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Speaker 4: Table off the field to night. It's not the sage

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Speaker 4: the game anything. It's the sage of the fight in

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Speaker 4: the roll. Welcome to the Big Bets on Campus Podcast

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Speaker 4: presented by Bett MGM. This is the Group of five

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Speaker 4: deep dive. We are going to be tackling the American

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Speaker 4: Athletic Conference today. I am joined by Stuckey and Mike Ianello.

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Speaker 4: We're going to get into wind total odds to win

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Speaker 4: the conference as well as the new juicy market odds

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Speaker 4: to make the twelve team College Football Playoff, snapping up

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Speaker 4: that automatic G five bid for the top team in

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Speaker 4: the group of five stuck. What are your thoughts on

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Speaker 4: the AAC this year as they enter with a new

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Speaker 4: member in Army.

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Speaker 2: It's conference that's dominated by coaching continuity outside of Tulane.

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Speaker 2: So you had a big shift with Tulane with Willie

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Speaker 2: of what usf rice in Memphis, a lot of roster turnover.

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Speaker 2: So I think I had eight or nine teams outside

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Speaker 2: the top ninety and returning production. So coaching consistency, but

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Speaker 2: a lot of roster turnover, which makes this roster pretty

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Speaker 2: interesting to break down. And yes, the big news is

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Speaker 2: Army is now in the AAC going to a new offense,

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Speaker 2: which I'll talk about, Navy going to a new offense

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Speaker 2: which I'll talk about, and i have two service academies

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Speaker 2: to talk about. So I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: I Knowlo, what are your thought? Are there a few

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Speaker 4: teams right away that you're excited to discuss?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, I'm very, very excited about this conference.

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Speaker 6: I think the American is typically viewed as the best

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Speaker 6: G five conference. That's why we continually see their top

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Speaker 6: teams get picked off.

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Speaker 4: It's very top heavy.

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Speaker 6: I think the bottom is maybe worse than it's been

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Speaker 6: very good and I'm very curious to see four or

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Speaker 6: five teams. You can make a legitimate college football playoff

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Speaker 6: argument for can one of them separate or where they

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Speaker 6: cannibalize each other.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's hop into one of the teams that

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Speaker 4: you're talking about having an opportunity to grab that automatic

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Speaker 4: bid gets the twelve team college Football Playoff. Let's start

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Speaker 4: with Memphis ten and three last year, six and two

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Speaker 4: in the conference. Their win total coming into twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: four set at nine and a half to odds to

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Speaker 4: win the AAC plus two ten odds to make the

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Speaker 4: College Football Playoff eleven to two. This offense, if everything

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Speaker 4: goes right, they'll threadn forty points a game every time out.

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Speaker 4: They bring back senior passer Seth Hennigan. They rank twenty

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Speaker 4: ninth in returning production offensively, Rock Taylor, Demir blank Comsi

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Speaker 4: combined for a hund eighty five targets and thirty three

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Speaker 4: clearly have a quarterback receiver connection to lean on. The

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Speaker 4: offensive line is where things get interesting, but I think

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Speaker 4: in a good way. They only return two starters, but

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Speaker 4: they have a few key transfers, most notably Jalen Nichols

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Speaker 4: they also bring in the game Cox Mario Anderson, who

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Speaker 4: running back. So right away, I'm going to kick this

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Speaker 4: up here on the Tigers, is this a Texas State

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Speaker 4: situation where they have a super dynamic offense and then

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Speaker 4: it's a question of their defense or do you think

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Speaker 4: the upside with Memphis.

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Speaker 6: I think I trust their offense more I trust Texas States,

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Speaker 6: I said, my kind of way to fade Liberty was

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Speaker 6: Boise State and Memphis to make the playoffs. And that's

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Speaker 6: my way of fading Liberty. You mentioned it. They bring

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Speaker 6: he's throwing for over ten thousand yards, seventy nine touchdowns,

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Speaker 6: twenty five interceptions, top two. The new receivers are back.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned they bringing Mario Williams from South Carolina. When

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Speaker 6: and you're banking on the talent.

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Speaker 6: No, he was the game Cocks starting running back. He

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Speaker 6: was their leading rusher, and now he's coming to Memphis

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Speaker 6: vetteran offensive line. The offense is gonna hum. They're already

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Speaker 6: six in the country. They'll probably be even better this year. Yes,

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Speaker 6: the defense has to get better. They have to take

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Speaker 6: he led the team and tackle sax fumbles. He does

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Speaker 6: it all. They need to get a better pass rush

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Speaker 6: that'll help out the secondary. That's the key to this

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Speaker 6: they're gonna.

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Speaker 4: Win the event.

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Speaker 6: They should win the American which is why I'm betting

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Speaker 6: I think they cruise. I like them plus seven hundred

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Speaker 4: One hundred and twenty fourth in past defense last year

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Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty first and tackling per Pro Football Focus.

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Speaker 4: And my major issue here in terms of their upside

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Speaker 4: South Florida, UTSA, and Tulane. Let me bring you in here, Stuck.

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Speaker 4: What are your thoughts overall on the Tigers to break

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a really high floor because they should

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Speaker 2: worried about, just close game regression. Last year. If you look,

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Speaker 2: five of those games. There were minus fifty total net

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Speaker 2: That makes them an extremely intriguing group of five team money.

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Speaker 2: They got all the money to two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: That's huge. So what does that lead to? Brought in

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Speaker 2: more reliant on the linebacker position. I know mentioned Martin

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Speaker 2: bring in Grimes from Oklahoma, you bring in a couple

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Speaker 2: should be awesome assuming Hennigan stays healthy. There's no quarterback

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Speaker 2: depth here. I I do want to watch the offense line.

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Speaker 2: It's something I want to watch early because there's gonna

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Speaker 2: there's likely going to be five new guys in five

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Speaker 2: new spots this year. So I project eight point nine

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Speaker 2: win totals about over nine and a half juice. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so I'm pretty close. But they are my pick win

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Speaker 4: If you're not going with Memphis, then perhaps we can

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Speaker 4: talk a few listeners into Tulane eleven and three last year,

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Speaker 4: eight and zero in the AAC. Their win total at

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Speaker 4: fifteen to one in his last sixteen regular season AAC games.

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Speaker 4: He departs an absolute legend. He's replaced by a rising

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Speaker 4: for some Roll, who is a co DC at Tulane

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Speaker 4: All right, let's get into personnel here. Michael Pratt gone.

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Speaker 4: But what's interesting is, you know, because of injuries and

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Speaker 4: offensive coordinator Joe Kratick had turned Gunner Watson into a

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Speaker 4: With Thompson, Mario Williams from USC, Chez Preston from Alabama

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Speaker 4: get them both out of the portal lots of like

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Speaker 4: on offense. Defense is where things get a little bit interesting.

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Speaker 4: But they had building blocks with Pat Jenkins on the

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Speaker 4: I like what they can potentially do in the box.

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Speaker 4: going to flip one way or the other. Cal brand

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Speaker 6: Surprised in the slightest if this team wins the conference.

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Speaker 4: UTSA. The Roadrunners nine to four last year, seven and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Eddie lead Marburger just disrespectful, not even mentioning

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: What happens to this team. The good news is that

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Speaker 2: could be favored in eleven games. I project eight point three.

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Speaker 2: Stay away from me. I do like the point that

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Speaker 2: there additionally. But yeah, some of the things, just on defense,

435
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Speaker 2: some of the off the field things worry me a

436
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Speaker 2: bit about the road Runners and meet Meat.

437
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Speaker 6: Maybe yeah, I'm gonna stay way too, you know you

438
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,679
Speaker 6: mentioned it first of all. Just massive shout out to

439
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 6: doctor Frank Harris after you know, just a wonderful decade

440
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 6: in San Antonio. He will be missed for sure. I

441
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,159
Speaker 6: don't know who this quarterback will be. I agree with

442
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,639
Speaker 6: Stucky with the the Eddie Lee mar Mar Burger slander

443
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 6: is unacceptable here.

444
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Speaker 4: But whoever does win the.

445
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Speaker 6: Job should have three running backs. You know, I expect

446
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,439
Speaker 6: them to lean on the run early. You mentioned if

447
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,479
Speaker 6: Clark's healthier, No, that would obviously be huge. Cardinas at

448
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Speaker 6: tight end.

449
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Speaker 4: You guys you know Stuck.

450
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Speaker 6: You mentioned Trey morgro into Texas, which was which is

451
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 6: a big loss from a talent perspective, but safety for

452
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,359
Speaker 6: Shad Wisdom has been the heart and soul of this

453
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Speaker 6: team for at least the last four years. He was

454
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Speaker 6: basically the doctor Frank Harris of this defense, where I

455
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Speaker 6: think losing him at in that secondary is massive. He

456
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,119
Speaker 6: was just he did everything. He was such a leader

457
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 6: for them on and off the field. So that's another

458
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 6: big loss. He just said to me, Mike, go through

459
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 6: and pick every over under in this conference. Yeah, they

460
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,040
Speaker 6: probably went nine games just given the schedule, so I

461
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,919
Speaker 6: don't hate the over eight and a half. Look, but

462
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Speaker 6: I know a last year is dock. You made fun

463
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Speaker 6: of me for basically just taking the over of the

464
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 6: first six teams in the conference. So I'm trying not

465
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 6: to do that this year. So I have to pick

466
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Speaker 6: my spots. I already did it with Memphis. I have

467
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 6: two more coming up, so I'm going to just pass

468
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Speaker 6: on the ETSA one.

469
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Speaker 4: I have a feeling another one's coming up here. Us

470
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Speaker 4: f the Bulls seven and six last year, four and

471
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Speaker 4: four in conference. The win total sets at seven or

472
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 4: seven and a half, seven to one to win the

473
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 4: American twenty to one to make a college football playoff

474
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,120
Speaker 4: veer and shoot to the rescue shows up. They go

475
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,159
Speaker 4: from one to eleven in the Jeff Scott era to

476
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 4: turning it around winning their bowl game going away in

477
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 4: a shutout Overseer QS. And Byron Brown just absolutely blew

478
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,400
Speaker 4: up in a shootout loss to Memphis on the road.

479
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 4: He had four hundred and fifty seven yards and five

480
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 4: touchdowns twelve tds in his final four games, and he

481
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 4: carved up as I mentioned QS in that bowl blowout.

482
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Speaker 4: He was the only I mean, let's put this in perspective.

483
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 4: Brown joined Heisman Trophy winner Jane Daniels as the only

484
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,360
Speaker 4: player in college football last year to post three thousand

485
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 4: passing yards and over eight hundred rushing yards in the season.

486
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Speaker 4: So now when you look at ken, this offense continue

487
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 4: to grow. USF ranks top ten nationally in returning production.

488
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Speaker 4: His wide receiver Sean Atkins is back nay kwan Wright

489
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 4: and Bowling Green transfer to Ron Keiths should split carries

490
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 4: three or four starters on the line, depending on what

491
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,719
Speaker 4: your threshold for starts are, So all of it is

492
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 4: there for it to pop. Defensively, they have experience on

493
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Speaker 4: all three levels. Tackle Rashad Cheney, linebacker DJ Gordon, the

494
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 4: fourth corners Amarius Brown and Tavi an Ward, all of them.

495
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Speaker 4: I mean, let's let's see if they can take even

496
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Speaker 4: a half step forward, because this offense, I think in

497
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Speaker 4: year two, this is really when I was expecting the

498
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 4: veer and shoot to blossom in this offense under goalish.

499
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 4: So we'll see if it matters enough for them to

500
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 4: be let's call it the eighty eighth defense in the country,

501
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 4: because if they can flirt with that ninetieth threshold, I think,

502
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 4: really really big things are possible. But we know the

503
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 4: defensive coordinator, Todd Orlando, He's going to go for broke,

504
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 4: He's going to blitz, he's going to hope for Havoc.

505
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,719
Speaker 4: They cracked the top fifty, and HAVOC last year they

506
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 4: took it away twenty four times, which was thirteenth in

507
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 4: the country. They just need more of that. So when

508
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 4: I look at the schedule, for all that potential upside

509
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 4: at Alabama, that's loss. We'll call the game against Miami

510
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 4: Hurricanes loss at two lane. All before the end of September.

511
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 4: So selfishly, what I'm hoping is that they go over

512
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 4: in that three stretch and that the weekly against the

513
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 4: spread numbers start to come down a little bit, and

514
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 4: then I can start hammering them when they get into

515
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 4: conference play in earnest, because then they got Memphis at

516
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 4: home on October eleventh, but they could easily win their

517
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 4: final six games UAB at FAU, Navy attro at Tulsa,

518
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 4: at Rice. This happened last year with San Jose State,

519
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,959
Speaker 4: where I was like, they're winning out in the regular season.

520
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 4: I smell something very similar cooking here. So, like I said, selfishly,

521
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 4: maybe a fade job on the Bulls early and then

522
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Speaker 4: just ride them roll those winnings over week to week,

523
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 4: because I think they're going to steamroll some of these

524
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 4: teams that have a lot of questions on the defensive

525
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 4: side of the ball, where the Bulls have every single

526
00:24:58,640 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 4: answer to the test.

