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Speaker 1: we're gonna hit on with Matt, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: take our time on this one. Let me preface. Matt's

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Speaker 1: about to ask something a lot of you are going

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Speaker 1: So here's Matt's question. This is in the Twitter inbox.

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Speaker 1: Do you think they should restrict the number of four

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Speaker 1: work with me, Work with me and Matt. Do you

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Speaker 1: answered that in classical debate class form. Instead of giving

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Speaker 1: a one laws division champion? You got to pay attention

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Speaker 1: to who they're out of conference opponents are. You're thinking

429
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Speaker 1: to yourself, Nope, if you play in that garbage conference

430
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Speaker 1: called the AC seed, you have to be undefeated and

431
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Speaker 1: be a conference champ or you're not making the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Well in most years with most teams, that's true. It

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Speaker 1: may be true this year with North Carolina, but they

434
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Speaker 1: don't play a couple of high school teams as tune

435
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Speaker 1: up games, and they're out of conference slate. This year

436
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Speaker 1: they go to Central Florida and they play Auburn in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Those would be two bona fide Top twenty caliber wins

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Speaker 1: for them at the very least. And so if they

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Speaker 1: have that and then one or two teams just manage

440
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Speaker 1: a top twenty five ranking, nothing too crazy on their

441
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Speaker 1: conference schedule, and they beat all those teams, they could

442
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Speaker 1: end up in a situation where they've got several quality

443
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Speaker 1: wins at the end of the year and they lose

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Speaker 1: to maybe a one seed in Clemson and that's their

445
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Speaker 1: only loss. Now, if you that on the surface, you

446
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Speaker 1: still may think, uh, they're probably on the outside looking in.

447
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Speaker 1: But see, that's assuming that you're gonna have a bonafide

448
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Speaker 1: SEC champ. A bonafide Big Ten champ in Oklahoma, whatever

449
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Speaker 1: the case may be, and it doesn't always work out

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Speaker 1: that way. It may, but it doesn't always work out

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Speaker 1: that way. And keep in mind, even if it does

452
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Speaker 1: work out that way, it's a razor thin margin. So

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Speaker 1: if you have a mess elsewhere, I'm just saying, you

454
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Speaker 1: could have this crazy scenario where two teams from what

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Speaker 1: is perceived to be the weakest conference in America are

456
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Speaker 1: knocking on the door of the playoff. That would be crazy.

457
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Speaker 1: That would be sneaky. You asked me for sneaky. Another

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Speaker 1: one is Penn State. I've gone over this before. Now

459
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Speaker 1: they're going to be ranked in everyone's top ten. So

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Speaker 1: I don't think on the surface that sounds crazy. But

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Speaker 1: I think that, just like I said with North Carolina,

462
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Speaker 1: aside from the classical route, the typical route of winning

463
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Speaker 1: the conference and you're in, I think they could also

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Speaker 1: be one of those programs. In fact, I think they're

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Speaker 1: the most likely program this year to make the playoff

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Speaker 1: without winning their conference for a lot of the same

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Speaker 1: reasons I just mentioned. When North Carolina and Texas A

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Speaker 1: and M is a team that you won't probably hear

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Speaker 1: me predicting to go to the playoff, but I don't

470
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Speaker 1: think it would be the wildest occurrence in history. They've

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Speaker 1: got a much more favorable schedule this year. Their first

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Speaker 1: game where they'll probably be an underdog is at Auburn,

473
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Speaker 1: it's in the middle of the year. And outside of that,

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Speaker 1: they got two very tough games to end the season.

475
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Speaker 1: They go to Alabama and then they've got LSU at home.

476
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Speaker 1: Now here's what I'm thinking. What I'm thinking is when

477
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Speaker 1: you play in the SEC West, you got room for

478
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Speaker 1: a loss. And what could happen here is you could

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Speaker 1: have a situation where A and M goes to Alabama

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Speaker 1: and they lose to the eventual SEC champion Alabama Crimson Tide.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say this is not a prediction. Let's just

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Speaker 1: say you could have a situation there where A and

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Speaker 1: M is taking the route Bama has had to take

484
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Speaker 1: a couple times. They got one loss, so happens to

485
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Speaker 1: be to the SEC champ or a team that goes

486
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Speaker 1: to Atlanta and their resume is still really good, better

487
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Speaker 1: than some conference champs. Could Texas A and M sit

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Speaker 1: there if they beat LSU in the last week of

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Speaker 1: the season. Let's say, could they be there waving their

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Speaker 1: hands saying how about us? How about us? I think

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Speaker 1: those three would be sneaky, but I don't think that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of those three would just be

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Speaker 1: so crazy that you'd say, Nope, wake me up when

494
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Speaker 1: this is over. I must be dreaming, Joanna. An interesting

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Speaker 1: question here, Joanna on Twitter favorite song from the seventies, eighties,

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Speaker 1: and nineties. She wants one song from each decade. Believe

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Speaker 1: it or not. I came up with the list in

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Speaker 1: ten seconds. My favorite song from the seventies is also

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Speaker 1: my favorite song of all time. It is Dreams by

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Speaker 1: Fleetwood mac Engineering perfection, unbelievable. My favorite song from the

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Speaker 1: eighties is a song called Missing You by John Waite.

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Speaker 1: I think it was pretty famous. When I think of

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Speaker 1: eighty sound Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears

504
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Speaker 1: for Fears and Missing You by John Waite, those two songs,

505
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Speaker 1: as soon as you hear the first ten seconds, those

506
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Speaker 1: songs encapsulate perfectly what the eighties sound is to me.

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Speaker 1: In the nineties, it's kind of weird. The nineties, I

508
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Speaker 1: think are an insanely underrated decade for music, just incredibly underrated.

