: if you're really good offensively.

679
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about biggest questions for Georgia here. Defensively.

680
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 2: Everybody expects them to be good one of, if not

681
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 2: the very best units in the sport this year. But

682
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 2: notice what I said, one of, if not the best

683
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: in the sport this year. Are they going to be

684
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 2: historically great? Is this going to be a unit that

685
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 2: we compare against the best of all time or is

686
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: it going to be one of two or three of

687
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 2: the best units this year?

688
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: Because there's a difference there.

689
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 2: And the way that you can expect in a game

690
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: and the way that you can game plan offensively in

691
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 2: a game. If you've got a historically great defense, that

692
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 2: changes things a little bit, and it also probably changes

693
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 2: the way you go about things offensively a little bit.

694
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 2: Number two, what will that offense be asked to do?

695
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: That falls right in line with question number one. There again,

696
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 2: Georgia's roster I firmly believe can go eight and two just.

697
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: Their that's how good they are. They probably have.

698
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 2: You can make an argument they have the most talented

699
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 2: preseason roster in America at this point.

700
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: That's how good they've recruited. They can go eight and

701
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: two with a roster.

702
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 2: But what is the offense asked to do falls right

703
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 2: in line with what the defense is or isn't allowing

704
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: week to week. But you can only protect that offense

705
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 2: for so long. And I keep going back to this,

706
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 2: that defense can give you a false sense of security

707
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 2: if it's not historically great, you know, if it's not

708
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 2: one of the best of all time. The fact of

709
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 2: the matter is going to remain as I just said,

710
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 2: Elite college offenses are going to score on you. And

711
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 2: if you have sheltered that offense and you have taken

712
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 2: the air out of the ball against inferior opposition just

713
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 2: because hey, there's only one way we lose this game,

714
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: and that's turnovers. If you play that risk averse style,

715
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 2: that's fine to get you eight and two, But if

716
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: you're looking to go further than that, eventually your quarterbacks

717
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 2: are going to have to win you a game or two?

718
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: Is the Georgia quarterback situation?

719
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 2: Is that offense going to be at a point anytime

720
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 2: this year where you can count on them when you

721
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: need a drive or two third quarter and maybe it's

722
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 2: seventeen seventeen against.

723
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: Florida and you need a drive.

724
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: Maybe you're trailing twenty to seventeen against Alabama, you need

725
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 2: a drive At any point this year? Are they going

726
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 2: to be in a position to do that? And since

727
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: we were just showing you pictures of JT. Daniels there,

728
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 2: what happens if he's cleared or when he's cleared we

729
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 2: expect to happen eventually. Right now, they couldn't start him

730
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: if they wanted to. But what happens when he's cleared?

731
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 2: Because you've heard a lot of rumor and whatnot out

732
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 2: of Georgia about the reason why Jamie Newman left in

733
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 2: the reason why Dewan Mathis may very well be your

734
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: starter for the first week or first several weeks. A

735
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 2: lot of that stuff may be true, there may be

736
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 2: shades of gray or degrees of truth to it. What

737
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: happens when he's cleared? How big a quarterback competition? Do

738
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 2: you have up there?

739
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: Then?

740
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: Is it Dewan Mathis's job or is this a case

741
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 2: where it's his job right now because you can't really

742
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 2: get Daniel's fair looks in practice. But once he's cleared,

743
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 2: then we kind of hit the reset button and once

744
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 2: we see that we've got to be able to stretch

745
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 2: the field better than we can with Mathis how much

746
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 2: does that reset that quarterback situation? You can only know

747
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: that once he gets clear, because they cannot dedicate practice

748
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: reps to a guy right now that they know one

749
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 2: percent cannot play on Saturday. This is not five weeks

750
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: to go into the season starting. We're here, so you

751
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 2: don't waste practice reps right now. And number four, Matt

752
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: Luke is the new offen line coach here. Will he

753
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 2: produce a great offensive line? They've been pretty good there

754
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: for the last few years. Right now they probably have

755
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 2: as many question marks as they have in quite a

756
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 2: while in that offensive line. Now they are not without

757
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 2: personnel by any stretch of the imagination. Question Mark doesn't

758
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 2: equal weakness, question mark equals question mark. Matt Luke is

759
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 2: very highly regarded. How he's started with a bang there.