527
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Speaker 6: What do you yeah, this is the other team. I'm

528
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 6: super Bowl Shawn. I love over seven and a half

529
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Speaker 6: and I mentioned I'm taking Memphis to make the playoff

530
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 6: at plus seven to fifty. I'm also betting South Florida

531
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 6: to win the American at plus six fifty as kind

532
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 6: of a hedge opportunity for that Memphis if the defense

533
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 6: doesn't click and you're getting South Florida at a great

534
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 6: number at plus six fifty. You mentioned it, the offense

535
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 6: is gonna cook. Not only do you see what this

536
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 6: offense did when Alex Golish came over from Tennessee, we

537
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 6: also saw the Tennessee offense take a massive step back,

538
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 6: and I think, you know, sure that's whose Joe Milton stinks.

539
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 6: But they also lost their offensive coordinator. I was gonna

540
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 6: go by them Brown for the My Guy Award, but

541
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 6: instead I'm gonna go with his receiver, Shawn Adkins, who

542
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 6: you know, Brown was a little too obvious, but Shawn

543
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 6: Adkins was his leading receiver from last year. He should

544
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,919
Speaker 6: have another monster year. He had ninety two catches, second

545
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 6: in the conference over one thousand yards seven touchdowns on

546
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty targets. He had just five drops

547
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 6: all season. He avers eleven point four yards per reception

548
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 6: as a slot receiver, and he led the conference in

549
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 6: missed tackles force. Oh and by the way, he's five

550
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 6: to ten one hundred and seventy pounds. Just this little

551
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 6: white dude five to ten might be generous when you

552
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 6: watch him play. He is tiny, tiny, tiny, He's awesome.

553
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 6: He has so much fun to watch. So I love

554
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 6: Atkins and Simmons four their five offensive liner back. This

555
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 6: offense should roll out of bed and outscore eight of

556
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Speaker 6: its opponents.

557
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 4: And then you mentioned the schedule.

558
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Speaker 6: I mean they play Alabama, who they almost beat last

559
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 6: season and now doesn't have the next saban. They play Miami,

560
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 6: who absolutely loves getting upset by teams that they're better then,

561
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 6: so I'm not ruling that one out. And then yeah, two,

562
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 6: Lane and Memphis all in their first six games, So

563
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 6: you should know early if this BET's gonna cash or not,

564
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 6: because as you said, they're gonna they should win their

565
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 6: final six games, So you need to get two early

566
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 6: and then you'll know best case scenario for me. You

567
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 6: have Memphis for South Florida in the conference championship game.

568
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 6: We've been talking about how these tiers. There's four of

569
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 6: them in the tier. I think all four of these

570
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,199
Speaker 6: teams have similar upsides. So give me the plus six

571
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 6: to fifty number.

572
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Speaker 2: All right?

573
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Speaker 4: The AAC Julian Edelman has I was Chili running hot.

574
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 4: Are you just as optimistic about this offense being super

575
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 4: elite by G five standards? Stucky?

576
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 2: It'll be very good. But I mean every year, this

577
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 2: I know is bullish from every AAC team. I guess

578
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 2: I didn't do it this year.

579
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 4: I only picked two.

580
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 2: So if so far you have two futures, were four

581
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 2: teams in. I think we're getting a little too ahead

582
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 2: of ourselves with USF Golish has the team headed in

583
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 2: the right direction. The offense is great, The recruiting is great.

584
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: The returning production for this year is also great, the

585
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,479
Speaker 2: top twenty five both offensive and defensive returning production. Brown

586
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 2: was awesome last year. He does still have some deficiencies,

587
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 2: turned it over a bit too much, has to improve

588
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: his deep ball. But let's look at this team. You

589
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 2: just went through Miami. They might win Blabama. They were

590
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 2: close like all right. So last year they won six games.

591
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 2: Six regular season games. They beat Florida A and M.

592
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 2: They were out gained in that game. They beat Rice.

593
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 2: Daniels got hurt down in the third quarter down six.

594
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 2: In that game, Navy was rotating quarterbacks. Yukon. They played

595
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 2: the powerhouse of Yukon. They won by three. They took

596
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: the lead late in the fourth. Yukon lost fumbles on

597
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 2: back to back possessions down three in that game, Temple,

598
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 2: they beat Temple by four, four turnovers. Charlotte backup quarterback,

599
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 2: and those teams the five teams that they beat, They

600
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: only beat five FBS teams last year. They finished twenty

601
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 2: and forty one. That was their wins last year. This defense,

602
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 2: it should be a little bit better. You know, Ben

603
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 2: Knox returns from injury. They add some you know, some

604
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 2: sec guys in the secondary. But they had a long

605
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 2: way to go. This defense was dreadful last year, you know,

606
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 2: and they had the number one group of five recruiting class.

607
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 2: Like I said, goalish is getting them there. But you

608
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 2: got to remember that before Week four of last year,

609
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: they had lost eighteen straight versus FBS teams. They had

610
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 2: lost twenty nine straight on the road before Week five

611
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 2: last year. So they're deeper, they're more athletic. They're getting there,

612
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 2: But I think we're getting a little bit too ahead

613
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Speaker 4: All right, let's do a palette cleanser here with a

622
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623
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 4: nine ten wins. That's the ECU Pirates. They went two

624
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 4: and ten last year, one in seven in conference. Their

625
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 4: win total though interestingly set at six and a half.

626
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 4: So maybe I spoke too soon in terms of people

627
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628
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630
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631
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632
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633
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 4: to ten in a loss they lost by three to two,

634
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 4: Lane three to Charlotte seven at Rice. You win two

635
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,680
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636
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,320
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637
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,680
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638
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 4: the run. This is from Bill Conley over at ESPN.

639
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 4: The Pirate ranks second nationally in rushing success rate allowed.

640
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 4: Their DC, Blake Harrell gets almost entire his entire defensive lineback,

641
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 4: including tackles Deonta Johnson and Chad Stevens. They combined for

642
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 4: nineteen tackles for loss and twenty five run stops. Linebacker

643
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 4: returning Mike Edwards the third's excellent one of three transfers click.

644
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 4: I think in their front seven they're going to be fine.

645
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 4: The question though, at quarterback, can Jake Garcia or Michigan

646
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Speaker 4: State's Caiden Hauser be the guy whoever it is they

647
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 4: need to reverse what happened last year because it was

648
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Speaker 4: a future offense. They had no pop, they couldn't get

649
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 4: explosive plays, and that alvis obviously cost them in multiple

650
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 4: close losses because of their defense and because of the

651
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 4: question marks on offense. Just on a week to week

652
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 4: basis as a team that I'm always going to investigate

653
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 4: their total look to play them under. I also lean

654
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 4: under on six and a half. I do think that

655
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 4: this is a quality coaching staff led by a guy

656
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 4: who's won a lot of games for ECU, and last

657
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 4: year I think they just you know, they had a

658
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 4: bum rap. I think they were much closer to four

659
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 4: and eight team than a two to ten team. That

660
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 4: being said, six and a half I think is too

661
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 4: much on the bounce back given their question marks on offense.

662
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 4: I'll go to you first, stuck in terms of what

663
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 4: you're seeing.

664
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, I actually lean I lean over here. I

665
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: project six point nine. It said, much easier schedule than

666
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 2: last year. I want to see how the quarterback battle

667
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 2: plays out. You got a couple of powerful guys battling out.

668
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 4: Do you have a preference about who wins it? It

669
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 4: would have a potential higher ceiling.

670
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 2: I think.

671
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 4: No.

672
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm pretty close on it, but I just

673
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: want to like read more about both, read out the

674
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: battle goes. I think I would prefer Houser just from

675
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: things that I've been here recently. But I thought going

676
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: in I was gonna want Garcia. So anyway, it's a

677
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 2: different Garcia. Last year it was flinning Garcia and neither

678
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 2: of them could complete a pass. Seven touchdowns, fourteen interceptions.

679
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 2: Last year, this offense was dreadful. They only averaged seventeen

680
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: points per game. Last year. You you mentioned it. They

681
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: lost three games where they didn't allow more than thirteen points.

682
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 2: So the D was good despite always being on the field.

683
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 2: So the offense can just get a little bit better,

684
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 2: then that'll help out the defense. The worst success rate

685
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 2: in FBS last year. So the D is gonna be

686
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 2: good against the run again, which is important against like

687
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: the bottom half of the league. You know, you're gonna

688
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 2: play Army, and you're gonna play some other teams that

689
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: want to run the ball. You also play Navy, you

690
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: play Charlotte. So I think that the you know, one

691
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 2: lockdown corner, I want to see what happens to the

692
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 2: other corner. Spot safety. Nash playing some cornerback in camp,

693
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: which worries me a bit. But they're gonna be making

694
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: a change on offense, going more fast paced. You know,

695
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 2: you have a guy from Ole Miss. It's going to

696
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 2: be more air rate ish. So it's a big jump

697
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 2: from where the offense looked last year. Got to find

698
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 2: a new quarterback, you know, So I lean over six

699
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: and a half. If you're going to take a flyer

700
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: in the AAC, it's I think it's with ECU, you know,

701
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: if you can find I would prefer like a twenty

702
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 2: to one. But the schedule sets up really well, and

703
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: then you're just buying that one of these power for

704
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: quarterbacks hits the defense. You know, you lose a couple

705
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 2: important starters, especially on the back end, but you know

706
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 2: it should still be they should still be pretty solid.

707
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 2: Can the offense get just any better? I mean, you

708
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 2: have a coordinator change the quarterback play, can't get any worse.

709
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 2: So I lean over, but probably staying away. They only

710
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 2: have one if you look at their schedule, they have

711
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: we would say one unwinnable game, which is at Liberty,

712
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 2: which it's not totally unwinnable. Their schedules super easy. But

713
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: in their final six games, I have them, you know,

714
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 2: three coin flips, favored by a touchdown, twice favored by

715
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,919
Speaker 2: two touchdowns. So if they can hit the ground running,

716
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 2: it's Norfolk at ODU before that app State game. You know,

717
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 2: they host UTSA. The schedule is extremely easy. They play

718
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 2: the five worst in the league, they avoid Memphis, Tulane

719
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 2: and USF and they host UTSA from the top four.

720
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 2: Can't get much easier than that in the AAC. So

721
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 2: I'm a little bullish on ECU this year. Can they

722
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 2: just get anything on offense? I mean, just absolutely annak

723
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 2: last year.

724
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 4: I mentioned at the top that there's half teams littered

725
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 4: across this conference. This is one of the half teams

726
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 4: where clearly they bring in potentially a top three defense

727
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 4: in the entire conference that should be able to carry them.

728
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 4: I think Stuck makes a great point. You have time

729
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 4: for this offense to gel. There's schematic change, there's personnel

730
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 4: changes about who's leading it offensively at quarterback. Does this

731
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 4: team give you any interest or are you just gonna

732
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 4: sit back and wait to see you know what the

733
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 4: month of September looks like? I MLO, Yeah, I.

734
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 6: Mean I think this number is kind of crazy. They

735
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 6: were two and ten last year and now they have

736
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 6: a win total of six and a half. I look

737
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 6: through every team, this is the biggest expected from a

738
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 6: win total perspective. This is the biggest expected jump in

739
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 6: the country by far. I went through every wind total.

740
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 6: This is a four and a half win increase. I

741
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 6: couldn't even find a team that had a three and

742
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 6: a half win increase in the market.

743
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 4: So I get it.

744
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 6: The defense was great last year, but they returned just

745
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 6: four starters, so you know, well, they will they be

746
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 6: as good.

747
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 4: I'm not sure the offense was horrific.

748
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 6: They you know, Houser and Garcia is sure, I have

749
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 6: power five. I mean, Garcia is on his third team.

750
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 6: You guys even said, you're like, oh, well, I'm not

751
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 6: sure which one gets to job. It's not like they

752
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 6: have some transfer that's like, oh my god. They just

753
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 6: brought in a five win quarterback, John David Baker comes in.

754
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 4: He was the co cl miss. Yeah. I think the

755
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 4: offense will be better.

756
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

757
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 6: Honestly, the four and a half win increase basically only

758
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 6: comes down to the schedule. You guys said they played

759
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 6: five team that won at least nine games last year,

760
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 6: including Michigan. Now they avoid Memphis two lane in South Florida.

761
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 6: Their last seven games are against teams that missed the Bowl.

762
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 6: So like I understand the number, I get it. I

763
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 6: think it's a little crazy and I just can't get there.

764
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 6: So I actually lean under six and a half. I

765
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 6: don't necessarily want to play it. I'm wearing my ECU

766
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 6: shirt just to show the fans from Greenville that I

767
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 6: do love the Pirates, but I just cannot get to

768
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 6: this number. Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping they take a

769
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 6: big step forward to we used to have so much

770
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 6: fun with this this team under Hoan Aaylor. So I'll

771
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 6: I'm rooting for them, but I can't get this to

772
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 6: the six and a half.

773
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 2: By the way, we were talking about old players. The

774
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 2: ECU punter Luke Larson is thirty three. He's oldest player

775
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 2: and f but fbst to keep that in mind.

