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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in Late Kick is Live. It is

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. Happy Halloween. By the way, October thirty, first

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Speaker 1: year of Our Lord, twenty twenty one jam packed. We

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Speaker 1: have got rapid reaction all over the place from week

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Speaker 1: nine high at Top downtown Nashville, Tennessee, fresh out of

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Speaker 1: East Lansing yesterday. Got a lot of stories to tell.

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Speaker 1: Some of them will make it into the night's show.

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Speaker 1: A vast majority of them we'll have to wait until

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Speaker 1: the Tuesday morning Late Kick Extra podcast. But boy, what

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Speaker 1: a show we have tonight in advance of the World Series.

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Speaker 1: It is why we're doing the show a little bit early,

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Speaker 1: because again, we run things around here and it took

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Speaker 1: us a little while to remember. But we do have

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Speaker 1: the flexibility when need be to move the show. We

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Speaker 1: don't do it for the Academy Awards, we don't do

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Speaker 1: it for the Grammys, but we will do it when

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Speaker 1: the Braves can win a world series for the first

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Speaker 1: time since we had bed wedding issues all the way

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety five. And even though I was

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Speaker 1: ten years old in nineteen ninety five, I still had

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Speaker 1: bad wedding issues. It's another story for another day. But

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Speaker 1: I think it's brave of me to even admit that much. Colin,

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Speaker 1: would you agree, Yes, I agree. We have got wall

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Speaker 1: to wall reaction. So I was at in Michigan, Michigan

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Speaker 1: State yesterday. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, and you know it is

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Speaker 1: because I said it thrice, not just once. We're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about that one in a lot of detail.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Georgia, Florida. We will talk

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Speaker 1: about Penn State, Ohio State. Had a great setup on

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Speaker 1: the flight home last night. Those of you following on

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Speaker 1: Instagram saw it had the Braves in the central monitor,

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Speaker 1: a whole row to myself. So thanks to the folks

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Speaker 1: at Delta for hooking me up, even though I don't

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Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about that. We will talk

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Speaker 1: about the Renaissance Tour. We have a new announcement to

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Speaker 1: make there. We have got four early best bets. Some

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Speaker 1: things are happening with the Rominudle Express. They're going to

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Speaker 1: change this week. Someone to explain that to you momentarily anyway,

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Speaker 1: I say all that to say, we got a loaded show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining. If you are not already,

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Speaker 1: We just topped seventy thousand. They said it couldn't be done,

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Speaker 1: and Lloyd behore we did it. So at Late Kick, Josh,

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Speaker 1: if you were following yesterday slash today, you saw what

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Speaker 1: I think probably is the best series of Instagram's story

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Speaker 1: the sideline and the tunnel and everywhere in between up

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Speaker 1: in East Lansing. What a show yesterday. That was the

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Speaker 1: stop for the Late Kick Renaissance Tour week nine. Right now,

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Speaker 1: before we even dive into tonight's show, I am telling

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Speaker 1: you where we're going for week ten. It was a

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Speaker 1: know where we were going to go because yesterday's games

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Speaker 1: had a heavy, heavy impact on the outcome. So where

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Speaker 1: are we headed, Well, the Lake Kick Renaissance Tour, fresh

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Speaker 1: off a trip from East Lansing, Michigan, not Eastern Lansing,

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Speaker 1: I said Eastern Carolina last week. We are headed this

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Speaker 1: and M. Colin tells me he is my source on

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Speaker 1: all things AP. Colin tells me that it is a

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Speaker 1: game is going to be a lot prettier than that

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Speaker 1: And so yesterday it was to pinch myself moment professionally

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Speaker 1: and it's a huge game. I think Michigan ended up

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Speaker 1: to watch. And boy is no one more thankful for

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Speaker 1: that than me. Jacksonville is where I couldn't be yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but it's where we're going next. Georgia thirty four Florida seven.

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Speaker 1: You look at the score and what do you think?

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Speaker 1: So I'll tell you what I think. I think there's

468
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Speaker 1: a lot more to a football game than a final score.

469
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Speaker 1: But yet that's stupid because you play to win the game.

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Speaker 1: Herm told us that a generation to go, and it's

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Speaker 1: still true today. This is where you have to have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of nuance and a little bit of

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Speaker 1: context work its way into the conversation. So Georgia beat

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Speaker 1: Florida thirty four to seven. There are several ways that

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Speaker 1: you could arrive at a final score that looks like that.

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Speaker 1: One of them is offensive domination and situational football defensively,

477
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Speaker 1: another one is just flat out dominant defense. A third

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Speaker 1: one is a turnover fest that you come out on.

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Speaker 1: The better end of the point is it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: in the past. Thirty four to seven is thirty four

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Speaker 1: to seven. But that's not what the conversation is about today.

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Speaker 1: If you've been around any of your Georgia buddies, if

483
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Speaker 1: you've been around really any kind of message board, Twitter

484
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Speaker 1: and the like, no one's talking about whether Georgia can

485
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Speaker 1: beat Florida. We already saw that they could. People want

486
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Speaker 1: to know if Georgia can win a national championship, and

487
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Speaker 1: so the questions that are being asked are not, is

488
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Speaker 1: Georgia better than Florida? Do you really think their four

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Speaker 1: touchdowns better than Florida? No, No one cares, not, even

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Speaker 1: Georgia fans are talking about that. What they're asking is

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Speaker 1: number one, what did we learn yesterday? Number two? What

492
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Speaker 1: did this change if anything? Well, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: we learned, but it certainly didn't change anything in my mind.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel a way about Georgia that I didn't

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Speaker 1: already feel. I think what surprised me the most after

496
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Speaker 1: going back and watching this game is how much surprised

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Speaker 1: there really was from other people. I don't really get

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Speaker 1: why we're surprised. Let me give you a little cheat

499
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Speaker 1: sheet on football. If you have a game and seventy

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Speaker 1: three percent of the points scored in that game are

501
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Speaker 1: off turnovers, which is exactly what happened yesterday, thirty of

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Speaker 1: the forty one points. I think we're off turnovers. You

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Speaker 1: probably are not learning a whole lot as it relates

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Speaker 1: to the future based on that result. It's a standalone result.