760
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 2: He's made some waves on the recruiting trails. So now

761
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 2: what kind of product does he put on the field,

762
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 2: be cause you just lost one of the best in

763
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 2: the sport in Todd Grantham, And everyone always loves to

764
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 2: assume best case and it's glass all the way full

765
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 2: and oh will seamlessly transition. Well, you can't toubt how

766
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: great Todd Grantham is to me for three years and

767
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 2: then pretend like it's no big deal when he leaves.

768
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 2: It's one way or the other. Or maybe he was

769
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 2: great and Matt Luke is also that great. So that's

770
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 2: the reason it's a question to me right now. How

771
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 2: about the schedule analysis for Georgia.

772
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: They have a.

773
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: Bye before Florida, as they always do, but this schedule

774
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 2: is pretty front loaded. They have five, to me of

775
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 2: their toughest games. In fact, they're five toughest games are

776
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 2: all in a row. If you look at that, and

777
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 2: it starts in week two. They got Auburn, they got Tennessee,

778
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: they got Bama, they got Kentucky.

779
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: A bye week, and then Florida.

780
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 2: We have two of their games rated ten, and that's

781
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 2: the game at Bama and that's the game against Florida

782
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 2: neutral site. There we got three of them rated eight

783
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 2: or nine, We got three of them rated six or seven,

784
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 2: and we got two of them rated five or less.

785
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 2: Take a good look at that and then think along

786
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 2: with me, best, worst, and most likely record scenarios. Georgia

787
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: is just like Alabama at this point. The talent alone

788
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: makes their ceiling ten and oh every year when you're

789
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 2: talking best case scenario, So that's where Georgia starts. Ten

790
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 2: and oh is best case. The worst case to me

791
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 2: is six and four when you're talking about two games

792
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 2: rated ten or higher and you're talking about half of

793
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 2: your schedule being rated eight or higher. Yeah, if you

794
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 2: don't get quarterback figured out, you absolutely right, six and

795
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: four is the worst case there the most likely for Georgia.

796
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 2: Our model per one hundred seasons relations spat out eight

797
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 2: and a half and one and a half, so it

798
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: was dead on an even number there. We had to

799
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 2: round up or round down, and I rounded down. The

800
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 2: reason I rounded down is because I can listen to

801
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: people tell me that the ceiling, even with Dwan mathis

802
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: in this offense at sky high, and it very well

803
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 2: may be. I mean, there certainly is a pop potential

804
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 2: with this team this year because there is so much

805
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: unknown entering the year that if all the unknown exceeds

806
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 2: what normal expectation would be, that's why ten and zero

807
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 2: is there for best case. So right now we're gonna

808
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 2: go with eight and two. That's going to be the

809
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 2: official projection here Georgia eight and two for the twenty

810
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: twenty college football season. I think that went pretty good. Now,

811
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: let's see if the entire season plays out the way

812
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 2: we said it would. Speaking of not playing out the

813
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 2: way that anyone thought anything would, we had some things happened.

814
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: Yesterday.

815
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 2: The Big Ten released their schedule, and it is to

816
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 2: me very tough. As we looked at that. They put

817
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 2: a nice second helmet grid schedule or just a normal

818
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 2: grid schedule out, whatever you want to call it, Colin

819
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 2: showing it to you right now, it's really hard for

820
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: me to look at this and see anything other than

821
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 2: Ohio State versus Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game.

822
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 1: But that's not what stood out to me the most.

823
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what stood out to me the most.

