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Speaker 1: know what happens. So they feel good about the quarterback depth,

429
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Speaker 1: wide receiver depth, they feel good about secondary continues to

430
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Speaker 1: be the question. Not that I heard terrible things about

431
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Speaker 1: it this week, but secondary, if they get that piece

432
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Speaker 1: figured out, if those young guys can be counted on,

433
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Speaker 1: and look, there's a reason they lost Nick Saban and

434
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Speaker 1: are still one of the top five teams in the

435
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Speaker 1: odds to win the whole thing out at Texas. Just

436
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Speaker 1: after we did the show the other night, they confirmed

437
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Speaker 1: that CJ. Baxter was out with a with an injury.

438
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Speaker 1: And so that's a former five star running back. In fact,

439
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Speaker 1: let me tell you this. I'll just do the A

440
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 1: and M thing now because Reuben Owens has been lost

441
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Speaker 1: for the year as well. So Baxter and Owens worthy

442
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: two five star running backs two cycles ago. One is

443
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Speaker 1: at Texas, one's at Texas. A and M both of

444
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Speaker 1: them within the span of a week out for the

445
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Speaker 1: year with injury. So we'll tell you about the Texas

446
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Speaker 1: piece right here, because there's there's a lot still to

447
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 1: like about this team. This right here. Losing CJ. Baxter

448
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: at six one, I'm gonna tell you where that probably

449
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: bites them the most. You lose an ultra talented guy.

450
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: He was All Big twelve honorable mention last year. But

451
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Speaker 1: also in the short yardage situation, this is where the

452
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Speaker 1: devil's in the details. This is where you can't just

453
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Speaker 1: look at a starting twenty two and how many five

454
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Speaker 1: stars and four stars are there. It's the matchup situation.

455
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Speaker 1: It's the third and fourth down in short situation. Last year,

456
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Speaker 1: last two years for Texas they've been ninetieth and sixty

457
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Speaker 1: third in power success, which is third fourth down, two yards.

458
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Speaker 1: If you were to get short yardage, just bulldoze your

459
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Speaker 1: way ahead by any means necessary. Your season comes down

460
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Speaker 1: to converting like eight to twelve of those plays. Texas

461
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: has been bad at it and then they were average

462
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Speaker 1: at it last year, and absence CJ. Baxter, they don't

463
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Speaker 1: have other guys there. They're not without players, they don't

464
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Speaker 1: have other guys they could just blindly lean on to

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Speaker 1: convert those ers. Is probably the guy. Quarterback keep is

466
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Speaker 1: probably the move there right now. Now there's a lot

467
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Speaker 1: of good use on defense. So their defense is shined

468
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Speaker 1: at least in the first scrimmage. And remember their past

469
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: d was one hundred and sixteenth last year nationally. Safety

470
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: sounds like it looks a lot better out there. Defensive line,

471
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Speaker 1: as far as we can tell, has been pretty good

472
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Speaker 1: against the runs so far. Now that's the first scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: No offense dominates in the first scrimmage. But let's just

474
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Speaker 1: pay attention to the short yardage situation. And number two,

475
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Speaker 1: let's see if we hear the same thing about run

476
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Speaker 1: dye fence out of the next scrimmage as we did

477
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Speaker 1: this last one at Oklahoma Shocker defense dominating. Now, back

478
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Speaker 1: in spring, I made a statement on the show that

479
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Speaker 1: got a lot of pushback over on our Oklahoma board.

480
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's getting much pushback anymore. I said,

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Speaker 1: Jackson Arnold still suffered with turnovers in the spring. Well,

482
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Speaker 1: that wasn't me guessing. He suffered with turnovers still in

483
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Speaker 1: the spring. And it's still kind of sort of a

484
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: problem here. It's not uncorrectable, it's nothing like that, but

485
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Speaker 1: it is still an issue they're working through. It was

486
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Speaker 1: an issue in their scrimmage Friday, So I think you

487
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Speaker 1: know some people who thought all that's just magically cleaned

488
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: up because two months go by without football were a

489
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Speaker 1: little bit kidding themselves. So Jackson Arnold still got a

490
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Speaker 1: ton of potential. This is something that has to be

491
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Speaker 1: cleaned up, which is a phrase I hate, but it

492
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Speaker 1: has to be cleaned up before they start playing meaningful games.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, Okay, this offensive line is still a question,

494
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: and that's before you start talking about the depth of

495
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Speaker 1: the offensive line. But this defense is the other thing

496
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: that you need to be paying attention to because this defense,

497
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Speaker 1: stylistically Number one has the kind of players they need

498
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Speaker 1: Number two. If Brent Vivennables is my head coach, that

499
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Speaker 1: should be my hallmark. I shouldn't be looking over here.

500
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Speaker 1: Even though it would be nice to score forty five

501
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: a game, I shouldn't need that, and they won't need that.

502
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: Their defensive line could be and should be the strength

503
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Speaker 1: of this team. They got good players on all three

504
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: levels here. I think Stutsman had a pick six I

505
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: think in their scrimmage Friday. So Oklahoma still very very

506
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 1: much a team figuring itself out. They're over under win total,

507
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: seven and a half, cause that schedule is pretty tough.

508
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Speaker 1: You got turnover issues, though you saw what happened to

509
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Speaker 1: Clemson last year. You got turnover issues that greatly hamstrings you,

510
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Speaker 1: no matter how much of a recruiting and talent ross

511
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 1: advantage you have on the opposition. So that's what I'm

512
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on there. Auburn feel a whole lot

513
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: better now than I did this time last year or

514
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: in the last several years about their defensive line depth

515
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: and their ability to rotate guys in which of course

516
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: affects how you can practice. They are able to mix

517
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: and match a whole lot more there now. They had

518
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Speaker 1: sort of an open scrimmage, as I understand it, where

519
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: media could watch and fans watched. So you're not really

520
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 1: doing much offensively in terms of play calling, but you

521
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: do get to at least watch personnel and folks who

522
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: have been around Auburn a long time saying, yeah, this

523
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: looks a lot different, and there are more than just

524
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 1: three or four guys we can rotate in seven, eight,

525
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: nine bodies that look like they're sec ready to play

526
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: up front. Defensively, there's still I think Auburn strikes me

527
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: as a team that's still figuring out how they're gonna

528
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: have to win games. Now, you've got a situation where

529
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Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze and if they keep recruiting like they are,

530
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Speaker 1: you know how they're gonna win next year, year after that,

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Speaker 1: or at least if they have it their way. You

532
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: know what a Hug Freeze team looks like when they've

533
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: got their players. But they don't have their players yet. Fully,

534
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: they got some of them, and they're all really young.

535
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Speaker 1: So this is the kind of team that's good enough

536
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Speaker 1: on the lines of scrimmage, just good enough at quarterback.

537
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: They got some young firepower at receiver. They're the kind

538
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Speaker 1: of team that could go win a bunch of games

539
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: nineteen to thirteen and twenty three to nineteen, and they

540
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,479
Speaker 1: just you've got to fight and scratch and claw, and

541
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Speaker 1: you got to squeeze the sponge until every drop of

542
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: water comes out of it, and magically you found eight

543
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: or nine wins. That's got to be Auburn football this year.

544
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: Anything above and beyond that is a pleasant and big surprise.

545
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: But they can't crater. That's what they can't do. They

546
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: can't afford injury at the quarterback position. No one else

547
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: there is ready, and we can argue to what degree

548
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: Peyton Thorn's ready, but you know what you got in Thorn.

549
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: The rest of those guys, they don't have another sec

550
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: ready quarterback there right now, so figure out how to

551
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: win games. I think it's still fair to call that

552
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: a work in progress there. But there's hope. There is hope.

553
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: Florida hearing really good things about Jacoby Jackson at running back. Now.

554
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: Remember ETN transferred to Georgia and then they lost Montreal Johnson,

555
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: who was their number one running back for a few weeks.

556
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: Not out for the year at least it doesn't look like,

557
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: but they're going to be without him early on there.

558
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: Without him right now. Treyon Webb and also Jacoby Jackson

559
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: are two of the reasons why people didn't freak out

560
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: down there. And we were down there in spring and

561
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: that was what they were saying even then, like we're okay,

562
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: we got some good depth, we got dependable depth at

563
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Speaker 1: the running back position. Now that's good news. The other

564
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: bit of good news is Graham Mertz's back. They didn't,

565
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: even as far as I can tell, use him a

566
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: whole lot in the scrimmage because they kind of know

567
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Speaker 1: what they have with him. They wanted to work Lagway in,

568
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: They wanted to see what else they had. What they

569
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Speaker 1: have is an offensive line and still very much trying

570
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: to figure itself out by the looks and sounds of things.