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Speaker 1: So what happened yesterday standalone. In nature, you got just

506
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Speaker 1: what you got. You see it on the screen there.

507
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Speaker 1: You're listening to me. A twenty eight point went over

508
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Speaker 1: Florida and a rivalry game is what you got. And

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Speaker 1: that's really all it is to me. Now, I know

510
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Speaker 1: we can't do that. I know a lot of people

511
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Speaker 1: don't want to do that. So the one thing that

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Speaker 1: surprised me was being able to get the reaction before

513
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Speaker 1: I watched the game, and it was pouring in on

514
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Speaker 1: the eye. Josh and I had everything from Kirby's getting

515
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Speaker 1: out coached again to Florida's terrible. To look at that

516
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Speaker 1: it's inevitable, it was only a matter of time. And

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at all this and I'm not being able

518
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Speaker 1: to see the game or here the game myself, and

519
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Speaker 1: so I have to imagine that this is just a

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Speaker 1: seesawfare of ugliness. And then when I found out it

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Speaker 1: was three to nothing near the half, and of course

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Speaker 1: I've gone back and watched the game since, but when

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Speaker 1: I'm finding out real time that's what happened. I'm going

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Speaker 1: and checking one thing, and you know what it was.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to check JT. Daniel's stat line and there

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Speaker 1: isn't one. That's what surprised me. JT. Daniels did not

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Speaker 1: play in this game. You want to know about surprise,

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Speaker 1: that was surprise. I'll come back to that in just

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Speaker 1: a second. This whole thing about Georgia began a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. A lot of people were surprised yesterday that

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Speaker 1: this was close near the half and that Georgia offensively

532
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Speaker 1: didn't really do a whole lot and they didn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: just drown Florida. They didn't outman them to the degree

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Speaker 1: that you thought they would. And that's not Georgia's fault.

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Speaker 1: That is your fault. Now, I'm not talking to any

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Speaker 1: person in particular because it makes me sound mean. I'm

537
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Speaker 1: not doing that. But I tried to sit in this

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Speaker 1: chair and I tried to tell you a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: do not fall victim to what's happening. And what happened

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Speaker 1: is once Bama lost to A and M, a lot

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Speaker 1: of people tried, well, they tried at least to start

542
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Speaker 1: convincing you there's a huge gap between Georgia and everyone else.

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Speaker 1: There is not a huge gap between Georgia and everyone else.

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Speaker 1: There is a gap between Georgia and probably the fourth

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Speaker 1: best team and beyond. But you put Ohio State or

546
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Speaker 1: Alabama on a field with them, there's not a big gap.

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Speaker 1: There's not a gap at all. It doesn't win lost records.

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Speaker 1: Independent we're talking about a game that would happen in

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Speaker 1: the future. I put Bama on the field with Georgia Saturday,

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Speaker 1: or it may happen in Atlanta about a month from now.

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Speaker 1: There's no huge gap, But that didn't stop the casuals

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Speaker 1: out there from telling you there was. That didn't stop

553
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: the casuals from telling you their heads and shoulders better

554
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: than anyone else in the country. And that meant expectations

555
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: got falsely elevated to a level that that current Georgia team,

556
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Speaker 1: the one you saw yesterday, they're not gonna match. This

557
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: is not twenty nineteen LSU were twenty twenty Alabama. That's

558
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: not what you have here. You have a rock solid

559
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Speaker 1: defensive team with flaws and deficiencies elsewhere, just the same

560
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Speaker 1: as Alabama has, just the same as Ohio State has.

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Speaker 1: It's just they have different flaws and so they have

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Speaker 1: a standout unit. That defense is stand out, but they're

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Speaker 1: not unbeatable, just like anyone else. It's like says, I

564
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Speaker 1: keep getting this and I keep trying to respond, and

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Speaker 1: I keep trying to respond in different versions of the

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Speaker 1: same reaction. It's great, they are the number one team

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Speaker 1: in the country. I've got them rated the number one

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Speaker 1: team in the country. I don't disagree with that. I

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Speaker 1: think my disagreement comes when someone tries to tell me

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Speaker 1: george is the best team in the country and then

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Speaker 1: there's a significant margin, significant gap between them and Bama

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Speaker 1: or them in Ohio State. I haven't seen it that way. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I haven't seen it that way.

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Speaker 1: So Stetson Bennett plays this whole game at quarterback for Georgia.

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00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: I am convinced that there is more than meets the

576
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Speaker 1: eye here because last week, I mean, I had it

577
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Speaker 1: on pretty good word we were going to see JT.

578
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: Daniels in this game. And I'm not the only one.

579
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: Some people very close to that team had it on

580
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Speaker 1: good authority that at the very least we were going

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Speaker 1: to see two quarterbacks. I thought we'd end up seeing

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Speaker 1: Daniels take a majority of the snaps, and instead we

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Speaker 1: didn't see it at all, which has convinced me that

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Speaker 1: he's not one hundred percent healthy or ninety percent healthy.

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00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: He is not at a level that they feel good

586
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: enough putting him on the field. For I'm going to

587
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: choose to believe that, because if the alternative is true,

588
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 1: then I'm telling you point blank it's a borderline derelection

589
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Speaker 1: of dow On, Kirby Smart and Todd Monkin's part. So

590
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 1: you're not going to convince me that they have looked

591
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Speaker 1: at things, assessed the situation and said we're going to

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Speaker 1: put our second best quarterback on the field. Because I

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Speaker 1: do not believe, with both of them at or near

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Speaker 1: full health, that Stetson Bennett is the best quarterback on

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Speaker 1: that team. So here come the caveats, which we always

596
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Speaker 1: have to do. We had to make a habit out

597
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Speaker 1: of doing this last year. It was earlier in the season,

598
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: but we got ourselves in this same predicament last year.