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Speaker 1: You got to keep in mind I am anywhere from

510
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Speaker 1: five to fifteen years old in the nineties, four to fifteen.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that works anyway. I was born

512
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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five. So the Matchbox twenty I thought

513
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Speaker 1: was a phenomenal band that did not get their just

514
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Speaker 1: due in the nineties until you fast forward fifteen years

515
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Speaker 1: and everything's trash and you look back in retrospect and

516
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 1: you say, you know, Matchbox twenty, they were pretty good.

517
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Speaker 1: It's just that in nineteen ninety eight, Matchbox twenty was

518
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Speaker 1: being compared to like led Zeppelin from twenty years earlier,

519
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Speaker 1: and led Zeppelin they were not necessarily but they were

520
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: still really good. So Matchbox twenty, Gooo Dolls, Third Eye Blind.

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Speaker 1: I was a big fan. I thought the nineties were

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Speaker 1: the best decade for country music. A ton of country

523
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Speaker 1: music acts I loved. But there's a song. This has

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Speaker 1: a lot more to do with memory framework than anything else.

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Speaker 1: Memory framework, if you're familiar with the concept, is just

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Speaker 1: that thing where if you see something or if you

527
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Speaker 1: hear something, it's attached firmly to a memory in your

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Speaker 1: mind of something else, and they're just kind of meshed together.

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Speaker 1: Like you have a song that reminds you of a

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Speaker 1: person or a place. Well, I got a song from

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Speaker 1: the nineties that so vividly reminds me of a place

532
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Speaker 1: that it has become one of my favorites. The song

533
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Speaker 1: is You Were Meant for Me by Jewel. It was

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Speaker 1: a pretty big song in the late late nineties, about

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Speaker 1: the time Alanismore set was big and whatnot. And the

536
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Speaker 1: stretch of road that it takes me to is a

537
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Speaker 1: stretch towards the elementary school that I attended in fifth grade,

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Speaker 1: at least New Mountain Hill Elementary. It's right there in

539
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Speaker 1: Harris County, and there's just this stretch of road. I

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Speaker 1: think because that song was so big when I was

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Speaker 1: in fifth grade and in our carpool every morning we

542
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Speaker 1: would hear the song on the way to school, that

543
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Speaker 1: it just sort of got burned into my mind. But

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Speaker 1: it's the most vivid piece of memory framework that I

545
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Speaker 1: have in my mind. It's so random, it makes no sense.

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Speaker 1: It is a song by Jewel, and it is the

547
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Speaker 1: carpool on the way to elementary school in fifth grade.

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Speaker 1: Was that the direction, Joanna, that you thought I was

549
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Speaker 1: going to go? Probably? Not? A podcast review Jeremiah seventy eighth. Three,

550
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Speaker 1: Where do you see Alabama in five years when Sabin retires.

551
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: I think Mario Cristobal is going to be the head

552
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Speaker 1: coach there. I think they'll still be one of the

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Speaker 1: best programs in America. That was very succinct, Tony, you

554
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: could probably cut that one man. We've had like fifteen

555
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Speaker 1: second vod there. Let's move it on. Why isn't LSU

556
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Speaker 1: considered a dynasty If we've won three titles in fifteen

557
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Speaker 1: years and we've played for four we have the second

558
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Speaker 1: most titles since the year two thousand. Also, don't ever

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Speaker 1: wear anything other than that white T shirt. It's your trademark.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Sims. Some people call me a flood victim.

561
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: Some people say I'm too lazy to wash clothes or

562
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Speaker 1: buy clothes. And to be honest with you, I think

563
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: accusations two and three are probably true. However, I had

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Speaker 1: someone ask me earlier this week about the white T shirt,

565
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Speaker 1: and here's what I told them. I told them there's

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Speaker 1: a purpose, there's a reason. There's a story behind that

567
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Speaker 1: white T shirt. But not all stories are meant to

568
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Speaker 1: be told. Just know that if it stands out enough

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Speaker 1: for you to notice, then that just means it adds

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Speaker 1: a little bit more flavor and one more unique layer

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Speaker 1: to our brand here. And when I say our brand,

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Speaker 1: I mean our brand cause it's as much yours as

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Speaker 1: it is mine, and that's a good thing. So white

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Speaker 1: T shirt's going to stay. As for LSU and a dynasty,

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Speaker 1: on the surface, I think the statue threw out say dynasty.

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Speaker 1: But then past the surface, I don't think LSU has

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Speaker 1: been a dynasty. I think they've been a really good

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Speaker 1: program for an extended period of time. And if these

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Speaker 1: three titles would have come within a span of about

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Speaker 1: five or six years, then I think, yeah, we would

581
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Speaker 1: be talking dynasty. But think about what we said here.

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Speaker 1: You got three championships in the last fifteen years. That's true,

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Speaker 1: but they were three O seven and nineteen. Three and

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Speaker 1: O seven and nineteen. There are three different coaches first off. Secondly,

585
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Speaker 1: oh three and O seven. That's a different world. I mean,

586
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Speaker 1: people think about the seven to the nineteen stretch and

587
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Speaker 1: think about how different college football is, and think about

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Speaker 1: how different the program is. I just think that you

589
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: have three walls. Like when I think about the history

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Speaker 1: of LSU, the recent history of LSU, I build a

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Speaker 1: wall between Saban and Miles, and I build a wall

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Speaker 1: between Miles and Oorsron. And the bottom line is, in

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Speaker 1: any of those three compartments, there's only one championship. Now,

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Speaker 1: what ed Orgeron could do is he could run off

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Speaker 1: a little stream here where they are called a modern

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Speaker 1: day dynasty. But I don't look at the past fifteen

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Speaker 1: years of LSU and call him a dynasty. I call

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Speaker 1: him a really really good program. I wouldn't call that

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Speaker 1: a dynasty. I don't think the domination, the level of

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Speaker 1: domination has been there to the degree that you would need.