776
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:50,479
Speaker 4: So let's talk about army.

777
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: You will not let, you will not pride, you will

778
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 2: learn by the numbers.

779
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 4: I will thank you. They went six and six last year,

780
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 4: their win total set at five and a half, twenty

781
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 4: five to one to the conference in year one, moving

782
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 4: up from the Independent ranks one hundred and fifty to

783
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 4: one to make the collegeo Ball Playoff. So for perspective,

784
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 4: that's six and six year. Last year they had Roady's

785
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 4: at UTSA, at Syracuse BC at home, Troy at LSU,

786
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 4: all by mid season, so no kidding, they got off

787
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 4: to an awful start, and then on top of everything else,

788
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 4: the gun option didn't work. Drew Thatcher and Matt Drinkle

789
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 4: are gone. Cody Worrel is the full time OC now,

790
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 4: so we're back to the traditional triple option look from

791
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 4: Army with the quarterback under center. The offensive line returns

792
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 4: five players who all had some degree of starting experience,

793
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 4: and Bryson Dally is back at quarterback as well as

794
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 4: Kanye Udo at fullback. Daly's a big boy. You look

795
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 4: at this guy. You're, you know, picturing quarterbacks with all

796
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 4: of their gear and their arm sleeves and their advisors

797
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 4: trying to look like Patrick Mahomes. Not this kid. He's

798
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 4: got no neck. He's two hundred and twenty pounds. He

799
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 4: is the right guy to get this Army offense running again,

800
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 4: and he was last year because they won their last

801
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 4: four games to finish the twenty twenty three season and

802
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 4: at one hundred and ten yards per game rushing in

803
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 4: that straight stretch. Now, Nate Woodi's defense was solid last

804
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 4: year because they didn't get gouged by big plays. They

805
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 4: finished top forty in red zone defense. That's their recipe.

806
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 4: The issue here is simple. They only return three players

807
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 4: who played over two hundred and fifty snaps last season.

808
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 4: But back to the optimism, the schedule sets up for

809
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 4: momentum Lehigh at FIU, Rice Temple at Tulsa to open

810
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 4: the season. No two lane, no Memphis. That could be

811
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 4: very easily a four and one start for a team

812
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,919
Speaker 4: that if you dial back into October of last year,

813
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 4: it looked like everything was falling apart the offensive, you know,

814
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 4: rebuild was not working. So this year I am bullish

815
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 4: on Army. I'm going to go over. I think they

816
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 4: get to six or seven wins. I think they're back

817
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 4: in a bowl. I think they're running the way a

818
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 4: service academy should, and I like daily a lot of

819
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 4: quarterback stuck at Utiza at the beginning. Army Navy making

820
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 4: offensive changes Navy in a big way. We're going to

821
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 4: talk about soon in terms of the Delaware wing t

822
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 4: but let's talk about Army right now. What are your thoughts? Yea.

823
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 2: Also look out for this kid, Jake Rendina at full back,

824
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 2: who you know, because they lost a couple of bruisers

825
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 2: and he really impressed me in their spring game. So yeah,

826
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 2: last year, what they tried to do, they tried to

827
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 2: go to a more gun option. They were using zone

828
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,760
Speaker 2: blocking schemes, they were using a mesh point, the wide

829
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 2: receivers were cracking back. It all didn't work. Mainly, you

830
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,919
Speaker 2: can't run the mesh point. You can't have your wide

831
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 2: receivers cracking back if you can't throw the ball, and

832
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 2: defenses just didn't respect it. So what is that really doing?

833
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 2: So this year they're keeping the zone blocking seams, which

834
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: actually worked out well for them, and they're going back

835
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 2: to a more traditional under center running attack and it's

836
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 2: going to be what you're used to seeing at Army,

837
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 2: which I love. You know, if Daily can stay healthy,

838
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: they're going to ask a lot of him. I think

839
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 2: that this offense can give some of the defenses in

840
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 2: this conference trouble. I am very there's a couple of

841
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 2: things that really worry me about. So I don't I don't.

842
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 2: I never bet Service Academy win totals because I can

843
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 2: you know they're gonna play other Service academies. They also

844
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 2: can win or lose to anybody on their schedule, and

845
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 2: I just prefer to bet them on a game the

846
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 2: game basis, which historically I have been okay at now

847
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 2: I'm worried about the secondary. But I look like, do

848
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: they face I look at their schedule. I think Zeno

849
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 2: at ua B and by the way, Army should run

850
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 2: wild on UAB. But I think Zeno at UAV is

851
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 2: the only quarterback they face that was on that is,

852
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 2: you know, the same quarterback on his team from last year.

853
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 4: He'll just throw five yard hitches and you know he

854
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 4: lost Palmer.

855
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 2: He lost Palmer too, which is he was there. He

856
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 2: was like their only deep threat. But yeah, that's Dink

857
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 2: and Dunk City at UAB. Yeah, eleven of their twelve

858
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 2: opponents a new new quarterbacks. So yeah, I mean, now

859
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 2: I would lean over. I like what they're doing. They'd

860
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 2: lose a lot, but this is a team that always reloads,

861
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 2: like when you look at an Army. When you look

862
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 2: at the Service academies, heah, they don't have much learn

863
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 2: returning production, especially like on the offensive line. Usually they

864
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: have like upper classmen are ready to step in, so

865
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 2: the returning production numbers aren't as important as they are

866
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: for some other teams when you're talking about service academies.

867
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 2: And yeah, the schedule is easy, but I will say

868
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 2: it's definitely worth mentioning beuse I have them like seven

869
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 2: coin flip games their road league games or FAU Temple

870
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 2: Tulsa in North Texas. It's pretty easy, but significantly harder

871
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: than it has been. Right when they weren't in a league,

872
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 2: their schedule was very, very easy. And you're talking about

873
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 2: like a couple of games against Bucknell and UMass and

874
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 2: a couple other non FBS teams, So their schedule is

875
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 2: definitely harder than it has been. So how can they

876
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 2: hold up? Can daily hold up? You know, can their

877
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 2: offensive line stay healthy. That's some of the things that

878
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 2: do concern me a bit. And then the last thing

879
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: is the kicking game. It's probably I just said I

880
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 2: have seven coin flips. They can be to lose to anybody.

881
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 2: Their kicking in the spring game was an absolute abomination.

882
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 2: They couldn't. I mean, I think they want to of

883
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 2: eight or something and like missing from like thirty yards

884
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 2: and an absolute mess. It was a really good kicker

885
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 2: and punner. Excited for this Army traditional option to be

886
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: back with some more zone blocking and yeah, I'll be

887
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,760
Speaker 2: looking forward to betting them many times throughout the season.

888
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 2: Pass for me.

889
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 4: I agree. The field goal kicking is a big problem stuck.

890
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 4: It is something that will keep me up at night

891
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 4: because they want to shrink games down. They want it

892
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 4: to be a one possession. They want to go ahead

893
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 4: and win close games, so to give away points, to

894
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,879
Speaker 4: not feel confident at the end of games, to rely

895
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 4: on a kicker even inside of thirty five yards is

896
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 4: a problem. They turn every game into a coin flip,

897
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 4: so like it's impossible.

898
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 6: I've always just really struggled finding edges on Service academies

899
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 6: because they tend to eliminate the edges just but the

900
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 6: way they play. I'll say the same thing with Navy.

901
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 6: I just I really don't have a strong feel for

902
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 6: this team. They're hard to figure out. The switching on offense.

903
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 6: The books are kind of telling you that Army's going

904
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 6: to go.

905
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 2: Six and six.

906
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a pass for me too. I will now

907
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 4: turn to the Rice Els six and seven. Last year

908
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 4: four and four lost to Texas State in the first

909
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 4: responders Bowlder win total set six and a half or

910
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 4: seven in the market the odds to win the conference

911
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 4: eighteen to one, eighty to one to make the college

912
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 4: Football Playoff. Finally, after all these G five previews, continuity

913
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 4: plus five and a half at the netsar best in

914
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:22,439
Speaker 4: the G five. Seventh year of Mike Bloomgren at head coach,

915
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 4: fourth year of the OC, Marcus Tuiyasa SOPO, Brian Smith

916
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 4: back as a defensive coordinator for the seventh year, back

917
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 4: to back Bowl games. Offense pops last year, nearly getting

918
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 4: too thirty points per game, but we say goodbye to

919
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 4: Luke McCaffrey at wide receiver as well as any real

920
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 4: skill position player with experience other than Dean Connors at

921
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 4: running backs. Some of these guys have snaps. They just

922
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 4: haven't been fully entrenched starters. The offensive line has three

923
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 4: coming back there, including both tackles the headline here for

924
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 4: the offense. EJ. Warner in at quarterback more than six

925
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 4: thousand career passing yards. He put Temple on his back.

926
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 4: He was all that they had offensively. Think about this.

927
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 4: In his last five starts at Temple, he averaged three

928
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty two passing yards per game with sixteen touchdowns,

929
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 4: So he did everything for them. They do not need

930
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 4: him to be a one man show and to throw

931
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 4: at forty five times with this offensive line in Dean Conners.

932
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 4: The defense has seven starters back with experienced all three

933
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,959
Speaker 4: levels of the defense, one of the top in terms

934
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 4: of G five experience returning on that side of the ball.

935
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 4: Totally reasonable to project them to be a top seventy

936
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 4: five defense if it all goes right and the schedules

937
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 4: workable without any pockets of surefire losses at Houston, a

938
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 4: month later at Tulane, three weeks after that at Memphis,

939
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 4: and they closed the year at home against USF. I'll

940
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 4: start here with you, Stuckey. In terms of the owls,

941
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,240
Speaker 4: I know that what they did last year with Daniels,

942
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 4: I felt like they were close. He gets hurt in

943
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 4: some of those games. They don't quite get over the

944
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 4: hump in terms of getting to eight or nine wins

945
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 4: for a season that potentially had had that ridden all

946
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 4: over it. Maybe one of the best in rice football

947
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 4: since the Jared Dillar days. I've gone back and forth

948
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 4: on this, so I am going to need your help

949
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 4: in terms of where you have them slotted in your projection,

950
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 4: because with so much coming back, if EJ. Warner Pops,

951
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 4: shouldn't this be a sleeper to potentially get to the

952
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 4: AAC title game.

953
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 2: I don't see. I don't think they have the upside there.

954
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 2: They've been so predictable if you remove COVID since Bloomgen

955
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 2: got there, removed the COVID year, they've in seven consecutive

956
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 2: years they went for the last six they went one, two, three,

957
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 2: four five, and then last year won six games. One

958
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 2: win every single year, So that would lead you to

959
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 2: believe they this year they win seven, which the win

960
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 2: totals over six NAP chews to the over I project

961
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 2: six point nine. So I'm there. But in league play,

962
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 2: I think what limits their upside is they don't get

963
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 2: Tulsa or Temple and they face the top four in

964
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 2: the league. So I mean you mentioned at Memphis, I

965
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 2: don't think they're winning that game. They play Utsa as well,

966
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 2: then they're at Tulane after that, so I can't see them.

967
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 2: You know, there's USF. I think that their win total

968
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 2: probably comes down to their final two games at UEB

969
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 2: and home against USF which are close to coin flip

970
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:10,720
Speaker 2: games in my opinion, and Ken like Connor stay healthy.

971
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 2: Ken like the defensive lines stay healthy because depth is

972
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 2: really questionable there. You know, Warner comes in, you lose Daniels.

973
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 2: Warner comes in. Liked Warner at Temple. He didn't have

974
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 2: much to work with. We'll get to the als in

975
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 2: a minute. But how do you you know, how do

976
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 2: you replace McCaffrey. He was absolutely massive. You need an

977
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 2: outfit to step up. He had six hundred more receiving

978
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 2: yards than the number two had thirteen touchdowns the rest

979
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 2: of the team at sixteen total. So yeah, I project

980
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 2: six point nine. So I'm pretty close to market here.

981
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: It's a lot of winnable games on this schedule. I

982
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: think they have a pretty low floor, or I should

983
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 2: say a pretty high floor. But yeah, I want to

984
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 2: see I left tackle, defensive tackle, alpha wide receiver, cornerback

985
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 2: number two. Some of the questions I after this team.

986
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, I project six point nine. It's easy overall schedule,

987
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:06,240
Speaker 2: but a tough AC slate as far as the ability

988
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 2: to make that leap as a Sleeperson to do face

989
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 2: the top four two lane of Memphis on the road

990
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 2: so pass for me on Rice.

991
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 4: I will take the.

992
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 2: Over over in the future, over in another future.

993
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, not a futures and over. I just got

994
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 4: on the last stuck.

995
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 2: Everyone's going yeah, but I can't shit on you.

996
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 6: I really like EJ.

997
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 2: Warner.

998
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 4: I watched a lot of Temple.

999
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 6: My best friend gos to Temple, so I just tortured

1000
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:33,959
Speaker 6: myself and watched a lot of their games.

1001
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 4: He's got a lot of zip. I like the way

1002
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 4: he throws the ball. And I think JT.

1003
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 6: Daniels just we saw it like seven different schools. I

1004
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 6: just don't think he was as good as everyone thought.