571
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: And this is one of those situations where if I

572
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: were playing two or three tune ups before I played

573
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: any real competition, I just say we'll figure it out

574
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: in week one, two, three. They may face the best

575
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: pass rush they see all year in week one. So

576
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: if you're still figuring out offensive line and figuring out

577
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: how to protect quarterback, you're playing the absolute wrong team

578
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: in week one to be doing that against in Miami.

579
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: So I really need to hear better things in scrimmage

580
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: number two than we heard so far about Florida's offensive line. Now,

581
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: DJ Lagway did get some reps. Huge upside. Would shock

582
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: me if they didn't find ways to use him this

583
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: year because there is talent and there's a skill set

584
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: there that is so unique it can't be ignored. And

585
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: you can't just have that on your sideline because you're

586
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: probably leaving points on the sideline if you do that.

587
00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: What about Georgia, So Georgia, Dan Jackson making a really

588
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: really good push for that second corner spot, which is

589
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,719
Speaker 1: something we talked about last week. Georgia. Just because they

590
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: have questions on a depth chart doesn't mean they have

591
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: weaknesses on a depth chart. Quite the opposite. They just

592
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: got a lot of really really talented former four and

593
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: five star guys fighting over spots. But what was funny.

594
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: I was over on Dogs twenty four to seven earlier

595
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: reading some of the practice reports, and they were listing

596
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: all the guys that were out in the scrimmage. They

597
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: had a lot of guys they kept out of this thing.

598
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's for legit injury. Sometimes it's because the guy's

599
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: banged up and we don't want to risk it. But

600
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: one of the posters over there made a really good

601
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: point and they said, the list of guys we kept

602
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: out of this scrimmage could probably win the Big twelve,

603
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: Like this list of guys could probably compete in some

604
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: other conferences out there, And they're not wrong. Lots of

605
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: depth at the edge position defensive end, there's a lot

606
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: of questions about the internal defensive line lineup and just

607
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: how effective they can be and can they push the

608
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: pocket and can they op the run and all that. Yeah, Okay,

609
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: so it's a complimentary game. So if you're C plus

610
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: somewhere B A minus somewhere else or better, Gabe Harris

611
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: is yet another name they just randomly flashes, just randomly

612
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: pops and you're like, oh, man, I forgot Georgia has him.

613
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: There's a lot of depth, a lot of talented guys

614
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: that they could rotate in, and maybe that's how Georgia

615
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: gets it done. Maybe that's what they become known for

616
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: this year. Upfront, I will say this, though I'll continue

617
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: to stand by this. There are two schools of thought

618
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: on Georgia out there. There's a thought that there's Georgia

619
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Speaker 1: and a gap between the other good teams in this country,

620
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's the case. I'm of the

621
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: other school of thought. I got Georgia power rated as

622
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: my number one team coming into this year. I think

623
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: there's some teams two, three, four that are very comparable

624
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: to him, not roster to roster, apples to apples, but

625
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: if I put them on a neutral field, it's not

626
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: Georgia minus seven. It's not Georgia minus nine. I don't

627
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: think we start this year, at least I don't with

628
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: the default setting that that is above and beyond that

629
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: is it's not even close Georgia than the field. It's

630
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: nothing like that. I don't think people close to the

631
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: team are suggesting that. I've seen the further away you

632
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: get from the team. I've seen some people say that,

633
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: So maybe that's the way it pans out. That's not

634
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: the way I see it. To start the season. Academy

635
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors plentiful around the state of Georgia and

636
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: pretty much everywhere else. We just list him. Academy Sports

637
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: and Outdoors one stop shop, back to school, one stop

638
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: shop back to sports. Anything you need, you just need

639
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: to restock on Big League two. You need ping pong paddles,

640
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: you need a shirt, I don't care. Academy Sports and

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Speaker 1: live as live gets here, let's continue. We've been doing

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Speaker 1: predictions for a bunch of teams. Been going very well.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the downside is it puts me on record

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Speaker 1: with a prediction I'm going to have to defend come December,

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Speaker 1: so that's not always great for me. But you asked

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Speaker 1: and then we'll do the other one a little bit further,

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Speaker 1: a little bit deeper in the show. Alabama's prediction this

695
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Speaker 1: year final record, Go, what are they going to be?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I think they're going to be

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Speaker 1: in a second. Here are the things you need to know.

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Speaker 1: So firstly, at FanDuel, they're over underwent totals nine and

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Speaker 1: a half. They've got the third best odds to win

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Speaker 1: the SEC. They've got the fifth best odds to win

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. They are, however, one hundred and fifteenth

702
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: nationally in returning production. But on the flip side, over

703
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Speaker 1: the past five years, their rolling recruiting average is the

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Speaker 1: best in the country. Jesse, didn't you tell me the

705
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Speaker 1: average class is like one point seventy five over the

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Speaker 1: past five years. It's really close to that. It's really

707
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Speaker 1: really high. So here's what I think I know about Alabama,

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Speaker 1: aside from Nick Saban not being there anymore, Kaitlin de

709
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Speaker 1: Bor being the new head coach, I think the potential

710
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: for this offense is pretty explosive and it's pretty balanced

711
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: because they got a really really good three headed monster

712
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: there in the backfield at running back. I think that

713
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: offensive line should specialize in that category. But also the

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Speaker 1: more and more we hear out of fall camp, the

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Speaker 1: more confident I feel in their quality depth at receiver.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Millroe's ability to distribute the football tight end may

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Speaker 1: not be a bad position for them as well. And

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Speaker 1: also Kaitlin Debor understands how to do this thing man,

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Speaker 1: So that offense could be pretty lethal and maybe it'll

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Speaker 1: need to be. Maybe they need to score a few

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Speaker 1: more points per game than vintage Alabama teams. That's the

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Speaker 1: way you win football games very complimentary fashion. Also, I

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Speaker 1: think I know the sab And drop off is not

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Speaker 1: a major issue in twenty twenty four. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that. I think it's going to be an issue period,

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Speaker 1: because they've come in and kind of spearheaded by Courtney Morgan,

727
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: the general manager there. They've started to acquire talent at

728
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Speaker 1: a very high level. They're in their own right. But

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Speaker 1: if there was going to be a Saban drop off,

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Speaker 1: meaning they're just not as good anymore, and you see

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Speaker 1: a noticeable waning of quality of roster, quality of team, Well,

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Speaker 1: that wouldn't be a major issue in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: So even if you believe in that that's a twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five to twenty twenty six thing. Even if you

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Speaker 1: believe this is Larry Coker reincarnate, well, Cocher won early.

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Speaker 1: It was only after Miami started to reflect him things

737
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: went downhill a little bit. So I don't think that

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Speaker 1: the Sabin drop off is going to be talked about

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Speaker 1: a lot. I do think that's the case. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that that's one of the themes that I'll be

741
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Speaker 1: watching for this year. Now here's what I do need

742
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: to know about Alabama. I need to know what kind

743
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Speaker 1: of passing attack can Jalen Milroe execute, because it is

744
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: one thing to hear the feedback from fall camp, to

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00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: hear the feedback from scrimmages and all, well, that's all

746
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: well and good. And I don't doubt Milroe's ability to

747
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Speaker 1: throw the ball a quarter mile if he needs to.

748
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Speaker 1: It was one of the best deep ball passers in

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Speaker 1: college football last year. The short to intermediate game. How

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Speaker 1: much better is that from him than we saw last year?

751
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call that a glaring hole in his game,

752
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 1: but it was one of the weaker parts of his game.

753
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: So let's see how improved he is there. I need

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Speaker 1: to know can their young players and transfers hold it

755
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Speaker 1: down in the secondary, because that'll be the key to

756
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Speaker 1: their season. As far as I can see, I think

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Speaker 1: their offense will be plenty, good enough passing game, run game,

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00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: it'll be good enough. If they're good enough in turnovers,

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Speaker 1: if they're fortunate enough in the injury compartment. Really comes

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Speaker 1: down to their secondary because they had a lot of

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Speaker 1: talent leave. Caleb Downs transferred, a lot of guys went

762
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Speaker 1: to the NFL, some guys transferred, and so you've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of young, unproven guys there, but they're really talented.

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Speaker 1: Xabian Brown is a kid that I keep hearing about

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Speaker 1: over run over again. A talk to someone about him

766
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: again the other day and they said, enjoy him for

767
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: three years because he'll be gone in three years. Pretty mature,

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Speaker 1: especially for a true freshman. But the point is not

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Speaker 1: that I doubt him. That's gotta work out. Kids like

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Speaker 1: Zamian Brown, they've got to work out. And then some

771
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Speaker 1: of those other guys and the transfers they got in there.

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Speaker 1: Keon soab for example, those guys have to work out

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Speaker 1: if they do, Sky's the limit for Alabama's team this year. Thirdly,

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Speaker 1: I need to know how good this offensive line will

775
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: be in pass pro. Of course, Washington's was really good

776
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: last year. Alabama's was bottom five in the FBS and

777
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: sacks allowed. I'm not totally throwing that on offensive line protection.