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Speaker 1: Like Alabama, that's domination. Alabama's run off a string where

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Speaker 1: they have been insane. They've won. He's won five championships there.

603
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Speaker 1: Nick Saban has had won five in the last decade.

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Speaker 1: I mean cause he won one in what nine, eleven, twelve, fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and seventeen. That right, there is a dynasty and number

606
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Speaker 1: one recruiting classes virtually every year, pumping more kids into

607
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Speaker 1: the first round of the NFL Draft than they've lost games.

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Speaker 1: Think about how insane that is. Nick Saban has more

609
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Speaker 1: first round draft picks than losses at Alabama. How's that?

610
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Speaker 1: Even that's not even possible? On x bogs let alone

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Speaker 1: in real life. So that's a it's a good program.

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Speaker 1: Ulsh's been a solid program. There are extra steps you

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Speaker 1: got to take to be a dynasty. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: move in on here. Hawk fan for life in the

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Speaker 1: email inbox. I love lake Kick. I was born and

616
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Speaker 1: raised in Iowa. I'm a Hawkeyes fan who lives in Texas.

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Speaker 1: Even as a Big Ten loyalist, I acknowledge SEC dominance.

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Speaker 1: What will it take for schools in the Big Ten

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Speaker 1: besides Ohio State to match the SEC effort. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you asked it that way, because I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: an effort deal. I really don't. I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: an effort deal. To say it's an effort deal would

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Speaker 1: suggest that they're not trying as hard outside of Columbus, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: They're not trying as hard in ann Arbor, Michigan as

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Speaker 1: they are in Athens, Georgia, and I really think they are.

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Speaker 1: I just think that there are I don't you know what,

627
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: they're probably different shades of ways to answer this question,

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Speaker 1: because I don't think there's any one area where there

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Speaker 1: are just these fifteen blinking red lights saying here's there's

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Speaker 1: the problem. Here's the problem. I don't think the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: let's say, at Michigan. I'm just picking Michigan out of

632
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Speaker 1: the blue. The coaching staff there isn't quite as good

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Speaker 1: as it is at Georgia, and the support staff isn't

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Speaker 1: quite as big as it is at Georgia, and the

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Speaker 1: access to recruiting isn't as good as it is at Georgia.

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Speaker 1: And maybe the level of Gopher broke buy in amongst

637
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Speaker 1: donors and whatnot is a little bit more rabid and

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Speaker 1: a little bit more on tilt at Georgia than it

639
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Speaker 1: is at Michigan. But there's no one area where it's

640
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: just solidly tilted ten to zero in favor of Georgia.

641
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: That's just a comparative analysis there. Because neither of those

642
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: programs have won national championships, but they're both really good.

643
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: They're both in the top three any given year of

644
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: their conference. I don't think it's an effort thing. I

645
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: just really when you get the right pieces in place,

646
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: like they have at Ohio State, you just appreciate it

647
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: because that's not normal. It's not normal to have all

648
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: that coalesce. Kyle from PTS, this is in the podcast review.

649
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: Was Tyler Simmons on side in the seventeen National Championship Game?

650
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: What difference did it make in the outcome? Well, of

651
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: course he was on side. There was also a false

652
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: start that wasn't called on the Alabama side of things.

653
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: I don't even know if the play should have happened.

654
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what effect it had on the outcome.

655
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: I have no clue. I never even I heard my

656
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: Georgia buddies ask me that all the time. I don't

657
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: even know how to entertain that. You know, there's this

658
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,720
Speaker 1: question of if you were to change one thing in history,

659
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 1: would everything else have played out subsequently just like it did?

660
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: And of course the answer is no. So you change

661
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: one thing, maybe you change everything like you could. You

662
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: could have had Georgia block that punt and Alabama go

663
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: on to score touchdowns on their next four possessions, for

664
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: all I know. I have no clue, but I did

665
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: answer the question. Uh, let's go Dylan here email inbox.

666
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: I paused episode twenty nine of Lake Kick right around

667
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: fourteen thirty when you were talking about how Alabama, Clemson,

668
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: and Georgia have full buy in. Oh Man, we just

669
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: talked about this and that's what it takes to get

670
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: the results that they have. What are other programs that

671
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: you believe also have that level of buy in? And

672
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: does this generally come from the head coach or the

673
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: ad There's only one more, two more probably. I think

674
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: Oklahoma has it. I think that Ohio State has it,

675
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: very short list, extremely short list. I think it is

676
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: still TBD at Texas A and M. I think LSU

677
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: has this now. This is very recent, I think since

678
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: they made the move at Athletic Director with Scott Woodward.

679
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: I believe all the boxes are checked there. Now you

680
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: ask is it a head coach thing, is it an

681
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: AD thing? It's everything, It's all of the above. There

682
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 1: has to be a singular focus. If you're asking what

683
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: does it mean to be fully all in? It's more

684
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: than a slogan. It's more than a poster on the wall.

685
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: Like I talked about earlier. It is a singular razor

686
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: sharp focus and everyone's on board with it. When you

687
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: walk in the building and you ask the janitor or

688
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: the head coach, hey, what is the goal? Like what

689
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: are you trying to do here? Everyone's messaging is clear.

690
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: Everyone's on the same wavelength. There's no side effort, side deals,

691
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: there's no ulterior motive, there's no power struggle. And this

692
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: is what surprises people a lot of times to find out.