1005
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 6: He just never really replicated his freshman year. So I'm

1006
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 6: not even sure they're downgrading.

1007
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 4: They might.

1008
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 6: I would probably take Warn over Daniels at this point,

1009
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 6: So I'm really excited to see what he does outside

1010
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 6: of Temple. You mentioned losing McCaffrey is is brutal, Like

1011
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 6: they won't be able to replace him. They're gonna need

1012
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 6: a monster year from Dean Connors. But he showed he's

1013
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 6: dynamic in the run game. He's also really good out

1014
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 6: of the backfield as a receiver. He had a thousand

1015
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 6: yards from screwmans ten total touchdowns, So hopefully Connors gives

1016
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 6: them a room to kind of work in some more

1017
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 6: receivers and the defense returns a ton led by Josh

1018
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,879
Speaker 6: Pearcy and Coleman Coco. The past defense was excellent last year.

1019
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 6: I think the past defense will be really good again,

1020
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 6: which is what you need in this conference. We've gone

1021
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 6: through these teams and kind of the focus on most

1022
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 6: of these teams this quarterback play, passing offense. So I

1023
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 6: definitely want that to be the strength if I'm in

1024
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 6: a better team. And you know, they just need to

1025
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 6: create more havoc and force more turnovers. And you guys

1026
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 6: mentioned the schedule you have, Yeah, at Houston, at Memphis

1027
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 6: and at Tulane are probably they're.

1028
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 4: More than likely losses.

1029
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 6: And to be fair, they did beat Houston last year.

1030
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 6: Then they should get Charlotte, Sam Houston, Texas, Southern Yukon

1031
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,439
Speaker 6: and Navy. So they get South Florida and UTSA at home,

1032
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 6: and then if they can get one of those two

1033
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 6: home games against South Florida and UTSA, and then they

1034
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 6: can get one of the kind of coin flippy games

1035
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 6: against Army and UAB And you know we're down on

1036
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 6: UAB at on this podcast. So I mean to me

1037
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 6: that seven wins. If they get their their winnable games

1038
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 6: and then can get two of the four coin flips,

1039
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 6: that's seven. And I mean, Dock you mentioned the trend

1040
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 6: the way you can go and the mays you can

1041
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 6: book them for seven anyway, So I will take the

1042
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:14,439
Speaker 6: over six and a half.

1043
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 4: Here. We turned to North Texas five and seven last

1044
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 4: year in the overall three and five in the AAC.

1045
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 4: Their win total at five and a half odds to

1046
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 4: win the American twenty five to one, one hundred and

1047
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 4: fifty to one to make the twelve team college football playoff.

1048
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 4: Last year, you bring in a new head coach, a

1049
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 4: new identity, and all they do is produce a three

1050
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,280
Speaker 4: thousand yard passer, one thousand yard rusher, and a thousand

1051
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 4: yard receiver for the first time in school history. In

1052
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 4: the same season they finished sixth in total offense. The

1053
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 4: question now, they're probably going to go even faster. They

1054
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 4: were one of the fastest teams in a per play

1055
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 4: per game kind of basis last year. To go in

1056
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 4: with the radio communications and the helmet this year, does

1057
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 4: that mean three or four extra plays? Probably for a

1058
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 4: team like UNC. But can they keep the good times

1059
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 4: rolling with Chandler Morris at quarterback. He should fit given

1060
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 4: his air raid history, but lots of injuries and not

1061
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 4: meeting expectations in the past for him and Chandler Rodgers

1062
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 4: played at such a high level, it's a shame that

1063
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 4: they lose him. He had the offense something now. Defensively,

1064
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 4: I mentioned it before half teams all over the place

1065
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 4: in the AAC. This defense was as bad as their

1066
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 4: offense was good. Yes, six starters are back, but do

1067
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 4: I really care because they gave up four hunt and

1068
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 4: seventy six yards per game. They went heavy, heavy in

1069
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:25,879
Speaker 4: the portal to address the secondary. Scored a few big names,

1070
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 4: including Ashim Young from Old Miss to play their star position.

1071
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 4: We talk a lot about not wasting home games on

1072
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 4: winnable spots, while this schedule kind of sets up in

1073
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 4: the right way for the Mean Green They're at SEXISTEC,

1074
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 4: They're at Memphis at UTSA. That's fine. You know they're

1075
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 4: going to save their home games for games that they

1076
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 4: can win. When you look at this, if you want

1077
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 4: to play you know, if they get that win early

1078
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 4: against South Alabama, which is when you want to play

1079
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 4: the Jags, here are there winnables against Steven f Austin,

1080
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 4: against Tulsa, against Army, against ECU and at Temple. But

1081
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 4: the win totals set at five and a half. I

1082
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 4: think that's just about on my number. If anything, maybe

1083
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 4: I lean a little bit towards the under because I'm

1084
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 4: not a huge believer in Morris at quarterback. So that's

1085
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 4: it for me when it comes to the Me and

1086
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 4: Green like this offense was a lot of fun. They're

1087
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 4: my kind of bad quote unquote bad G five team

1088
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 4: where it's like, if you're going to lose a lot

1089
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 4: of games, you may as well do it fast, exciting,

1090
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 4: lots of offense, up and down games. But I think

1091
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 4: they take a baby step backwards on offense and they're

1092
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 4: not taking a major step forward on defense, at least

1093
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 4: in my opinion. What do you think, Stuck, I.

1094
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 2: Show a tiny bit of value numerically on the under

1095
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 2: you mentioned They do face the top three in the league,

1096
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 2: two on the road and that Texas Tech. So if

1097
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 2: they lose those four games. So if you lose at Memphis,

1098
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 2: if you lose at utsa double digit dog, double je dog,

1099
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: at Texas Tech double digit dog, you say you lose

1100
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 2: a two lane, and then you're a touchdown dog at

1101
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 2: South Alabama. You lose those games. It was five games

1102
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 2: and you go six in one and the other seven

1103
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 2: with that defense, I don't know, that's a tough ask. Now,

1104
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 2: with their offense, they could pull off an upset. Even

1105
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,919
Speaker 2: the country was in more one possession games with four

1106
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 2: minutes left in the game last year than North Texas.

1107
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 2: They were in a ton and they came up short

1108
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 2: more often than not. But they're outside the top one

1109
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 2: hundred overall returning production. It's the Rogers and Rogers. It's

1110
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 2: the excuse me, it's the Morris and Morris show. Now

1111
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 2: on offense, I do agree with you that he's a

1112
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 2: better fit for this offense in the Briles offense, but

1113
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 2: can you find a number one receiver you lost Macklin.

1114
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 2: The offensive line is still a concern to me because, look,

1115
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 2: it was the first time in program this year that

1116
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 2: a three thousand yard passer, a thousand yard receiver, thousand

1117
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 2: ard rusher, they're all gone. I do believe the secondary

1118
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 2: will be more talented. I'm not sure that's enough to

1119
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 2: solve all of their defensive issues. So yeah. I also

1120
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 2: the other thing is we just mentioned that we like

1121
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 2: the fit for Morris, but what has happened in the

1122
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 2: last two years, He's been hurt. Oh boy, if he

1123
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 2: gets hurt, it is ova lights out. Stone Jace Ruder

1124
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 2: was like the third string. He moved the linebacker. Stone

1125
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 2: Earl left the program. So your backup, I believe, is

1126
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 2: a kid, true freshman McCollum, who I think won a

1127
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 2: state championship. But I don't think he's ready to be

1128
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 2: the starting quarterback here. So you better hope that that

1129
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 2: offensive line comes together and more stays healthy, which he

1130
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 2: hasn't been able to the last couple of years because

1131
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 2: there's no backup option here.

1132
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had, we had the Zion to Zion move

1133
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,320
Speaker 6: at Jacksonville State and now we go Chandler Chandler at

1134
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 6: North Texas. I leen under here to you know, they

1135
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,760
Speaker 6: lose Rogers, they lose the foreheaded running back monster. Finally,

1136
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 6: we talked about how they they keep all those guys

1137
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 6: and they lose them all at once. With Oscar Adaway

1138
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 6: off to South Carolina, AO a die he going to

1139
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 6: James Madison. They do bring in Zach Evans from Minnesota

1140
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 6: to kind of help fill that void, that running back,

1141
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 6: but they're not going to be able to replace Macklin

1142
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 6: a receiver. He's off to Kentucky. He was so good

1143
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:52,720
Speaker 6: in this offense. Yeah, the defense will probably be probably

1144
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 6: be better in the second season, you know, running this

1145
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 6: three three five scheme, but they had like the worst

1146
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 6: offense in the conference. So even if they're a little better,

1147
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 6: they still have a really long way to go. And

1148
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 6: then yeah, you guys mentioned the schedule at you know,

1149
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 6: South Alabama, Texas, tach Wyoming, Memphis, Tulane at UTSA, Like,

1150
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 6: there's probably six losses right there, so they'd have to win.

1151
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 6: That's even before you get to the coin flips against

1152
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 6: FAU Army ECUs. So they have to basically win every

1153
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 6: coin flip flip game to go over this total. And

1154
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 6: their coin flips for reason, you're gonna win half them

1155
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 6: most likely, so to expect them to basically win every

1156
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 6: game they're not a touchdown underdog in is a big,

1157
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:32,359
Speaker 6: big ask.

1158
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 4: So yeah, I lean under here with them.

1159
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 2: You lean under. I'm proud of you. It's a big

1160
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 2: moment on the AAC podcast history.

1161
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 4: I said the leakst top Heavy about just marking.

1162
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 2: The occasion of your first ever AAC under lean. Let's

1163
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 2: tell you want I'm very sorry.

1164
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm not happy with Stuckey at all to saying that

1165
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: we're doing that.

1166
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 4: Let's talk about FAU, a team that went four and

1167
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 4: eight last year, the Owls, three and five in conference play.

1168
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 4: They win total six and a half. The American thirty

1169
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 4: to one to win. It's two hundred to one to

1170
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 4: make the College Football Playoff. This offense was supposed to

1171
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 4: take a flight last year for the Owls. The only

1172
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 4: thing that took flight was Lejonte Western to go to

1173
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 4: Colorado to play for coach Prime. Their starting center returns.

1174
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 4: That's it. Cam fancher in at quarterback. Never liked him

1175
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 4: at Marshall. We can talk about him if you want,

1176
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 4: but at least I pronounce his name right this year

1177
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 4: on the preseason episode. He is not somebody who I

1178
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:25,720
Speaker 4: think is a plug and play option.

1179
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 2: What did you pronounce it as last year?

1180
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 4: I think Frencher or something like that. I accidentally add

1181
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 4: an extra R in there. They're defense stabilized in the

1182
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 4: last month of the season. I'll he'll put a tiny

1183
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 4: positive spin on it. But they have to replace nearly

1184
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:41,720
Speaker 4: everybody in their secondary now. Schedule wise, they avoid Memphis

1185
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 4: and Tulane, and they have a stretch in Army FIU

1186
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 4: at Yukon Wagner in September. I think that's going to

1187
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 4: set up some fools gold. So I'm excited for them

1188
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 4: to maybe get three wins in the month of September

1189
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 4: and then for me to hammer against Fancher and company

1190
00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 4: offensively in October. It's difficult for me because I like

1191
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 4: Herman as a head coach. I think he's just made

1192
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 4: you know. Unfortunately, we have collegeable free agency. Who you sign,

1193
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 4: particularly at the quarterback position makes such a difference, and

1194
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 4: if it doesn't hit, and if you don't stay healthy offensively,

1195
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,840
Speaker 4: particularly in G five Land, it can be difficult to

1196
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 4: keep pace with some of these offenses that can really cook.

1197
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 4: We are not in a point in our program where

1198
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 4: we can not play our best and expect to win.

1199
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 2: It's not going to happen.

1200
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 4: I think they have issues, but I don't think we're

1201
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 4: going to see them until October. I know, is this

1202
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 4: an under team for you or is this a future

1203
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 4: here in the AAC.

1204
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 6: Now there's another under team for me. I think we

1205
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 6: saw last year. I think FAU had had a ton

1206
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 6: of hope going to the year with with Tom Herman,

1207
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 6: who I agreed here I like as a coach. We

1208
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 6: had Kathy Thompson coming in. Kasey Thompson ended up being

1209
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 6: a disaster. Him and Daniel Richardson are both gone. They

1210
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 6: turned to Cam Fancher, who his previous coach at Memphis

1211
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,720
Speaker 6: called miserable after the season.

1212
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,720
Speaker 4: So, I mean he was terrible.

1213
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 6: Twenty one touchdowns and two seasons at Marshall with seventeen interceptions.

1214
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 6: You mentioned the loss of the web Western. They brought

1215
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 6: in some you know, some depth pieces from the portal,

1216
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 6: but they don't have that stud guy on offense anymore,

1217
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 6: and I think losing him is huge. He bailed them

1218
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 6: out so many times last year. This offensive line is

1219
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 6: a major concern. I have big questions about the aligne

1220
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 6: and the defense.

1221
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 4: Same thing.

1222
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 6: The defense has a few solid pieces of returning, but

1223
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 6: I think they have depth issues kind of across the board.

