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Speaker 1: is a nice fun Thursday for us. Got another show Sunday,

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Speaker 1: will be an indie next week, but today I was

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin is one of the most interesting head coaches

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Speaker 1: in the history of this sport. It's one of the

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Speaker 1: of it about what he thinks about himself from a

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Speaker 1: decade to a decade and a half ago. Here is

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen with us at SEC Media Days. Lane Kiffin,

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Speaker 1: head coach of Old Miss running things out at SEC

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Speaker 1: media days. I actually walked over to the big room

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Speaker 1: and listened to you this morning, and I want you

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Speaker 1: to go back to twenty ten and imagine you're a

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Speaker 1: AI something called the transfer, portal, salaries and free agency.

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Speaker 1: Certainly you would have thought you were in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: What if I told you that was actually a college

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Speaker 1: football press conference?

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Speaker 2: A lot of strangers you told me I was at

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Speaker 2: the press conference as the head coach of Ole Miss. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it really is crazy how much it has changed. And

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Speaker 2: really those things have changed this in a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: And I said, a massive change was in IL and

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Speaker 2: a massive change was portal, and they kind of happened

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Speaker 2: at the same time. You know, these are groundbreaking changes

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Speaker 2: that at the same time that ended up completely affecting

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Speaker 2: each other. Because it's now, like we're talking about the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Now I can opt into free agency and I get paid,

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Speaker 2: you know, whenever I want to, basically, and so creates

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Speaker 2: not just an NFL model, but the NFL plus problems.

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Speaker 2: An NFL model, but not the structure.

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Speaker 1: You made a really good point this morning, I kind

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Speaker 1: of thought about it from a different lens because of

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Speaker 1: the way you put it. You said, players, they're getting

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Speaker 1: what they can right now. I would do the same

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Speaker 1: thing if I were them, because it's kind of a window.

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Speaker 1: Chances are I agree with what you said. This window's

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Speaker 1: pretty small. So if you fast forward to twenty thirty three,

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Speaker 1: forty three fifty three, we're looking back on the history

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Speaker 1: of college football. I mean, how do you think about

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Speaker 1: the past five year window? How do you think we'll

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Speaker 1: describe that in the future.

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Speaker 2: Well, I say that about this window, and I think

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Speaker 2: of it like before they got rookie contracts under control,

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Speaker 2: because the veterans were like, wait, here's JaMarcus Russell making

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Speaker 2: sixty three million dollars, you know. So after that timeframe there,

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Speaker 2: they started changing, okay what they could make, you know,

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Speaker 2: capping what the rookies could make. So I feel like

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Speaker 2: that's kind of like those players got to utilize that

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Speaker 2: window of making so much on rookie contracts. That's where

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Speaker 2: these guys are at now. They have this little window

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Speaker 2: before it gets structured.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the motivation for a college football player

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Speaker 1: is to high school college football hopefully make life changing

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Speaker 1: money in the NFL. And I'm not suggesting that the

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Speaker 1: money and college football is anywhere remotely close to what

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Speaker 1: you can earn at the highest level of the NFL,

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Speaker 1: but there are guys who are making pretty substantial money

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Speaker 1: in college. I want to know from you, like a

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Speaker 1: person to person, do you ever see that change the

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Speaker 1: motivation dynamic? Do you ever see a guy develop maybe

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Speaker 1: or four more years down the road. And if you

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Speaker 1: see that start to play out in practice, or you

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Speaker 1: see that starts to play out in the locker room

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Speaker 1: and starts to affect your team, how do you actually

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Speaker 1: go about dealing with that?

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Speaker 2: I think it's definitely an issue. I like to tell

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Speaker 2: our staff, like, you know, let's be really reasonable and

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Speaker 2: realistic about what's gonna happen. How players aink not just like, well,

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Speaker 2: this is what they're supposed to think. They should just

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Speaker 2: want to be the best they can and win. And okay,

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Speaker 2: that's great and some are wired like that, but a

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Speaker 2: lot of their motivation and there's nothing wrong with it.

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Speaker 2: We need to accept that, like as coach, like photograph

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Speaker 2: like accept it is money they want to get to

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Speaker 2: the NFL because they want to play in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: But actually a lot of their motivation is the money,

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Speaker 2: because unfortunately, our youth thinks that when you get money,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna solve everything, but shun'll create more problems. But

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Speaker 2: that's a different subject. So now if they have it

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Speaker 2: and Maury like you say, okay, well it's not as

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Speaker 2: much as they're going to get in the NFL. But

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Speaker 2: to some of them, they're like, wait, I'm getting a

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Speaker 2: couple hundred thousand dollars and I've never had anything. It

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Speaker 2: seems like in their mind like they're making millions. So

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Speaker 2: there is a major problem in there in ego that

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Speaker 2: comes in in motive. You know. If you're let's say

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Speaker 2: you had two motivations to go to the NFL. One

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Speaker 2: was to put on that jersey and go to No on.