824
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 2: You know that my second passion right closely behind college

825
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 2: football is weather. Every Big Ten team has at least

826
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 2: one home game in the month of December. How many

827
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 2: feet of snow are on this schedule. If I could

828
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 2: put out another prop bet for you, how many total

829
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: feet of snow are on this schedule would be a

830
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 2: very very fun prop bet. Minnesota in December, that's great,

831
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 2: Iowa in December, It's phenomenal.

832
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: And listen.

833
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 2: As much as I believe in championship games being played

834
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 2: in a static environment, regular season games, I love it,

835
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: play in horizontal rain, playing a bliss.

836
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: I love it, love it, love it, love it.

837
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 2: Okay, so the playoff standard debate, that's really what's at

838
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 2: the forefront right now. That's what all of you have,

839
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 2: at least judging by my inbox, wanted to talk about.

840
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 2: And essentially what it comes down to is this, Well,

841
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 2: they're only planning on playing eight games, and even now,

842
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to thread a pretty fine thin needle

843
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 2: because at any given point, all these restrictions that are

844
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 2: in place and the protocols that are in place could

845
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 2: derail the season where even if Ohio State wins undefeated,

846
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: maybe they're six and oh or seven and oh instead

847
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 2: of eight to oh. But even if they're eight, no,

848
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 2: a lot of you flat out don't think it's fair

849
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: that they should be compared to conferences that are going

850
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 2: to play nine games or ten games, and so to that,

851
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 2: I just want to tell you this symmetry went out

852
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 2: the window a long time ago when it comes to

853
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty season. So let me meet you in

854
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 2: the middle, as I normally try and do in any

855
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 2: kind of debate or disagreement. Let's just identify the common ground,

856
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 2: because we have a lot of it. Common ground. Point

857
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,479
Speaker 2: Number one, the Big Ten screwed up. That's the entire

858
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 2: reason we're in the situation that we're in right now.

859
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 2: They will admit that you and I both have fully

860
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 2: functioning brains, so we know that the Big Ten screwed up.

861
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: That's why this is the way it is. Number two,

862
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: things are uneven.

863
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 2: Yes, again, anyone with a functioning set of eyeballs can

864
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 2: see that. And number three, no, it's not fair. It's

865
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 2: not gonna be fair. So you just have to accept

866
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 2: that in a season of craziness and chaos, fairness went

867
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 2: out the window a long time ago. I wish that

868
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: wasn't the case, but it is the case. So with

869
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 2: that in mind, Colin is showing you video of Ryan Day,

870
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 2: head coach at Ohio State. Here's what this is going

871
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 2: to come down to, right or wrong, fair or not.

872
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: It's about Ohio State and the rest of the pack

873
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 2: up there, because Ohio State is the class of that pack,

874
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 2: and Ohio State's going to play some football games, and

875
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 2: if they pass what a lot of people affectionately refer

876
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 2: to as the eyeball test, if they look like we

877
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: think they're gonna look, most people aren't gonna care if

878
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 2: they played six games or eight games. You may care

879
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 2: in principle and in theory, but what I'm talking about

880
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 2: is folks who are making the decision as to who

881
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 2: goes to the playoff.

882
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: If they look like.

883
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 2: A machine, all the arguments are gonna be is that, well,

884
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 2: they could play fifteen games and they'd still look the

885
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 2: same as they do right now. The counter to that

886
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 2: would be okay, But I mean, once upon a time

887
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: they were getting it handed to them by the likes

888
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 2: of Iowa or Purdue is three or four touchdown underdog.

889
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 2: So you can't just assume someone's gonna win every Saturday.

890
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 2: That's why they play the game. And if you make

891
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 2: that argument, you will be right.

892
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: You will be right. I'm not telling you you're not right.

893
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 2: I'm already visiting late November or early December along with you.

