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Speaker 1: And now Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 1: All right, friends, welcome back to another episode of Move

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Speaker 1: the Sticks. Here going for you talking about the college

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Speaker 1: Football Playoff re at Lewis Bucky Brooks ready to rocket

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Speaker 1: roll as we get set for the first round of

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Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff home games for the teams that

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Speaker 1: are the higher seeds. And we'll start with Friday nights

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Speaker 1: match up between Oklahoma and Alabama. This one coming from Norman, Oklahoma.

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Speaker 2: Here a battle.

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Speaker 1: Look Oklahoma in Alabama, no strangers now these last two years.

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma probably feels pretty good about this. So does Bama.

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Speaker 1: Bama's the issue here for me, and we talked a

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Speaker 1: little bit about this with Bruce Feldman. The issue of attrition,

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Speaker 1: especially on the offensive side of the ball in the

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Speaker 1: run game. Kit Ty Simpson, you know, really put this

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Speaker 1: That to me is one of the biggest questions. How

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Speaker 1: do you see this one from a first clients here?

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Speaker 3: But look, man, I think is everything that you talked about.

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Speaker 3: If they're gonna have to put it on Todd Simpson

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Speaker 3: showed us to do it, then he's gonna need his

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Speaker 3: wide receivers to step up, So Bernard and Williams are

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Speaker 3: gonna have to play at a high level. Now, if

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Speaker 3: you ask me ahead of the season, I'd be like, Hey,

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Speaker 3: that's okay, because Ryan Williams is going to dominate. He's

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Speaker 3: one of the best wide receivers in college football. And

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Speaker 3: then whatever. But I'll say this last part of the year,

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Speaker 3: he was beginning to look more like himself, beginning to

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Speaker 3: look like he could have flashes of dominance. And if

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Speaker 3: he can just kind of re emerge, he doesn't even

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Speaker 3: have to be wide receiver one. If he can be

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Speaker 3: one B to what Bernard is doing as one A.

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Speaker 3: They have enough. And the one thing we do know

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Speaker 3: about that offensive system going all the way back to

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Speaker 3: when they were in Washington, Man, they can find the

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Speaker 3: big plays if you give them opportunities. But a lot

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Speaker 3: of it's going to be on the protection. If they

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Speaker 3: protect Ty Simpson well enough, can they find some matchups

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and look, I mean Oklahoma was opportunistic

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Speaker 1: the last time these two teams met, which was a

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Speaker 1: twenty three twenty one Oklahoma win. Eli Bowen had the

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Speaker 1: eighty seven yard pick six, they blocked a field goal attempt,

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Speaker 1: and they got points off short fields after a long returns.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like, hey, that's how you win.

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Speaker 1: That's how you win football games against against you know,

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Speaker 1: really high caliber competition. You got to take advantage of

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Speaker 1: opportunities in Alabama made too many mistakes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but can you count on dead all over again? No?

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Speaker 2: You can't.

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Speaker 3: Can you count I mean, can you count on the

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Speaker 3: of that? I think if you're Alabama you may take

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Speaker 3: even more confidence from that, saying, Gods, if we don't

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Speaker 3: because Oklahoma's offense can't put up enough points. And as

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Speaker 3: Bruce talked about, twenty one b in the magic number.

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Speaker 3: If I am Alabama, and it's gonna be hard to

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Speaker 3: if we don't turn it over, if we just kind

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Speaker 3: manufacture enough points to win the game. But if Bama

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Speaker 3: takes that approach. They one should be able to go

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I mean that's Oklahoma has been offense deficient.

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Speaker 2: Let's just put it that way. They're ninety fifth in.

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Speaker 1: College football in terms of yards per play, eighty ninth

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Speaker 1: in points per drive. Look, not a not a terrific

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Speaker 1: and I think, look, the maybe the game of the

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Speaker 2: Right, what does this one look like to you at first?

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Speaker 3: Blush? Well, one, NFL scouts are gonna be all over

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Speaker 3: terms of draft positioning, those things that experience could matter.

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Speaker 3: And because so many people were so vocal about Miami

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Speaker 3: like this is just what Mario Crystabaal wants, a little

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Speaker 3: edginess from his Miami Hurricanes taking on look a Texas

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm curious to see how the defenses really

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Speaker 1: Can you get a little pressure to take advantage of

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Speaker 3: Bain is terrific. Now. I think this is a big

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Speaker 3: fascinated by what Mike Elko will do to have his

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Speaker 2: How do you think this?

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Speaker 1: I feel like this matchup in particular is one to

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Speaker 2: That's why I love this part of the playoff.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's everything because you think about that

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Speaker 3: expect us to see more that version of the Aggies,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I think I like Marcel Reid in

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Speaker 2: So I mean this, that one's gonna be worth the

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Speaker 2: price of admission ten times over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah with it. And I will say this, Remember the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Next up we get the two non Power conference entries

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Speaker 1: into the College Football Playoff. It's number eleven, two Lane

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I think this will be a

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Speaker 1: It's easy to picked the upset here because nobody's gonna

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Speaker 1: Upset then and you come out on top grade, you're

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Speaker 2: But ultimately I think this one is a little bit closer.

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Speaker 2: How do you see that piece of it for Orgon?

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Speaker 1: Now, I mean like this is an interesting, you know,

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Speaker 3: You know what I used to think that until I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I mean they are dominant. I think

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Buck, I think this is maybe a good

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Speaker 3: He would have made people, He would have many people

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Speaker 1: So now, how how will we and we'll finish here

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Speaker 2: Where do we start with Aler?

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Speaker 3: They're just not enough. So you're gonna have to throw

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Speaker 2: That's what you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: And hope that your scouts and hope that your evaluation

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Speaker 2: Look, we've seen it happen before.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, I can't wait. I can't wait

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Speaker 3: You never know. The combine was great. Look at the tools.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh the path to the draft, folks is It's

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