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Speaker 2: The other is to get money. One of them just

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Speaker 2: went away a little bit, you know, depending on how

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Speaker 2: much that you get, and then I naiveness that, well

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Speaker 2: I have this, I'm gonna be set for this many

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Speaker 2: years because of it.

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Speaker 1: What's your philosophy on acquiring quarterback talent? You guys got

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Speaker 1: a couple out of the portal. I think it surprised

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Speaker 1: some people. I mean I raised my eyebrow at it.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, if I ran a team,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to have as many talented guys in

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Speaker 1: the room as possible. Is that pretty much the way

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Speaker 1: you looked at that? Sure?

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Speaker 2: Like an NFL team, like your goal as the head

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Speaker 2: coach or general manager or owner is like to make

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Speaker 2: the best roster that you can, to make the best

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Speaker 2: position groups that you can, and add talent and so,

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Speaker 2: like I said, you know, like we don't recruit or

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Speaker 2: add talent or not add talent based off of someone's feelings.

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Speaker 2: Of course, a lot of players don't want other good

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Speaker 2: players coming at their spot. I mean it just again,

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Speaker 2: let's be realistic. So but that's not my job. My

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Speaker 2: job is to put the best team and the best

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Speaker 2: players together.

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Speaker 1: If we were to, let's go time the sheet again

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Speaker 1: second time in like five minutes. You take the job

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Speaker 1: at Tennessee oh nine and you're watching it, it's twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, lank If and you have a conversation with

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Speaker 1: that guy, what are you going back there and telling him?

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Speaker 1: What advice are you giving him?

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Speaker 2: Slow down the You don't know very much. You think

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Speaker 2: you do and you know, just be more appreciative of

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Speaker 2: where you're at and how fast you got there instead

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Speaker 1: Do guys ask you for advice on that kind of

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Speaker 1: stuff to people seek it out from, you know, when

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Speaker 1: you've you've been several places.

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Speaker 2: Now, well, I think that, oh, our past is huge

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Speaker 2: to help people and to utilize your past. And so

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Speaker 2: even it happens all the time, like on subjects like

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Speaker 2: what I'm trying, what we're talking about players and getting

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Speaker 2: the money too fast and then like thinking, okay, well

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Speaker 2: that's all good. I I got money, so all my

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Speaker 2: problems are solved and be able to go through situations

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Speaker 2: and explain to them like, well here I had that

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Speaker 2: really early and that I didn't make these things go away.

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Speaker 2: So you still got to work on these things and

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Speaker 2: you still got to, you know, fight your ego, which

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Speaker 2: is a major monster when you get too much too early.

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Speaker 2: You see that in all professions.

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Speaker 1: If if I look at this old miss team, it's

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Speaker 1: easy for me to just open a preview magazine and

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Speaker 1: look at what they say. But what do you say

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Speaker 1: are the one or two focal points that will determine

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Speaker 1: three or four games either way.

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Speaker 2: This year defense, new staff, new players all over the place,

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Speaker 2: So how fast does that come together? And then getting

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Speaker 2: back to taking care of the ball. You know, we

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Speaker 2: were actually minus one and turnover margin, which for years

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Speaker 2: at different places have been we've been really good at.

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Speaker 2: And so taking care of the ball finishing drives awesome stuff,

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Speaker 2: I guess said.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the great what ifs in the history

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Speaker 1: of college football? What if Lane Kiffen stayed at Tennessee?

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Speaker 1: What if he turned down the job offer from USC?

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Speaker 1: Director Colin asks me this about once or twice a week,

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Speaker 1: and I am the shruggy emoji once or twice a week.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Colin. I do think it's interesting you

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Speaker 1: listen to a little retrospective there, or an introspective. I

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Speaker 1: guess that would be he's telling himself, slow down, you

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Speaker 1: don't know anything. You think you do, oh nine, Lane,

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Speaker 1: but you don't know anything. Let me tell you. If

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Speaker 1: you weren't around for it, he may have been in

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Speaker 1: over his skis, according to himself, a little bit. But

644
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: it was fun. It was nothing if not fun. And

645
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: that dude played Alabama to the wire in his one

646
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: year at Tennessee. It tooks a block field goal at

647
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: the end of regulation, Alabama gets out I think a

648
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: twelve to ten winner, and Bama goes on to win

649
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: the national title that year. Lane Kiffin was really good

650
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: for us today. We appreciated him. Also, I saw you Packer,

651
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: I saw you down there in the live chat. You

652
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: thought that I put that interview in the middle of

653
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: the show so that I could chug the pre workout.

654
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: I haven't chugged it yet. We're probably a little ways

655
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: away from that, Jesse. Let's just at the end of

656
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: media day's takeaways, let's chug it. Let's just do it.