894
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it is what it is at this point,

895
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 2: and I don't believe that a critical amount of people

896
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 2: in a college football playoff selection committee room are going

897
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 2: to look at them if they're steamrolling everyone and say Nope,

898
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 2: can't let them in. They didn't play enough games. I

899
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 2: don't believe that's gonna happen. I think there are viable

900
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 2: arguments on both sides. I don't believe that's gonna happen.

901
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 2: That's just my take on that. Now, that's not where

902
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 2: the drama is anymore. The dramas in the PAC twelve

903
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: and the very latest from there is there was a

904
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 2: lot of harmony. You know, it seemed for a long

905
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 2: time like as the Big ten was pulling in twelve

906
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 2: thirteen different directions, it felt like the PAC twelve was

907
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 2: pretty harmonious. Now, granted they were harmonious, and the idea

908
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 2: that they weren't going to play well, now all that's

909
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 2: been thrown for a loop. John Wilner, as we have

910
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 2: said many times, does as good a job as anyone

911
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 2: covering the PAC twelve.

912
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: He is out on the West Coast and so.

913
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 2: He kind of alluded to and intimated over the weekend. Yeah,

914
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 2: there's a fracture in that good faith that we've been

915
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 2: operating with out here. And they expected, according to John Wilner,

916
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 2: and he is well plugged in out there, they expected

917
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 2: a vote yesterday. They wanted to announce something yesterday morning.

918
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 2: They wanted to kind of steal a lot of that

919
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 2: spotlight that the Big ten got, but the presidents didn't

920
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,760
Speaker 2: allow it. They did not have a vote to decide

921
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 2: when they're going to start the season. Yet now there

922
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 2: is hope amongst some too many depends who you talk

923
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: to as to whether it's the sum or the many,

924
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 2: that they'll still be able to crank things up by

925
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 2: Halloween out there. But the problem is not everyone thinks

926
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: they can get started by Halloween. So now the question

927
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 2: on the table last check was what if some people

928
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 2: are ready to start by Halloween and some people can't

929
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 2: start until the next week, November seventh. And so some

930
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: people are saying, well, tough, you gotta wait to November seventh.

931
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 2: We all got to start together. And then some other

932
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 2: people say, forget that, we're ready to go. We'll start

933
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 2: October thirty first, And then you can just catch up.

934
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 2: If you don't have any bye weeks, how do you

935
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 2: catch up? So then there's a happy medium where you

936
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 2: could just play week one and even though you're playing

937
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 2: teams from your conference, count them as out of conference games.

938
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 2: I don't know where they're going to land on that.

939
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 2: My point is, here's the underlying centiment. The underlying sentiment

940
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 2: from the coaches who are ready to go is the

941
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,479
Speaker 2: Pac twelve was so happy to announce on September third

942
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 2: that they had partnered with Quittal, and that is a

943
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 2: rapid anti gen test, and they signed their own deal

944
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 2: with Quittal, And so a lot of people out there

945
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 2: now in retrospect or saying, wait a second, if we're

946
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 2: going to play football, why wasn't the urgency cranked up

947
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,919
Speaker 2: out here the day we signed that deal?

948
00:42:59,560 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: Now?

949
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: The answer, the answer to me is they didn't plan

950
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 2: on playing football. They planned on following the Big ten,

951
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 2: and probably at that time they didn't expect a Big

952
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 2: ten to make the move they did. If you're a

953
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 2: football coach, you constantly have to have a plan. You

954
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 2: have to have contingency off of contingency off of contingency,

955
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 2: and you get judged week to week on how good

956
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 2: or bad your plan is. And what really frustrates a

957
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 2: football coach when they have to weigh themselves into these

958
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 2: sorts of waters is anonymous administrative types. They don't always

959
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 2: move at the same speed a football coach does, and

960
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 2: they don't always have meticulous planning the way that a

961
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 2: football coach does. And right now you are at the

962
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 2: behest and at the whim of anonymous administrators out there,

963
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 2: for lack of a better term.