599
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,479
Speaker 1: I cannot believe we're debating this again. We got ourselves

600
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Speaker 1: in the same predicament last year. Georgia looked very good

601
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: against some inferior competition early in the year. Stetson Bennett

602
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: was doing enough for you to win. And I dared

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Speaker 1: to sit at the other studio in Brentwood and said,

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Speaker 1: stets And Bennett's probably good enough to win you nine

605
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Speaker 1: or ten games. This year. He's good enough to win

606
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: you probably twelve games because it is complimentary and he's

607
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: got that defense to work with. But he's not good

608
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Speaker 1: enough to win a national championship, which you guys are

609
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: telling me is your goal. You're filling in that blank.

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Speaker 1: I'm not the one trying to your picture of expectation

611
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: for you. We're there again. We're there again, same situation now.

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Speaker 1: The only difference is Georgia personnel wise, is a little

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Speaker 1: bit better than they were last year. But we're at

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Speaker 1: the same situation. So here are the caveats. The caveats

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Speaker 1: are I wish we had a million stets And Bennetts

616
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Speaker 1: in college football. His story is a testament. His story

617
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: is great. He is a great person. You will not

618
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: find anyone to speak ill of him. I'm not speaking

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Speaker 1: ill of him. This is high level competition. All I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you is that guy Stetson Bennett, as much as

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Speaker 1: I love him, and he'd probably make a great co

622
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Speaker 1: host to the show if we had him here and

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Speaker 1: he's playing good football for Georgia, is not gonna play

624
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: great football for Georgia. And that's the only problem there is.

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Speaker 1: If you're happy with good. If you're happy with good enough,

626
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: then that is enough. I am simply responding to Georgia

627
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,719
Speaker 1: folks who tell me their goals to win a national championship.

628
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if that's your goal, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: win one with stets and Bennett. That's all I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: Even this year, you're not gonna win one with Stetson Bennett.

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Speaker 1: And I think or I have to believe that Kirby

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Speaker 1: Smart and Todd Munkin know that, and if J. T.

633
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: Daniels was fully ready to play and they were confident

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Speaker 1: in his health status holding up, I think could be

635
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Speaker 1: in the game. I'm choosing to believe that because the

636
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: alternative is something that I'm not going to choose to believe.

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00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: There's no way I'm going to choose to believe that

638
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: they're looking at both of those guys fully healthy and

639
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: saying he's the one we're rolling with costs, he's the

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Speaker 1: one that's going to give us the best shot to

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Speaker 1: win everything that we want to win. Now, there is

642
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Speaker 1: another game potentially in play right here, and I think

643
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: there's some validity to this. There are some folks out

644
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: there that buy into the school of thought that Kirby Smart,

645
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: Todd Munkin and company up there. They've looked and they've said,

646
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: Florida is not going to beat us. No one is capable. Really,

647
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: I mean, if we play the level of ball that

648
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: we played defensively, no one is going to be in

649
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: the realm of being able to beat us until SEC

650
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: Championship game. And so how about we get through the

651
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: Florida game and then we'll start to ease J. T.

652
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: Daniels and then we'll have him ready to go for

653
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: the SEC Championship game. Look, is that possible? Yeah, it's possible.

654
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: I think that that sounds a lot more water cooler ish,

655
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: a lot more xbox ish than what really happens in

656
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: a coach's room and how a football program's really run.

657
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: But I guess it could be that that's what's happening

658
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 1: right now. But in my gut, I'm telling you, I

659
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: believe there's a little bit still holding JT. Daniels back.

660
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: And what it could be is it could be as

661
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: simple as team doctors telling Kirby Smart, look, you got

662
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: a guy that I'm going to medically clear right now.

663
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: But this is fragile. I mean, this lap muscle, which

664
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: is what he was struggling with rehabbing. That thing could

665
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: pop up and flare back up in any minute. And

666
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm the doctor now talking. I'm telling you,

667
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: if you have it flare up again, he's done, because

668
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: then we got to start this whole process over and

669
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: it's going to be filling the blank weeks to fill

670
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: in the blank weeks, and you're probably not gonna have him.

671
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, I guess that could happen. But

672
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: outside of that, like I've got some folk who were

673
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: telling me, independent of JT. Daniels' health status, stat's and

674
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: Bennett's the guy, and I'm just stunned that we're still

675
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: debating this. Stunned that we are, after last year, debating

676
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,239
Speaker 1: this yet again. Steps and Bennett's very good quarterback. Let

677
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: me give you another cheat sheet, second cheat sheet of

678
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: the night on the show. Your best quarterback always gives

679
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: you the best chance to win. Playing the best quarterback

680
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: always gives you the best chance to win long term.

681
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: So if that's what we're trying to do, and I

682
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: believe that's what JT. Daniels is when he is at

683
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: ordinar full health, then that's what we need to do there.

684
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna question it because Kirby smartin knows more

685
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: about the situation than I do. I'm going to choose

686
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: to believe there is more there than meets my eye,

687
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: because if there's not, that's not a good situation at

688
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: Georgia currently. But that's not the best thing Kirby Smart

689
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: did yesterday. They won the game. Yes, Kirby Smart gets

690
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: in his postgame press conference, and if I didn't know better,

691
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: I would say that there should have been a lead.

692
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to play some sound for you in a second,

693
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: But to me, even though there wasn't, there should have

694
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: been a lead on this like there is with a

695
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: political action committee's campaign commercial during election season, and it

696
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: should have sounded something like the following message has been

697
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: approved and paid for by Florida Gator fans. Here was

698
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: the sound yesterday in Kirby Smart's postgame press conference. Sounds

699
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: early reminiscent of a show that we did here on

700
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: Lake Kick just last week. Take a listen.

701
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 2: I mean, guys, if you don't recruit, there's no coach

702
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 2: out there that can out coach recruiting. Okay, I don't

703
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: care who you are. The best coach to ever play

704
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 2: the game. Better be a good recruiter, because no coaching

705
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: is going to out coach players. I mean, anybody will

706
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: tell you our defense is good, au they are good players.