657
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: No immunity know anything. Let's just do it. SEC Media

658
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: days Obviously in the books, we were over there all

659
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: four days. Now, I know you could watch the press conferences,

660
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: and I know you've seen your beat writers and whatnot

661
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: and what they said. I'm just gonna give you some

662
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: things I took away, and also some things I picked

663
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: up on Okay, So Billy Napier was really interesting to me.

664
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: I set out this week and he was a name

665
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: I circle. Now, we got a lot of big names

666
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: on the show, and all of those individual interviews are

667
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,959
Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel, and I don't think we had

668
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: a bad one this week. I loved them all. I

669
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to Billy Napier and he was awesome

670
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: off camera. He was awesome on camera. He is so

671
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: bunkered man. There is so much negative energy in the

672
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: public about Florida football, and I genuinely think he is

673
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: so bunkered. He is so foxholed. He doesn't even have

674
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: awareness of it. And I thought it was so fun

675
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: to talk to him about the day to day, the

676
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: day to day inner grind of recruiting in the SEC

677
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: in the state of Florida, how the portal works, how

678
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: he was candid about how they had to learn, they

679
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: had to get some egg on their face early on,

680
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: and then they also had staff turnover really late in

681
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: the cycle. He is a good coach man, and I

682
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: talked to other coaches about him. No one really downgrades

683
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: his ability as a coach. The only doubt when football

684
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: people have talked to me about Billie Napier, is is

685
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: he going to be given Is he going to be

686
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: given enough time if twoenty twenty three doesn't work out

687
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: to seven wins or more. And there's a great, big

688
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: question mark. I don't know the answer to that. I

689
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: think Napier is a good dude, and I think if

690
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: you could, if you could sit down with him, and

691
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: especially off camera, I think you'd look at him a

692
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: little differently. That's what I think. I think you'd look

693
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: at him a little differently. I think some guys went,

694
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: especially if they're not like fifteen or twenty year veterans,

695
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: when the camera's on, you can have a little mo

696
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: of tone nature about yourself. You can sound a little cerebral,

697
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: and that gets misconstrued as unemotional. That guy has a

698
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: ton of emotion, ton of energy, ton of fire. And

699
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever met people like this,

700
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: but when you just talk to him, like if you

701
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: were sitting down to lunch with him and you brought

702
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: up certain subjects, you'd see those eyes get wide. You

703
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: see that fire. I've seen it, you'd see it. And

704
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope he's given enough link of rope

705
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: that we get to see it. At Florida, Jimbo and

706
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: A and M. I have no clue about I did

707
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: not get to talk to Jimbo because I had obligations

708
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: with CBS, and you know what happened. The last time

709
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: he and I spoke, so I was looking forward to that.

710
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: We didn't get to get him. Sometimes there are storylines

711
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,919
Speaker 1: that are really overhyped. Happens all the time, and most

712
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: of the time they under deliver because people have been

713
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: focusing on stuff that does not matter. In the case

714
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: of Texas A and M's offense, that's all that matters,

715
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are focused on it. Now

716
00:35:58,440 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: you may be focused on the right thing for the

717
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 1: wrong reasons. I was talking to Billy Lucci and David

718
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: you know, and the guys over at tech SAgs, and

719
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: I was asked this very question, what are the keys here? Well,

720
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: it's obviously how Patrino is plugged in, how the offense

721
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: functions and operates. But the thing I care about is

722
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: I don't really care if they get along. I could

723
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: not care less if Bobby Petrino loves Jimbo Fisher or

724
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: whether he you know, if he was on fire. You

725
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: know the saying, I care about whether they can put

726
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: a functioning offense and a winning product on the field.

727
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 1: Emotions totally remove from it, and if they can't, all

728
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: that else is irrelevant. If they can't, then we've already

729
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: had that conversation on the show. I think a lot

730
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: of you listened if you did, to Fisher earlier this week,

731
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: and there is no yes when people ask him about

732
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: the offense and how it's going to function. Is Bobby

733
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: Petrino going to be the guy? All this is delegated

734
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: to You're not gonna get a yes because that's not

735
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: the way he feels about it. I think that's pretty

736
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 1: obvious at this point. I don't have the best of

737
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: feelings about it. If you want me to be real

738
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: with you now. I also don't do predictions in July,

739
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: so it's not a prediction special yet. It is one

740
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: of the most important stories to watch in college football

741
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: this year. The Texas A and M offense early in

742
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: the year. They go to Miami week two, so we

743
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: won't have to wait long. I was around Alabama a

744
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: lot this week. I was around Bama a lot. I

745
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: was around Nick Saban obviously a lot this week. The

746
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: mentality has totally shifted there. I don't just mean, oh

747
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 1: they're fired up, Oh they feel disrespected. That kind of

748
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: stuff is really over sold in a lot of cases.

749
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: I think they understand what they got to get back to.