693
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: One of the perks of being in the kind of

694
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: section of this business I'm in is you get to

695
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: talk to a lot of people behind the scenes and

696
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: you find out with the power structure, even around a

697
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: lot of major programs, there are people who have access

698
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: because of their political prowess or financial prowess, and they

699
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: value that power and access more than they would value

700
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: that program winning. If they can have that program win

701
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: and they maintain their status, they're fine with it. But

702
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: there are a lot of quote unquote power players around

703
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: on some major programs that would much rather sit there

704
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: and watch eight and four happen as long as they

705
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: are at least with a hand on the steering wheel.

706
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: I know that sounds shocking to a lot of people.

707
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: You probably haven't experienced how drunk power makes you feel.

708
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: Once you experience it, and then you understand if someone

709
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: were to tell you, hey, we can succeed, but you

710
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: got to give some of this power up, well, does

711
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: that really feel like success to you? And sadly, for

712
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: a lot of people. The answer is no. That's why

713
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: it's so rare. That's why you were able, and I

714
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: was able to list the number of programs that truly

715
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: fit that description on pretty much one hand. Right now,

716
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: That's usually the way it is. Tracy and the email inbox,

717
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: help me understand the whole infatuation the media has with

718
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen. Some people are asking the question, will Kirby

719
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: Smart come under scrutiny or scrutiny is being overrated if

720
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't win a championship or if he loses to

721
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: Florida this year. Mullen hasn't come close to winning a

722
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: championship if he hasn't beaten Kirby on the field. His

723
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: recruiting prowess is average. His coaching isn't as superb as

724
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: the media makes it out to be. The reason he

725
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: has to be or the reason he has to do

726
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: more with less is because he can't recruit. And this

727
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: should be factored into your qualifications as an elite coach.

728
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: Even with the coaching turnover and players who are no

729
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: longer at Georgia, why are media types ignoring how much

730
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: Florida lost with nowhere near the depth on its roster Tracy,

731
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: let me be blunt with you. Most people, not all.

732
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: A lot of people predicted the outcome of the SEC

733
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 1: East this year before they ever even looked at a roster.

734
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: Here's what they knew. They knew Georgia lost a quarterback,

735
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: they knew Florida had a quarterback coming back, and they

736
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: knew they wanted Florida to win the East this year,

737
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: not because they're Florida fans necessarily, but because they just

738
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: want something different. No one wants to see the same

739
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: program win every year. See you're asking, what's the infatuation

740
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: with Dan Mullen. I don't necessarily know that there's an infatuation.

741
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: Here's how I read the room right now. I read

742
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 1: the room that a lot of people, because they're board

743
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: with the current state of affairs in the SEC East,

744
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: they just want a different outcome, which means they have

745
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: to have Florida win because they think Florida is the

746
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: only viable contender in the East. And I probably agree

747
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: with him this year, and that means they become Dan

748
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: Mullen fans at least for a year. Here's what I

749
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: want you to pay attention to. If Florida wins the

750
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: East this year, then moot point. But if Georgia wins

751
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: the East, or if anyone not named Florida wins the

752
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: East this year, watch how quickly they turn on Dan Mullen.

753
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: I talked about this on Lake Kick Live the other night.

754
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: It's a very advantageous and dangerous time in Dan Mullen's career.

755
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: I think this will be the most pre pressure packed

756
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: season of his career. And here's the reason. He is

757
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,959
Speaker 1: in rarefied air right now. He's walking a tight rope

758
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: that's high enough above the ground that he can't afford

759
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: to fall off. There's no safety net under him. He's

760
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: got a situation where his quarterback looks to be a

761
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: plus position group compared to Georgia. It looks like his

762
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: coaching staff, the continuity that they maintained is a plus

763
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: relative to Georgia's uncertainty because they're bringing in new pieces

764
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: and they lost spring. It looks like their schedule, especially

765
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: the cross division games, that's a plus compared to Georgia.

766
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: So they got a lot of pluses. And my point

767
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: is that means they could get it done this year,

768
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: and that's the opportunity. Here's the danger if they don't

769
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: get it done this year, the number one question will

770
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: become well, if not this year, then when his own

771
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: fan base will be asking it, and the aforementioned members

772
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: of the media that you're talking about will be asking it.

773
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: So it could be a high risk, high reward proposition.

774
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty for Dan mullen Tyler on Twitter best

775
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: places to eat in Georgia, This is a good question.

776
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 1: I was talking to Rusty Manziel. I think Rusty Manzel

777
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: has probably been in every county in the state of Georgia.

778
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: He works for the Dogs twenty four seven site and

779
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: he gets around a lot to high schools and whatnot

780
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: in the state of Georgia. And he asked me one

781
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: time he found out I was from Harris County, which

782
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: is just north of Columbus. It touches the Chattahoochee River.

783
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: He asked me, Hey, may you ever been to Hunter's Pub?

784
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: And I just laughed, Have I been to Hunter's Pub?

785
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: Hunter's Pub is a place that is just off the

786
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: I one eight five exit in Hamilton, Georgia. That is

787
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 1: the county seat of Harris County for those unfamiliar, which

788
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: would be ninety nine point nine percent of you. And

789
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: there's a place named Hunter's Pub. It is like fifteen

790
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 1: seconds off the interstate, but yet you don't really see

791
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: it unless you're looking for it. They don't put signs up,

792
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,720
Speaker 1: they don't have one of those food on the next exit.

793
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: You know, they don't have theirselves listed. It's one of

794
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: those places that people from Harris County hope that you

795
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: don't realize is there, but sometimes passers through do realize

796
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: it's there. Incredible food, steaks like you would not believe.

797
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't even need a knife to cut them,

798
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: really really good. And I'll tell you another place, and

799
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: this is like just out of this world. Wouldn't believe

800
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: it until you tried it. You go down one more

801
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: exit in Harris County. I'm giving you a lot of

802
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: stuff that's close to home. You go down one more exit.

