WEBVTT - National Championship Preview (1/6/2017) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:03.720 Welcome to the Solid Verbal. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:05.600 I'll that for me. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:09.719 I'm a man, I'm for I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.639 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:13.000 for Dake Edith State. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:14.440 Is that whoo whoom? 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.120 And Dan and Tye. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.400 Welcome back to this solid turble boys and girls. My 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.959 name is ty hilden Brand over there on the other 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.480 side of the table. Yeah, he is a fine gentleman. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.840 We like to call mister Dan rupert Stein, Sir, how 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:29.200 are you. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.199 I'm doing pretty well. I'm I'm under the weather. I 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.560 am currently full of Cuban food because that's what you 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.440 do in Tampa. But you know what, Ty, it's wonderful 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.400 to see you. Life is great. We're here for Alabama 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.520 Clemson and we have and we mentioned this on Twitter 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.120 dot com slash Solid Verbal got some goofs going on 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:51.239 in the background. We have a multi layered college football 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:56.960 Playoff National Championship preview, and so we have decided in 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.840 advance to just like get as much information as possible 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:01.680 so that once we get here we could just be 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.320 dumb and not rely on people. 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.600 Generally, as we discussed, we're very unreliable. Yes, we are 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.920 very much When it comes to planning things out in advance. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:11.880 So the fact that we did as much as we 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.800 did beforehand, Yeah, I think really is a testament to 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.160 how much we've grown as individuals. That's what this is 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:17.640 all about. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.160 I can't believe we have almost assuredly pulled this off. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.720 So we have a show that you will hear momentarily. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:28.479 So we have this game Alabama Clemson. We have recruiting 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.840 with Bud Elliott, ESP Nation Recruiting Analysts editor and just 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.160 sort of how these two teams constructed themselves. We have 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.720 a statistical profile with Bill Connolly. We have Ryan Nanny 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.080 to just be you know, his usual tell us. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.920 About Tampa Tapa, what are we to do when we're 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:44.360 down here? 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.040 He did make some recommendations. Hey, there's Chip Patterson from CBS, 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.840 and we have who am I forgetting? Right now? We 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.360 have Andy Staples talk about Nick Saban, Krispy Brown. We 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.520 have Krispy Brown. I'm being tickled by Chip Patterson right now. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:03.120 We have Krispy Brown. We spoke with him about exactly 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.840 what Clemson does on offense and how they simplify and 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.880 how they go about their business. We have Richard Johnson 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.680 from Espimnation who also is sitting at this table just 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.600 minding his own business. He has a lot of pertinent 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.360 information on Alabama's rushing attack and how that has evolved 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.959 over the last couple of years. Now with Jalen Hurts 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.480 and all sorts of goodness, I don't what am I 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.600 am I missing anybody? We have Ryan Abraham to talk 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:28.840 about the Sark factor. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.399 The Sark factor. It is Sark Week here, which we'll 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.360 get into in a little bit. So, as we mentioned, 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.720 they call this audio avenue. Yes, this is now the 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.200 sixth time I counted that. Yeah, you and I have 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.280 been at a National champs in Arizona. It's grown in 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.200 terms of the production that we put into this whole 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.720 National Championship Week thing. They call this audio avenue. They've 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.560 been kind enough to invite us to this portion of 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.160 the media gathering for the last couple of years. Now 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.799 this year, it's decidedly louder because the room is decidedly narrow. Yes, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.399 so I think we're really going to have to project here. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.520 That's fine if we want to get our voices out there. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.400 These people will not us by the time we leave. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.560 So we have around this room. It looks like is 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.880 that Bobby Bouden over there. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:13.000 That could be Bobby. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:14.880 You can't tell all old people. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.280 I see the Tennessee end zone with the checkerboards, I 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:17.679 don't see. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.680 We've got Tony Bruno behind me, We've got Sirius XM. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.040 It's a it's a hearty group. We ran into rivals 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.079 in the elevator coming down here, Bruce and Sue from 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.560 Fox Sports. We had a knife fight, yep, and they 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.240 seem to be doing all right. So ty, let's start 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.640 with this big picture, since we are going sort of 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.160 micro with the layers that we're about to dip into. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.080 Big picture, what do you think Alabama Clemson is sort 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:43.880 of defined by. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.240 I think it's defined by Alabama's defense and by Alabama's 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.280 dominance over this stretch that Nick Saban's been there, I 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.040 think far and away when you think of these two teams, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.080 That's what comes to mind what I'm interested in, And 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.320 I wanted to ask you and really all the people 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.800 that we talk with. As you know, when you do 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.160 research for a game like this, it's very much incremental. Yeah, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.040 you know, it builds on things that be knew back 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.520 in Week one that we've come to redefine. Now after 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.640 fifteen weeks of college football when you did your research 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.839 and starting looking into all right, what are the key 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.640 factors for me, Dan, what's going to work for Clemson, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.920 what's going to work for Alabama? What was your starting 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.400 point for that research. Were you coming from a place 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.960 where you're just automatically assuming that Alabama is dominant, Alabama 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.039 is unbeaten, it's going to be near impossible to beat Alabama, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.320 or were you coming at it from a perspective of 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.680 this is a close game last year, Deshaun Watson's a 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.640 transcendent player, could have very easily won the Heisman this year? 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.400 What was the starting point for you? 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.240 The starting point was one just figuring out how much 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.520 I can believe in Clemson after a year in which 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.200 it's been tricky to believe in Clemson, even though they've 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.440 sort of almost run the table. They have the lot 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.160 of loss against Pitt. I wanted to see if it 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.599 was sor if it was a matter of anomalies with 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.599 you know, Deshaun Watson struggling in the passing game. You know, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.720 the Troy game was very close. The NC State game 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.520 should have probably been a loss. The loss to Pitt, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.440 but then we know what we can get when Clemson 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.560 is firing on all cylinders. So I wanted to know 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.320 if it was just a matter of Clemson playing sloppy 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.120 and when they're focused they're greats because I think Alabama's 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.320 especially defensively, it does almost doesn't matter what Alabama does 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.080 on offense when they're not letting teams score more than 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:30.000 like thirteen points. So Clemson, to me, even though we've 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.039 seen them in this spot, was still much more of 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.200 an unknown quantity after this season. So it was figuring 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.800 out the differences between good and bad Clemson. That's what 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.200 it's actually defined by, because they were so close last year. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.520 Absolutely. So you mentioned the defense, Our favorite meaningless stat 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.120 is total defense. Alabama led the nation in vent for 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.880 whatever it's worth. They also led the nation in scoring 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.040 defense eleven point four points per game. In rushing defense 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.240 they allowed only sixty two per game two yards per carry, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.880 which is crazy, and fourteenth in passing defense, so across 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.839 the board, a really well balanced defense. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.400 You want to see what the analytics look like. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.040 Whatalytics do you have in front of you? 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:08.760 This? 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.520 Oh gosh, wow, look at this. Did the solid fiance 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.799 say yes before or after she saw. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.480 That she's the one who told me how to use. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:17.960 V look up. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.280 WHOA Okay, so you know it's real. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.040 You know it's real with V look up. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.520 So yeah, the analytics obviously love both of these teams. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.920 There's some weaknesses for Clemson. The only thing that you 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.440 can say about Alabama is their touchdown frequency is in 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.160 top of the top. It's right around forty, which is 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.599 fine when you have the defense that they have, and 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.240 they've stalled some in the red zone. But as we 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.039 saw against Washington, they can generate longer touchdowns and so 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.680 it doesn't matter as much here. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.880 Here's what spooks me a little bit. All year, it 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:51.680 was Alabama is dominant, right, domin what context? Dominant in 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.520 that you can't run on them, you can't score on them, right, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.720 You're not going to beat them period. Now they've got 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.479 this third dimension, if you will, with a running or back. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.480 It's tough to try and defend all of that, Ammo. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.440 What spooks me now is if you read media reports 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.360 in the build up to this game, a lot of 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.680 people that I think very highly of in sports media 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:18.720 and college football media have slowly gravitated towards Clemson. Correct 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.440 And I don't know why that is, I didn't see 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.800 anything last week other than a truly dominant performance gainst 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:25.760 Ohio State. It was great. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.320 Shutout, Hi, shut out. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.040 Okay, it was great. I didn't see anything in that 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.520 game that otherwise would lead me to believe, excuse me, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.920 that Clemson would all of a sudden win this game. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.520 I felt pretty good about what I saw on the 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.960 Alabama side. But all week I've been reading about people. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.800 I think it was USA today five of seven for Clemson. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:44.320 Uh huh. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.800 So I'm starting to like overthink this. It's my most 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:48.680 redeeming quality. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.960 So we know about this matchup already because we've seen it. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.400 We saw it last year. There isn't too much that's different. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.840 I mean, the Alabama quarterback situation is certainly big, the 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.880 addition of Mike Williams for Clemson is certainly The loss 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.040 of a couple of key defenders for Clemson is certainly 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.240 a big factor. But unlike the Notre Dame matchup, in 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.480 which we saw a lot of late intellectual money coming 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.840 in on Notre Dame, right, we sort of talked to 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.720 ourselves into like, well, that defense has been great all year. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.120 I'm like Pete Sampson sneaking this way, Yeah. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.040 Loves it. The thing is with Clemson, they just shut 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.680 out a playoff team, not a pretty good team, they 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.320 shut out a playoff team, not one, not two, not 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:34.280 even three, but four fingers deep, tie fingers deep. So 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.200 we know that Clemson with authority has the capability to 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.560 beat Alabama, right, I would think so. Yeah, as with 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.320 Notre Dame in this situation a few years ago, when 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.560 people started talking themselves into it, it was sort of like, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.040 well maybe if and then I think it's a totally 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.400 different scenario with this pick. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:54.360 Let's put it this way. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:54.680 Yeah. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.280 When I saw the points spread for the Alabama Washington game, yeah, 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.480 I thought to myself, Alabama can definitely cover this, and 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.280 they did. When I look at this point spread, depending 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.880 where you look, six six and a half, seven seven 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.360 and a half. In some places, I look at that 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.520 and I say, I saw I don't feel great about that. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.000 I think it was odd shark. I think the money 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.080 is about fifty nine forty one Clemson right. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.400 Now, it makes sense to me, and that's kind that's 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.559 kind of how I feel about it now. Of course, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.000 it's a separate ball of wax al together. Can they 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.880 beat them? Yeah, can they outright beat them? Last year 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.560 scored scored a eight touchdown, covered the point spread this 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.760 year can I don't know. I don't know, so that's 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.120 sort of the whole purpose of this. The game is 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.680 Monday night, eight pm down here at Tampa at Raymond 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.240 James Stadium. I don't know if they have the pirate 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.040 ship decorated and it's in any particular fashion, or if 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.840 they'll fire the cannons. If any team scores. 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.400 I would pay attention to Richard Johnson. He will be 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.559 doing a stadium walkthrough walk through. He will be getting 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.040 the information that you use such desire to have full disclosure. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.920 He's seated right now, still sitting right, He's still seated 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.400 here since he's already on this show. We don't need 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.800 We're not paying them enough money. That's right, That's what 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:03.240 I'm saying. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.600 That's what this comes down to. Monday night, eight pm, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.960 Raymond James Stadium. Look for Richard's walk through. The game 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.520 is on ESPN, of course, Chris Fowler, Ork kurb Street. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.680 Tom Rinaldi's going to be doing Alabama. I saw Sam 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.880 Ponder is going to have the Clemson sidelines. Alabama's fourteen 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.520 to zero. They are a six and a half point favorite, 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.559 at least on my sheet, over Clemson thirteen oh one, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.520 the one loss coming against Pitt earlier in this season. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.880 What our plan is for this show is to walk 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.679 through those layers. We're gonna analyze this from an analytical standpoint, 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.440 as far as schemes go, as far as matchups go. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.560 We're going to talk about the Sark factor and all 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.040 sorts of things here over the course of the next 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.280 hour or so. Before we get there, though, we got 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.400 to pay some bills. Here is and appropriately pre recorded. Yes, commercial, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.000 we're working ahead. This is what we do. 