1224
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 6: Like I said, I like Herman, but I think this

1225
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 6: is a rebuilding year. The schedules not terrible. You know,

1226
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 6: after Michigan State, they're mostly winnable games, But the problem

1227
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 6: is they're winnable games are all on the road. They

1228
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 6: go to Yukon to East Carolina to Temple to Tulsa.

1229
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 6: So you know, what should kind of be four wins

1230
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 6: are now all a little shakier because they're on the road.

1231
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 6: So that is enough to get me under six and

1232
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 6: a half on.

1233
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 4: This FA team.

1234
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you said the schedule is not bad.

1235
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 2: It see, I think I have it as easy as

1236
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 2: schedule in the country. It's a scheduled a joke. They

1237
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 2: replaced but last year they went to to Clemson in

1238
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 2: Illinois and they basically just go to Michigan State this year.

1239
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 2: So we'll say they lose at Michigan State and at Utsa.

1240
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 2: The rest of their schedule is a joke. Their home

1241
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 2: games against Army FI FIU, Wagner, North Texas, USF, and Charlotte.

1242
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 2: You know that is and then you know you still

1243
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 2: have road games against Yukon, Temple, Tulsa, and East tu

1244
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 2: schedule is a clown show. This team kind of embodies

1245
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 2: what the AC is this year. Coaching continuity, so Herman

1246
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 2: year two, every single coach is back except one on

1247
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 2: the defensive end. I think their defensive line coach. Everyone

1248
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:39,920
Speaker 2: else is back, So there's some coach coaching Goingnay nothing

1249
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 2: on the roster. The wide receiver losses are huge. I

1250
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 2: mentioned the offensive line extremely inexperienced. It's a team that's

1251
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty third in returning production on offense,

1252
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 2: outside the top one hundred on defense. I expect their

1253
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 2: offense to try to run with more pace. But there's

1254
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 2: questions all over this roster. The schedule is easy, so

1255
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 2: I project them at six point four or it's a

1256
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 2: pass for me. But I hate Fancher, So if Fancher's

1257
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 2: the quarterback, then I don't mind this under But look

1258
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 2: out for the Tyreek Starks, the juco kid transferred from

1259
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 2: Independence Community College, been in the program, I think for

1260
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 2: a year or two. He flashed for me in the

1261
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 2: spring game, and their quarterback competition going on right now.

1262
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 2: I think if Starks wins that job, they have a

1263
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 2: little bit more upside. You know, dual threat can move

1264
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 2: to so But yeah, there's a lot of questions on

1265
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 2: this roster. But I project six point four mainly just

1266
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 2: because of the schedule, which is much easier than it

1267
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 2: was last year, but passed for me.

1268
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 4: The hard knocks behind the scenes with the New York

1269
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 4: Giants where they accidentally leaks their entire draft board and

1270
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,479
Speaker 4: how they were grading out every single player. I would

1271
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 4: love to know how many quarterbacks they took a run

1272
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 4: at in the transfer portal before Fancher.

1273
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 2: Is it you're speaking of hard knocks? Did you watch

1274
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 2: the Marshall Hard Knocks? It's called hard knocks. I haven't

1275
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 2: watched yet. It's on my to do list, but it's like,

1276
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 2: apparently it's this year. It's like leading off to the

1277
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 2: season called hurd not.

1278
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 7: So it's time for the rubber to meet the road

1279
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 7: in our program. Living in reality. Now, you know you

1280
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 7: did or you didn't, and you're not a lot of

1281
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 7: patent on the back, not a lot of friendly Let's

1282
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 7: have a hug. It's cut through time for us.

1283
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 4: We turned to another service academy, Navy, not that baby.

1284
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 4: Five and seven last year, four and four in conference play,

1285
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 4: win total set at five and a half thirty to

1286
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 4: one to win the American two hundred and fifty to

1287
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 4: one to make the College Who All playoff. The big

1288
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 4: headline here is the hiring of Drew Chronic at offensive coordinator.

1289
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 4: He is the wing t expert across all of college football.

1290
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 4: He's saying, this is the modern wing t aka, the

1291
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 4: millennial version. I don't know what the hell that means.

1292
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 4: Way back in my day in the early two thousands

1293
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 4: when I was at high school, my high school ran

1294
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 4: this offense, so I can tell you what it's going

1295
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 4: to be about. It's predicated on misdirection in the running game.

1296
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 4: Here in a need verstalbacks who can hit the hole

1297
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 4: both inside and outside. They have that in Alex Tesca

1298
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 4: and Eli Heinreich. They can do that. The line is

1299
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 4: super experienced. So even though it's a slightly new system

1300
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 4: and there's going to be more polling and more misdirection,

1301
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 4: I think it's important to have guys who have multiple

1302
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 4: double digit starts in their career under their belt. The

1303
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 4: defense has a chance to take a step forward against

1304
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 4: the pass. With every starter back there in the secondary,

1305
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 4: we'll see if they can hold up against the run.

1306
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 4: I think that's the difference maker in this entire season.

1307
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 4: Noseguard Donald Bayard Junior is the key because if they

1308
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 4: don't fall off a cliff against the run. They finished

1309
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 4: thirty third there last year. By the way, this can

1310
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 4: be a top half defense in the AAC, which for

1311
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 4: a Service Academy is a big deal. Bucknell Temple at

1312
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 4: UAB at Air Force Charlotte. In the first half of

1313
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 4: the season. This is the kind of schedule to be

1314
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 4: able to get right critical. They get three or probably

1315
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 4: four wins there if you want to take them over

1316
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 4: the five and a half, because the back half of

1317
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 4: the schedule they got Notre Dame in the Meadowlands. They're

1318
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 4: at Rice at UCF, TU Lane at ECU before a

1319
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 4: trip to Maryland for the Army Navy game there at

1320
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 4: the end, I think I'm going to lean over here.

1321
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 4: I think both of the service academies they made the

1322
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 4: right choice. They went back, you know, Army went back

1323
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 4: to their bread and butter. I think this is the

1324
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 4: right kind of change in terms of scheme for a

1325
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 4: service academy. It's not as though they're going to a

1326
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 4: shotgun or a pistol, or they're trying to use pieces

1327
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 4: on the perimeter that are just not as talented as

1328
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 4: everyone else. I think there's an opportunity for them to

1329
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 4: hit big gash running plays, speed sweeps, counters, all kinds

1330
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 4: of things that you see more at the high school level.

1331
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 4: You're going to see that here, but executed absolutely perfectly

1332
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 4: in this offense. Because of that offensive line. So I

1333
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 4: think that they're going to get over five and a half.

1334
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 4: I'm going to make that an official play. In terms

1335
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 4: of the schedule, as I mentioned, I'm going to know

1336
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 4: by you know, the second week of October they got

1337
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 4: to get one of those wins at UAB or at

1338
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 4: air Force. Air Force obviously rebuilding with a new quarterback.

1339
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 4: They clearly weren't the same with that Larrier last year.

1340
01:02:57,760 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 4: So I think they can do it. I figure, you guys,

1341
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 4: they're probably gonna punt on this because it can be

1342
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 4: difficult in terms of win totals to break down Service

1343
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 4: Academy teams. But I'm gonna put my my stake in

1344
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 4: the santier and say that they go over what do

1345
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 4: you think stuck sales down?

1346
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really excited to watch this offense. The wing tea,

1347
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 2: which it's that you know Drew Chronic comes in from Mercer.

1348
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 2: He has run this offense forever. The the wing tea

1349
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 2: Delaware wing tea is the original. It actually started in Maine,

1350
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 2: but uh Delaware University of Delaware ren it for like

1351
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 2: fifty years. Then it was popularized. The more modern ones

1352
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 2: was popular was at Middle Tennessee State starting in like

1353
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 2: the late eighties nineties, and then Gus Malshan took the

1354
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 2: shotgun wing tea and kind of modernized it even more.

1355
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 2: So I'm really excited to see. You know, you have

1356
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 2: a lot of the complete football nerds out there. You

1357
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 2: have like your your belly series, your buck series, your

1358
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 2: down series. You're gonna have your QB waggle, which just

1359
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 2: means two guards pull with on a QB boot. So

1360
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 2: I'm so curiously how this all comes together, because it's

1361
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 2: gonna be your modern wing tea mixed with kind of

1362
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 2: some spread option. And then also, hey, look this is

1363
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 2: a team that knows the triple option. There's gonna be

1364
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 2: some triple options of midveer in there as well. So

1365
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 2: I'm curiously how it all comes together. Ken the most

1366
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 2: important pieces on an offense like this, Like you have

1367
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 2: a wing back and they're obviously really important. You got

1368
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 2: to get the it's good, there's good in his offense

1369
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 2: and chronics. There's a jet sweep element that's almost in

1370
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 2: every play. You got to get that right. But the

1371
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 2: guards are so important. The guards in the fullback. The

1372
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 2: fullback is gonna get most of the carries, but can

1373
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 2: Ken the guards they're gonna have to be moving a lot.

1374
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 2: The way that they're trapping and blocking. They have a

1375
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 2: lot on their plates. I'm not sure if they have

1376
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 2: the right guards. But this you have to be a

1377
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 2: hard in order to run this type of offense. You

1378
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 2: got to be a hard knows discipline team and that

1379
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 2: just wants to run into the wall and run into

1380
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 2: a wall in every play. That's a good thing for Navy.

1381
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 2: They have that. You got to be super well conditioned

1382
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 2: to they have that. So yeah, I'm very curious to

1383
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 2: see how this all comes together. And this is what

1384
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 2: Navy should be doing. You have, you know, the wing

1385
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 2: t's a super old school offense. Now you're bringing it

1386
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 2: with a more modern flavor. You're trying to create misdirection

1387
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 2: pre snap motion, try to stretch teams out horizontally and

1388
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 2: take advantage of where the mismatches are and where the

1389
01:05:32,240 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 2: space is to run.

1390
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 4: But it's a good thing because you.

1391
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 2: Don't have as much talent as other teams, and all

1392
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 2: these other teams are now built to stop the spread,

1393
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 2: to stop RPO and the spread action game. So hey,

1394
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 2: look we're gonna cople the more physical style that you're

1395
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 2: not used to seeing. It's unique, it's hard to prepare for.

1396
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 2: That's for your advantages. So this is what Navy should

1397
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 2: be doing. Army going back to what they should be doing.

1398
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 2: So I'm curious se how it all comes together. Obviously

1399
01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 2: a ton of variants. How's it all going to work out?

1400
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 2: And you know they only had like twenty five percent

1401
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 2: of their offense installed in the spring. So I'm just

1402
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 2: excited to watch it again. Service Academy. I can pick

1403
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 2: out a couple of games and just bet them during

1404
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 2: the season, so it's passed for me. I project right

1405
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 2: around five. And yeah, schedule wise, they host Memphis Tulane.

1406
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 2: That wouldn't surprise me if they won one of those games.

1407
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 2: But the Winds an't lost anybody, and they could lose

1408
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 2: the Bucknell in the week one. And one of the

1409
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 2: things I do hate about their schedule is they faced

1410
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 2: Bucknell and Temple at home start the year, and there's

1411
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 2: an element of surprise about this offense. So Zach wasted there?

1412
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 2: Do they not show much? But they don't show much.

1413
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 2: They could lose either one of those teams. It's a

1414
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 2: Service Academy lose anybody. So yeah, and on defense, I

1415
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 2: am concerned about they lose two really good players in

1416
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 2: the interior, and their entire defense, which is a consistent

1417
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 2: under Newbery. There's not much change there this year is

1418
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 2: they need they fire gaps their stunts, and so they

1419
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 2: need those interior guys to take up and eat up

1420
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 2: blocks for their linebackers to shoot gaps. So I am

1421
01:06:57,280 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 2: a little bit concerned about the defensive line, but this

1422
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 2: really comes down to the execution on offense and the

1423
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 2: offensive line. It's just what I'm worried about. There's Look,

1424
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:07,600
Speaker 2: there's five guys with five starts that come back. They're

1425
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 2: all upperclassmen. They've been working on it all summer, but

1426
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 2: there's just a lot of unknown and last year they

1427
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:14,040
Speaker 2: allowed sixty sacks and ninety tackles.

1428
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 4: For the loss.

1429
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 2: Got to be better there. Guard's got to be great.

1430
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 2: I'm excited for this offense. We'll talk more about it.

1431
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,439
Speaker 2: I could talk about it for days, so I'll shut

1432
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 2: up now. Pass for me.

1433
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:24,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm certainly excited to watch it and see what

1434
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 6: it looks like. I think my one kind of concern

1435
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 6: is just who's the quarterback. I know they have four

1436
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:33,440
Speaker 6: options returning with experience, but none of them are really

1437
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:35,480
Speaker 6: that good. One of them didn't even practice in the

1438
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 6: spring he was hurt. So you kind of have the

1439
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 6: question of how many reps are they getting on this

1440
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:43,520
Speaker 6: new offense is a concern. I agree the defense probably

1441
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 6: be great again, but yeah, they needed to change something.