778
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: Some of its terrible snaps, and they rectified that because

779
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Speaker 1: they went and got Brelsford out of Washington. Part of

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00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: that can be attributed to quarterback in decisiveness, but a

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00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: lot of it is on the offensive line, and several

782
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: of those guys are back to anchor what should be

783
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: a really dominant run unit. How good are they impass pro?

784
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Speaker 1: Cause you better be if you're going to execute the offense.

785
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: I think they want to run the coaching staff here

786
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 1: we got every guy graded. Head coaches, coordinators, support staff,

787
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: we got them all graded in our system. Here we

788
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: got Kaelin de Bor graded as a top three head

789
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Speaker 1: coach in college football. Bama went from having the best

790
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: having one of the very best, no question about him.

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Speaker 1: They've got a top ten overall staff, so secretly below Saban.

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00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: The quality of Alabama's coaching staff had waned a little bit.

793
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: It was well known in coaching circles, in agency circles.

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00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 1: I don't think it was talked about a lot publicly,

795
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: but we can talk about it now in the net.

796
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: They upgraded parts of their support staff, especially defensively, which

797
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: is just not something that will compute with most people.

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00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,439
Speaker 1: You lose Saban, you hire an offensive minded head coach,

799
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Speaker 1: you upgrade the defensive support staff. Well, yeah, because this

800
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: is now a top fifteen support staff defensively. Caine Womck,

801
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: we got him as a top thirty defensive coordinator. Remember

802
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: he was the head coach at South Alabama last year.

803
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: Now Nick Sheridan at offensive coordinator. That's one where we've

804
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: got data incomplete, cause he's only got a couple of

805
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: years experience doing that. Now here's the flip side of that.

806
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: That could mean he has a great year in his

807
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: grade skyrockets in our model. But also we know Calen

808
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: Debor has a lot to do with the play calling

809
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: offensively did last year. If we counted him as the

810
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: OC instead of Nick Sheridan, then that vastly changes how

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Speaker 1: we would grade the mechanisms here. Elko kind of the

812
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: same way out at Texas A and M, Like, do

813
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: we know who's calling their side of the ball. This

814
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: is a really good coaching staff here. Pama didn't take

815
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: a huge back seat even with transitioning away from Nick Saban.

816
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 1: So that's an important point. Now here's another important point.

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00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: This is a hard schedule. They play six teams in

818
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: the playoff top twenty five odds over at FanDuel. In

819
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: the JPE Pole they play five of my top fifteen teams.

820
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: And this road stretches no joke. They go to Wisconsin,

821
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: they go to Tennessee, they go to LSU, They go

822
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Speaker 1: to Oklahoma. The week before they play the Iron Bowl.

823
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: It used to be they played an FCS team. Now

824
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: they play Oklahoma in Norman late November. By the way,

825
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: the weather could be horrendous and the team could be

826
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: really hard to face. So we've got that. They have

827
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Speaker 1: bys before Georgia and LSU. But Georgia and LSU also

828
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: have bys, so there's no situational advantage here. Like I said,

829
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: they got Georgia, they got Auburn. They got a sneaky

830
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: game in Week two against USF. USF could be one

831
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Speaker 1: of the dark horse contenders in the G five ranks

832
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: this year, so this is not an easy schedule at all.

833
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: Their best case, I've got as eleven and one this year.

834
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Speaker 1: Perhaps I'm wrong, I do think that with the transition,

835
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: even as bright as I am on a lot of it,

836
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 1: there's got to be at least a loss in there somewhere,

837
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: even in the best of cases, the worst case, because

838
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: of the transition, because of maybe the lack of quality

839
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: depth across the board, and because of the difficulty and schedule.

840
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: I've got his seven and five. But what I think

841
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,959
Speaker 1: they'll do is I think they'll go ten and two,

842
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: And if they go ten and two, they're a college

843
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,919
Speaker 1: football playoff team. I've got him in the JP pole

844
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: is the fifth highest power rated team in the country

845
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: to start the season. That stuff's obviously fluid this time

846
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: of year, but I think it's a really good team,

847
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: really good team. A lot of unknown obviously, but I

848
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: think it's the most talented team that Caitlyn de Boor

849
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: will have coached. So we've seen what he's done before.

850
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: Is there too much newness? Like is that a problem?

851
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: Is the transition too steep? Is the learning curve too steep?

852
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: I don't think there's an organization more complex than the

853
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: one Saban ram So, I don't think anyone's coming in

854
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: and making anyone say head swim at Alabama. I think

855
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: they'll be okay in that category. They're watching us in Hampton, Virginia, Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

856
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 1: Great people in Ontario, and they're watching us in Barnwell,

857
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Thank you guys so much. It's that time

858
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: of that time of week. Col Kubrick texting me as

859
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: I'm on the air. Find friends that are so in

860
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: touch with you that they text you regularly while you're

861
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: doing the most important thing that you'll do all week.

862
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: I have just described Cole Cublic, who apparently has a

863
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: podcast by some name. We got to talk about Deon Sanders. Yes,

864
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: I got all your DMS and text messages. Yes I know.

865
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: Deon called CBS out. So I got a tweet. I

866
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: got a tweet from a bunch of you. Jeff from Ancone, Iowa,

867
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: where I stay when I go to Ames, he hit

868
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: me up and said he said, Dion called you out.

869
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: He put CBS in parentheses. Dion called you out. Are

870
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: you still going to carry water for him? Despite his

871
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: losing ways at Colorado. So, Jeff, this is a mouthful immunity.

872
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,439
Speaker 1: You don't need to take it from Jeff or take

873
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,919
Speaker 1: it from me. I'm gonna play you what he's talking about.

874
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 1: I know not all of you wait with baited breath

875
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: to hear Colorado press conferences. So Colin, I'm gonna ask

876
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: you to do two things. I'm gonna first ask you

877
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: to play Dion's sound and then I'm gonna want Jeff's

878
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: tweet again. So first, here's what I think Jeff's talking about.

879
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: Eric Christensen with CBS Sports Colorado Tyler.

880
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 2: I'm not doing none with CBS. Next question, it's above that.

881
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 2: I got none to do with you. I got love

882
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 2: for you, I appreciate, respect you, and got none to

883
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 2: do with you. They know what they did.

884
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: I'm here at Denver, not National.

885
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 2: You are who you are, CBS, CBS all right with you.

886
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 2: I respect you, That's why I told you that I'm

887
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 2: looking at you and now as a man. I respect you,

888
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 2: ILL got love for you. But what they did was foul.

889
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: So a lot of people to me, Josh, what you

890
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 1: guys do, I don't know. I can confirm it has

891
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,479
Speaker 1: nothing to do with me. I don't know I'm gonna

892
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: whisper something else to you. Let me say this low.

893
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of managements up in

894
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: arms about this. I don't really care. Just between you

895
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: and I, I don't really care. So let's go back

896
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: to Jeff's tweet here for a second, because there was

897
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: something else I wanted to point out. So Jeff said,

898
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: am I still going to carry water for him despite

899
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: his losing ways? Well? I don't carry water for Dion Sanders.

900
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: We've never had him on the show. I have called

901
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: things out that I thought should be called out, but

902
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: I've also pointed something else out. I don't have to

903
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: love everything someone does to love that they're part of

904
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: this game. That's not carrying water for someone. I promise

905
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: you it's not. Now. The other part there, the losing ways.

906
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: I got in a little argument with someone in my

907
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: close personal circle the other day about this because they

908
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: called Deonna loser, a losing coach, and I said, how

909
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: do you figure by what metric? And they said, well

910
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: he won, Jesse how many games he won last year?

911
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: Three or four? Four games? Said he won four games

912
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: last year. I said, yeah, by my count, that's three

913
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,280
Speaker 1: more than they won the year before. Not everyone starts

914
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,439
Speaker 1: off like Kaylin de bor is about to start off,

915
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: you know. Not everyone walks in and inherits a roster

916
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: that's loaded with talent. Some people got to walk in

917
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: the door in Boulder, Colorado, where they've sucked water through

918
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: a garden hose for a long time. So you win

919
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: four games in Tuscaloosa, you won't live in Tuscaloosa much longer.

920
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: You win four in Boulder after they just won one

921
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: the year before, you've actually done some pretty good things.

922
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: And then we of course shift our focus to this

923
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: year and we asked, well, what's he going to do

924
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: for an encore? That? Jeff is where the money clip

925
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: actually came in this entire exchange the other day. It

926
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 1: wasn't Dion versus CBS whatever that's about, because it doesn't

927
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: pertain to me. So how am I supposed to know?

928
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: And I don't really care about it as long as

929
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't pertain to me. But there was a follow

930
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: up that I think was lost on most people. That

931
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: was by far the most interesting thing, So Colin the

932
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: rarely visited second clip from Dion's press conference, Let's play that.