707
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 2: So spending time on the phone, you know, spending time

708
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 2: with people at your house, spending time with people when

709
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: they come to your campus. You know, I'm not with

710
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 2: my family when I'm doing that. My family sacrifices so

711
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: that I can go and spend time with other people's

712
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 2: families so that we have good players. So you know,

713
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 2: it's twenty five percent evaluation, that's fifty percent recruiting, and

714
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 2: another twenty five percent is gonna be coaching. But if

715
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 2: you don't recruit guys, you got no chance. Just go

716
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 2: look look at the best teams out there. They got

717
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: good football players. And that's the reason I believe in recruiting,

718
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 2: and I believe you better always be recruiting. Always be recruiting,

719
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 2: because if you're not, somebody else is.

720
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: That's the story. I mean, that's really the long and

721
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: short of it. At Florida right now. There were parts

722
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: of the game yesterday that were okay. There were parts

723
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: of the strategic approach and the game plan and the

724
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: coaching yesterday that looked okay for Florida. And yet you've

725
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: got a guy over there who can afford to get

726
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: himself into this kind of situation with his quarterback room.

727
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: And it's three to nothing near the half, and you

728
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: are sitting there. I know because some of you texted me.

729
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,720
Speaker 1: You're sitting there thinking in the first half, always getting

730
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: out and coached again. Georgia fans, a majority of them

731
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: are not even happy with how they played yesterday and

732
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: they beat you by four touchdowns. Why because they got

733
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: better players than you. So many people make this stuff

734
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: so difficult, and it's true what those guys are doing

735
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: would make most people's head spim. But here's what he's

736
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: telling you. What he is Kirby smart telling you is

737
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: I could draw things on a grease sport all day long.

738
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: I could scheme you all day long. Goes back to

739
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: the old metaphor we use last week. If you're driving

740
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: a station wagon and I'm driving the monster truck, you

741
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: could be the smartest person in the world. You are done.

742
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: Once I learned how to turn the ignition, once I

743
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: learned to crank the monster truck up, You're done because

744
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 1: you're in a station wagon and I'm in the monster truck.

745
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart his roster is a monster truck. You cannot

746
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: scheme your way around it. It doesn't have to go

747
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: around you, it goes over you. And then that's the end.

748
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: And they walk away saying, we got to clean some

749
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: stuff up, but we did just beat you by four touchdowns.

750
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: That's where Florida football is right now. I know, I

751
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: know there's some whispers out there that maybe some changes

752
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: are coming. You'll have to convinced me that one of

753
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: those is going to be head coach, because I at

754
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: the moment don't believe that everything else is up for grabs.

755
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: I think everything else is up in the air. Let's

756
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: move it on. Ohio State beats Penn State thirty three

757
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: to twenty four. Closer game, maybe than you thought it

758
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: would be. Well, if it was, then it's such a

759
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: perfect illusion or and that's not an illusion. I think

760
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: last week may have been more of the illusion. This

761
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: is a perfect illustration of what college football really is

762
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: and what a college football team really is, not just

763
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: a game, but a full team. Important distinction there. So,

764
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: I thought yesterday's result validated the whole power rating process

765
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: and then it also validated why a lot of people

766
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: go broke trying to bet this stuff. So let me

767
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: ask you a question and we'll dive into this. What

768
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: is a football game? It's as simple a question as

769
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: we'll ever ask on this show. What is a football game?

770
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: Because one snapshot of a team, that's what a football

771
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: game is. It's not a total definition of a team.

772
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: It's not a total picture. You get twelve snap shots

773
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: per year of a football team. A game is just

774
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: one of them. Where people go broke and they light

775
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: their money on fire betting on this stuff. Is they

776
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: allow themselves to become convinced that every snapshot is the

777
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: whole picture. Last week Penn State lost to Illinois. It

778
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: was ugly. It was a very ugly snapshot. It was

779
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: the picture you take where you're halfway between blinks or

780
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,439
Speaker 1: you started to say a word and so your face

781
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: looks ridiculous. That was last week. Last week was the

782
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: picture they took when you were in the middle of

783
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: saying super califragilests to get topialidosius. I can't even say

784
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: the word. I've never been able to say the word.

785
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: That was last week's Illinois lost. Now, remember on Tuesday

786
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: when I released the JP pole, we got a whole

787
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,919
Speaker 1: lot of pushback because I only had Penn State drop

788
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: to I think eleventh, tenth or eleventh somewhere like that,

789
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: which was right in line with what Vegas odds makers did.

790
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: And we got a lot of pushback because you is

791
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: not you. Some of you, a fringe minority, could not

792
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: understand the justification for only dropping them to number eleven. Well,

793
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: this was the justification. Last night was the justification because

794
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: you see what happened last week against Illinois is not

795
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: Penn State. It was one version of them last night.

796
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: The version of Penn State that trailed one of the

797
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: best teams in the country on the road by three

798
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: in their own building. That's another version of Penn State.

799
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: And the reality is it's a solid mixture of all

800
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: this stuff. The team that beat Auburn, the team that

801
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: lost to Illinois, the team that pushed Ohio State to

802
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: the very limit. You combine all those and that's what

803
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: Penn stated. That's what we try and do with those

804
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: power ratings. That's why there's no knee jerk reaction in

805
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: those power ratings. So we'll probably still have Penn State

806
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,439
Speaker 1: right around where we had them last week spoiler alert.

807
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: Even though they lost this game though, showed why we

808
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: do it that way. So what happened in this game?

809
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: Ohio State? They did what was needed, pretty plain and simple.

810
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: I was watching this on the flight home last night.

811
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: They limited Penn State on the ground, which in fairness,

812
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: a lot of teams have been able to do this year.