750
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: There's a scene and gone in sixty seconds, which is

751
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: a beautifully underrated movie, by the way. And Nick Cage

752
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: comes back in town spoiler alert if you hadn't seen it,

753
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 1: and his little brother's in trouble, and he used to

754
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: be the best car thief in southern California, but he

755
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: got out of the biz just in time. And now

756
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: Raymond Kaletri it's got his little kid brother held hostage.

757
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: And the ransom is I need fifty ks fifty kas

758
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: your brother died, and Nick Cage is the one to

759
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 1: do it. But before he goes and steals all those cars,

760
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: what does he do? He calls his mom, Actually he

761
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: doesn't call her. He just surprises her at the cafe

762
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: she's working at and he takes her and he sits

763
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: her down, and she says, can you get him out

764
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: of this? And he says I can. But it means

765
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: doing things things I told you I'd never do again.

766
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 1: I think Nick Saban and Alabama are fully capable of

767
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: winning the national championship this year. But it's gonna mean

768
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: doing things that you thought they'd never do again. It's

769
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: gonna mean what they less affectionately refer to as murder

770
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: ball and if you've ever watched murder ball, you know

771
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't leave a lot to the imagination, and it

772
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: also doesn't leave a lot of margins. They're bigger and

773
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: faster and stronger and deeper than you, and they are

774
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: all holding a sledgehammer and they just hit you with

775
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: it for four quarters. You can't stand up to it.

776
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: That used to be the long and short of an

777
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: Alabama game. The scores used to all look the same.

778
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: It was going to be them scoring somewhere between thirty

779
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 1: five and forty five and you scoring somewhere between seven

780
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: and fourteen. And that was what the final score was

781
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: going to be about eight times out of ten. And

782
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: then quarterbacks like Tua Tongue of Iloa came along, and

783
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,479
Speaker 1: Mac Jones was there, and Bryce Young has been there,

784
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: and Saban sat right there three feet from me and said,

785
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: we got to Bryce Centric last year. That is code

786
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 1: for we were about to run the blank blank blank

787
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: blank out of the football this year. And we got

788
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: Roydale Williams and Jace McClellan. We got Justice Haynes back here.

789
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: Richard Young is a true freshman Jam Miller. They are

790
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: like five or six deep with quality options in the

791
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: running back room. He did talk about how he feels

792
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: a lot better about their blocking at the tight end position.

793
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: Their offensive line with Eric Woolford as that offensive line coach,

794
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: not to be undersold, there could be one of the

795
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: best in the country. That is a Joe Moore Award

796
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: caliber offensive line. Ultraphysical, the most violent bowling ball you've

797
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: ever seen, That's what that offense has the potential to be.

798
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: You want a bowld prediction for me? I think the

799
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: lead the league in rushing this year. I think that

800
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: is how drastic the offensive shift in the Alabama offensive

801
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: philosophy will be. If that's the case, they're equipped to

802
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: win a national championship. If it's not, I don't think

803
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: they have the quarterback play to do it. Tennessee, it's

804
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: a team versus program thing. That's the theme I've gotten

805
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: every time I've talked to people in the program. Kind

806
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: of pun intended. They won a lot of games last year.

807
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: Teams have done that before. A program sustains it year

808
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: over year. We don't know if Tennessee has a good

809
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: program or not. They don't. They were worried about the

810
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: NC Double A and finally they got that out of

811
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: the way. I mean, I was sitting in the room

812
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: with Hypel today when he was talking to Dennis, and

813
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, it's like when you can finally

814
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: talk about it in past tense, what the NC DOUBLEA

815
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: sanctions were instead of what they could be. That's a

816
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: relief and the fact that now you just get to

817
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 1: move forward and your fate is totally in your hands.

818
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: It's about Joe Milton at quarterback there. I know it

819
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: sounds so simplistic. Oh you just mentioned every quarterback. I

820
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: sure do in these kinds of offenses, I sure do.

821
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: What would Tennessee be without Hendon Hooker last year? What

822
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: would Hendon Hooker have been without Tennessee last year? It's

823
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: another good way to put it. What has Joe Milton been?

824
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: What will he be with Josh Haipel inserting him as

825
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: his full time starter this year? I look at the schedule,

826
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: Colin's got it up on the screen right now. You

827
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: think about Georgia Florida, and that's been the mainstay, is

828
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: the big rivalry in the East. But this year the

829
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: premier game in the East figures to be Georgia Tennessee.

830
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: And where is it if you're not watching, If you're

831
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: listening on podcasts, do you realize this game is November eighteenth.