933
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 2: You know, the five have to work in unison, and

934
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: the chemistry is such an important thing. Is chemistry? You

935
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 2: guys use it all the time?

936
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: What is it?

937
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys work together. You don't like each other, most.

938
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: Of you each you don't.

939
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 2: You definitely don't love the guy back there, okay, standing him,

940
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 2: but you still work together. You get the job done.

941
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:55,280
Speaker 2: We generally have a love and admiration from one another,

942
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 2: We really do.

943
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: Whether you throw the.

944
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 2: Word chemistry out or that you everybody keep throwing their

945
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 2: w out. Some of you don't even have chemistry at home,

946
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 2: but you go there every day.

947
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: Hey, that last part got some of you. I know

948
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,479
Speaker 1: it did. That last part. Some of you had already

949
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: started talking because you already had a reply. And then

950
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: he said that last part. Some of you don't have

951
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: chemistry at home, but you go there every day. And

952
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: y'all went like this, y'all went, what hmm? Yeah, I

953
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 1: know that was. That was a sledgehammer to the groin,

954
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: a cold sledge Deeon pulled that one out of the

955
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: freezer and swung right right where you're not supposed to

956
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: swing on that one. You know, he's not wrong about that.

957
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: And that's the whole question about them. This year competitive

958
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: chemistry is an interesting thing. I've worked with people I

959
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 1: don't particularly like that I'm great with on air. Conversely,

960
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: I've had buddies that I wouldn't want anywhere near the

961
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: fox hole with me. When it comes to competition, whether

962
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: it's in our world or in football, it's just a

963
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,399
Speaker 1: weird thing. Any of you who have played the game,

964
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: or played a game at a reasonably high level, you

965
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: know that that's true. You know that you don't hang

966
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: out with all those guys in that locker room, some

967
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: of them you actively have disdain for. But you know,

968
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: when the bullets start flying, fortunately or unfortunately, they're the

969
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: ones you can count on, and your buddy is nowhere

970
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: to be found because he's curled up in the fetal

971
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: position over here figuratively or literally. I think that's chemistry.

972
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: And I've never really heard a coach call that out,

973
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: because most guys just auto pilot their way through press conferences. Well,

974
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,479
Speaker 1: most guys don't wear shades to their press conferences either,

975
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: So Deon handled that a little bit differently. I thought

976
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: that was interesting because that right there is unfolding for Colorado,

977
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: and it's unfolding for many other programs out there. That

978
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: are expected to win six games or ten games or

979
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: twelve games. Hey, let me fill you in on something.

980
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: Not everyone at Georgia likes each other. But if you

981
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: can play center next to my right guard and you

982
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: can do it at a high level, I don't care

983
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: if you guys hang out on Sunday after the game,

984
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: I don't care. In fact, I don't think they do either.

985
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: So that's the whole thing with them. This year they're

986
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: over under win totals five and a half. That'll decide it.

987
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: Because you know what I'm still out to launch on

988
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: with them is the means with which they've put the

989
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: roster together. Because I happened to be a believer that

990
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: competitive chemistry matters. In other words, the stack of bricks

991
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: to become a house needs the mortar. If you want

992
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: to call that chemistry, It needs the mortar between the bricks.

993
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: Otherwise it's just a stack of bricks for the sake

994
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: of being a stack of bricks. That mortar chemistry, if

995
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: we want to use that word, Is that there for them?

996
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: Is it there for them to the tune of seven

997
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: or eight wins? Is it there to them to the

998
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 1: tune of competing for the big twelve championship. A lot

999
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 1: of other teams we think out there can compete for it?

1000
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: Can they compete for it? The other thing, I just

1001
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: want to circle back on this for a second. We're

1002
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: going to move on. So I had a lot of

1003
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: people when they were pointing that out the other day.

1004
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: I was on the road, so I had no clue

1005
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: what had happened in the press conference, and a lot

1006
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: of people were saying, oh, oh, so you like that. No,

1007
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: I don't love the way he went about it. I mean,

1008
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: if by saying that, you're asking me, is that the

1009
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:12,720
Speaker 1: way I'd have a press conference? No? No, I wouldn't.

1010
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 1: Second thing is, so do you agree with that approach? No?

1011
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: Not particularly. Is that all because there's a follow up

1012
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: to that, the same thing I keep saying about him.

1013
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 1: I love colorful people, different people in this sport. I

1014
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: love it. I love that it's not I love that

1015
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: everything doesn't look the same. Homogenous was the word I

1016
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 1: was looking for. I love that it doesn't look the same.

1017
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: So I love that there may be someone at Colorado

1018
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: that sounds different than someone at Rutgers that sounds different

1019
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: than someone at the University of Virginia. I don't have

1020
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: to love everything. Dion Sanders says, I don't have to

1021
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,760
Speaker 1: agree with it. I don't agree with everything. Dabo says,

1022
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: I don't love the way he goes about everything. But

1023
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: I love Dabo Swinny like I love Dion Sanders. I

1024
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: think it's a pretty miserable existence if you have to

1025
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: approve of everything that someone says before you look at

1026
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: him and say, yeah, I'm okay that he's here or

1027
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: that she's here. It's just not the way I've ever

1028
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: watched the sport. I will not watch it with him

1029
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 1: the same or that way either. So that's where I

1030
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: am on it. Dion versus CBS. As far as we know,

1031
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 1: Jesse and Colin, it has nothing to do with us.

1032
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: Our hands are clean, So we move on. This next

1033
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 1: segment perhaps is one of our most important segments, and

1034
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: we were gonna put it in the Thursday show, but

1035
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: then we didn't have a Thursday show. It was a

1036
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:41,839
Speaker 1: Tuesday show. So I said, Jesse, Noe, this deserves more

1037
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 1: time than we can give it on Tuesday. We need

1038
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,439
Speaker 1: to push this to Sunday. And then producer Jesse pushed

1039
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: it to Sunday. So I'm gonna do two things I'm

1040
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: going to apply some chopstick, not making the butthole lips,

1041
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: as I've been called out for doing many times. But

1042
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: that's how low the deue point is in Nashville. It

1043
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: is August eleventh, and we're having to apply lipbom. It's

1044
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:09,720
Speaker 1: a great time to be in Nashville. So college football

1045
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: is upon us. There are several things that we got

1046
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: to avoid this year. There are several phrases that I

1047
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 1: want us to avoid. Some of these are unavoidable. Some

1048
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: of them you just have to grin and bear, but

1049
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: others we can prevent. We can take preventative measures. For example,

1050
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: you are what your record says you are. Well, friends,

1051
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,399
Speaker 1: you are not always what your record says you are

1052
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: in college football, like Jesse pointed out, not producer Jesse,

1053
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: but Jesse from Twitter said, you are what your record

1054
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: says you are. Well, No, you are not what your

1055
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: record says you are. Now sometimes you are. Sometimes seven

1056
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: and five is exactly the caliber of team you were. However,

1057
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: if the University of Florida goes seven and five this

1058
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: year against their schedule, there's a chance they were the

1059
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 1: fourteenth best team in the country, and you'd never know

1060
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: that because history, and the meter that we've built in

1061
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: our minds based on history says a seven teams not

1062
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,360
Speaker 1: a good team. Well, it all depends on who you play.

1063
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: If Liberty goes seven and five not playing a single

1064
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: power for a team, that's pretty terrible. If Syracuse goes

1065
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: seven and five against a workable schedule, not great. If

1066
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 1: Florida goes seven and five, I've got a bag of

1067
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: blue and orange confetti over here. I may break out.

1068
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: So that's one phrase that I want us as a

1069
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: college football people to work on avoiding this year. Another

1070
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: one is the use of the following words elite and generational. Now,

1071
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,879
Speaker 1: there are elite players out there, and maybe we've got

1072
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: generational players out there, but we don't have thirty seven

1073
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: of them every year, so these are used interchangeably. An

1074
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: elite player is basically a sliding scale. An elite player

1075
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: is based on, however many other players there are of

1076
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,280
Speaker 1: that caliber in a given years. Just like a recruit,

1077
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: a five star recruit, if you got thirty two of

1078
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: them percycle, well, if it's a thin year, you got

1079
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: a better shot of being a five star then if

1080
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,720
Speaker 1: it's a really really loaded year. Same in college football,

1081
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: elite at least by the way I use the word.

1082
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: Is a player measured against the other players in the

1083
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: sport that year, but generational is measuring them across years.