803
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: There's a chevron. It's the Highway three fifteen exit in

804
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: Forts in Georgia, the Mulberry Grove exit. There's a chevron there,

805
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: and there's a restaurant attached to the chevron. Now I'm

806
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: about to pitch gas station food to you as one

807
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: of the best places in Georgia, but I'm asking you

808
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: don't knock it until you try it. The breakfast biscuits

809
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: they have there are insane. I don't know who they

810
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: contract with to make them. But if you didn't know

811
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: you were in a chevron, you would slap me in

812
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: the face if I told you that's gas station food. No,

813
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 1: it's in a gas station and it's food, but it's

814
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: not gas station food. There's another place in Warm Springs

815
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: called the Bullet House. Highly highly recommend it. I would

816
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: have got to take a quick break here. And when

817
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: we come back. Oh man, I've got one about Miami.

818
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: It hit the nail on the head from Elijah. He

819
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: is saying what I've never had a Miami fan say

820
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: to me that I totally agree with. All Right, we're

821
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: back here at late kick extra continues. Oh I love

822
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: this from Elijah. I just love it. I've never heard

823
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: this from a Miami Hurricanes fan, but it's what I've

824
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: always thought about the program. I'm going to preface here

825
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 1: a little bit because it was a pretty long winded email,

826
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: which I'm fine with. Elijah says, I grew up as

827
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: the apex fan of the Miami Hurricanes. No other human

828
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: being hurt more when they lost or rejoiced more when

829
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: they won. It's been a tough couple of decades here.

830
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: I still love the U with all of my heart.

831
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: I am of the very very strong opinion that the

832
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: nostalgia of Miami and their legacy is poisoning the process

833
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: of moving the program forward. I believe the biggest two

834
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: contributors are both fans and former players. To be clear,

835
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: the fan base is the primary protagonist, the naivete How

836
00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:01,240
Speaker 1: about that ignorance frustration? They fuel the fire the The players,

837
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: at least from my point of view, are more frustrated

838
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: than anything. I don't think they will ever completely rope

839
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: off South Florida from Daytona to Orlando like they used to.

840
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: Miami will never celebrate and dance perversely while backflipping and

841
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: throwing up the U with their hands like they used to.

842
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: Miami's not the same. They're never going to be the same.

843
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: The sooner people accept that fact, the better it'll be

844
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: for the program. This doesn't mean Miami will never win

845
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: national titles again. On the contrary, they have everything they

846
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: need in order to do that except a modernized program. Listen, Elijah,

847
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, dude, I totally agree with you.

848
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: I did a segment last year when Late Kick was

849
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: still independent and I said, culture and tradition is nice,

850
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: It's great. Here's the bottom line. There's a formula to win,

851
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 1: and the formula that works in Clemson, South Carolina works

852
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: just as readily in Miami, Florida. Everyone wants to ask

853
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: when Michigan, let's say, since I was talking about them earlier,

854
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: or Penn State. If Penn State were to be on

855
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: the CUSP this year, they would say, oh man, it's

856
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: Penn State ready to break through into the College Football

857
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: Playoff conversation or they ready to lock down the Big Ten.

858
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: If Miami started a roll this year, that ask is

859
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: the swagger back like, there's some different formula to win

860
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: at Miami than there is elsewhere. There's not. There's not.

861
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: That stuff is really cute. It makes for good storytelling.

862
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: There's a way to win. There are principles and there

863
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: are values that you need in a program to win,

864
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: and they apply across the board. That's not saying that

865
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: every program has to look robotic. There are things about

866
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: the culture of Miami that are obviously totally different than

867
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: Penn State. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying get

868
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: rid of that that's what makes college football great. But

869
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: if you think that you need a lot of what

870
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: was glorified and for example the U thirty for thirty documentaries.

871
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: If you think that's what wins, that's icing on the cake. Guys,

872
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 1: that's not the cake. That's the seasoning on the steak.

873
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,280
Speaker 1: That's not the steak. You think you're gonna win with seasoning.

874
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: Some of you think we just got to have more seasoning.

875
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 2: Now you know, you gotta have the meat. You gotta

876
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 2: have steak. That's how you win. Minama's gotta have the steak.

877
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 2: So many diez is he the steak instead of the seasoning?

878
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: That was a really good question. I didn't know I

879
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 2: get that fired up about it, but that was a

880
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 2: really good question there. Julie in the email inbox, I

881
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 2: heard you say the other day you felt like Alabama

882
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 2: likely had the best player in.

883
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: The nation returning for twenty twenty. Just wondering what you

884
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: think LSU's odds are when facing Alabama. Yeah, I said

885
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: this about Jayleen Waddle. Now, obviously I know that Jalen

886
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: Waddle is not going to be as important in terms

887
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: of a point value for Alabama in a given game

888
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: as Justin Fields will be for Ohio State, Trevor Lawrence

889
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: will be for Clemson, et cetera. I understand that, let's

890
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: say non quarterbacks. The reason I think Jalen Waddle is

891
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: a guy who's higher for me even than Jamar Chase,

892
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: who is a consensus number one wide receiver in the

893
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: country and number one wide receiver projected in next year's

894
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, it's because I think Jalen Wattle's more versatile.