813
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: Penn State had one point one yards per rush last night,

814
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 1: which obviously is not going to get it done. Before

815
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 1: adjusting for sack total yardage, they had twenty nine carries

816
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: for thirty three yards. I think in reality they had

817
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: like fifty something. Still bad. That's the first thing Ohio

818
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: State did. The second thing it falls right behind that one,

819
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: and that is forced Sean Clifford, the quarterback there, who

820
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: is of questionable health to begin with, to do something

821
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: extraordinary to beat you. And his stat line last night

822
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: was thirty five of fifty two, three hundred and sixty

823
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: one yards, one touchdown, one interception. But the third part

824
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: that really coincides with that is force them to throw

825
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: enough where they make mistakes, and it forced them to

826
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: do enough extraordinary things where they make mistakes, and they did.

827
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a scoop and score that. It

828
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: probably ended up being the difference in this game late

829
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: and that's how Ohio State wins it. They hit some

830
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: explosive plays on Penn State and they put the game away.

831
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: It wasn't perfect, it wasn't the result. I think a

832
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: lot of a Ohio State folks wanted. Ohio State folks

833
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: wanted a scalp. They wanted to They wanted this game

834
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: to be like what Bama did to LSU last year.

835
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: They wanted to kind of pick at the carcass. That's

836
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do. Now was in this game

837
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: because Penn State was a dog, but they were a

838
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: very live dog. There's still a lot of fight left

839
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: in that team. That team hasn't given up buying a

840
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. So my takeaway of Penn State

841
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: was it was a heck of an effort. If I

842
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: were to tell you going into yesterday, you're gonna have

843
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: one point one yards per carrey, you're gonna be minus

844
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: two in turnovers. You're going into their building, what would

845
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: you have thought. You would have thought a tsunami was coming.

846
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: You would have put your little snorkel on and just

847
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: prepared for the inevitable. You had a chance to win

848
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: the game. You were right there. It was a three

849
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: point game in the fourth quarter, so there's a lot

850
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: to be said about that, but at the end, it's

851
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: still a loss. And what I started thinking about is

852
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: how close that game was to being one of the

853
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: marque events of the college football season, because if Sean

854
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 1: Clifford stays healthy, Penn State has beaten Eye. I don't

855
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: have any doubt about that. If Sean Clifford is healthy,

856
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: then Penn State beats Illinois last week. I mean, they

857
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: are an undefeated team going into Ohio State last night.

858
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: That's what Penn State is fractions of inches away from

859
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 1: being in my mind. But yet that doesn't matter because

860
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: what they were was already a two lost team in

861
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: desperation mode last night. But think about how different that

862
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: game would be if all we changed in history was

863
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: you know, a hit or the way a guy lands

864
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: here and there. Because that's been the difference in Penn

865
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: State season. I mean, that's it. And so you saw

866
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,280
Speaker 1: last night the version of that team and the level

867
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: that that team would have played at if they were undefeated.

868
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: That's what you would have expected from them. The point

869
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: is Penn State's not any different a team. Just because

870
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: they have two losses. Ohio State won't get as much

871
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: credit for this as they should. They'll get a lot

872
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: of criticism because they only won by nine. Now, they

873
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: won a hard fought football game. You wouldn't frown on

874
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: it if Penn State was undefeated, And I'm telling you

875
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: the only thing that's kept them from being undefeated is

876
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 1: Sean Clifford being capable of playing the level he played

877
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: last night due to health. If Sean Clifford were healthy,

878
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: he could have done that before. They would have been undefeated.

879
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: So my Ohio State takeaway is just that number one,

880
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: but number two. They're okay right now. It's not a

881
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: great team yet. But the good news is they can

882
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: be in ascension mode. They can do what Clemson has done,

883
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: what Bama's done famously in years past, and that is

884
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: peak at the right time. They've got the ingredients. There

885
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: are some young pieces, for example, and there are some

886
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: pieces that still need to be tweaked and ratcheted up.

887
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: And their secondary there were some open receivers last night.

888
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: I had a coach texted me about that. When I landed,

889
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: my phone goes being bing bing, bing bing, and it

890
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: was a coach that had been watching and saying, someone's

891
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: gonna light this secondary up. And I don't doubt that

892
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: there's coming a day in the near future probably where

893
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: Ohio State may need what forty to win a game.

894
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: They scored thirty three yesterday. There's gonna be a quarterback

895
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: and a receiving room maybe before you even get to

896
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 1: a potential playoff that does something against you uncharacteristic relative

897
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: to their norm, because your secondary makes it possible. They've

898
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: got Nebraska this Saturday at Nebraska. That's around a sixteen

899
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: point spread. It's not a gimme. It's around a sixteen

900
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: point spread on Nebraska from an odds making perspective, one of,

901
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: if not the most underrated teams in the country. They

902
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: lost another one possession game yesterday, another one to Purdue.

903
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,439
Speaker 1: Speaking of Purdue, Ohio State then has Purdue. They've got

904
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: Michigan State and then they go to Michigan. Look, these

905
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: teams can score. I mean, this is not Big ten

906
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 1: Circle nineteen eighty four. Some of these teams can score.

907
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: And certainly you get into a playoff situation if you

908
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: face Alabama, if you face even in Oklahoma, there are

909
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: teams out there, obviously with better receiver rooms that are

910
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: going to be able to do something to get you.

911
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: The question is can you do it back to them,

912
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: because I guarantee you there's no receiver room in the

913
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: country that Ohio State coaches would trade for than the

914
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: one they are already have, and they'd probably tell you

915
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: there's not a quarterback they're trade for. Just got to

916
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 1: put it all together. You're not peaking at Halloween. Fine,

917
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: peak in December, peak in early January, that's where you

918
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: want to peak. This team can absolutely win a national championship.

919
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: I know some people watched him last night and they

920
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: looked at him in every single flaw you point it

921
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: out and you say, oh, can't win a championship with that, Well,

922
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: that's only if you have another flawless team out there.

