WEBVTT - 2017 Pac-12 Conference (And Notre Dame) Preview 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the Solid Verbal. I'll that for me. I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:08.200 a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:10.639 be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.640 You want to be happy for dake Edo State. Is that? 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:21.439 Whoo whoom? And Dan and Tye, welcome back to the 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.760 Solid Verbal, Boys and girls. My name is Ty Hildebrand 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.360 joining me over there in beautiful New York City. You 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.240 know him as Dan Rubinstein, Sir, how are you? Ty? 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:32.040 I'm good. 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.479 I just I Sometimes I wake up feeling like, now 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.440 that we're talking Pack twelve today, you're not going to 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.560 play right. I used to know. I used to really 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.239 know this, but now it's just it don't feel right. Ty, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.839 I don't know what it is, and it's made me 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:46.920 put away my pride. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.199 Ooh uh so long. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.760 Ty with this episode with the package Childish Gambino, This 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.520 child is Childish Gambino. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.560 I don't know the name of the song Childish Gambino. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.800 It's it's Redbone, Redbone Daylight. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:04.640 How are you? Man? You know? Ty? 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.000 Now that we have saved the best for last, and 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.240 that would be Pack twelve discussion, I shouldn't say that 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.760 because we're also talking Notre Dame. Uh and is that 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.720 what we're doing. We're doing that right. We are doing 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:19.160 our teams last Pack twelve and Notre Dame, which, if 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.840 you're listening to this right now, get your grandparents in 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.200 the room, okay, and this is. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:28.920 Just fu Okay, Grandpa, grab pop it the song. Verbal 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.760 boys are going to talk Notre Day. Stop it, Grandpa. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.280 I'm yelling. The neighbors are coming out of their homes here, Grandpa. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:41.440 I'm excited to do this show. By the way, Yeah, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.480 I'm not going to yell breaking news to save my 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.720 voice my energy for the remainder of this show. But 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.720 people are going to be listening to this show, and 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.280 there are going to be five college football games in 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.560 the books already. You're going to hear this show on 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.520 a Sunday, which means that I think we need to 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.920 preemptively do some game recaps. Maybe once we get into 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.200 our Stanford preview, we can do that because they're playing 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.200 a game in did I see Australia, Sydney Australia. They 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:17.320 already did time, Oh already played Stanford Rice. How about 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:22.400 that one Oregon State, Colorado State hoo to funk wowsa, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:28.080 that's right. Another just houdah I didn't see that coming before. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:37.600 At forty thousand strong at Alliance Stadium in Sydney, Australia, Allians. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.840 what do we call these games? By the way, we 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.960 had someone email us or tweet us asking what the 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:49.200 proper nomenclature is for these early season games? Are they 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.639 appetizer games? Appartifs they're snacks? Sometimes you see on menu 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.360 that there's snacks, appetizers, entree and the snacks are just 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.640 like you know, deviled eggs or something that you wouldn't 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.720 fully hall and appetizer just a bite like a finger food. Yeah, 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.960 it's the scene in something about I'm just actually I'm 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.679 not going to go there, Ty, I'm just not doing 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.360 go there because it's a family program. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:14.680 We have grandparents listening. That's right, Grandpa, And yeah, it 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:15.840 just snacks, the snacks. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.000 Well, if there are any Australian for ballers who will 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.280 be there, they're already there. Tweet us let us know. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.280 We actually do have a fair amount of Australian for 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.480 ballers who listen to the program, So send us pictures 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.720 and tweets and all that fun stuff. If you were 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.480 at the football game last night between Stanford and UH 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:35.400 and Rice. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:42.080 What a fight between Connor McGregor and Floyd anyway, Holy Holy, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.800 they're not going to be able to show that one again. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.400 Very good, very good. All right, just making sure we 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.480 cover all our base. Thank you. We do have a 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.320 new home for our pickam pool. Shortly after we did 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.600 the show on Wednesday, we were able to find a solution. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.600 Go to our web page, look at the posting for 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.160 this particular episode. Look on Twitter, look on Facebook. The 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.600 new link for the pick and Pool could be found there. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.640 Get in if you haven't already. People who got in 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.640 the old Yahoo one. We're not going to be keeping tabs. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.600 Feel free to pick your games in there if you 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.440 so desire. We will not be keeping tabs in that one. 