1442
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 6: I mean, the offense has been dreadful. I feel like

1443
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 6: it doesn't get talked about enough just because it is

1444
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 6: a service academy. But they were one hundred and twenty

1445
01:07:51,920 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 6: eighth in the country in success story last season. They

1446
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 6: were one hundred and sixteenth in rushing success. They've been

1447
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 6: outside the top one hundred in rushing success for the

1448
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 6: last like three years in a row.

1449
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 4: Six and six probably comes down to the Army game.

1450
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 6: So just watch him throughout the year, see what the

1451
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 6: offense looks like, and if you want to bet the over,

1452
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 6: pick a spot or two to do it, and you know,

1453
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 6: maybe just bet him against Army. Yeah.

1454
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 2: Another the other thing I'll mentioned it should be Horback

1455
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 2: should be the QB one from from less that I've

1456
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,560
Speaker 2: read from last night. Woodson is more of like a

1457
01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 2: shot chronic has run us in the past. You could run,

1458
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 2: you could run your sling tea as a as a

1459
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:26,360
Speaker 2: from the shotgun, which he did the times at Mercer

1460
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 2: Woodson's more of like a shotgun wants to throw it more.

1461
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 2: But I assume as of right now Horbat is going

1462
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 2: to be QB one. Stay healthy, though.

1463
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 6: We gotta get a we got to get a doctor

1464
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 6: dre the chronic drop going if if he's got this tumbing.

1465
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,679
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, just like Army, keep this in mind because

1466
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,080
Speaker 2: these teams won a shortened games. The Navy kicking game

1467
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,640
Speaker 2: very very worried about, which could be a disaster. They

1468
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:53,679
Speaker 2: had a really good kicker that has gone. Riley Reefman

1469
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 2: for Navy is one of the better punters in the country.

1470
01:08:57,320 --> 01:08:58,880
Speaker 2: So that's big for them. They could find a kicker

1471
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:00,719
Speaker 2: because they have a real good punter. They want short games.

1472
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,600
Speaker 2: He's literally my guy can't that serves got to mean

1473
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 2: a punter. I had to mention him.

1474
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 4: So we turned from a team that we're just brimming

1475
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 4: over with optimism all the way down to their punter

1476
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:15,240
Speaker 4: to a team that we can't wait to just dump

1477
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 4: on UAB four and eight last year under their win total,

1478
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 4: they went three and five in the AAC. Their win

1479
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 4: total set at six and a half this year, thirty

1480
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:25,120
Speaker 4: to one to win the AAC twhundred and fifty to

1481
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 4: one to make the college football playoff. Trent Hilfer came

1482
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:32,799
Speaker 4: on in, talked a big game, talked about competing facing

1483
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 4: the Lion. If you watch his stupid press conferences, he

1484
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 4: says so many stupid cliche hackney crap.

1485
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: I married a smoke show and I have awesome kids,

1486
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:45,559
Speaker 1: and she wasn't as hot, and my kids were annoying,

1487
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 1: and my food sucked. My wife knows, my kids know, like,

1488
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 1: this is not what we signed up for. That that

1489
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 1: is not a representation of anything I believe in anything

1490
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: that's been preached around here, and it's my job you

1491
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 1: get a fix.

1492
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 2: The other night, he said his offense, they asked him

1493
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 2: about his offensive line is going. He said, these guys

1494
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,280
Speaker 2: need to start eating more nails for breakfast.

1495
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: I knew going in that there'd be a lot of challenges.

1496
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: I knew going in there'd be a lot of learns.

1497
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 1: I'd forgotten how painful it is get your brains beat in.

1498
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 4: I mean, listen. Delver says he wins wherever he goes.

1499
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 4: Apparently that didn't include Birmingham. Last year, they lost eight times.

1500
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 4: That included a win over Temple a three point win

1501
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 4: over FAU and a shootout, and a win over North

1502
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 4: Carolina A and C break out the band Trents, congratulations,

1503
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 4: your offense is all predicated on short completions. Jacob Zeno,

1504
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 4: aka the checkdown Merchant, completed seventy three point six percent

1505
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 4: of his attempts, the lowest a dot of any full

1506
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:47,320
Speaker 4: time starter in the entire country. He made Drew Hour

1507
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 4: look like Kenny Stable or bombing the ball downfield. I

1508
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:51,759
Speaker 4: hate this offense.

1509
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 1: Oh so a lot of lonely nights. You know, A

1510
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: losing style of football is honestly what we played.

1511
01:10:57,479 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 4: Because you know what happens. Everybody starts walking down into

1512
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 4: the box once they figure out what's going on. It's

1513
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 4: the reason why you can complete seventy four percent of

1514
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 4: your passes and still throw nine picks in one season.

1515
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 4: He also lost four fumbles. I'll say the one nice

1516
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 4: thing I'm gonna say about the Blazers the entire time.

1517
01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 4: Amari Thomas, the wide receiver. That guy's a dog. He was,

1518
01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 4: you know, in my opinion, should have been a freshman

1519
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 4: All American. He's back. He should be first team All AAC.

1520
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 4: Now on to the defense. This is where I'm going

1521
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:24,719
Speaker 4: to get you know, direct to camera with Trent Tilford.

1522
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 4: He thinks he's such a goddamn genius that he didn't

1523
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:31,120
Speaker 4: need to hire anybody with FBS or FCS or Division

1524
01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:34,960
Speaker 4: three or NAIA experience. Now he goes ahead and brings

1525
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:38,959
Speaker 4: his buddy from Lipscumb his high school in Tennessee SIONI

1526
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 4: to FOA and here's the problem. They give up thirty

1527
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 4: seven points per game. So clearly, you know, he cleaned

1528
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 4: house and got himself a new defensive but no kept

1529
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 4: the same guy because he goes all the way back

1530
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 4: to his high school days in a lead eleven where

1531
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:54,160
Speaker 4: you know they're trying to find champions of the mind

1532
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 4: and heart and all that crap that he was, you know,

1533
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:57,160
Speaker 4: evangelizing about.

1534
01:11:57,479 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 1: Well Blazer Nation made it really clear there's no trust me.

1535
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 4: The problem defensively is that they couldn't stop basically anything.

1536
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 4: They couldn't get to the quarterback. They were awful on

1537
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 4: third downs one hundred and thirty first and third down

1538
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 4: defense one hundred and eleventh and red zone touchdown percentage

1539
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 4: allowed and one hundred and thirtieth in tackles for loss. Now,

1540
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 4: have they made some upgrades in the portal sure, but

1541
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 4: the same problem I have this year is the problem

1542
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 4: I had last year, which is the more time you

1543
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:25,080
Speaker 4: spent with Trent dilferd, the less hard you want to

1544
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 4: play for Trent Dilford because he talks about you know,

1545
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 4: it's not about what you can get into the portal,

1546
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 4: It's about connections man to man. It's like, this is

1547
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four. People are coming their mercenaries, particularly in

1548
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 4: the portal. They're coming for money, They're coming for playing opportunity.

1549
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 4: He is going to have some playing opportunity because all

1550
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 4: eleven spots on the defense should be up for drabs.

1551
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 4: Now let's talk schedule. Finally, we got six and a

1552
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 4: half for the win total. There's plenty of wins that

1553
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 4: I'm just going to chalk up as dubs alcorn State,

1554
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 4: sure at Louisiana, Monroe, Sure home against Yukon at Charlotte.

1555
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 4: Let's call those four wins. But there's also a bunch

1556
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 4: of losses. For sure in my opinion, at Arkansas to

1557
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 4: Ain't at home at South Florida, at Memphis. That means

1558
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 4: with four wins, he got these toss ups here, Navy

1559
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 4: at Army Tulsa and Rice. They can't stop the run,

1560
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 4: so like Army and Navy are absolutely on the table

1561
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:13,760
Speaker 4: to beat this team.

1562
01:13:13,880 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 2: So I'm going under Charlotte. I I have Charlotte as

1563
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 2: a coin flip. I think that I think the win

1564
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 2: total could come down.

1565
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, we will talk about Sharott. I'm just trying to

1566
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 4: be you know, is even handed because I hate the

1567
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:23,840
Speaker 4: guy's guts and I think he should be fired and

1568
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 4: he should never have been a college coach in the

1569
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:27,760
Speaker 4: first place. But trying to be even handed. Even if

1570
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 4: I give him those wins, I don't see them getting

1571
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 4: to seven. So my favorite play of the entire AAC

1572
01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 4: is under six and a half wins for the Blazers,

1573
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna lock it in. What do you think

1574
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:40,720
Speaker 4: stuck about the Trent Dilfer experience two point zero here

1575
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 4: in the second season.

1576
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:46,320
Speaker 1: Within learning comes reflecting pouring knowledge and wisdom into the

1577
01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:47,400
Speaker 1: cups of our leaders.

1578
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't hate it. I project like five point six.

1579
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 2: The defense is I don't see it getting much better

1580
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 2: than McWilliams's losses are big. I'm worried about the secondary,

1581
01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 2: in particular that both their stars and corners transferred. This

1582
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:07,640
Speaker 2: team returning production wise top ten offense, bottom fifteen defense.

1583
01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 2: The offensive line should be better. That's one of the

1584
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 2: things I do like. Like last year they had almost

1585
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 2: nothing returning experience wise, all five or back. Now you

1586
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 2: also had some transfers that could actually get run at tackle.

1587
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 2: But the defense is just really going to hold them back.

1588
01:14:22,680 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 2: I you know, they about forty plus in seven games

1589
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 2: last year. You know, seven and a half yards per catch.

1590
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 4: You know.

1591
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 2: Another good thing I can say about them is they're

1592
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:35,519
Speaker 2: one of the only two teams with the same head coach,

1593
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:39,320
Speaker 2: offense coordinator, defense coordinator, and quarterback. I think USF is

1594
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 2: the other. But yeah, this dink and dunk offense, it's

1595
01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 2: not for me. I'm not a Dell for guy. I

1596
01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 2: am a del for guy from Ravens days because he

1597
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 2: did win a Super Bowl for the Baltimore Ravens. But

1598
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,639
Speaker 2: the schedule is easy, so like the ceiling, if everything

1599
01:14:56,680 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 2: goes right, is like eight because they get five of

1600
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 2: the worst six in legal though it does hurt that

1601
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 2: they don't get Temple plus alcorn Uel, Monroe and Yukon

1602
01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 2: in the non con and by the way, they get Arkansas.

1603
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 2: Who knows Sam Pittman, he could lose any game, and well,

1604
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 2: while I'm throwing a dagger, Colonel, throw one at I know.

1605
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 2: If this season goes how I expect, maybe we see

1606
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,080
Speaker 2: Drew Aller in Birmingham next year running that.

1607
01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 6: Hey, that's what is with the ricochet shots from both

1608
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 6: of you. Hey, let's direct our anger at who it

1609
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 6: should be directed that leave me and Drew Aller out

1610
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 6: of this. We got a new offense anyway. But yeah,

1611
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:38,600
Speaker 6: I'm with you, guys. I'm on the under obviously. This

1612
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 6: is a strictly hate trend deal for hate podcast. I mean,

1613
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 6: first of all, Jacob Zino, I feel like he's been

1614
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 6: in college for ten seasons.

1615
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 4: I looked it up.

1616
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 6: Jacob Zino played for Matt Ruhle at Baylor. His first

1617
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 6: college touchdown pass was against Jalen Hurts and Ceedee Lamb

1618
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 6: at Oklahoma. This dude has been in college forever. I

1619
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:01,560
Speaker 6: was doing all my preps and I was reading like

1620
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 6: preview magazines and stopped the all the big ones, you know,

1621
01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 6: one of them said Zeno was outstanding in his first year, Like,

1622
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:10,040
Speaker 6: I mean he had twenty touchdowns and nine in receptions.

1623
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:10,640
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I get it.

1624
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 6: He had a good completion percentage. But because Calbary said,

1625
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 6: he's throwing screens all day. He was fifth in the conference,

1626
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 6: and yards eighth and touchdowns. I'm not sure he's outstanding.

1627
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:21,599
Speaker 6: Losing Jermaine Brown at running back is a huge loss.

1628
01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 6: He was such a big part of their offense. You

1629
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:26,479
Speaker 6: mentioned the defense. It was a mess last year. They

1630
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:28,759
Speaker 6: were one hundred and twenty seventh in the country, allowing

1631
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 6: thirty seven points per game, and their two starting cornerbacks

1632
01:16:32,479 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 6: both hit the portal after spring practice. So I think

1633
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 6: the defense is going to be a mess neck this year. Schedule,

1634
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 6: you guys said, you both said it. They have eight

1635
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:44,240
Speaker 6: winnable games. You need him to win seven of them

1636
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 6: to go over this total. So I don't see it.

1637
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 6: I mean, we already talked about I'm high on Rice.

1638
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 6: I'm sure we'll talk about Charlotte obviously. I'm always high

1639
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 6: on Yukon. You're not just going to go into the

1640
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,920
Speaker 6: rent and push Yukon around. So although that game actually

1641
01:16:56,360 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 6: that's heut, never mind, but you're not going to be

1642
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,680
Speaker 6: Yukon anywhere. So I don't think they get seven of

1643
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:02,760
Speaker 6: those eight. So I like the under here as well.