923
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: You don't keep trying to tell people there is no

924
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: Joe burrow led LSU out there. There isn't one. That's

925
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: why there are several more teams in play right now

926
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: than anyone wants to believe. And I don't know why

927
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: you don't want to believe it. You guys are always

928
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: wanting parody. You got a lot more of it than

929
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: you think you have right now, enjoy it. Enjoy it.

930
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: Let's get some more takeaways. Yesterday had several more games.

931
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: I want to start with one that we spent an

932
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: inordinate amount of time last week on, but it's because

933
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: I thought we had an angle on it. So Auburn

934
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: beats ole Miss thirty one to twenty, and I couldn't

935
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,040
Speaker 1: have been any happier watching this game because the the

936
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 1: angle that we thought we had was exactly what determined

937
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: we showed you in the JP pole. We had ole

938
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: Miss at four, we had Auburn at nine, but yet

939
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: we had Auburn, according to the model, slated to win

940
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: this game and cover, which they did. This is one

941
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: of the reasons it was our best bet last week.

942
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: So a lot of you asked, how could you have

943
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: ole Miss ranked or rated higher but pick Auburn to win.

944
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: Why would the model have ale Miss rated higher and

945
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: then say Auburn's gonna win. Well, it was two dynamics

946
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 1: in play that we thought swung the game worth nine points,

947
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: and as a result, it swung it a little bit

948
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: more than nine. One was the sec body blow dynamic

949
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: in full effect. Auburn was rested and ole Miss was

950
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: coming off over a month of playing SEC competition consecutively.

951
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: They were without most of their wide receiver corps, without

952
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: a tight end. Last night, they were just banged up.

953
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: They were beat up team. The biggest mistake that a

954
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: lot of folks make in judging strength of schedule is

955
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: you look at a team like LSU. All Miss played

956
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: LSU last week. When you look at their record and

957
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: you look at the record of LSU and LSU is

958
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: nothing to write home about. That doesn't make your training

959
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: room any less crowded the following Sunday. The players aren't

960
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: any smaller or slower or weaker just because their record

961
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: is bad. Those collisions that those Old Miss players have

962
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: with those LSU players last week, they still hurt every

963
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: bit as much. They still took every bit as much

964
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: a toll. But it gets ignored because they won the

965
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: game and because LSU's not good this year. Well, did

966
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: you watch Old Miss last night and watch some of

967
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: the people that they were without, or watch some of

968
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: the people that were well below one hundred percent. It matters.

969
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 1: It matters disproportionately in the conferences that recruited a higher level.

970
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: It matters. So there's a lot of benefit to playing

971
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,479
Speaker 1: in the SEC. But there's a price you pay, even

972
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: against some bad teams. When they got the kind of

973
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: roster that LSU does, and they played Tennessee before that,

974
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: and they played Bama before that, and they played Arkansas.

975
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: Ole Miss was beat to death coming into this game

976
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: last night. Some of the folks close in the program,

977
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: they knew it. That's why we moved on the game. Secondly,

978
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: home field was huge last night. Did you listen to

979
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin afterwards. If you don't believe me, he specifically

980
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: talked about home field affecting them. Auburn's got one of

981
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: the sneakiest home fields in the country. Bama still got

982
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: to go in there, and Auburn still controls their own fate,

983
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: which is what I'm about to talk about in just

984
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: a second. Mathematically, I don't think a lot of people

985
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: were talking about it going into yesterday, but now that

986
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: they beat all Miss, Auburn controls their own fate in

987
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: the SEC. They're going to Texas A and M this Saturday.

988
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: They are a little under a touchdown underdog. We're going

989
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,959
Speaker 1: to be at the game. There's still some mountains to climb, still,

990
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: some big hurdles to clear, but Auburn could go to

991
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: Atlanta if they get past Texas A and M. That's

992
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,479
Speaker 1: when all aisles will end up turning to the Iron

993
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: Bowl because Bama's got to go in there. Bama has

994
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: lost the last two times they've gone to Auburn. They

995
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,919
Speaker 1: never never perform at the level that you think they're

996
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: supposed to. There really hard place to play at asline Kiffin.

997
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: So Auburn wins Auburn still controlling their own destiny. That's

998
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: one team that you probably didn't know that about. Here's

999
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: another team that you don't know that about. I'm gonna

1000
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: whisper it because I don't even know if they want

1001
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: the secret out yet. Miami controls their own destiny in

1002
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 1: the ACC And why is that? Because Miami went to

1003
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: pitt yesterday and they won thirty eight to thirty four,

1004
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: And I just want to ask you what in the

1005
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: world's happening with Miami at quarterback, specifically de Eric King

1006
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: goes down for the season and the season's supposed to

1007
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: go off the rails, and they've improved at quarterback Tyler

1008
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 1: Van Dyke yesterday, this stat line looks like a month

1009
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: for him. He threw for four hundred and twenty eight yards.

1010
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: He had three touchdowns thirty two of forty two. Here's

1011
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: how good he was. Here's how good Miami ended up

1012
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 1: being Pickett, who is a Heisman contender in his own right.

1013
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: For Pitt threw for five hundred and nineteen yards and

1014
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: he lost. They lost the game, thirty eight to thirty four.

1015
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: That was a very very bad pick at the very

1016
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: end of this thing. Here's what Miami has now. And

1017
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: here's why I start smiling when I say they control

1018
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,479
Speaker 1: their own destiny. You tell me where the sure fire

1019
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,479
Speaker 1: loss is. They've got Georgia Tech, they go to Florida State,

1020
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: They've got Virginia Tech. And that's it. That's that's the

1021
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: remainder of their conference schedule. They can win every one

1022
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: of them, they can lose every one of them. Let's

1023
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: understand that too. But Manny Diaz, I guess all it

1024
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: took was the old Herman boone. Lose one game and

1025
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: you're fired idea, and all of a sudden, what's on

1026
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,879
Speaker 1: fire is Miami? What planet is this? I can't believe

1027
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: I just said that. So we got to move on here.