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.200 The official one has been moved elsewhere, So go to 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.400 the website check it out again. We're on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.120 all the hotspots. You can find all the information you 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:31.560 need right there. Great job, Ty. So as you eluded Dan, 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:36.600 We've got one conference left. We've got one big independent 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:45.240 team left, Dan. That conference. That conference is the PAC twelve. Yep, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.120 that an independent team is you Mass. I would like 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.840 to start in the south and go north. It can 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.360 be our college football Nile River. Here, you will close 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.680 out with Oregon and No Tree Dame. Okay, As we 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.680 start in the South, I think it's fairly obvious that 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.840 the team everyone's got their eye on is the USC Trojans, right. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:11.200 I think that's correct USC ten and three a year ago. Obviously, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.919 it starts with your twenty eighteen first overall draft choice, 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:26.520 Sam Darnald, Dan crank up that dang hype machine. Yeah, 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.719 that train is a chuggin. If you didn't already know 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:35.440 every other miscellaneous fact about Sam Darnold, maybe about his 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.200 grandfather being the Marlborough Man, or the fact that he 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.720 played multiple sports in high school, any of that kind 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.080 of stuff. If you didn't know it, you will soon. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.280 Here though, is the coolest if you didn't see it, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.680 we tweeted it. He is co hosting a podcast with 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.000 our friend Yogi Roth. The season of Sam much better 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.760 than the summer of Sam. I don't have anything to 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.479 add about him on the field. His numbers last were 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.719 remarkably consistent for what a red shirt freshman whatever he was. Yes, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.839 if you watched him, he's got a presence. There's a 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.320 ton of reason to be excited, a ton of reason 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.160 to think that he's really special. Do you have anything 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:14.159 to add beyond that. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.960 As it relates to Sam Donald specifically, you know that 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.600 he has the capability of being special. The thing that 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.120 will affect Sam Donald though, and what his season looks like, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.200 is replacing a couple starters on the line that moved 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.440 on to the NFL, replacing two big receivers and Juju Smith, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:35.479 Schuster and Darius Rogers, and the familiarity is. It's going 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.000 to take a little bit of time, but he has 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.760 a ton of young, speedy talent to work with, talent. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.159 The guys are stepping up because it's USC. I do 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.680 worry about the line. I do worry about who he's 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.760 throwing to. I like that he's got Ronald Jones back. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:53.560 That should provide USC with some big playability on the ground. Defensively, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.880 there's a little turnover at all three levels of their defense, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.880 but there is a ton of talent coming back there 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.400 as well. I thought about going doodle alert on Cam 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:09.400 Smith because he's weirdly like Anonymous despite being a star 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.600 middle linebacker. Yeah, I mean, the injuries have hurt, yeah, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.560 but I'm excited about the potential for this defense with 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.760 some new guys stepping up again. You'll lose guys like 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.560 Adorri Jackson and there are some others, but I still 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.440 feel pretty good as a whole. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.000 Yeah, I think you nailed it. Rasheem Green is legitimately 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.720 a Pac twelve star. Along the defensive line, very good. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.120 I think he led he All returning tacklers are led 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.160 by Rasheem Green. Yes, you're right. Cam Smith is very good. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.840 Port Augustin is probably their best pass rushing option. They've 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.000 recruited very well in the secondary. Really, if there is 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.080 a weakness to this USC team, I think it is 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.960 the speed. And that is not to say that there's 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.360 not talents, which there very clearly is, and I'm not 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.400 worried that they're going to be at all a letdown, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.440 but it is working in new receivers and perhaps the 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.680 back end. They gave up some big plays last year, 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.840 and there is a little bit of inexperience that could 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.400 be a little bit concerning. Because the level of quarterbacking 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.720 in the Pac twelve is pretty high, if not the 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.200 highest in the country. So if you're going to nitpick, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.080 those are small issues because the talent is so high 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.920 in LA and there's consistency along the coaching staff, and 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.240 this is you know, it's crazy to say, given what 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.680 we saw with Sark and before that Lane Kiffin. This 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.800 is Clay Helton's team. He has a good staff in there. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:30.000 So USC is probably the team I'm worried about the least. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.559 Other than that schedule without a bye week, the. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.160 Schedule's kind of right in that goldilocks zone. If you're 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.600 looking to make a title run. It's not too easy, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.200 not too ridiculous. Home against Texas at Notre Dame the 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.280 non conference. Yeah, and that Texas is a week after Stanford, 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.920 right correct. Tougher games not impossible, good non conference opponents 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.920 home against Stanford. Week two, huge game home against Utah 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.360 home I use air quotes here against Ucla. Those might 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.800 be their toughest conference games. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.360 I have the Wazoo game circled Wazoo could be interesting 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:05.760 as well. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.600 Friday night game. I like that they get Stanford early, 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.880 but the road schedule, look God, Cal at Cal at Wazoo, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.080 the Friday night game at ASU at Colorado the week 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.120 before you s like, could be a bit of a sleeper. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.720 But buying large, this is pretty damn workable. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.480 Oh yeah, it's fine. They missed Washington and organ as 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.839 we know, and yeah, it's fine. I just the no 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.079 bye week feels like a trip up. They have the 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.280 non buffer situations with UH with Stanford, Texas and Utah 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.320 going and going to Notre Dame. That's that's the sort 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.960 of the circle area that I have. But yeah, this 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.040 is this is a team that has very little in 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.040 the way of worries, and that Wazoo game is a 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.880 little bit interesting also because Wazoo's weakness, and we'll get 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:53.240 to it, is the secondary most likely, and USC has newer, 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.640 greener receivers, and Wazoo has all sorts of great weapons 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.800 on the outside, and USC has you know, some guys 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.439 to work in in their own secondary. So fun matchup. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.960 USC goes eleven and one in the regular season and 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:12.559 they lose to Texas in Week three. Whoa, that's my prediction. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.320 I have eleven and one losing to either Wazoo or Utah. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.560 I could see both of those. But how do you 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.920 solve a problem like Utah if you're USC. I think 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.680 they've lost one two of the last three years to 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.600 the Utes. Kyle Whittingham, I've never numbered out that problem. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.040 I've got Utah going seven and five this year, which 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.920 means inevitably they'll go nine and three. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.880 Yep, every year they outperform every year. I've got a 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.000 loss to Texas here. I think USC makes the Pac 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.599 twelve Championship. I will decide at the end of the 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.400 show whether or not they're going to beat Washington in 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:46.800 that game. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.680 May I say on USC briefly, please? How does USC 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.440 compare in your mind to other teams that are regarded 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.400 in a similar way nationally? So Florida State, Clemson, Alabama, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.360 Ohio State. I don't know if I'm forgetting Oklahoma. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:04.040 Perhaps. I think I feel better about pretty much all 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.480 of those teams, with the exception of Clemson. And it 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.160 may have very little to do with actual talent and 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.760 more to do with the fact that USC always burns 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.600 us when we have expectations. Not just us, everybody, everybody, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.880 not just us, right, I think that's right. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:24.319 I think I like USC more than Oklahoma, agreed, all 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.160 things equal. I like the talent that USC has on 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.640 defense more so than what Oklahoma has. And I like 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.520 I love Ronald Jones. We even mentioned that love Ronald Jones, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:37.320 and I think I like them. I like them better 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.960 than Clemson as well. And I really do like Clemson, 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.480 So that's where I'm drawing my line. I think USC 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.439 is about the third or fourth best team in the country. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.960 Moving on, let's go to Colorado. Dan ten and four, Okay, 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.880 ten and four a year ago came a bit out 0:11:54.920 --> 0:12:00.320 of nowhere. Mike McIntyre Coach of the Year. Colorado just 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.400 went gangbusters. It was a great season this year. We've 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:09.320 got Philip Lindsay coming back at running back very nearly 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:14.600 mydod alert very nearly, twelve hundred yards, sixteen touchdowns. Also, 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.640 Shay Fields coming back at wide out, big play guy 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:22.240 ninety six targets, nine touchdowns a year ago. I look 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.720 on defense, though, and I look at the fact that 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.840 so many defensive playmakers have now left the program. Jim 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.480 Levitt included, Yes, I look at sef olufou leaving in 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.960 the veteran presence he brought to the offense as a 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.400 bit of an issue. They've got some turnover on both lines. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.640 The schedule is just kind of okay. It feels like 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.960 a necessary step back. A program headed in the right direction, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.720 but a necessary step back by default. I'll go seven 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:56.120 to five. 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.679 Pretty good schedule, Colorado, I would add it, and I 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.480 think all your points are correct. They lose a ton 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.000 on defense. We saw the guys in the secondary get drafted. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.320 How good they were for Jim Levitt up front, And yeah, 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.120 the safe of loofoul thing was a big deal, although 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.680 he seemed to like die in the third quarter of 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.599 every other game, so they are used to playing with 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.559 Adam Steven Montes did a good job in relief mostly 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.360 and schedule wise, the non conference isn't bad. They have 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.040 a neutral sych game against Colorado. They traveled to UCLA, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.480 which Ucla has a stupid talented defense, but you know, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.120 TBD on offense under Jedfish and the Rose Bowls not 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.800 the most difficult place to play at Oregon State at Wazoo, 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.040 at Arizona. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:35.520 State at Utah. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.520 So the fact that they get USC at home, they 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:43.439 get Washington at home, and they miss Oregon. Who I mean, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.679 Oregon's going to be okay. They're nothing special, but they 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.520 have the capability to look good at times. So a 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.439 decent enough schedule I think. I think seven five, eight 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:58.960 and four, which honestly tie again where Colorado was oh 0:13:59.000 --> 0:13:59.920 my god years ago. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.600 I would take that in a heartbeat. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.960 Seven and five coming after huge losses on one side 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:05.400 of the ball. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.720 Wow. Great, cool, and you never know too. I mean, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:14.240 there really is some skill talent that's still in Colorado. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.520 It's not like the cover's totally bare. Oh. Steven Montez, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.120 as you mentioned, he looked pretty good in limited action 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.280 last year around mid season when he had a fill in. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.680 I thought he was doing a half eason job. Yeah. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:31.440 And Mike McIntyre, you know Rocky off season four. I 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.760 mean not for him for much more important people, but 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.160 off field stuff aside, done a really good job on 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.880 field stuff. I'm saying seven and five were you're saying 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:51.160 seven and five, I'm gonna say one, two, three, four, five, six, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:53.400 I'm gonna say. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.440 It in four. Wow. Okay, Well, I hope so like Colorado, 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.560 I hope so. Yeah, Let's go to Utah. Staying in 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:04.240 the Southern Division of the PAC twelve. Utah went nine 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.880 to four a year ago. Dan Kyle Whittingham announced a 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.960 few days ago that he's going to give the keys 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.880 to sophomore Tyler Huntley at quarterback, which was a bit 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.880 of a surprise that he didn't announce senior Troy Williams. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.320 They do, of course, lose Joe Williams their running back 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.120 who went to the forty nine ers, But it'll be 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.480 a new look now for Utah. They also have a 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.040 new offensive coordinator, Troy Taylor, who wants to run more 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:36.120 of an up tempo passing attack. I'm excited about their defense. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.920 I think their defense will be able to harass and 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:44.720 disrupt opposing quarterbacks. But can we get that hot coal 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.280 sound out again that we used in our SEC preview 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.000 when we're talking about LSU, Can we get that out? 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.200 Can we talk about Kyle Whittingham and how well he'd 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.280 fare in that situation. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:03.840 Among PAC twelve head coaches, Moro would be gone instantly. Yeah, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.800 I think rich trod and Todd Graham gone instantly. Clay 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.920 Helton might be alright. Whittingham would be gangbuster. Yeah, he 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.640 wouldn't even would be okay, not great. You know who 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.840 I think would do pretty well? One hundred yards of 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:24.280 burning hot, scalding colds, scalding Coles, Garry Anderson. I feel 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.520 like there's a discipline sleeper. 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.600 Yeah, you got to be disciplined to coach at Oregon State. Yeah. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.520 Here here is Utah's schedule. They could very easily start 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.560 four to oh play North Dakota on the road at 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.040 BYU in the Holy War. Always a tough game, but 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.760 they could win that game San Jose State and then 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.720 at Arizona, right, but then there's a bye and then 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:55.520 things get weird. Stanford at USC, Arizona State at Oregon, Ucla, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.240 Wazoo at Washington, and they finish up with Colorado. That's 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.520 a stretch, man, That is a stretch to close out 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:03.600 your college football season. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.720 They look like, as you said, they look like a 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.840 seven and five team that will somehow go eight and four, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.840 nine to three, just because the strength of that The 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.560 defensive front is very real, even without Hunter Dimmick, who 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.720 basically tackled everybody and owned every backfield last year, in 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:18.640 the last couple of years. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:23.520 But lolatulle or lodu leile loll lotulele. I prefer lod 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.760 to leile loll. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.720 I mean, could you imagine if loll lotulele played a 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.000 lol volun not be fun for me so much alliteration. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.320 But defensively, they're going to be very good. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.760 A little bit worried about the secondary, but utfront they 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.480 are in a very dominant space. Worried about the offensive 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.159 line to somewhat of an extent, and quarterback is a 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.240 big mystery to me. Troy Taylor, as you mentioned, comes 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.520 over from Eastern Washington where they had a wide open 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.240 passing attack. And here's the thing not to discount as well, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.400 even with as much turnover as as there is on offense, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.720 Utah ads Darren Carrington, who has been a dominant pack 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.160 twelve received when he is on the field. We saw 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.000 him light up Florida State and Stanford. He shows up 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:06.760 for big games. So he will be making the trip 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.160 back to Oddson after being kicked off the team, and 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.960 that's a good place to start if you are He's 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.560 a sophomore, right Huntley. Yeah, it's a good place to 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:21.040 start with a grad transferred star receiver available to you. So, yes, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.040 I like Utah. This is just another Utah team. That's 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.760 a very obvious statement, but I think people understand what 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:28.400 I'm trying to say. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.240 I hope they can accomplish a little bit more of 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:32.720 an up tempo passing attack. 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:34.720 I think that'd be a neat look for Utah. Me 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.879 huge help to the defense big time. Well if it succeeds. 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.640 If it succeeds, yeah, and if they're not going three 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.960 and out more often than they usually would, and then yes, yeah, 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.880 but we'll see. Okay, Ucla they went four and eight, 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.760 part of the four and eight club from a year ago. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.919 You know, the club, ty not really not a grouping 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.280 of teams that people are concerned about with that record. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.840 Josh Rosen, he was nicked up. His sophomore year did 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.720 not go as well as it was supposed to. He's 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.880 healed up though, he's back this year. And Dan very 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:11.240 nearly a Fantasy Things selection was Josh we selected, you 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.399 selected Josh Rosen in his hot takes late. Yeah, Josh 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.480 Rosen on his third offensive coordinator, also something that we 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:21.480 very closely considered. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.920 Right, Oh, absolutely, Josh Rosen's in a good place. I'm 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.000 the line was pretty atrocious last year, which is not 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.960 a good sign. No real pass catcher stepped up, not 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.280 a great sign. There's talent there. They couldn't run the 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.520 ball at all. So so Jamaba will be the guy again. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.880 I don't think last year was his fault. They were 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:43.920 just incredibly inefficient offensively, particularly or most notably after Josh 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.320 Rosen went down. But here is the wonderful news, Tye. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:52.840 And this is I say this with earnest nature. This 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:54.520 defense is stupid talented. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.399 Oh yeah, Tom scrap Bradley, Tom Scrapradley, Yeah, Tom scrap Bradley. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.480 They lose a couple of you literal huge places along 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.200 the line, but they've recruited incredibly where while they're including 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.800 the number one overall recruit in the country Phillips. Yeah, 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:12.440 so he should at least situationally wreak havoc at times. 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.600 And I think they got the number one corner in 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.080 the country. And Darnay Holmes, who if you watched him play, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.080 is sort of like fly paper like that. Well, he's 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:22.239 stuck on you there it is. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:22.639 That's that. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.879 And they're just across the board. They've rec you know, 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:28.560 they lose pieces in the secondary, and they bring in 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.280 four more. Kenny Young is as good a middle linebacker 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.959 perhaps the side of a Zeem Victor in the conference. There, 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.240 they're just they're gonna lie if the offense does anything. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:39.600 Tie. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.560 Yeah, this is going to be a top twelve defense 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:44.200 in the country. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.520 You would think that Jed Fish could build a passing 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.240 attack with Josh Rosen, You would think, you know, I mean, 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.520 he did it with Jake Rudoc at Michigan. He should 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.360 be able to do it with Josh Rosen, a demonstrably 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:59.959 better quarterback at UCLA. He's got an experienced group of 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:04.879 wide outs, Darren Andrews, Jordan Lasley. But who's good? Who's good? 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:09.080 Are any of them? I don't know. They're hair old, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:14.200 experience roots, they're experienced. Okay. He's got a running game 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.040 that needs to get a lot better. And this is 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.040 something that we can't just pan over. They were terrible 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.920 at running the football, real real bad. A lot returning 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:27.760 at running back, a lot returning along the offensive line. 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:28.800 They need to figure that out. 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.240 I got a grad transfer in from Miami, so they're 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.199 they're trying, they're shoring up. Oh here's the other thing, Ty, 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.200 we got to pour out. I don't know, are you 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:37.879 drinking anything? 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:38.199 I am not. 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.000 I've got water, just had some. I had some lemon 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.800 ginger tea And that's not a good thing to pour out. 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.240 But Jet Fish going to UCLA to run their offense 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:50.360 means the end of the Michigan Ohio State photoshop War 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:56.120 between Jet oh Smith and Wow. A lot of good 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.760 men were lost tie in the photoshop War of six 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:03.240 twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen, and I don't know who won 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.919