1644
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 4: All right, The Tulsa Golden Hurricane four to eight. Last

1645
01:17:07,520 --> 01:17:09,800
Speaker 4: year two and six in conference play, went till it's

1646
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 4: at four and a half oddsow in the American forty

1647
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 4: to one. This is when the books just get so stiny.

1648
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:16,720
Speaker 4: Only three hundred to one to make the college for

1649
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 4: wole playoff, Come on, should be three thousand to one.

1650
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:22,599
Speaker 4: Will be Cooper Lega or Kirk Francis at quarterback. Francis

1651
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:25,600
Speaker 4: went from local high school walk On Legends, so he

1652
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:27,960
Speaker 4: played pretty well last year, won them their regular season

1653
01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:31,360
Speaker 4: finale at ECU. Whoever wins, and you can say it's,

1654
01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 4: you know, multiple quarterbacks in this room. Whoever wins, they're

1655
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 4: gonna have some help. They got Anthony Walkins at running back.

1656
01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 4: They get Campden Benjamin wide receiver, safety Planket and Ethan

1657
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 4: Hall at tight ends. And you add in Braden Presley

1658
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 4: at five foot six, the speedster transferring in from the

1659
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:47,840
Speaker 4: power for major upgrade for them in the offseason. Also

1660
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,720
Speaker 4: one of the funnier offseason stories. He started playing better

1661
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:53,600
Speaker 4: when he realized he couldn't see, so they got on

1662
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 4: some contact lenses and he's catching more passes. The line

1663
01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:58,760
Speaker 4: is being rebuilt, but they can gain experience early. They

1664
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:00,720
Speaker 4: get Northwestern State in ARC and so I stayed early.

1665
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:05,680
Speaker 4: So not defensive powerhouses coming out against them. The defense, absolutely,

1666
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 4: I'm gonna slander their defense. They're going to lose that game.

1667
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:11,640
Speaker 4: I'm just saying they're not going to be living in

1668
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:15,120
Speaker 4: Tulsa's backfield. Defense train recrests last season. The back end

1669
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 4: of the defense of the four two five is almost

1670
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 4: back fully intact. Home winners Northwestern State, maybe FAU, maybe

1671
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 4: ECU coin flip games, I'll say at LA Tech, at

1672
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 4: Temple Army, at home at UAB because of the Delfa experience.

1673
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 4: But it's hard to talk yourself into more than four wins.

1674
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 4: This is a team I was probably the least excited

1675
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 4: to talk about. This used to be, you know, back

1676
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 4: in the day when they poured the I Flying Briles

1677
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 4: Baylor offense up to Tulsa. This could be something you

1678
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,240
Speaker 4: could rely on. Then they had those years with Zamon

1679
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 4: Collins where they had incredible defensive play. There's just nothing

1680
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:54,640
Speaker 4: necessarily that's getting me all that excited. I think the quarterback,

1681
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 4: you know, race should be interesting, should be something to monitor.

1682
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:00,559
Speaker 4: Maybe one of those guys pops a little and they

1683
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 4: become more middle class in the AAC but I think

1684
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 4: that's the absolute ceiling. I'll start with you here, Iell.

1685
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 4: You wanted to jump in and t off quarterbacks with

1686
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:07,799
Speaker 4: the Golden Hurricane.

1687
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:11,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, just you keep leaving out with key member of

1688
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,320
Speaker 6: the quarterback battle. I want to give Cardio Williams some love.

1689
01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 6: You know, him and Francis both started as fresh both

1690
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 6: played as freshmen. They combined for sixteen picks. I agree

1691
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:20,720
Speaker 6: with you. I think Francis is more likely to win

1692
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:22,720
Speaker 6: the job. He's a better passer. But Williams does at

1693
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 6: least give them a mobile option. He's dangerous with his legs.

1694
01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 6: I tend to feel like bad teams actually tend to

1695
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:32,280
Speaker 6: go with the guy who's more likely to make plays

1696
01:19:32,320 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 6: with his legs, just to give him an added element.

1697
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 6: But I think it'll be Francis to start. You mentioned Benjamin,

1698
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 6: a receiver who had really good chemistry with Francis, so

1699
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 6: I am excited to see about that. This is just

1700
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 6: a weird team that was all over the map last season.

1701
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 6: I mean, you look, they got they got their doors

1702
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:50,679
Speaker 6: blown off by SMU, and then they almost beat too Lane,

1703
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:53,160
Speaker 6: and then you know, when the defense was bad, it

1704
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 6: was horrific. But then there were games, it looked better,

1705
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 6: and so I think they're going to continue to improve

1706
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 6: under Wilson. But they still have a ton of questions.

1707
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:03,559
Speaker 6: You know, they don't play Oklahoma and Washington again, they

1708
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 6: avoid Memphis in Tulane, but they do play Oklahoma State, UTSA,

1709
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 6: South Florida, and then just like a ton of coin

1710
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 6: flip games. So this is a hard one to me.

1711
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,800
Speaker 6: I think it probably comes down to, you know, I

1712
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:16,719
Speaker 6: think the wind Jar looks about right that they should

1713
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 6: have went about four or five of their coin flip games.

1714
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:20,040
Speaker 4: So it's a pass for me.

1715
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 6: But I'm very intrigued by what they're doing and their team.

1716
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:26,519
Speaker 6: I kind of want to have my eye on early

1717
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 6: just to see kind of what it looks like.

1718
01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 4: What are your numbers telling you.

1719
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:34,000
Speaker 2: Stuck, it's under or nothing here. Kevin Wilson day, he's

1720
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:36,280
Speaker 2: just I think he's just a bad coach. He's first

1721
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 2: of all, he's a dinosaur. He's anti nil. So he

1722
01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 2: said he had the number one transfer portal class in

1723
01:20:42,200 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 2: the country because he's it was players per nil dollars

1724
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 2: spend and they spent zero. Like you go back to Indiana.

1725
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:55,200
Speaker 2: He got fired because there was player abuse allegations he

1726
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,760
Speaker 2: basically just like he was at Oklahoma as the offensive corner.

1727
01:20:57,760 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 2: Can probably go all the way back to he was

1728
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:01,880
Speaker 2: a high school coach and hometown. He went zero to

1729
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:05,439
Speaker 2: ten and then he took a this guy's never won

1730
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 2: as a head coach.

1731
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 4: He lucked out.

1732
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:09,400
Speaker 2: He had Sam Bradford as a Heisman winner, then got

1733
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:12,759
Speaker 2: a job at Indiana, and then he had CJ. Stroud,

1734
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 2: and then got the head coaching job at as a

1735
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 2: coordinator again, and got the head coaching job at Tulsa. Yeah. Look, yeah,

1736
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:24,720
Speaker 2: the off season narrative has been Presley got contacts. Their

1737
01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:27,600
Speaker 2: wide receivers are super small, which is very concerning. The

1738
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:32,160
Speaker 2: offensive line is a major question the quarterback. Also, the

1739
01:21:32,280 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 2: defense lost everybody eight of their nine top tacklers, although

1740
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can call them tacklers the

1741
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:39,080
Speaker 2: way that they tackled last year, so maybe that's a

1742
01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:42,640
Speaker 2: good thing. But yeah, they avoid Memphis in Tulane and

1743
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 2: Brendan Presley got contacts, So there's it's a manageable non

1744
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 2: cons You got seven or eight winnable games. But I'm

1745
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 2: not a believer in Kevin Wilson the Dinosaur. I project

1746
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:53,599
Speaker 2: four point two lean under.

1747
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:56,599
Speaker 4: All right, let's turn to a scene that I'm sure

1748
01:21:56,640 --> 01:22:00,600
Speaker 4: you guys are gonna have some more maybe potentially optimistic

1749
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 4: takes on the Charlotte forty nine ers three and nine

1750
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:04,800
Speaker 4: last year, two and six in the AAC. Their win

1751
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 4: total very manageable, three and a half fifty to one

1752
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 4: to win the conference, three hundred to one to make

1753
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:11,719
Speaker 4: the playoff. Biff's trying it all, man, and our job.

1754
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 5: As I told the players yesterday, my job, my number

1755
01:22:15,240 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 5: one job is to love them.

1756
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1757
01:22:17,479 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 4: Nineteen players leave in the portal brings twenty in through

1758
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 4: the portal. Max Brown is in from the Florida Gators,

1759
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:26,200
Speaker 4: trying to revive at times a toothless offense from last year.

1760
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 4: Biff likes to run as quarterbacks. We know this Brown

1761
01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:31,680
Speaker 4: had twenty three hundred rushing yards and two seasons as

1762
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 4: a high school starter, so he's got the legs to

1763
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 4: be able to do that. Cartavius Nordon comes in. He's

1764
01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 4: got powerful, experienced Iowa State could be a quality back.

1765
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 4: He certainly had a lot of the coaches buzzing in

1766
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 4: the spring. He Biff personally raved about this kid. Despite

1767
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 4: returning experience. They hammered the portal four receivers. They got

1768
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:51,960
Speaker 4: some from South Carolina, Middle Tennessee the JUCO ranks, so

1769
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 4: all in, all of the skill positions in the quarterback room,

1770
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 4: the should be an upgrade over last year. For the

1771
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 4: forty nine ers. Offensive line has really good size, but

1772
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:01,519
Speaker 4: they're light on experience. We'll see if they can gel.

1773
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:04,439
Speaker 4: The defense had moments of quality last year, but they

1774
01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:07,760
Speaker 4: did lose eight starters. Cornerback at Dante Balfour and Prince

1775
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:11,840
Speaker 4: Bema could challenge for all AAC honors. Who can they beat?

1776
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 4: Let's just get right down to brass tacks Gardner, web

1777
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 4: ecu uab all come to Jerry Richardson Stadium, Roady's at Rice,

1778
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:21,639
Speaker 4: Navy FAU. That's six games right there that they potentially

1779
01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 4: could win. Could they go four and two in that stretch?

1780
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:26,640
Speaker 4: I'll go to you first, stuck. What do you think my.

1781
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:30,759
Speaker 2: Llame's Biff Pogie. I expect those to be a national power.

1782
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 2: I wish that they would move on from their offensive coordinator.

1783
01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not a fan, especially after watching last year.

1784
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 2: I liked that they went added size and the portal

1785
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 2: wide receiver because you got mac back in the slot

1786
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:43,200
Speaker 2: and then you needed size so that's something that they

1787
01:23:43,240 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 2: did at dress. Offensive line is still a question.

1788
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 5: I am a glass ten as full guy. I like

1789
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:50,160
Speaker 5: it running over.

1790
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 2: They only threw for over two hundred yards twice last year,

1791
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 2: twenty four percent on third downs, like they need. They

1792
01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:57,920
Speaker 2: need to be able to throw the ball some more.

1793
01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:00,600
Speaker 2: And you know, if you're looking for upside, they do

1794
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:04,040
Speaker 2: lead the AAC in power for scholarship players former power

1795
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 2: for scholarship players, So you know, diff has brought in

1796
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 2: some talent. I expect the offense to try to throw

1797
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:13,840
Speaker 2: a deep more this year. Max Brown is definitely an upgrade.

1798
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:15,679
Speaker 2: I mean less of they used five quarterbacks. It can't

1799
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:18,759
Speaker 2: get much worse than it was last year. The defense

1800
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 2: loses a time, which does where I mean they had

1801
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 2: two really good linebackers. They lost the power four teams

1802
01:24:24,280 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 2: in Knight and hill Green. That worries me. Defensive backfield

1803
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 2: worries me. And it's a tough schedule for Charlotte. You

1804
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:33,679
Speaker 2: don't get to face Temple or Kevin Wilson and Tulsa,

1805
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:37,720
Speaker 2: and you have a tough non con James Madison at

1806
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:40,479
Speaker 2: UNC at Indiana, and then you face two lane Memphis

1807
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 2: in USF SO I project three point eighty five, which

1808
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:46,600
Speaker 2: is kind of close to market, but ultimately it's a

1809
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 2: pass for me. Clean up the penalties. It's got to

1810
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 2: clean up the penalties. There were some discipline problems which

1811
01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:54,200
Speaker 2: I expect better. Vif come on, get it together.

1812
01:24:55,120 --> 01:24:58,439
Speaker 5: Our goal is very simple. Win the AAC. Win it

1813
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 5: repeatedly yet to the college football playoff, and that's what

1814
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 5: I'm expecting to do here. And my timetable is now.

1815
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, Biff Spacey doing the opposite of Wilson, where he's

1816
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 6: just throwing nil bags. You know, he's he comes from

1817
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 6: finance background. I think he's like a millionaire independently of coaching,

1818
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 6: so he's just he's just throwing money at people.

1819
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:19,680
Speaker 4: You mentioned it.

1820
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:22,080
Speaker 6: Max Brown, I think is a big, big upgrade over

1821
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 6: Ivy and Jones and all these other guys. Really solid

1822
01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 6: dual threat option gives them. He's you know, he's a

1823
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 6: better passor and a better runner. So they really upgraded

1824
01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 6: there with him. You mentioned the wide receiver transfers. They

1825
01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:36,559
Speaker 6: also added tackles from Texas, A and m Florida and Clemson.