1028
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: Baylor beats Texas thirty one to twenty four. I apologize

1029
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: on behalf of this team. To Longhorn Nation, this has

1030
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: got to be tough to watch. What a theme. This

1031
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: should be a sitcom because it follows script so perfectly

1032
00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,320
Speaker 1: every week for Texas. They got up yesterday TI twenty

1033
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: one to ten, which is according to our stats in

1034
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: info department, a double digit lead, and again Texas blows

1035
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,720
Speaker 1: a double digit second half lead. They blew one obviously

1036
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: against Oklahoma Oklahoma State. I believe Baylor now, and it's

1037
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: got to be tough to watch. Like how think about

1038
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: how long it will take from this point moving forward

1039
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: if you're a Texas fan, for you to feel comfortable

1040
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: with a double digit lead, you're going to have Texas

1041
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 1: fans for the next thirty years with a thirty five

1042
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: to ten lead and they're telling their son or their

1043
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: nephew or their grandkid, it ain't over, trust me, it

1044
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 1: ain't over. That's the long term PSD type impact that

1045
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: this season is going to have on the psyche of

1046
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: a Texas football fan. Steve Sarkeesian, on a much more

1047
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: serious note, has to figure out how to harness this

1048
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: because you can't change what's happening. What you've got to

1049
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: do and we've seen coaches do it before. Is you've

1050
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: got to be able to take the first half success

1051
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: and you've got to be able to sell that as

1052
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: that's what I'm capable of, that's what we're going to do.

1053
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 1: Then you got to take the second half failure and

1054
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: you got to sell it as we can't do it

1055
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: for a full four quarters until we have players like you.

1056
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you have to do. You got

1057
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: to be able to turn a negative into a positive.

1058
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: Let's see if they do that. So again, a Texas

1059
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: loss and now big twelve out of probably the realm

1060
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: of possibility for a championship at least still got some

1061
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: games left though. Notre Dame forty four, North Carolina thirty four.

1062
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: This was good to see. I expected North Carolina to

1063
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: push Notre Dame. Notre Dame ends up winning, they end

1064
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: up covering. But you see how many points they had

1065
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: to score, they had to get into a territory offensively

1066
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: that they really haven't gotten to. Brian Kelly after this

1067
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: game talked about how in retrospect he wishes that they

1068
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 1: just would have stuck with Jack Coney. I mean, he

1069
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: used the word stupid. We were kind of stupid and

1070
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: trying to do the three quarterback thing. Now that he

1071
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: said it, I'll agree with it. I wouldn't say that otherwise.

1072
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: Too respectful, are we? But Notre Dame listen to this

1073
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: first half stat. So Tim o'mattle over on Irish Illustrated

1074
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 1: had a really good pair of stats here. First down

1075
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 1: in the first half for Notre Dame's offense three point

1076
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 1: seven to six yards per play, that is, on first

1077
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: downs in the first half, so they were not starting

1078
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: drives off well. In the second half. They exploded twelve

1079
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 1: point one yards per first down play in the second

1080
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: half and that changed everything. It's a really good test

1081
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: to me because they've still got Navy this week, they

1082
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: go to Virginia, they got Georgia Tech, and they go

1083
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 1: to Stanford. These are all games that Notre Dame should win.

1084
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: But it was good to see them get pushed a

1085
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: little bit. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but it was

1086
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: good to see that secondary have to face a little

1087
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: stiffer test. We talked last week about the fact that

1088
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: when you lost a big time player at safety, this

1089
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 1: was not necessarily the passing game that you wanted to face.

1090
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 1: But they had to and they overcame it. They gave

1091
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: up thirty four, but they overcame it, scored forty four

1092
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: of their own, and now Notre Dame again should be favored.

1093
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: The rest of the way gonna be interesting. That's a

1094
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 1: team that's been left for dead when it comes to

1095
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: the playoff conversation. And yet if some dominoes fall, you

1096
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: just never know. That's all I'm saying. You just you

1097
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: don't know. So I'm I am not a believer that

1098
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: this thing's all but settled. I do not believe that

1099
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: it will be a trank will November at all. And

1100
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: so if Notre Dame keeps winning, for that matter, if

1101
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 1: Oregon keeps winning, if several of these teams keep winning,

1102
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: you just never know. Three more games very quickly that

1103
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 1: I wanted to touch on yesterday. Iowa continues to crash

1104
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: back to earth. Wisconsin as a team that I regret

1105
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,320
Speaker 1: not betting on starting a couple of weeks ago, because

1106
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: the turnover thing was going to turn itself. You know, Wisconsin,

1107
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: they were the inverse of Iowa. It's actually ironic that

1108
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: those two teams played yesterday. You had one that had

1109
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: benefited from plus turnovers the whole year. You had one

1110
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: that was victimized by minus turnovers the whole year, and

1111
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 1: as it most times happens, that didn't last all year.

1112
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: It sort of reversed itself now and when that happens,

1113
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 1: you see Iowa get blown out because turnovers were all

1114
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: that were separating teams like these. Wisconsin is probably a

1115
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: better team than Iowa on a static, straight up, no turnover,

1116
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: evenly played game, but that's not how football works. And

1117
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: so one of them got undefeated way too late in

1118
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: the year, and one of them was already out of

1119
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 1: the Big Ten race way too early in the year.

1120
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: But yet all you do is change a couple of

1121
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: stats here and there, and that's the reaction twenty seven

1122
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: to seven. It just took a little bit too late

1123
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: in the season for Wisconsin to figure that out. Iowa

1124
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: State lost yesterday, Yes, friends, they did, and so the

1125
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,760
Speaker 1: dream has officially died. When it comes to Iowa State

1126
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: trying to win the Big twelve, I'm gonna put it

1127
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: on the shelf. I did not think that that line

1128
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: they lost to West Virginia, by the way, didn't think

1129
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: the line made a whole lot of sense, But the

1130
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: model thought it did, and so I argued with the

1131
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: model last night, not with myself. I cannot be held responsible.