1084
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: And we got some folks out there labeling a dozen

1085
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: guys per season generational. And I just promise you that's

1086
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: not the way the word is intended to be used. Now,

1087
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: the next one, this may be out of your control

1088
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: because this phrase, while you may not use it, a

1089
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: lot may be used around you, may be hurled in

1090
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: your direction, and this one can cut you deep. I've

1091
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: seen many a guy taken down in his prime by

1092
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: statements that involve apple picking in the fall. Anything to

1093
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: do with a pumpkin or an apple picking situation in

1094
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: the fall actually is to be avoided because you can

1095
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: say all you want to, well, can I do it

1096
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: on Tuesday? Josh, They're not asking you to go on Tuesday, buddy,

1097
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: poor poor thing. They're not asking you go on Tuesday. No,

1098
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: this is Saturday mid afternoon stuff. They'll say morning, but

1099
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: they mean eleven thirty and in Central Time, that's a

1100
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: no go zone. Anyway. They want your day, they want

1101
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: your Saturday, and they think you owe it to them.

1102
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: Now doesn't matter that you already gave them. January through

1103
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: August doesn't matter. They're coming for September through December as well.

1104
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: They're gonna say things like pumpkins aren't in season in March,

1105
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: to which you should say things like, not my problem.

1106
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: But are you prepared for the backlash because this is

1107
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: not consequence free stuff. There will be backlash. But is

1108
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: the backlash worse than having to find out what happened

1109
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: in Ohio state versus Oregon from your buddy? The answer

1110
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: is no, friends, no, it is not next up. We

1111
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:58,959
Speaker 1: got to get this straight. Jordan hit us up. JP

1112
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: poll is not a that is correct. Sir Jordan and

1113
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: I have gone back and forth several times, but on

1114
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 1: this he is right. He is right. He's trying to

1115
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: mock me, but he is right. There's a big difference

1116
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: between power ratings and rankings. Rankings are merit based. I

1117
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: could have a team number two in my rankings and

1118
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 1: have them power rated number eleven. Big difference in neutral

1119
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: field favorability, Big difference in how an odds maker would

1120
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: slot teams because he has to put numbers out on

1121
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: those teams, versus how an ap polster would rank teams.

1122
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: I hope we understand. Chances are we do not moving on.

1123
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: This is the Jimbo Fisher Memorial portion of the show.

1124
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: Jimbo has not passed away, but he is not a

1125
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: head coach anymore. But he said this every week. We

1126
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: just need to execute better. Everyone understands this. This is

1127
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: very redundant. This is like saying the red fire truck.

1128
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 1: Everyone understands if you lost, or maybe even if you won,

1129
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: you still need to execute better. This is right up

1130
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: there with we just got to clean a few things up.

1131
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: It's not a porch. You're not cleaning stuff up. This

1132
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: is football. They get to put their hands on you,

1133
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: They get to physically humiliate you if you don't do

1134
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: anything about it. We just need to execute better. We

1135
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: got to get more specific than this, Please follow up

1136
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,880
Speaker 1: to that. Actually, this has nothing to do with executing.

1137
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: This has to do with another compromising position that many

1138
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: of you are gonna find yourselves in, and in fact,

1139
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: it could coincide with the apple picking and pumpkin patching.

1140
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: If anyone tells you when it comes to college football

1141
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: Saturdays that you could just record it, that person has

1142
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: no place at the head table of your life. You

1143
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: can just record it. Why can't you just record it? Well,

1144
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why. Because this is not real

1145
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: Housewives of ann Arbor. This is college football. This is

1146
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: the real world, babe. Okay, we don't record this sort

1147
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: of thing. The only value in live broadcasts is seeing

1148
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: the game live. Do you know what it's like for

1149
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 1: your mom to know the outcome of a game? But

1150
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: you don't know the outcome of a game because you're

1151
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 1: in a pumpkin patch somewhere in still Water. How terrible

1152
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: is that? By the way, the pumpkin patch isn't crowded.

1153
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: Why is that? Because everyone of sane mind is watching

1154
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: the game. Nobody else at that pumpkin patch looks like you,

1155
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: because no one else got suckered into that. Those are

1156
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 1: called victims. You don't want to be one of those.

1157
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: And lastly, this one's really picked up steam over the

1158
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: past few years. Anytime there's a comparative analysis going on,

1159
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 1: which of these teams do you think is better? Which

1160
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: of these candy bars do you think is better? Which

1161
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: of these colors do you think is better? There's gonna

1162
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 1: be some dude in the replies that says blank and

1163
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: it's not close. Heads are tails? Super Bowl coin flip heads.

1164
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 1: It's not even close. Math says otherwise. Logic in many

1165
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 1: of these cases says otherwise, don't be the guy that

1166
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: feels so uncomfortable and so insecure about your argument that

1167
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 1: you just word vomit out. Oh, it's not even close.

1168
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 1: It's probably close. If there's a heated debate going on

1169
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: about something related to sports, it's probably at least close.

1170
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 1: Lebron MJ is the most glaring example of this in history.

1171
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 1: So everyone's got their take, and then about seventy percent

1172
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 1: of those people will follow it up with and it's

1173
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:34,919
Speaker 1: not close. It's at least close. I've watched both guys

1174
01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 1: play basketball. They both have very very solid arguments bo

1175
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 1: versus Herschel. When I was growing up in the SEC

1176
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: bo Jackson, Herschel Walker, I swear to you, depending on

1177
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: which side of the Chatdohoochie river you found yourself on

1178
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: and I grew up on the chatdooochie, that would determine

1179
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: what name when in the blank, But the ending of

1180
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: the sentence would be the same Herschel. And it's not

1181
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: even close, bo And it's not even close. It was close.

1182
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: It's always been close. These are some phrases that I

1183
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: think it would help us to avoid this year, and

1184
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: I would appreciate your feedback on this, not pushback, because

1185
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: these are not disagreeable. This is not even opinion, it's

1186
01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 1: just fact. We need to avoid these. What else do

1187
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: we need to avoid? Jesse almost just asked for a

1188
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: bathroom break because I drink two bottles of water before

1189
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 1: the show. But like I said, we're live. We're live, pal,

1190
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: so we just got to roll with it. Let's continue here.

1191
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: What's Miami's record gonna be this year? Let's just go Miami.

1192
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 1: Full prediction here, full break down. Here's what I think

1193
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 1: you need to know. They're over underwin total at FanDuel

1194
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 1: nine and a half, fairly lofty. They went from five

1195
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 1: wins to seven wins. Now they got to win ten

1196
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: games just to hit the over. They've got the third

1197
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: best odds to win the ACC. They are plus two

1198
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 1: ten to make the College Football Playoff over at FanDuel.

1199
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 1: You can just bet yes or no will they make

1200
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 1: the playoff? A yes returns at plus two to ten.

1201
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 1: They are fifteenth in the odds to win it all

1202
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 1: right now, basically it's payoff time. This is Mario's third

1203
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 1: year there, it's payoff time. Everyone's heard about the recruiting,

1204
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 1: Everyone's heard about the portal guys they added, and there

1205
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: are a lot of them. That just means twenty twenty

1206
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: four is payoff time. And every time I've been down there,

1207
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: every time I've spoken to that staff over the past

1208
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: two seasons, twenty twenty four was always the year. I

1209
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: didn't always share that because it made it sound like

1210
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: you would think they were mailing in the prior years.

1211
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: They weren't mailing them in. But they knew, just like

1212
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: any new staff does, we got a year we're circling

1213
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: where we think that's where we can take off. Twenty

1214
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: twenty four has been that year for Miami. Since the

1215
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 1: day they walked in, twenty twenty four has been the year.

1216
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: So here's what I think I know about Miami. I

1217
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: think I know they could have the best quarterback in

1218
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: the ACC. They could have the best pass rush in

1219
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: the ACC. I can make solid arguments for offensive line,

1220
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: but there are several aspects of this team that could

1221
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: be the best in their conference. And they're sitting there

1222
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: with the third best odds to win it. And I

1223
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 1: think some people just have written the book on Miami.

1224
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: They'll choke in big games. Miami will never be back.

1225
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: They got no home field advantage, which I'll get to

1226
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:12,200
Speaker 1: in a second. Well, that's the past. Sometimes the past

1227
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: is an indicator of the future, and sometimes the past

1228
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 1: is just the past, and they're about to write a

1229
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: brand new book. They have every ability to do that

1230
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: this year from a personnel standpoint, from a staff standpoint,

1231
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: there's nothing standing in their way except for themselves. Another

1232
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 1: thing I think I know is they were overly aggressive

1233
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,960
Speaker 1: in targeting twenty twenty four the reasons I just mentioned,

1234
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: but also they knew when they landed cam Ward at

1235
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:42,640
Speaker 1: quarterback it was game on. And they point blank looked

1236
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 1: around and said, if we got Ward at quarterback, we

1237
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: are not gonna tiptoe around this thing. We are going

1238
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 1: to completely take a wrecking ball to the portal. We're

1239
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: going to go all in on nil. And they got

1240
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 1: Damian Martinez, the running back out of Oregon State. They

1241
01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: got Sam Brown and there Tyler Barron like an animal.