895
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: Wattle's going to be your returner. Wattle's going to be

896
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: obviously a star wide receiver for you. I don't know

897
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: that there's a faster player in major college football than

898
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, or a more electric and explosive player. But

899
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: also I think they're going to use him very creatively

900
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: this year. Alabama's not hurting for running backs, but I

901
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: think a lot of direct snap situations will be in

902
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: the playbook for Alabama with Jalen Waddle. I think they

903
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: look at the way that they underutilized Kenyon Drake and

904
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: need to say never again. We got a guy like

905
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: Jalen Wattle here for one more year. Let's make sure

906
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: we squeeze every ounce of potential out of him. Now,

907
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,760
Speaker 1: as for LSU's odds, LSU's got good odds against Alabama

908
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: they play him at home. Not that that's ever meant

909
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: anything in that series, but there's no reason to have

910
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: doubt about your program. Listen, you don't know what you're

911
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: going to be this year, but you don't know what

912
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: Alabama's gonna be yet either. Here, as last year showed us,

913
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 1: a whole lot and I mean a whole lot can

914
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: change between now and when those teams play. Jeff and

915
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: the email inbox. If COVID nineteen disrupts finances of schools,

916
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: could you see realignment taking form? I'm looking at it

917
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: from a travel standpoint. Budgets may still be massive for

918
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: that to happen. However, if it does occur, which schools

919
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: could you see moving from one conference to another? If

920
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: Power five schools split from the NCAA, could you see

921
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: realignment forming in that situation? If neither of these scenarios arises,

922
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: could you see realignment happening again? I think a lot

923
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: of these things could happen. I don't think that they're

924
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: going to be precipitated necessarily from COVID nineteen, Jeff. I

925
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 1: think maybe they are detached in a lot of cases

926
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: I and now, listen, we're all going through this at

927
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: the same time for the first time, so it could.

928
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,760
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I've heard some unequivocal nose

929
00:48:56,280 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: from Power five conference commissioners to this very question that

930
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: you're asking now. Could we see realignment in the future.

931
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: Could there be ripple effects that catch up with programs

932
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: or conferences two years down the road that were triggered

933
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 1: from this pandemic. I guess like that certainly could happen

934
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: the way that this story is going to play out.

935
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 1: Whatever the final chapters are in the How College Football

936
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: dealt with COVID nineteen book, whatever they're going to be,

937
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: I don't think they're very predictable. Right now. From Mac

938
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: on Twitter, if Notre Dame was in the ACC for football,

939
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: how much different would the perception of the ACC be?

940
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 1: It would be very different, Mac, it would be I mean,

941
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: let's just say, what if Virginia Tech became a top

942
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: ten program again they're in the ACC. What if Miami

943
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: returned to their former glory, What if Florida State returned

944
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: to their former glory? Just what if the ACC had

945
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: one more top ten caliber team? I think it'd be

946
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: worlds different. That would be a one hundred percent improvement

947
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: on so what you currently have there. So I mean

948
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: it would be a big deal. I don't think there's

949
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: any doubt about that. Carter on YouTube. What do you

950
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: think will happen in Bama's backfield this coming season? Do

951
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: you believe it can make their offense more diverse? Yes, yeah,

952
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: I do. Naj Harris I was on the field for

953
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: the Citrus Bowl when they played Michigan, and the way

954
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: he ran, especially in the second half, was like a

955
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: man possessed. And I'll tell you what it screamed to me,

956
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: this is his final game. I mean I would have

957
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: bet you any amount of money this is Naja Harris's

958
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: final game. And then he announces he's returning. He is

959
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: a monster. Trey Sanders, they were ultra excited about seeing him.

960
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: Five star running back, I believe the number one running

961
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: back in the twenty nineteen cycle, and he got hurt

962
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: in preseason last year. He will play a major role

963
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: in their offense this year. Jace McClellan, the guy they

964
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: took from Oklahoma out of Texas. They took from Oklahoma.

965
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson's there for his fifteenth year. Roydel Williams is

966
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: a true freshman running back that I don't think is

967
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: just an automatic red shirt candidate. A lot of these

968
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: guys are good out of the backfield. A lot of

969
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 1: them are good and a variety of different roles. So yes,

970
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: there's only one football to go around, but they have

971
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: infinite potential at their running back position, and they have

972
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: probably the best offensive line in college football this year,

973
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: one of, if not the best offensive lines in college football.

974
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: So yeah, I know they lose the best quarterback in

975
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: the history of that program into a tongue of ailoa.

976
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: I just think it's a fool's errand to be expecting

977
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,919
Speaker 1: and predicting Alabama's offense to take this drastic step back

978
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: this year. John in the email inbox. I know they

979
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: are not the most interesting or dazzling of teams, but

980
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: after picking up the transfer of Tyrrell Shavers and having

981
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: an experienced, talented running back in Kylon Hill as well

982
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,320
Speaker 1: as kJ Castillo at running a quarterback rather, I feel

983
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 1: like with Mike Leach's offensive expertise, Mississippi State could be

984
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: underappreciated this year. And catch your eye. I'm interested in

985
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: hearing your thoughts. Yeah, everything you said could be true. John,

986
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: here's what else could be true. I'm not trying to

987
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: be combative here. You presented the glass half full, so

988
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: I'll just take the glass half empty. All of what

989
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: you said could be true. But what could also be

990
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: true is think about how many new pieces you just

991
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: introduced into the equation along with a new head coach

992
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: and thus a new offensive system that is not necessarily

993
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: one that's picked up overnight. I mean, think about how

994
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: important timing, rhythm, or repetition, all of these fundamentals are

995
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: to the success of that offense. And keep in mind

996
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: you're not dealing with top shelf talent. Not that Mississippi

997
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: State is terrible, not that they lack talent, They're not

998
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: on the same level as necessarily Alabama is or LSU.