832
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: You got to wait until the second to last week

833
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: of the season. So what you think and what I

834
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,240
Speaker 1: think about that matchup right now? What the hypothetical odds

835
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: on the game are right now? They mean nothing? So

836
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: many things could happen in terms of injuries. What if

837
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: we figure out Georgia's pass rush is only fairly good

838
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: by Georgia standards, And what if we figure out Joe

839
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: Milton is the real deal? What if we get in

840
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: a situation, in other words, where they're playing them in

841
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: kneelan which is on absolute fire, the likes of which

842
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: it hasn't been since the Alabama game last year. And

843
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: it's that kind of environment. And maybe Carson Beck is

844
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: pretty good, not great or elite by any means, and

845
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: Georgia can't get to the passer and Tennessee scoring more

846
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: points than you're comfortable with, and you can't trade every

847
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: possession with him like maybe you thought you could with

848
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett. This kind of stuff happens every year. There

849
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: are elite teams every year that you think look convincible

850
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: in the preseason and then football or in our world.

851
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: Life happens. Let's just keep an eye on it. Let's

852
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: not pencil in twelve and oh quite yet, LSU. Brian

853
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: Kelly was the first guy I talked to this week

854
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: this time last year. Yeah, people were talking about whether

855
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: he was a good fit or not, but we've beaten

856
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: that to death. I thought it was about entry point

857
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: with Brian Kelly last year. I always thought he was

858
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: gonna succeed. He is going to succeed there, but I

859
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: had no clue what to expect in year one. So

860
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: I didn't even expect him to win the West, certainly not,

861
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: but I thought it was about entry point. So my

862
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: philosophy was always he's gonna win. Let's find out how

863
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: far he's going to have to climb. They're gonna hop

864
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: in this sec West picture with Brian Kelly, and they're

865
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna peg themselves. They're gonna slot themselves somewhere where's it

866
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: going to be. Turns out it was winning the West.

867
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: That doesn't make him a better program than Alabama, certainly,

868
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: but it also did not make them the dregs of

869
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: the division. Far from it. And so they already pegged

870
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,959
Speaker 1: themselves probably in a little bit higher entry point than most,

871
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: including even me expected. Now it's the same thing, program

872
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: versus team, same theme as we had in Tennessee like

873
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: two minutes ago. How good is this program going to be?

874
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 1: I got no doubt about it, none whatsoever. I've got

875
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: far less doubt here than I do at Tennessee, only

876
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: because I've seen Brian Kelly do it, and in fairness

877
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: to Hypel, I haven't seen him do it. Jaden Daniels

878
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 1: was rated as the top quarterback I believe in the SEC.

879
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: I think he'll end up being the first team All

880
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: SEC quarterback. Man, if they get that kind of play

881
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: out of him. Man, if they get depth behind Malik Neighbors,

882
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, if like Brian Thomas Junior, if those receivers

883
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: behind that wide receiver one start to slot themselves, if

884
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: they get just above average production at tailback, and probably

885
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 1: most importantly, if those portals hit in the secondary, they

886
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: could win the West. Producer Jesse already has a feel

887
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: on this. I'm not quite there yet, So fun times

888
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: to be had by all in the SEC. Okay, Barton

889
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,879
Speaker 1: Simmons used to work here. Now he works like five

890
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: minutes down the street at Vanderbilt, and he used to

891
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: hate on me. He wasn't alone, but he was the

892
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: most high profile public figure that chastised me. Because I,

893
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,240
Speaker 1: to save time, would take turkey, put it in a blender,

894
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: mix it with water, blend the turkey up, drink it

895
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: because I don't care about taste. Voila. Well, what we

896
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: have here, because I'm about to go to the gym

897
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: after the show is I've got some pre workout, I

898
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: have got some amino acid, and I've got a protein shake,

899
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 1: all mixed in the same bottle. So it's like fruit punch,

900
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: blue raspberry and milk chocolate. And you got to excuse

901
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: me because I gotta drink it right now because we

902
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: only have two segments left and then I want to

903
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: get right to the gym, so time out. Could you

904
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: please like the video and subscribe to the channel? Thank you?

905
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: All right? Didn't do that for humor. It's just the

906
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,720
Speaker 1: life I've chosen to live. They're watching us in Seymour, Illinois, Hampton, Tennessee,

907
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: and Clovis, New Mexico. I love people in New Mexico.

908
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: I would love to know who you root for. Do

909
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: you guys, just do you guys just stick with New

910
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: Mexico State? In New Mexico in other words, or do

911
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: you do New Mexico and Texas, New Mexico State and

912
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I just want to know, and I'm gonna

913
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: open that exclusively to our New Mexican I want to

914
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: have a lot of New Mexicanity in the comment section.

915
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: Bold Prediction Time, Chapter twenty. How about that the twentieth

916
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: anniversary of Bold Predictions. For this year, We're going right

917
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: to Eugene Oregon Bold prediction number one. These are from you,

918
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: not from me. Davis from Bend, Oregon said Oregon's going

919
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: to go undefeated in the regular season. Well, Davis, I'm

920
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: slapping a nine on the one to ten boldness scale

921
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: on this prediction. They were ten and three last year

922
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: under Dan Lanning. Now they got just annihilated by Georgia

923
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: in Week one, but then they went on to lose

924
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: two other games by a grand total of seven points.