1242
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: They got a bunch of guys, Simon Barrow at defensive line,

1243
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that'll start this year that should

1244
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 1: be impact players. For them not to mention you got

1245
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: those first two recruiting classes stacked on top of each other.

1246
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:16,920
Speaker 1: Now the Reuben Banes of the world, for example, just

1247
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: wandering around. And so you watch them, you go watch

1248
01:06:21,240 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: them practice, you watch them week one against Florida. They

1249
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: should look like a college football playoff team physically, That's

1250
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 1: what they should look like, because that's what they are physically.

1251
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: But then guess what they got to do. They got

1252
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: to execute. Wherever heard that before, Here's what I need

1253
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: to know. I need to know how good the pass

1254
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 1: defense can be. They lost both safeties. They were only

1255
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 1: fifty fifth versus the pass last year, so they lose

1256
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: two guys on the back end. It got some transfers

1257
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: they brought in that could be an achilles heel that

1258
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 1: has Baird watching since spring. Doesn't have to be a weakness,

1259
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 1: but it is something that I'll be w early on

1260
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: with them. Also mentioned the home field advantage a second ago.

1261
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: This used to not be an issue when the Orange Bowl,

1262
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 1: God Rest Her Soul was still around. Miami at home

1263
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: was no joke. It also had a lot to do

1264
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: with the quality of teams they've had well lately, their

1265
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: teams hadn't been good and their home field advantage has

1266
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: been non existent, So there is a data point out there.

1267
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: It's late twenty teens. Can't remember the exact year Notre

1268
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 1: Dame came in there. It was just crazy. They smoked

1269
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 1: Notre Dame first off. Secondly, place was sold out, it

1270
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 1: was on fire. It was right up there with being

1271
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 1: as good as any home field advantage you're going to

1272
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 1: find in college football. It was like a total one off.

1273
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: Notre Dame had a lot to do with that. But

1274
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: Miami folks showed up as well, and they showed you

1275
01:07:48,400 --> 01:07:52,080
Speaker 1: just just brief glimpse of what even hard Rock Stadium

1276
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: could look like if the city was on fire from

1277
01:07:55,520 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: Miami football. So if Miami football is worth getting on for,

1278
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: how good can hard Rock Stadium be as a home

1279
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: field advantage? Because all these other teams have it. Clemson,

1280
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 1: you get in there to play them at home, They've

1281
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: got a twelfth guy on their side. Fsu at Doke,

1282
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: they got a twelfth guy on their side. Miami hadn't

1283
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: had that. So can they get that? Can they flip

1284
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: the big moments, the critical decision making from a head coach,

1285
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 1: the critical turnover battle that they were on the minus

1286
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 1: side of last year. Can they be on the plus

1287
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 1: side of it this year and then staying healthy and

1288
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: things like that. The coaching staff here A lot of

1289
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 1: takes about the quality of coaching staff at Miami. So

1290
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 1: in our model here, we just used blind criteria and

1291
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 1: we apply it the same way. It's a filter that

1292
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:51,200
Speaker 1: we drag across all head coaches, all coordinators, and all assistants.

1293
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 1: This is a top forty staff. More on that in

1294
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: a second. We've got a top twenty five defensive coordinator

1295
01:08:57,240 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 1: here in Gidriy, top thirty five offensive support staff. I

1296
01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:06,759
Speaker 1: think they all stand to scale their rating. Mario included

1297
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 1: both coordinators. I mean Shannon Dawson. If he does big

1298
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: things with cam Ward this year, then Shannon Dawson's rating

1299
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,919
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of recency bias, there's disproportionately heavyweight

1300
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 1: to the most recent could scale up pretty quickly. But

1301
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:23,599
Speaker 1: we can't use predictability in this. We can only go

1302
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 1: on what you've done. That's how that rating works. So

1303
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 1: it's a good staff. There's no glaring weakness, but there's

1304
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: also no elite in the model's eyes. So interested to

1305
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 1: see if that changes this year. Their schedule. They got

1306
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 1: the week one pressure cooker up in Gainesville, Miami is

1307
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: one of the only teams that says up in Gainsville

1308
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 1: when they refer to Florida. But they play three teams

1309
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: in the top twenty five in the playoff odds. Not

1310
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 1: a murderer's rote at all. They get Virginia Tech at

1311
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 1: home the twenty seventh of September. That's a Friday night game.

1312
01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:57,479
Speaker 1: By the way, where else would you want to be

1313
01:09:57,920 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: down in Miami? Actually a lot of people would would

1314
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:02,559
Speaker 1: claim that their social life is more important, not us,

1315
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 1: though college football is our social life in the fall.

1316
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 1: Get to the game if you're down there for that

1317
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech game. There is only one team on this

1318
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 1: schedule you're looking at right now that is in the

1319
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: JP poll top twenty, and that's Florida State. And they

1320
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: get them at home on October twenty sixth. Notice they

1321
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 1: go to Louisville the week before, but they have a

1322
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 1: bye before that. Louisville is coming off four straight games,

1323
01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:30,760
Speaker 1: so two of their toughest games back to back there.

1324
01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 1: But they got to buy in between, or they got

1325
01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: to buy before Louisville, and Louisville is off four straight

1326
01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: so they got a little situational advantage there. You know,

1327
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: the best case scenario from Miami this year is actually

1328
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: twelve and oh. When you look at how workable the

1329
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: schedule is, and you look at how relatively loaded the

1330
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,559
Speaker 1: talent roster is, and they could have a Heisman Trophy

1331
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 1: caliber quarterback, there's certainly a twelve and oh in there.

1332
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,759
Speaker 1: They're certainly an eight and four in there as well.

1333
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 1: But here's what's wild eight and four being their worst

1334
01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:00,640
Speaker 1: case is an improvement record wise over last year. I

1335
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: believe Jesse didn't they win seven last year, So if

1336
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 1: the worst case is an improvement, those are really high standards.

1337
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,760
Speaker 1: But I think it's warranted with this team. I got

1338
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 1: Miami going eleven to one this year, and you can

1339
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:14,960
Speaker 1: make of that what you will, because that sends them

1340
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 1: to the ACC Championship Game. Probably that mayver will lock

1341
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: them into a playoff spot, regardless of what happens in

1342
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 1: the ACC Championship game. I got very high expectations for

1343
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 1: this team this year. I know they probably don't love

1344
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: hearing that down there, because everyone wants you to trash

1345
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:32,439
Speaker 1: them this time of year and keep them under the radar.

1346
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:36,560
Speaker 1: JP Poles got Miami at eighteen. That's where the jpeople

1347
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: the model, That's where it starts Miami. I think Miami

1348
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: will finish a lot higher than eighteen. Now just up

1349
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 1: the road. Since we were already talking about teams in

1350
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: the state of Florida, I figured we might as well

1351
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: toss this tweet on the air because I've been steadily

1352
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: getting like ten of these per week, So why don't

1353
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: we address this once more? Golf Skater hits me and says,

1354
01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 1: you keep saying napiers on the hot seat, But how

1355
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 1: many wins does he need to save his job this season?

1356
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,719
Speaker 1: Especially with that schedule. I haven't talked at all about

1357
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 1: a hot seat. I have talked about other people putting

1358
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: him on it. Maybe that's what you're referring to. We

1359
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 1: don't even really do hot seat talk on the show.

1360
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:16,559
Speaker 1: I am mentioning his name when I talked about other

1361
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 1: hot seat lists that I've seen, because I've seen his

1362
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: name on him. So what does he need to do

1363
01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:23,439
Speaker 1: this year? Well? Number one, Number one, not worry about

1364
01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 1: the hot seat, and number two, he needs to stick

1365
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: to his plan. So it's a funny thing. When we

1366
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: went down to Florida this spring, we got I'm talking

1367
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:34,040
Speaker 1: about as detailed a look at a program as I've

1368
01:12:34,080 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: ever gotten. And all of these places are great to us,

1369
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 1: but there is no program that went above and beyond

1370
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 1: to just totally lift the hood and let you see

1371
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: the guts of the program like Billy did when we

1372
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: went down to Florida this year. So what they need

1373
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 1: to do is they need to stick to their plan,

1374
01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 1: to which a lot of your responses will be what plan,

1375
01:12:56,920 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 1: What plan? They've been bad the first two years? What plan? Well,

1376
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: what's where the rubber meets the road. That's the beauty

1377
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:06,559
Speaker 1: of this. There's no panic down there. There's not been

1378
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: any panic inside Florida. They've made some staff modifications, they've

1379
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 1: made a pretty good headway on the recruiting trail. But

1380
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: my point is the demeanor is like if you're driving

1381
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 1: towards the edge of a cliff and you look over

1382
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 1: at the driver's seat, you expect the guy to be

1383
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 1: freaked out, and the guy's like, wow, yeah, I see,

1384
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 1: the cliff will be fine. That's basically billion. When he

1385
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:32,560
Speaker 1: talks about hot Seat, he talks about how tough the

1386
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 1: schedule's gonna be this year. He's got total confidence in

1387
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 1: what he's doing. That's not a guarantee it's gonna work.