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That's Casper dot Com slash 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.720 verbal offer code verbal fifty dollars toward any mattress purchase. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.600 Terms and conditions do apply, all right, Dan, Let's get 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.720 rolling with our layer great read. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.840 By the way, Ty, you did a great take you okay, 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:17.640 thank you? Where we start. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.199 Let's get rolling with our layered previews. So a good 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.439 way to start this thing is to take a step back. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.640 Let's look at the numbers, just the way we always 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.440 do before every game during. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.079 The most of all regular season sport. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.920 The numbers, the numbers, how the game is played on paper, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.800 and whatnot. You talked to Bill Connolly. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.000 I did, and what was really interesting to me is 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.920 I did. And you know what, let's just start out 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.600 right here. I asked him if anything jumped out to 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.240 him even surprised him about the stat profiles mclems in Alabama. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.560 It was, actually, it's pretty interesting. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.000 Okay, here's some of your interview. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.040 Well, I don't think there are any major surprises here 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.439 from a stat standpoint. I mean, basically, the biggest advantage 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.120 of Alabama seems to have and you can see how 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.719 this would define the game. You know, the Clemson's not 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.640 a very good running team. They're better than they were 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.000 at the beginning of the year, but Alabama's Alabama. 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.080 They're not going to allow big run plays. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.760 They're going to probably Clemson's a pretty bad short yardage team, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.960 so Alabama's going to pretty much put it all onto 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.679 Shaun Watson's shoulders. And that might work out okay for Clemson. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.880 But you know, that's kind of what's going to happen here. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.400 It would be very surprising if Clemson was able to 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.840 generate too much on the ground. And then on the 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.880 other side, you know what we saw Clemson being able 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.000 to do to J. T. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:27.839 Barrett last week. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.800 I think is pretty similar to You're going to see, 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.640 you know, a very good pass rush making Jalen hurts 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.720 his life pretty uncomfortable when when they have. 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.240 To pass or when he chooses to pass. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.079 Alabama will be better at running the ball than Ohio 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.400 State was, or at the very least it's safe to 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.600 assume they won't give up on the run as quickly 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.360 as Ohio State did, and so you know, maybe that's enough. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.840 Maybe they get enough run run production that it doesn't 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.520 matter that they can't really pass. But I don't think 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.280 Alabama will be able to pass very well. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.360 What is a glaring deficiency or tendency for each team 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.959 that you think will be very much publicly on display 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:04.400 in this game. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.400 Well, I think Clemson's lack of a run game really 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.120 is you know, like I said, they have improved as 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.520 the as the season has progressed, but they don't. I 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.720 don't think they're ready to take on Alabama in that 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.880 regard yet. And I think that they give up a 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.400 bunch of negative run plays. They give they get stucked 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.640 in short yardage situations a lot. If you do those 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.160 things against Alabama, I mean, any other quarterback and being 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.440 rendered one dimensional pretty much ends your chances. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:27.800 But I do think that's what we're going to see. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.080 I think we're going to see a situation where that 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.840 you know this, if a run game is just completely 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.920 non existent against Alabama, I'd be surprised if if Goldin 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.040 really gets going in that regard For Alabama, though, I mean, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.560 it's kind of the same deal. They also give up 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.760 some negative run plays, they give up a ton of sacks, 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.480 and as we saw, you know, they didn't move down 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.480 too much in the ratings for not being able to 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.480 pass against Washington because Washington has a very good pass defense, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.080 but they won't be able to rely on the on 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.800 the pass, that's for sure. Clemson's pass defense is fantastic. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.280 And if it becomes a s situation where Hurts has 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.280 to have time, I mean not only they have to pass, 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.720 but I mean he has to get receivers downfield, it's 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.680 gonna be really tough because comes and rushes the pass 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:09.840 are really really well. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.280 Is there anything else from the statistical profile of these 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.120 two teams, the profiles of these two teams that stands 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.760 out to you as perhaps being unexpected. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.080 Well, I think, you know, maybe because we remember last 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.000 year's you know, forty five to forty game. It's most 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.720 of the advantages on both sides of the ball are defensive. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.960 That's usually the case with Alabama just because they typically 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.720 have a humongous defensive advantages against anybody, but even against 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.720 Clemson it's the case. And then on the other side, 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:43.760 even against Alabama, Clemson's defensive advantages, the pass rush and 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.960 whatnot seemed to stand out. So I would be really 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.240 really surprised if we get anywhere close to eighty five 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.000 points in this game. It feels more like a twenty 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.600 five to twenty situation than than forty five to forty. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.200 All right, So that's Bill's perspective, That's how he sees 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.440 the game shaking out, doesn't see as many point could 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.440 see it unfolding in a similar fashion. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.560 Two great defenses. I don't think it's a reach at 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:06.240 all to say. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.840 That in a similar close fashion as we did last year. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.040 The next place you and I decided to look for 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.600 clues was to our good friend Bud Elliott. So, as 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.640 you know, Bud Elliott does a great job Tomahawk Nation 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.320 covering the Knowles to the degree that they do. But 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.560 he's also really in the weeds. When it comes to 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.080 all things recruiting, and when you look at games like 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.000 this and you look at matchups, you want to talk 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:28.840 to people who not only know the teams well, but 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.920 also know the players, know the construction of the team, 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.880 the talent on the team, really know what these coaches 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.440 are working with. So we asked, Bud, can you give 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.800 us some indication where you think this thing might head 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.720 based on the construction of these two teams. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.880 These are the two best houses in college football. They 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.360 have the two best foundations absolutely. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:48.920 For about the billionth year in a row. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.800 Now it seems the national championship is going to go 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.560 to a team that has signed more four and five 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.480 stars over the last four seasons than two and three stars. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.080 Got to have a certain minute level of talent to 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.680 take home the national title. I call that the blue 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.800 chip ratio, and you can read about that on espnation 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:11.040 dot com. This year, Alabama unsurprisingly was number one in 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:15.320 the blue chip ratio, with an incredible seventy seven percent 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.200 of their signings over the last four years being blue chips. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.960 Clemson was number twelve with fifty two percent. Really, the 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.080 goal here is just to be over half what we 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.280 see with Clemson, though, is that Clemson has one of 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.600 the most talented rosters in college football, much like Alabama does. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.280 Other than the quarterback position, though these teams are not 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:40.199 that dissimilar. They both have dominating defensive lines. Clemson with 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:45.639 Christian Wilkins, Carlos Watkins, and importantly Dexter Lawrence, who I 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.440 think is probably, if you want to make an NFL 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.679 comparison talent wise, probably the closest thing we've seen to 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.879 Albert Haynesworth since Albert Haynesworth. He moves like a three 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.400 hundred pound guye despite being forty pounds bigger, and that's 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.600 just that's a whole lot of mass moving at a 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.800 quick speed. It's just difficult to block. On the other side, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.040 I think if you look at Alabama, one of their 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.760 most impressive players this year is Jonah Williams, a former 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.600 five star offensive tackle. I believe he enrolled early, came 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.959 in started immediately, has played great this entire year. And 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.240 playing offensive tackle is a really tough ask of a 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:24.199 true freshman. But the tie they have Jonah Williams on 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.520 one side is doing it, and on the other side 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.920 they have Cam Robinson, who's one of the top draft prospects. 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.200 And he's been doing it for three years now. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.119 Alabama, we know all the stars up front, and that's 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.639 really I think what separates Alabama from most of the 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:42.240 other teams is we had this much talent on the team. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:43.600 There's no doubt that you're. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.399 Able to practice at a higher level because if you 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:49.160 take a day off practice at Alabama, they have somebody else, 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.040 probably very close to your. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:51.879 Talent level behind you. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.040