925
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: So a really good team. Last year. I went up

926
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: there and saw them against UCLA really good game. Now

927
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: we believe in bo Nicks on this show. They are

928
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: ninth in recruiting, ninth in portal this past cycle. I

929
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: really love, as I've told you many times, the way

930
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: that they're stacking talent in their defensive front is very

931
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: important because it's rare. In the Pac twelve, they got

932
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: four new offensive line starters, So any magazine you crack open,

933
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: that's probably what it says. The biggest question for them

934
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: is that plus defensive adjustment, they just got to be

935
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: better on that side of the ball. I got reason

936
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,720
Speaker 1: to be confident they will be because their head coaches,

937
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning, And if you're halfway decent as a coach,

938
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: your program reflects your identity, and Dan Lanning's identity is

939
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: that of a very good defensive mind. So that's a

940
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: nine for me only because it's hard to go undefeated.

941
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: It's really hard, and they, like many others out there

942
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: in that top group, they pretty much play all the

943
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: others in the top group. That's a nine. What about

944
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: West Virginia hot seat, We're not doing that tonight, but

945
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: Neil Brown's name would be well up there. Well, we

946
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: got a question from Gibson in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and

947
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: it's not a question, it's a bold prediction. He said,

948
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: West Virginia will sweep Pennsylvania, just a Keystone sweep. They're

949
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: going to be penn State and Pitt. Now, for those unfamiliar,

950
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: West Virginia plays Penn State opening night, and it's a

951
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: night game in Beaver Stadium, and those folks had had

952
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: expectations this high in quite a while, and there comes

953
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: West Virginia into town. We got a point spread on

954
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: this game. Penn State's favored by twenty. And my guy

955
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: here is telling me, not only is West Virginia pulling

956
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: that upset, they're also gonna be Pitt. And they're only

957
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: a one point dog against Pitt. I made this a

958
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: nine point five. I don't see a world candidly where

959
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 1: West Virginia is capable of slowing down Penn State's ground game.

960
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: And I also don't think there's a world where a

961
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: new quarterback, and it doesn't really matter who it is,

962
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: going to be a new quarterback. By the way, there's

963
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: no quarterback named. This will be the first non transfer

964
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 1: quarterback since twenty thirteen to start for them. Pretty wild

965
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: that guy's going into Beaver Stadium in Week one, one

966
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: hundred plus thousand, at full throat and he's gonna do

967
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: what he's gonna beat him. I don't necessarily see that happen,

968
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: and so I'm gonna make that a nine point five.

969
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,919
Speaker 1: That defense was a mess last year. I don't see

970
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: that being rectified over the span of one off season.

971
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: Next up, Oh, we got Heisman talk. You know, I

972
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: told you my dark horse for the Heisman, so I'm

973
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: gonna bring it back up here a handout. He said,

974
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: a non quarterback will win the Heisman this year, and

975
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: he said his favorites are Marvin Harrison Junior and Brock Bauers.

976
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: Brock Bowers is plus fifteen thousand. Wow. Okay, Well, since

977
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 1: two thousand, Statson Info tells me we have had four

978
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 1: non quarterback Heisman Trophy winners, and it's just a bunch

979
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: of Alabama guys. In Reggie Busch, it was Ingram, it

980
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: was Derrick Henry, it was DeVante Smith, and it was

981
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: Reggie Busch. So most likely here what's most likely to happen. Well,

982
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: what's most likely is the top nine Heisman favorites are

983
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: all quarterbacks. Pathetic, but they are seventeen of the top

984
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: twenty quarterbacks, you know, the award for the most outstanding

985
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: player in college football. Seventeen of the top twenty quarterbacks. Again, pathetic,

986
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. Marvin Harrison Junior, if

987
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,919
Speaker 1: we're going to have a non quarterback win this thing.

988
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: He's way up there. He's one of the favorites at

989
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: a non quarterback position. How about Blake Korum and Quinn

990
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: Shawn Judkins, the running backs there from Michigan and Old

991
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: miss they're tied for the sixteenth best odds in the country.

992
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: Harrison by the ways at tenth. But my guy's not

993
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: even on here. If you were listening to on a podcast,

994
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: Collin's got a slider there where he's showing all the

995
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: non quarterback favorites. Man Xavier Worthy wasn't even on it.

996
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy's like way buried. And yet I look at

997
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy and I see a little bit of myself

998
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,280
Speaker 1: in him. What can I say? We're not so different

999
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: he and I, And so we don't really care what

1000
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: the odds board says. I care that my hand is healthy,

1001
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: and I care I got Steve Starkejan calling plays for me,

1002
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: and my quarterback Shad is mullet, which clearly means he'll

1003
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: be way better this year. That's science. Don't argue, thank you,

1004
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,760
Speaker 1: don't deny science. We don't on this show. Xavier Worthy

1005
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: is my dark horse to win the Heisman. We've already

1006
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: got a betting ticket on him. So yes, I have

1007
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: put some money where my mouth is, so goes Xavier Worthy.