1388
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not guaranteeing you it's gonna work.

1389
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:45,759
Speaker 1: But I am guaranteeing you that guy's really smart, guy's

1390
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,120
Speaker 1: really cerebral. He knows how to win. And they've got

1391
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,280
Speaker 1: a plan that they fully trust down there. And it's

1392
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 1: not just napier. It extends beyond the entire inside the

1393
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 1: entire building, the administration, there's full buy in. It's a

1394
01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:02,640
Speaker 1: massive infrastructure down there. They've greatly upgraded not only manpower

1395
01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 1: and personnel, but they've also upgraded facility wise. And that's

1396
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: well and good. But a lot of folks have done that.

1397
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:11,680
Speaker 1: A lot of places look immaculate. I know, I go

1398
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 1: to all of them. A lot of them look immaculate.

1399
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: A lot of them got really good people in the building.

1400
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 1: There are some good people that get fired every year

1401
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 1: because they don't win enough. There are good people who

1402
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:22,040
Speaker 1: where you work that probably will get fired this year

1403
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 1: because they don't do good enough. So there are a

1404
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 1: lot of good people at Florida. Got to get the

1405
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:28,720
Speaker 1: job done. The question that I got asked was what

1406
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 1: does he need to do a lot of folks think

1407
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:33,400
Speaker 1: that means he's got to win seven games or eight games.

1408
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:35,719
Speaker 1: There's some magic number. I just don't see it that way,

1409
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 1: And that could be the case. Maybe internally down there

1410
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:41,639
Speaker 1: there's some number, there's some benchmark he's got to hit.

1411
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:45,200
Speaker 1: I just have trouble seeing them go seven and five

1412
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 1: with five losses by one possession and thinking, knowing this

1413
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:51,680
Speaker 1: schedule that they're playing, that someone says, oh, that's not

1414
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 1: good enough. Also, knowing the exact caliber of play in

1415
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: another conference would probably have won them ten games. The

1416
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: kind of coach you punt on, that's not the kind

1417
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:04,679
Speaker 1: you move away from. Decision Making's got to be better

1418
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 1: down there. Special teams. That's the one thing when we

1419
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:10,640
Speaker 1: did the show with him, we had Billion Napier on

1420
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:14,960
Speaker 1: the show ask him about special teams in last year,

1421
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:18,400
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, if you take away some

1422
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: bad moments, our numbers were very good. That doesn't always

1423
01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:27,800
Speaker 1: work on special teams because you don't have as many

1424
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 1: special teams plays as you do offense and defense. So

1425
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,600
Speaker 1: you know, there may be two busted coverages, but otherwise

1426
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 1: past defense played rock solid. Maybe that doesn't cost you

1427
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:40,760
Speaker 1: the game. You got a couple of you got two

1428
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:43,759
Speaker 1: or three special teams, gaffs and big moments that implodes

1429
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,599
Speaker 1: your season. So they got to be better there, and

1430
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 1: that's still up in the air because there were some

1431
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 1: there were some of the fan base down there that

1432
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 1: wanted him to make moves more definitively on that front,

1433
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 1: and he didn't necessarily acquiesce to their wants. Now, what

1434
01:15:58,120 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do is question how BILLI Napiers run

1435
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 1: this program. What I Am going to do is sit

1436
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 1: over here and say, let's see how it works out,

1437
01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: which is one of my most popular phrases in August.

1438
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 1: Let's see how it works out. I will afford everyone

1439
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: the opportunity to prove whether their way works out or not.

1440
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 1: That's what Memo said, That's what God made August for.

1441
01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: Question amongst all of us here as we roll merely

1442
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 1: along in this show, trying to get a lot in

1443
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: on this Sunday night, because we've got a lot to

1444
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 1: do this week. Who are the playoff sleepers in the

1445
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:35,679
Speaker 1: country this year, the ones that are outside the top

1446
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:39,000
Speaker 1: fifteen that you could really see knocking on the door

1447
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:40,639
Speaker 1: of the playoff. And I don't mean G five teams,

1448
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: because they're going to be G five teams at least

1449
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 1: one of them guaranteed to make it that may not

1450
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 1: be in the top ten or top fifteen. I mean

1451
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:49,679
Speaker 1: p four teams that are out of the top fifteen

1452
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 1: right now that you could see not just contending for

1453
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 1: but like grabbing a playoff spot. Virginia texts one of them,

1454
01:16:58,439 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 1: not the only one, but they're plus nine point fifty

1455
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 1: to make the playoff at FanDuel right now. Jpepole's got

1456
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,840
Speaker 1: him thirty first in the country to start the season.

1457
01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:09,519
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind, to my friends, that is the

1458
01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:12,600
Speaker 1: model speaking. That's not me speaking. For all you know,

1459
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 1: I've got you top five, but the model, the filthy,

1460
01:17:16,479 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: disgusting model here which has made us money like nine

1461
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:22,759
Speaker 1: years in a row, has them at thirty one, top

1462
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: five returning production, top twenty five rush offense last year,

1463
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 1: and I think they'll be better this year. Pass rush

1464
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:32,400
Speaker 1: is good, totally in touch with who they are. This

1465
01:17:32,439 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 1: is not a team that'll search for its identity. They

1466
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:37,280
Speaker 1: got a strong corner duo and this is a team

1467
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: that goes to Miami September twenty seventh, and also they

1468
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:45,320
Speaker 1: get Clemson at home, huge Marquee spotlight game for the program.

1469
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:49,799
Speaker 1: November ninth. If they split the Miami in Clemson games,

1470
01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:52,280
Speaker 1: they can make the ACC Championship game and maybe they're

1471
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 1: in either way. So that's definitely a playoff sleeper, which

1472
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: feels good to say about Virginia Tech in Orlando. There's

1473
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,799
Speaker 1: another one one Gus mals On just kind of sneaking

1474
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 1: around with the transfer quarterback. Where have we heard that before?

1475
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: They are plus seven hundred at Central Florida to make

1476
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 1: the playoff. JP Pole has them at twenty seven. This

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01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 1: is a borderline top twenty five power rated team. This

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01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,680
Speaker 1: is not a bad team at all. They replenish their

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Speaker 1: team with the portal. They had a solid haul there.

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Speaker 1: They If you go to their schedule, they've got Utah

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Speaker 1: in their last game of the year. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to skip ahead, but I kind of am. They got

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01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:30,759
Speaker 1: Utah last game of the year and it's a Friday game,

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01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: so Utah I think's coming off Iowa State at home,

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01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 1: and then they travel cross country short rest to finish

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Speaker 1: the season. Now, the plus side is they get to

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Speaker 1: play in Orlando November twenty ninth, But the downside is

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01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 1: Utah would have to flip that because if you get

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Speaker 1: the team from Orlando and make them play in Salt

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Speaker 1: Lake in late November. Well, that's wonderful, but there is

1491
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Speaker 1: no weather edge for you there. You got to travel disadvantage. Actually,

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01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 1: point being Central Florida could mess around with Kaj Jefferson

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01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 1: at quarterback and could find a way to win a

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Speaker 1: bunch of one possession games, of which there will be

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Speaker 1: plenty in the Big Twelve this year. Gus Malsan Man,

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Speaker 1: he's done it before. He could do it again at Iowa.

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Speaker 1: What Josh Iowa? Iowa outside everyone's top fifteen. That's a

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Speaker 1: playoff dark horse. Now. The last thing most of you

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Speaker 1: read about Iowa was how bad Cad McNamara's stat line

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Speaker 1: was from their scrimmage this past weekend. And while that

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Speaker 1: looks bad, I'm actually picking them to be a playoff

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Speaker 1: dark horse because of how bad it looks, because I

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Speaker 1: don't think kid McNamara gives them the best chance to win.

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01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 1: I think Brendan Sullivan does the transfer from Northwestern. But

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Speaker 1: I need someone to realize that up there, and that's

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Speaker 1: someone is Kirk Ferns. And it may be that McNamara

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01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: was so bad in the scrimmage this past week this

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Speaker 1: is not a knock on him. I'm just in the

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Speaker 1: words of Vince Vaughn and Couple's retreat. I know my truth,

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Speaker 1: and I think I know Iowa's truth. And Iowa's truth

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Speaker 1: is that I think the listed backup gives them a

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Speaker 1: better chance to win. And if I'm right, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: need to be Joe Burrow two point zero. He just

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Speaker 1: needs to make good decisions, manage the offense, dump the

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Speaker 1: ball off when it needs to be dumped off. That's

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Speaker 1: the job of an Iowa quarterback because his defense is

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Speaker 1: rock solid again, and they've got a workable schedule. And

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Speaker 1: if they go ten and two, they are a playoff team.