964
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: So that's sort of the infighting right now. I expect

965
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: one way.

966
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 2: Or the other in the next few days will have

967
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 2: some kind of resolution on this, only because they got

968
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 2: to figure out a way to get it kicked off,

969
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 2: and you got to start practicing pretty soon because the

970
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 2: clock is ticking and every day that goes by is

971
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 2: one more week or so that you have to push

972
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 2: the season back, at which point you're asking, whyland World,

973
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 2: are we even doing this?

974
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: All right? Colin?

975
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 2: So let's let me make sure and pull something up

976
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 2: so I don't give faulty information. Okay, On Sunday nights

977
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 2: we always give at least one, and tonight it will

978
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 2: be one of our early best bets. We like to

979
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: simulate our numbers overnight, and so we've already got I'm

980
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 2: looking right in front of me at every score we

981
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: expect for every game that.

982
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: Is played this Saturday.

983
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 2: And there are quite a few games actually that have

984
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 2: jumped off the chart, but none more so than the

985
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 2: early game that we're going to hand out in our

986
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 2: five pack of the Ramen Noodle Express, Colin, without further

987
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 2: ado or further to do, as some of my buddies

988
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 2: back home would say, our early best bet for Week

989
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: four college football as the SEC kicks off, no less

990
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 2: is going to be this game. It's Florida at Ole Miss.

991
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 2: It is this Saturday. It's a noon eastern kickoff, eleven

992
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 2: am Central. I haven't gotten used to living on Central

993
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 2: Time yet. The Vegas number is Florida minus twelve and

994
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 2: a half. I want to tell you something. I tempered

995
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 2: what our actual model says about this game, because it

996
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: was north of three touchdowns, which is a massive discrepancy

997
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 2: between our number and the Vegas number, very irregular. I

998
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 2: tempered it, and still it only came down to nineteen

999
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 2: and a half. So with that being said, the first

1000
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 2: of the weekly five pack and the Ramnudle Express this

1001
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 2: week will be the Florida Gators minus twelve and a

1002
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 2: half at Ole Miss.

1003
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, if you're.

1004
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 2: Talking about how this game looks, this is a team

1005
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 2: in Florida that has had very few problems with COVID.

1006
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,399
Speaker 2: This is a team in Old Miss that has had

1007
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 2: a ton of problems with COVID.

1008
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 1: This is a team in.

1009
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 2: Florida that returns a quarterback and offensive coordinator and a

1010
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 2: head coach and better roster. And then this is a

1011
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,439
Speaker 2: team in Old Miss that has a new head coach,

1012
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 2: new offensive coordinator, same quarterback, but a lot of new

1013
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 2: and a lot of disruption. And therefore we are rolling

1014
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 2: confidently with Florida minus twelve and a half as the

1015
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 2: first pick in our weekly five pack. The other picks

1016
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 2: could come at any time this week. To be honest

1017
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 2: with you, I'm not so sure. I may not put

1018
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: out a couple of these on Twitter. Almost put out

1019
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 2: Florida pick on Twitter today because I was afraid it

1020
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 2: was gonna move to fourteen. The best way to keep

1021
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: up with that is to watch every show or listen

1022
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,919
Speaker 2: to every podcast, and follow me on Twitter at late

1023
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 2: Kick Josh and I think Colin. That's all we had

1024
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 2: to do tonight, really, good night. Remember to get your

1025
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 2: questions in for the Late Kick Extra podcast this week.

1026
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 2: That's all Q and A.

1027
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: It is some of the most fun and best content

1028
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: that we do all week regardless, and so get your.

1029
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 2: Questions there for that at Latekickjosh on Twitter, Joshpait seven

1030
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 2: zero six at gmail dot com for director Colin. For

1031
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 2: Jordan on the podcast side of things, I'm Josh Bate.

1032
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:40,760
Speaker 1: Have a great week.

1033
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 2: College football is here in ernest God bless