1008
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: I even learned to pronounce his first name the right way.

1009
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 1: That's how serious I am about that prediction. Well pick

1010
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: and lastly, now this is a tall task. Here. Did

1011
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: I put a rating on that? I made that a nine. Sorry,

1012
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: that's how bold the prediction was. It's a nine. This

1013
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: one's even bolder. Trevor from Arvada, Colorado said Colorado will

1014
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: beat TCU and Nebraska to start the season. Well, I

1015
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: got a nine point five on the boldeness scale for

1016
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 1: this one. They open against TCU, they're a twenty and

1017
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: a half point underdog on the road, and then they've

1018
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: got Nebraska at home and they're an eight and a

1019
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: half point dog there. For those who have been living

1020
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: in caves, let me remind you Colorado has seventy three

1021
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: new players on their roster. Can't believe these are real numbers.

1022
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 1: This is not even the metric system, this is real life.

1023
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: Fifty one transfers, twenty two new recruits, seventy three new players. Guys,

1024
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: there are some teams that are in bad scholarship situations

1025
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: that won't have seventy three scholarship players period this year,

1026
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 1: and they got seventy three new ones. Shador Sanders is

1027
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: gonna have to play out of his mind. That's the

1028
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 1: quarterback there. You're gonna have to play out of his

1029
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: mind for this to happen. And so many pieces are

1030
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: gonna have to gel in summer workouts in fall camp

1031
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: because I can promise you TCU is not handing you

1032
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 1: that game in week one, so you're gonna have to

1033
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: actually earn it, and that's gonna be tough. So that's

1034
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: a nine and a half for me. I have been

1035
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: scrolling through the comments on the Bold Prediction videos and

1036
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: looking at your ratings, and I encourage that, and I'll

1037
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: tell you why, because in December, we review a lot

1038
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: of these segments and some of you end up looking

1039
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: like total geniuses. Me it's mostly you, so by all

1040
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: means because I won't even call you out if you

1041
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: end up being wrong, but if you end up nailing it,

1042
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: it's like picking the winning lottery numbers. No one knows

1043
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: that you've bought tickets for fifteen years. They only know

1044
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,959
Speaker 1: that you bought one to night you won. Okay, let's

1045
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: wrap the show up tonight by taking our spotlight. And

1046
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: it's a very powerful spotlight, and we've been putting it

1047
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: on program after program, and tonight I want to go

1048
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: a place that we were last month. Tonight, the spotlight

1049
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: is on Miami, the Hurricanes. Everything that you need to

1050
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: know about him with the first question and by ten miles,

1051
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: the biggest question here, are we getting Tyler van Dyke

1052
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: circa twenty twenty one? Are we getting Tyler van Dyke

1053
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: circa twenty twenty two? What kind of quarterback play are

1054
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: we getting? Listen. I didn't tell you guys this story.

1055
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: When I was down in Miami. I tossed the ball

1056
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: with him for like twenty minutes. I didn't tell him

1057
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: this either. I didn't want him to know. I'll tell

1058
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: you this now. I was tossing with him. We were

1059
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 1: in the indoor because it was pouring outside, and he

1060
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: busted a blood vessel on my finger. I know sold it.

1061
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 1: We kept tossing. I didn't drop a single ball. Neither

1062
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: did Francis Malagoa, the freshman left tackle for the record,

1063
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: and so I don't know why I tell you that,

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00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: other than the brag that I threw around the ball

1065
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: with him. But I will tell you this, there's a

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00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: lot of excitement in that building about the new offensive coordinator,

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00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: and there's how should I put this, There is not

1068
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: a lot of teary eyes that the former offensive coordinator

1069
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: is out the door. I think I've been as diplomatic

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00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: as I possibly can be with that. Two years ago,

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00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: over the final nine games when Van Dyke was the starter,

1072
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five yards per game, twenty five touchdown,

1073
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: six interceptions, and then last year's experiment that was a

1074
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: disaster sees him pass for over one hundred less yards

1075
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: per game. Wolf. So you find yourself a wide receiver one,

1076
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: you start to get that room shookn out, shooketh out,

1077
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: shaken out the way it should be. What kind of

1078
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: quarterback play we're gonna get? That's question number one? Question

1079
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 1: number two. How impactful are those transfers and true freshmen

1080
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 1: going to be? That's what everyone's so excited about down there.

1081
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: I just mentioned Maligoa, the left tackle, alien, total alien,

1082
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,879
Speaker 1: crazy athlete. He's going to start for him. Ruben Bain

1083
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: there on the edge, he's probably gonna start for him.