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Speaker 1: So can Iowa go ten and two? That's what we're

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Speaker 1: looking for here. Can they go ten and two? They

1521
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Speaker 1: don't even have to make the Big Ten title game.

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Speaker 1: If they can be ten and two, they can be

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01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 1: right there in the playoff hunt. And I think Brendan

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Speaker 1: Sullivan probably is the quarterback if they are in that hunt.

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Speaker 1: And lastly, Oklahoma State plus seven hundred to make the playoff.

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Speaker 1: Is that what I'm seeing here, Jesse. They are twenty

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Speaker 1: third in the JP pole, so this is a borderline

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Speaker 1: top twenty team. I got the most experienced offensive line

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Speaker 1: in the history of organized football. I've got Ali Gordon

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Speaker 1: back there again. Just just named the top running back

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1532
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:04,759
Speaker 1: schedule is really beautiful because there's a game against Utah

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Speaker 1: the fourth week of the season that's going to be

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Speaker 1: a monster Utah at Oklahoma State, and then the very

1535
01:21:11,920 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 1: next week two week stretch that'll define their season. Probably

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Speaker 1: they got Utah at home, they go to Kansas State,

1537
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: split those and go win the Big Twelve championship game,

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Speaker 1: and you'll be in the playoff. It's as simple as that.

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Speaker 1: So those are some playoff contenders that I've got my

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Speaker 1: eye on right now. If you don't agree, or if

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Speaker 1: and then we will get out of here. Bold predictions

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Speaker 1: so bold that you claim you would bet your own

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Speaker 1: money on these. First up tonight, this one's tough. This

1588
01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: one's really tough. Jeff from Calhoun, Georgia, home of a

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Speaker 1: four finalists in gas station recruiting wars. Jeff said, Georgia

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01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:22,600
Speaker 1: and Missouri will play twice this season. Now, this is

1593
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 1: interesting because Georgia and Missouri do not play in the

1594
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 1: regular season. So Jeff is telling me that they're going

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01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:34,280
Speaker 1: to be in the SEC championship game. So just firstly,

1596
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:38,760
Speaker 1: that's gotta happen, and then secondly, they've got a face

1597
01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: off again in the playoff. This is a nine point

1598
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: seventy five on the boldness scale. Georgia's got the best

1599
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:47,080
Speaker 1: odds to win the SEC, Missouri's got the eighth best odds.

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Speaker 1: Does Missouri have to win the SEC championship game in

1601
01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:52,519
Speaker 1: this scenario to make it into the playoff because their

1602
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:55,759
Speaker 1: schedule is a little softer than Georgia's, a lot softer. Also,

1603
01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 1: even if all that happens, if they both make the

1604
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,600
Speaker 1: SEC title game and they play, then they make the

1605
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:02,559
Speaker 1: playoff and they play again, you've got to have the

1606
01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:05,760
Speaker 1: bracket luck for them to even match up in the

1607
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:07,960
Speaker 1: playoff and not be eliminated before that were to happen.

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01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 1: So that's a nine point seventy five Jeff. But if

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Speaker 1: it does happen, Challice of supremacy coming your way. Next up.

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01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 1: Blake from Robbins, Tennessee said, Memphis upsets Florida State. Well,

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01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:27,800
Speaker 1: this is Mike Norvell's old team and Memphis is one

1612
01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 1: of those sort of dark corse G five playoff contenders.

1613
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:34,280
Speaker 1: FSU will be off an early by, so they got

1614
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:37,320
Speaker 1: the Week zero game, So Florida State will play Memphis

1615
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 1: early in the season. It's Mike Norvell's old team. Florida

1616
01:25:41,040 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: State plays Georgia Tech and Week zero, then they play

1617
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 1: Boston College, then they have a bye, they get to regroup, reassess,

1618
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:52,639
Speaker 1: and then they got Memphis coming in there. Memphis sixth

1619
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 1: in points per game last year. Seth Hennigan, veteran quarterback.

1620
01:25:56,479 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 1: It's it would probably be a middle tier to slightly

1621
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:04,480
Speaker 1: above average conference opponent if they played them in the ACC.

1622
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:07,680
Speaker 1: So all I get from that is they won't be

1623
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:10,880
Speaker 1: overlooked and Mike Norvel, I don't think it's getting beat

1624
01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: by Memphis anywhere, much less at home. I'm going to

1625
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 1: put a nine on this one. Crazy things have happened.

1626
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:17,800
Speaker 1: I'll grant you that. I'm gonna put a nine on it.

1627
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Speaker 1: Next up, we really got to thread the needle on

1628
01:26:21,240 --> 01:26:24,439
Speaker 1: this one as well. Jacob from State College Pennsylvania said

1629
01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:27,519
Speaker 1: Penn State falls to Ohio State in the regular season,

1630
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:31,200
Speaker 1: but beats them later in either the Big Ten Championship

1631
01:26:31,240 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 1: game or the playoff. So they play on November two

1632
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Speaker 1: in Happy Valley. Ohio State at FanDuel right now is

1633
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Speaker 1: favored by three and a half points at Penn State.

1634
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Speaker 1: That game's all the way in November, but you can

1635
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Speaker 1: bet it right now if you want to. James Franklin

1636
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:51,720
Speaker 1: has one win against Ohio State in his career up there.

1637
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 1: That was twenty sixteen, and that was the route to

1638
01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: win in the Big Ten Championship. Now, Penn State, they

1639
01:26:58,520 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: could lose this thing, could lose the Ohio State game,

1640
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:04,120
Speaker 1: run the table the rest of the way. That absolutely

1641
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:06,960
Speaker 1: go to the Big Ten Championship game then and they

1642
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 1: could beat Ohio State there, or they could beat Ohio

1643
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: State in the playoff if they didn't see them in Indy.

1644
01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 1: But the point is There are so many variables here. Firstly,

1645
01:27:16,680 --> 01:27:20,160
Speaker 1: what if Penn State just wins the first time, this

1646
01:27:20,200 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 1: prediction is shot. What if Penn State loses the first

1647
01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:26,519
Speaker 1: one and they don't make the Big Ten title game

1648
01:27:26,560 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 1: of the playoff, the prediction is shot. What if Ohio

1649
01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:34,479
Speaker 1: State doesn't make it? Rare? Would that be in a

1650
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Speaker 1: one hundred scenario or one hundred simulation scenario? But what

1651
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 1: if Ohio State doesn't make it? This is shot. What

1652
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 1: if they just don't match up if they go to

1653
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: the playoff, then this prediction is shot. So there are

1654
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:47,680
Speaker 1: a lot of things that have to go right. This

1655
01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: is a nine point two five for me. Lastly, Baylor

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01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:57,200
Speaker 1: Bears from Austin, Texas, the Big twelve will have a

1657
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Speaker 1: team in the national title game. I want to believe,

1658
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 1: and I'm leaving room. I'm only gonna make it a

1659
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 1: nine point seventy five on the boldness scale. They'll be

1660
01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:09,599
Speaker 1: lucky to get two teams in the playoff. You realize

1661
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:11,760
Speaker 1: that now the SEC could get like half a dozen in.

1662
01:28:12,400 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 1: So they got a lot of teams that could make

1663
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,720
Speaker 1: it and then just shake the playoff if one of

1664
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:19,559
Speaker 1: them is in the national title game. Vuleye, you won well,

1665
01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 1: the Big twelve may only get one team in two

1666
01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:26,800
Speaker 1: teams is probably the max you could hope for who

1667
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:29,800
Speaker 1: makes a run. Utah's favored to win this conference. They

1668
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:32,799
Speaker 1: got the fifteenth best odds to win it all. Kansas

1669
01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:35,760
Speaker 1: State's next up, They've got the eighteenth best odds to

1670
01:28:35,800 --> 01:28:38,920
Speaker 1: win it all. There's just too much roster disadvantage, guys.

1671
01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: So even if one of them wins the conference, which

1672
01:28:41,320 --> 01:28:43,599
Speaker 1: they will, and they get a first round by which

1673
01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: they will, they've still got to win a couple of

1674
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 1: games against teams with vastly superior talent rosters who aren't

1675
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:53,800
Speaker 1: overlooking them because it's a playoff game. And so you

1676
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:56,400
Speaker 1: got to go beat Ole Miss and then beat Ohio State,

1677
01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:59,679
Speaker 1: or you got to beat like Texas and then beat

1678
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 1: or Again. I don't think any of those teams are

1679
01:29:02,240 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 1: gonna do that, So I'm gonna make that a nine

1680
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:06,479
Speaker 1: point seventy five on the boldness skill. Appreciate you guys

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