1132
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: It was the model's fault thirty eight to thirty one. Though,

1133
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: Neil Brown, I'll tell you West Virginia went to Iowa

1134
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: State last year. They got smoked, and that's one of

1135
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: the only games that staff felt like they just didn't

1136
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,439
Speaker 1: show up for. And so they were ready for this one,

1137
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: and it showed. They were seven and a half point dogs.

1138
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: They won the game out right by a touchdown. And

1139
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: then there's Sinsy over two lane thirty one to twelve.

1140
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: I've got a theory on Sinci. I'm not gonna bore

1141
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: you with it again. I've told you I think as

1142
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: long as they keep winning, things are gonna fall their

1143
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: way and they will get in. There are wild swinging

1144
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: philosophies on where they're going to be ranked in the

1145
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: initial playoff rankings when they come out Tuesday night. I well,

1146
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: I don't really care all that much because it's going

1147
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,919
Speaker 1: to sort itself out. I do not believe that they're

1148
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: going to have them at number two or three. I

1149
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be like the five four or five

1150
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: six range, somewhere like that. I think they're going to

1151
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: be floating right on the fence. Like there are some

1152
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: people who solidly think they'll be top four, there are

1153
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: other people who solidly think they'll be out. I think

1154
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 1: they'll be right there on the fence. I think it'll

1155
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: be one of those things where that committee can sit

1156
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: there and say, well, I mean, they're right there. You know,

1157
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: let's let the games take care of this instead of

1158
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: having us argue about it, even though we're gonna do

1159
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: a one hour special on Tuesday night for just that reason.

1160
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: All right, let's get out of here with ram Nouodle Express,

1161
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: and then we got business to take care of elsewhere.

1162
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. Okay, So the ram Mandudal Express, depending

1163
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: on which numbers you've gotten, is either at five hundred

1164
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: or a little below five hundred on the season, which

1165
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: is below clearly our standard for where we want to be.

1166
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. The model has been great this year,

1167
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: I'm choosing the wrong games. So we're gonna rectify that.

1168
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,240
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm gonna do. Let me give you an example.

1169
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: Yesterday we went two and four, yet I went I

1170
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: want to say eleven and seven. In my own personal bets.

1171
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: Washington State was a huge game for us yesterday. I

1172
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: just didn't hand it out. I'm not gonna bore you

1173
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: with that. Here's what we're gonna do. I may have

1174
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen games I hand out this week, but

1175
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,760
Speaker 1: so help me, every game that this model spits out

1176
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: that says is a fifty eight point eight percent or

1177
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: better cover prop just a number we like to arrive

1178
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: at fifty eight eight I'm handing out. I've already given

1179
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: you four of them tonight, and we are gonna have

1180
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 1: several more because I've alread looked at the numbers. We're

1181
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 1: just waiting on some line moves. So here we go.

1182
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: Eastern Michigan plus nine. That is a Tuesday game. They

1183
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: play at Toledo. We are on Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan

1184
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: plus nine and a half. This is a Wednesday game

1185
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,919
Speaker 1: they are at Western Michigan. We're taking the chips plus

1186
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,919
Speaker 1: nine and a half. There are some plus tens out there. Yes,

1187
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: if you get a better number than me, you shouldn't

1188
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: have to ask. Yes, it is a take. I move

1189
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,959
Speaker 1: on Kansas State minus twenty three and a half. Get

1190
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,479
Speaker 1: this before it goes above twenty four. Kansas State minus

1191
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: twenty three and a half at Kansas and USC plus

1192
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 1: eight and a half. Arizona State is in freefall mode.

1193
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: They have no business laying more than a touchdown in

1194
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: this game. It is a line that is off. We

1195
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: think Southern Cal could win the game outright, So take

1196
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: Southern Cal plus anything above a touchdown. We love eight

1197
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: and a half, So Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan, Kansas State,

1198
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: and USC. You got to understand something. If I seem

1199
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: a little bit frazzle tonight, it is because in my childhood,

1200
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: I grew up and I loved the Atlanta Braves. Still do,

1201
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: but that was the fabric of my childhood so much

1202
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: so that in the summer I would record the night

1203
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: games on TBS and I would watch them again the

1204
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: next morning. That's right. I watched eighteen innings worth of

1205
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,919
Speaker 1: every game they played, and we went to every playoff game,

1206
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: and we formulated every scenario come playoff time where we

1207
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: thought they could win it all and they didn't, and

1208
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: it was crushing for me. Took at least most of

1209
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 1: November and some of December to get over. Every year

1210
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,919
Speaker 1: they are twenty seven outs away from winning a world

1211
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: championship for the first time since nineteen ninety five, and

1212
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: the game is about to start, so I'm going to

1213
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: be in a very emotional, fragile place for the duration

1214
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: of this evening, hopefully not past this evening. We almost

1215
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: went to Atlanta tonight. I had Georgia Tech. I'll credit

1216
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: them anyway, Georgia Tech was ready to host the show tonight.

1217
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: We're going to do the show from Atlanta, and I

1218
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: was going to go over and catch the game. I

1219
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: didn't for several reasons, but we almost did that. So

1220
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do now is we're gonna wrap the

1221
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 1: show up. I'm gonna ask you, humbly one more time

1222
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. We will

1223
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: be back to normal, probably hopefully by Tuesday night because

1224
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: all this will be over. But until then, thank you

1225
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: for bearing with us on the time changes. Thank you

1226
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: for being with us in general. I'm looking forward to

1227
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: being in College Station, Texas. Either way, this Saturday, I

1228
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: am flying into Houston, and listen, I got nothing against

1229
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: you people. I hope to see some miserable faces at

1230
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: that airport. I hope to see some very sad faces locally.

1231
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: You guys will heal I've had to do it several times.

1232
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: You got your World championship, just let me get one,

1233
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: let me get mine. So for director Colin, also a

1234
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: Brace fan, and our entire crew in Fort Lauderdale, I'm

1235
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: Josh Fate. Thanks so much for watching Lake Kick. Have

1236
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 1: a great start to your week and God bless