1084
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: Javion Cohen, the transfer from Alabama, a likely starter, on

1085
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,720
Speaker 1: the interior of the offensive line. If he's healthy. Number

1086
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: seven overall portal class, you're gonna get a really strong

1087
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 1: taste of twenty twenty four Miami this year. It's just

1088
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: that in the meantime, what if they're so good they

1089
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: go ahead and start winning this year? What a novel concept?

1090
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:46,280
Speaker 1: Question Number three got to be better defensively, new defensive

1091
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: coordinator there, Lance gidry He and Shannon Dawes and both

1092
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 1: Louisiana boys. What's the caliber there? They allowed forty plus

1093
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: points in five of those losses last year, and those

1094
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: were not to just the big boys. Middle Tennessee hung

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00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: forty plus. Duke hung forty plus. So when you got

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00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: Duke in Middle Tennessee just kind of calling the shots,

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00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: No boy, No, got to make changes. Seven returning starters,

1098
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: got a lot of portal additions. I know the age

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00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: old adage. First off, the age old adage on this

1100
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: show is we don't care about how many starters you return.

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00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: But also, even if you do, do you really want

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00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: to be turning returning a lot of starters from a

1103
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: subpar unit. They got good safeties on this team though,

1104
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: That's one thing they did inherit there which brings me

1105
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: to my next point. The spotlight has shown us that

1106
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 1: the best position group on this team is the safety position.

1107
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: They got the top two tacklers on the team back

1108
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: both at that position. Cam Kitchens, you see him right

1109
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:44,959
Speaker 1: there on your screen if you're watching on YouTube. First

1110
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: Team All American. That's what he did last year, James

1111
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 1: Williams all acc honorable mention. And I don't think they

1112
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: believe he's come close to scratching the surface of his

1113
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: potential down there, just talking to some people when we

1114
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:01,280
Speaker 1: were down there last month. But a listen, it's always

1115
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: a blessing when you can put a lid on the defense.

1116
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: The thing about it is there is no safety tandem.

1117
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: There is no dB room that can cover forever. So

1118
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 1: obviously it all works hand in hand with affecting the quarterback.

1119
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 1: I want to know breakout players though every team, because

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00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: this is not the NFL. Every year there's a player

1121
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: or multiple players that end up shining for your team

1122
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: that did not get a lot of preseason love. Well,

1123
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: we need to give Elijah Arroyo a lot of love.

1124
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: Elijah Arroyo is a breakout player from Miami. He's sixty

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00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: four to two thirty five is a tight end. You

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00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: guys got glimpses of what he could do, just just

1127
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: little flashes in twenty twenty one, and then injury derailed

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00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: him in twenty twenty two. Not to mention, Miami did

1129
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: a pretty decent job offensively of derailing themselves. There are

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00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: people in that program that believe Elijah Arroyo is the

1131
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: best athlete on that team either side of the ball,

1132
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: regardless of position. And Will Mallory is not there anymore,

1133
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: so he moves on to the NFL. It is a

1134
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: golden opportunity for Elijah Arroyo to blast onto the national scene,

1135
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 1: to be an integral part of that team. This is

1136
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: not an overly established wide receiver room. Therefore, if you've

1137
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: got a dynamite tight end right there, I'm not doing

1138
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: the whole Brock Bowers thing. I'm saying what Bowers has

1139
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: done to the Georgia offense wouldn't surprise me if Shannon

1140
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: Dawson looked up the road in Nathens and said, Wow,

1141
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: well we got this dude here. He is a total freak.

1142
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do that with him. So we like a Arroyo.

1143
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: You could easily go Maligoa there you could easily go

1144
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: Reuben bayin, but we win a royo. The schedule is

1145
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: not kind. There's no way to sugarcoat this. The league

1146
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: office sure didn't. It's not easy at all. So they've

1147
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: got A and M out of conference, and they've got

1148
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: the toughest ACC schedule we think of any team in

1149
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: the conference. They play all five of the top teams

1150
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: in terms of odds in the ACC, aside from themselves obviously,

1151
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: And then when you dive into a little bit more,

1152
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: you're looking at their schedule right now, they got an

1153
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: early buy and then they go They go to North

1154
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: Carolina and then play Clemson the next week. So playing

1155
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: Clemson off a road game against another good team's bad enough.

1156
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: Clemson's rested. They got to buy before they play you.

1157
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: They go back to back road games late in the

1158
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 1: year in November. In fact, they got three road games

1159
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: in November three o. Their final four are on the road,

1160
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: and the last one sees a bunch of kids from

1161
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: South Florida go to Boston. So there you go. If

1162
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: they get it done this year, they will have earned it.

1163
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: No one's using the word cupcake with that schedule. This

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00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: has been a wonderful week and we're gonna have another

1165
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: live show Sunday. All we ask all this coverage is free.

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00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,000
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Speaker 1: subscribe to the YouTube channel and subscribe to the podcast.

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00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:57,200
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Speaker 1: life and tell your friends to do it as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for producer Jesse, for director Colin.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate. Will be back same time Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: Until then, take care and God bless