999
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: You get the drift there. So that's one advantage you

1000
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:52,879
Speaker 1: don't have. Another advantage you don't have is time being

1001
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: on your side. And the third disadvantage is this is

1002
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: not two thousand and five in the SEC, this is

1003
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:02,280
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. No one is taken by surprise by teams

1004
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 1: throwing the ball a lot in twenty twenty. In the SEC,

1005
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: virtually everyone's doing it down here. To be honest with you,

1006
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: I think maybe the approach that Jeremy Prewitt could be

1007
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: taking at Tennessee could end up looking more radical because

1008
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a lot more fundamental,

1009
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a lot more old school,

1010
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: and that's not what anyone does here anymore. So I

1011
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: think if it were ten years ago, fifteen years ago,

1012
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: Mike Leach would be a lot more concerning to other

1013
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: programs than he will be this time around. That doesn't

1014
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: mean he can't win. He's just not going to do

1015
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:40,760
Speaker 1: it surprising anyone. Let me say it that way, Rob

1016
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: email in box. With Bo Polini taking over for Dave

1017
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: Randa and a talented defense, what will LSU's defense look like.

1018
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: A Couple of names. I'm really excited about Jabrill Cots Obviously,

1019
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 1: that's the transfer linebacker from North Dakota State. They're really

1020
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: excited about him. I'm really excited about him, obviously, Derek Stingley.

1021
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,959
Speaker 1: It was really big. They got Jacobe Stevens to come back.

1022
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: But up front, Ika, you can choose which first name

1023
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: you want to use from him, Tyler Shelvin like guys

1024
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: like that. This is a season for those guys to

1025
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: make their mark. They have questions, but everyone has questions.

1026
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: Twenty five percent of your roster on average overturns every year.

1027
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I've still got to see

1028
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:31,720
Speaker 1: Bo Polini put a dominant defense on the field in

1029
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: modern day college football. Like the last time that he

1030
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: was doing it versus now, a lot has changed now.

1031
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm certainly not suggesting that I think the games passed

1032
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: him by. I just the way that you did it

1033
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: at a high level in seven is not the way

1034
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: that you would go about doing it in twenty twenty.

1035
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: Even the best defensive minds in the game have had

1036
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: to evolve. Bo Polini would be no different. So that's

1037
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: one of the things that I'm really interested to watch

1038
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: this year. Mac on Twitter another question here. Commonly we

1039
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,240
Speaker 1: see Tier one programs consistently win at the top level.

1040
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: While they all have great coaches, it's easier to win

1041
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: there than at programs like Minnesota with PJ. Fleck, or

1042
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: Utah with Kyle Whittingham or Virginia with Brock Comendenhall. My

1043
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,720
Speaker 1: question is, how do you judge how successful a coach

1044
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: actually is or coaches who don't win national Championships maybe,

1045
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: but they bring programs out of irrelevance. Well, I always

1046
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: ask two questions to this. Number one, I asked, what

1047
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: are you doing relative to what you have? And what

1048
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: are you doing at that program relative to what history

1049
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:39,240
Speaker 1: says is normal for that program. I think the perfect

1050
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: case study for this was always when Chris Peterson was

1051
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: at Boise State. When Peterson was at Boise State, I

1052
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: was in the South. I'm still in the South, but

1053
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: I was in the South at the time, and they'd

1054
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: knock on the door of the BCS every year. And

1055
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: you know, anytime someone said, ooh, could Boise compete with

1056
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: SEC teams, that was always a foolish question. But it

1057
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 1: was foolish for different reasons than people thought. A lot

1058
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: of people would say, oh, if Chris Peterson had to

1059
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: play an SEC schedule, oh, He'd gets smoked and his

1060
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Speaker 1: roster would be depleted. Well, of course it would have been,

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Speaker 1: but that's irrelevant. If Chris Peterson was playing in the SEC,

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't be recruiting in Boise, Idaho. He would have

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Speaker 1: been down here somewhere with equal resources to everyone and

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Speaker 1: access to talent that everyone else has. But he was

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Speaker 1: an Idaho. You don't compare Chris Peterson at Boise State

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Speaker 1: to someone at Florida. You compare them to the other

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Speaker 1: teams in their conference and think about how long they

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Speaker 1: ran rough shot over their conference out there with no

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Speaker 1: discernible advantage. In fact, I would argue, relative to a

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Speaker 1: program like Fresno State being in California, if you're in Idaho,

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Speaker 1: you have a big disadvantage. What if people know you

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Speaker 1: for you got a blue field great like you know

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Speaker 1: how hard it is to get gibs to come to

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Speaker 1: Idaho when they have other options closer to the West coast.

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Speaker 1: And yet even when all things weren't equal, if anything,

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Speaker 1: he was disadvantaged. Chris Peterson dominated everyone out there, which

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Speaker 1: screamed to me he would dominate anywhere if he was

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Speaker 1: given anywhere close to a fair shot. That's how you

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Speaker 1: spot good coaches. Did Chris Peterson ever win a national championship? No,

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Speaker 1: he didn't. I always thought he was one of the

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Speaker 1: very best in America. There were times where, for example,

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Speaker 1: people would ask me for my list of best head

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Speaker 1: coaches in America. I would put Chris Peterson above guys

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Speaker 1: who had won national championships. Let's keep it going here.

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Speaker 1: Hayden on Twitter, what do you think of the hires

1086
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: Memphis has made and what do you think about Memphis

1087
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Speaker 1: in general. We had a feature with Ryan Silverfield. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I think we posted it today and I'm recording this Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and it was just kind of an Evaluation You series feature.

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Speaker 1: It was with Barton Simmons and he was talking about

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Speaker 1: offensive line play. He walks into a very advantageous position.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. I mean, that's a program that

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Speaker 1: is set up for success. They well, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: know the schedule. I think they open with Arkansas State

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Speaker 1: this year, but they do go to Purdue this year.