1826
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:39,599
Speaker 6: They bring in a guard from Tennessee, a running back

1827
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:42,479
Speaker 6: from Iowa State and Michigan on defense they had they had,

1828
01:25:42,720 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 6: you know, they definitely had losses. But they bring back

1829
01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:48,839
Speaker 6: Bema and Balfour. They had corners from Boston College, Cincinnati

1830
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 6: and Virginia Tech. Safeties from Iowa State and Louisville. So

1831
01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:53,800
Speaker 6: they brought I mean, defensive lineman from South Carolina, Miami.

1832
01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 6: So they brought in a ton of talent. And you

1833
01:25:57,080 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 6: have to think, you know, the new bodies, rebuilding the

1834
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 6: offensive defense and defensive lines should be better than they

1835
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 6: were last year. So the defense honestly wasn't terrible last year.

1836
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:09,080
Speaker 6: The defense played well in games. So you look, they

1837
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 6: won three games last year, and I think they did

1838
01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:14,719
Speaker 6: a lot to upgrade this this roster. I'm pretty bullish

1839
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:17,000
Speaker 6: on Brown. I like the pieces they brought in on

1840
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:20,000
Speaker 6: the O line and D line, and yeah, not getting

1841
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:23,760
Speaker 6: Temple sucks, but do they get Gardner, Webb, e c

1842
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 6: U and ue B at home. You mentioned the trips

1843
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:29,519
Speaker 6: to Rice, Navy, FAU, who you know, I'm I'm down

1844
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:32,320
Speaker 6: on FAU and Navy, and obviously we're down in UA B.

1845
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:36,040
Speaker 6: So you mentioned they have six or seven winnable games,

1846
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 6: and I just think it's this talent clicks.

1847
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 4: So I actually lean over with with Charlotte.

1848
01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:43,439
Speaker 6: I kind of just believe what Biff's doing, and I

1849
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:45,880
Speaker 6: think I think the talent's gonna gonna help. I think

1850
01:26:45,880 --> 01:26:47,839
Speaker 6: they have more talent than all those teams we just mentioned.

1851
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:50,960
Speaker 6: So I'll take a shot with the upside here if.

1852
01:26:50,880 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 2: I know, If I Know closes this podcast with a

1853
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 2: Charlotte and Temple over, I have to talking about the

1854
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 2: top heaviness of the conference. I'm leaving.

1855
01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 4: We won't leave the audience in suspense. We'll get right

1856
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 4: to the Temple Aus three and nine last year, one

1857
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 4: and seven in conference. And when totals set it two

1858
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:08,600
Speaker 4: and a half, the American one hundred and eighty to

1859
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 4: one to win it, three hundred to one, Come on, Vegas,

1860
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 4: make that a million to one to make the college

1861
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:15,640
Speaker 4: football playoff. I'm gonna put this out here because we

1862
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:18,320
Speaker 4: cover every single G five team we cover the Independence

1863
01:27:18,320 --> 01:27:20,680
Speaker 4: outside of Notre Dame. This could be the one that

1864
01:27:20,760 --> 01:27:23,519
Speaker 4: loses every game on their schedule. They're winnables this year.

1865
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 4: You TOAs State, FAU North Texas all at home. The

1866
01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:29,559
Speaker 4: last two are in mid to late November, so has

1867
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 4: the team quit at that point? This could be the

1868
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 4: worst defense in America and they lose their quarterback one

1869
01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:36,800
Speaker 4: hundred and thirtieth in returning Production Warner. As I mentioned

1870
01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:40,519
Speaker 4: off to Rice Victor Staffel, they're left tackle arguably their

1871
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:43,680
Speaker 4: best player. Off to cal three headed quarterback battle. I'll

1872
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:46,160
Speaker 4: say the one nice thing their receiving room is pretty decent.

1873
01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:48,920
Speaker 4: Dante Wright Zabines aren't bad. Aren't a bad duo to

1874
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:51,840
Speaker 4: throw too. There are so many Jucos though on this

1875
01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:54,360
Speaker 4: defensive two D but you can't really feel good about that.

1876
01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:57,800
Speaker 4: And they're going to face three vastly different offenses early

1877
01:27:57,880 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 4: in the season that I think is really going to

1878
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:02,280
Speaker 4: just rip out their will to play football. Oklahoma's run

1879
01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 4: raid under Seth Latrell is going to spread them out

1880
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 4: and run against light boxes. Navies totally going to flip

1881
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:10,800
Speaker 4: in terms of their formations. They're discipline what they're doing

1882
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:12,960
Speaker 4: with the wing tea, and then they get coastal in

1883
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:15,040
Speaker 4: week three with their quick game and their RPO stuff.

1884
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:17,880
Speaker 4: Bottom line is this program needs new juice to get

1885
01:28:17,920 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 4: back on track. Their defense is going to be too

1886
01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 4: bad to overcome. I think if you can find a market,

1887
01:28:22,600 --> 01:28:24,080
Speaker 4: I haven't seen one yet, if you can find a

1888
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:26,240
Speaker 4: market for a team to go winless. I think it's

1889
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 4: the Temple owls this year, so I'm down on them.

1890
01:28:29,040 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 4: One of my best bets here in the AC under

1891
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:33,360
Speaker 4: two and a half wins. This defense, I think is

1892
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:37,040
Speaker 4: going to prevent them from really winning more than one

1893
01:28:37,120 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 4: game the entire season. Stuck. What do you think about

1894
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:42,679
Speaker 4: Temple rough times there in North Philly?

1895
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:49,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, before paints the Rosie picture on the Also, who

1896
01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 2: will you fucking owl? By the way, this program might

1897
01:28:52,240 --> 01:28:54,280
Speaker 2: not be here. They're preducing President Hinton that they might

1898
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:57,000
Speaker 2: get rid of this program soon. He was talking about

1899
01:28:57,000 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 2: how like Dreux doesn't worry about a football program. So

1900
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:03,840
Speaker 2: great for Temple, which was once proud program not too

1901
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:06,479
Speaker 2: long under matt rule. But yeah, this seems a mess.

1902
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 2: They added forty two players the roster, like you mentioned

1903
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:12,519
Speaker 2: a lot of it as two co's, and they're at

1904
01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:15,000
Speaker 2: the bottom of the barrel returning production on both sides

1905
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:19,280
Speaker 2: of the ball. Quarterback battle between the you know Brock

1906
01:29:19,400 --> 01:29:21,040
Speaker 2: last year was that. I think he's the leader right

1907
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 2: now in the clubhouse. So the Nevin Simon who's transferred

1908
01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 2: Hi from Rutgers.

1909
01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:24,160
Speaker 4: It's terrible.

1910
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:26,400
Speaker 2: The offensive line in the spring game, they gave up

1911
01:29:26,439 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 2: what I think thirteen sacks. It was a disaster. The

1912
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:32,680
Speaker 2: defense is installing a four to three. Last year they

1913
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 2: said they didn't have enough time to install a new defense,

1914
01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 2: so maybe they'll be better against the run. That's the

1915
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 2: goal here. Last year they beat they won three games.

1916
01:29:41,280 --> 01:29:45,679
Speaker 2: They beat Akron, Norfolk and Navy. The reason I can't

1917
01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:49,080
Speaker 2: go under here I project what will I project? I

1918
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:51,599
Speaker 2: project two point four. The reason I can't go under

1919
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:54,960
Speaker 2: they played Tulsa at home. Anybody can beat Tulsa. I

1920
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:57,519
Speaker 2: just told you that. And then they play Army and Navy,

1921
01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:00,160
Speaker 2: so like Army and Navy can lose to anybody. They

1922
01:30:00,240 --> 01:30:01,920
Speaker 2: beat Navy last year. I think they beat them by

1923
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:06,080
Speaker 2: like two touchdowns, so you know, and then you still

1924
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:09,240
Speaker 2: have on your you know, you have like North Texas.

1925
01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:12,680
Speaker 2: We'll see how they're going to be. You have your

1926
01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:18,759
Speaker 2: road game at Yukon. So there's other well, Utah State

1927
01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:22,160
Speaker 2: at home. It's not totally lost, So I don't know.

1928
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 2: There's a couple winnable games that I had a bet

1929
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:28,360
Speaker 2: out debt under, but having two service academies on your

1930
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:31,479
Speaker 2: schedule really throws a wrench into it to go under

1931
01:30:31,520 --> 01:30:34,320
Speaker 2: the superlow. So I'm hoping they beat Tulsa from my

1932
01:30:34,439 --> 01:30:39,000
Speaker 2: Tulsa under at home week seven. Let's get it done, Drayton,

1933
01:30:40,080 --> 01:30:42,880
Speaker 2: but this seems a mess. Just yeah, don't put your

1934
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:46,240
Speaker 2: money on them many times. Don't bet them plus forty

1935
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 2: two and week one against Wait till they give up

1936
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:50,800
Speaker 2: a touchdown the first play, then just bet them live

1937
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:52,120
Speaker 2: at a better number if you like Temple.

1938
01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:54,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, what a shock.

1939
01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:57,360
Speaker 6: Stuckey Switzerland over here with another pass. Have you given

1940
01:30:57,360 --> 01:30:59,080
Speaker 6: out a bet on this whole show? Yeah, And I'm

1941
01:30:59,120 --> 01:31:05,519
Speaker 6: most Kolsa under, ECU over and USF under and now.

1942
01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:07,840
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put you two in an Oklahoma drill before

1943
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:08,840
Speaker 4: this episode is over.

1944
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:11,000
Speaker 6: I'm giving on more unders here than Stucky. Yeah, obviously

1945
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:14,080
Speaker 6: it's Temple's gonna be horrific. They you mentioned the three

1946
01:31:14,160 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 6: quarterback battle. I believe it's only two now because Clifton

1947
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:19,640
Speaker 6: McDowell transferred in from Montana, said no thank you and

1948
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 6: turned around and got right back in the portal at

1949
01:31:21,479 --> 01:31:23,679
Speaker 6: the end of spring. So now it's down to Forrest

1950
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:28,320
Speaker 6: Brock and Evans Simone Simon from Rutgers. So yeah, they're

1951
01:31:28,400 --> 01:31:30,840
Speaker 6: they're going to be terrible that they return their running

1952
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:34,520
Speaker 6: backs and receivers who all stank, the defense was atrocious.

1953
01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:37,400
Speaker 6: They don't get an FCS team, So yeah, I'm not

1954
01:31:37,479 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 6: sure where these wins are coming. You know, you can

1955
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:43,800
Speaker 6: point winnable game games, but by winnable, I think that

1956
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 6: kind of just means they'll be less than double digit dogs.

1957
01:31:48,240 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 6: But I find it hard to believe that they're gonna

1958
01:31:51,040 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 6: win three games. I'd be hard pressed to find three

1959
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 6: winnable games, so to expect them to get all three

1960
01:31:56,320 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 6: of them is in a crazy ass. So I'm with

1961
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:02,400
Speaker 6: with Calbreys where I certainly like it under two and

1962
01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:04,920
Speaker 6: a half. And I I mean if they I mean

1963
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:07,280
Speaker 6: they crushed Navy last year, so maybe they get that one.

1964
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:09,960
Speaker 6: But I find it hard to believe they win a

1965
01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:11,679
Speaker 6: game and certainly not three.

1966
01:32:12,600 --> 01:32:13,960
Speaker 4: All Right, we're going to close this out with the

1967
01:32:14,040 --> 01:32:17,080
Speaker 4: lightning rounds. Who is in your AAC title game? Who

1968
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:19,840
Speaker 4: do you have winning it? I'm allowed because this is

1969
01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:22,679
Speaker 4: we're recording this on August second. To hedge a tiny

1970
01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:26,280
Speaker 4: bit here, if Demetrius Davis wins the quarterback job in

1971
01:32:26,320 --> 01:32:29,479
Speaker 4: San Antonio and as QB one for UTSA, I have

1972
01:32:29,600 --> 01:32:32,439
Speaker 4: them losing to Memphis in the title game if it

1973
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:35,160
Speaker 4: is not him, if it is you know Eddie Lee

1974
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 4: starting quarterback or McCown. I'm going to go with South

1975
01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 4: Florida making it to play against Memphis, and in that case,

1976
01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:44,360
Speaker 4: I still have Memphis winning it. Those are my title

1977
01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:47,280
Speaker 4: game matchups. How about you? I know, yeah, I'm with you.

1978
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:49,679
Speaker 4: I'm going to go Memphis over South Florida.

1979
01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:54,160
Speaker 2: Let's go Memphis spiced up a little bit, Memphis over ECU.

1980
01:32:55,040 --> 01:32:57,639
Speaker 4: Oh wow? All right? So yeah, that is certainly spicy.

1981
01:32:57,720 --> 01:32:58,080
Speaker 5: I like that.

1982
01:32:58,280 --> 01:33:01,600
Speaker 4: Shout out to the Pirates no quarter for their opponents

1983
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:05,760
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1984
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1986
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1987
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1988
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1989
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1990
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1991
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1992
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1993
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1995
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1996
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