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Speaker 1: They have a situation where you know, they're not Power five,

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Speaker 1: but yet the precedent has been set to where you

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Speaker 1: can at least compete if everything lines up the right way,

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Speaker 1: and even if you're not competing, like they have branded

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Speaker 1: themselves Power six in the AAC and it's very smart,

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00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: it's very savvy branding. So Ryan Silverfield I think is

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Speaker 1: in a really good position here. I mean, what you

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00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: have to ask yourself is how does he view the

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00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: Memphis program. I asked this question with Fickle at Cincinnati.

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00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: I asked this question with whoever happens to be at

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Speaker 1: Central Florida at any given point. Can you get a

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Speaker 1: guy there that views it as a destination job instead

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Speaker 1: of a stepping stone job. That's the big question. That's

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Speaker 1: the difference in being G five and power five. That's

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Speaker 1: one of the big questions that you always have to

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Speaker 1: ask yourself. Chris on Twitter, why does a coach like

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00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: jimbo Fisher seem to get a pass on his offensive

1113
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: philosophy and others don't Kurbis Martin, Nick Saban before he

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Speaker 1: adopted or he adapted rather, Pat Fitzgerald, Less Miles. They've

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Speaker 1: all been raked over the coals for their man ball approach,

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Speaker 1: but we never hear much about jimbo. Oh. I think

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Speaker 1: you hear quite a mount well, at least, I've heard

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Speaker 1: quite a fair amount of criticism, Chris. I think that

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Speaker 1: people are willing to give him one more year. But

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Speaker 1: if they take this opportunity that they have this year

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Speaker 1: and they squander it away, and they're eight and four

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Speaker 1: or even nine and three, given what people expect out

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Speaker 1: there with a veteran quarterback, and your roster is as

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Speaker 1: good as it's been in a long time, and you

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00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: still can't get out of your own way offensively. I

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Speaker 1: think there'll be a lot of criticism. I really believe that.

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Speaker 1: I've heard a fair amount of criticism about maybe it's

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00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: been whispered instead of screamed. That's maybe why. But I've

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Speaker 1: heard a fair amount of criticism. Deg Golfer sixty YouTube.

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Speaker 1: You talked about how coaching hot seats are a wash

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00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: this season, and that makes sense. But what about the

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Speaker 1: other side of that coin. Is there any program that

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Speaker 1: you feel like is ready to make a jump this season,

1134
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Speaker 1: like a four win improvement, only to have that success

1135
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Speaker 1: not be something lasting. I'm going to pause on that one.

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Speaker 1: Dee Golfer sixty from YouTube. I appreciate it. This is

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Speaker 1: something I'm working on and it's a feature that I'm

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Speaker 1: going to do coming up closer to the season. So

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Speaker 1: bookmark that for me, because that's a really good question. Jay.

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Speaker 1: In the YouTube section comment section, does the addition of

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Speaker 1: Felipe Franks help improve Arkansas program this season? Well? Yeah,

1142
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Speaker 1: it helps improve the Arkansas program. But I'll tell you

1143
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Speaker 1: what really improves the Arkansas program is being able to

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Speaker 1: have Barry odom Fall in your lap as your defensive

1145
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Speaker 1: coordinator and kindall Briles fall into your lap as your

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. I mean Sam Pittman struck gold there. With

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Speaker 1: those coordinator hires, They've got a long way to go

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Speaker 1: to even have a competitive roster. That roster is bad

1149
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Speaker 1: by SEC standards right now, and Felipe Franks is probably

1150
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Speaker 1: not going to change that, and a coordinator overnight's not

1151
01:00:57,880 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: going to change that. But they do have the right

1152
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 1: guys in the right positions on that coaching staff at

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Speaker 1: least to be excited about. Stephen YouTube last one for

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Speaker 1: us here. As we all know, Mac Jones is a

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Speaker 1: red shirt quarterback for Alabama. But what happens to Bryce Young,

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Speaker 1: that's the five star true freshman. If mac Jones goes

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Speaker 1: for four thousand plus yards and decides to come back

1158
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Speaker 1: for a senior year, is it transfer portal time? Stephen? Honestly,

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Speaker 1: if mac Jones were to have that kind of year,

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01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 1: you're probably talking about the NFL with him, and you've

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Speaker 1: seen how quickly quarterbacks can rocket up those kinds of

1162
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Speaker 1: mock drafts and whatnot. With that kind of season, you

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Speaker 1: know what I would do if I were around Alabama,

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Speaker 1: I'd say bring that on. That's the kind of problem

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Speaker 1: you want to have. That's kind of thing a lot

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Speaker 1: of people shy away from, and I've never understood why

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Speaker 1: you bring that on. Man. I don't think it's going

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Speaker 1: to happen that way necessarily because I think Bryce Young

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Speaker 1: is going to get enough playing time this year to

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Speaker 1: understand that at aultimately is his job there. That's what

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Speaker 1: I believe now. But either way, if mac Jones throws

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Speaker 1: for or yeah, if Mac Jones throws for four thousand

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Speaker 1: yards this year, I think you've got a really good

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Speaker 1: problem on your hands. All right, So we went through

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Speaker 1: this as quickly as possible, being respectful of all the questions.

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Speaker 1: If you want to get questions in Josh paid seven

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Speaker 1: zero six at gmail dot com, hit me up on

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Speaker 1: review section. You can submit questions there. I really really

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Speaker 1: can hear the Late Kick Extra podcast here every Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: YouTube as a podcast, and we've had some really good

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Speaker 1: so imagine what it's going to be like when the

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Speaker 1: season gets here. Right until then, I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: guys listening, really appreciate the support. I'm Josh pat. This

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Speaker 1: has been the Late Kick Extra podcast. Take care