WEBVTT - The Tues Cruise: Arnaz Battleship 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.720 Welcome to the solid verbal. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:05.600 I'll that for me. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.200 I'm 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 --> 0:00:11.840 You want to be happy for. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.000 Day Edith State? 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:13.600 Is that? 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:13.960 Whoo? 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:14.440 Whoam? 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.120 And now Dan and tie. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.279 Oh hi verbals. This is your captain, Tye Hildebrandt. I 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:27.760 am joined as always by my Lieutenant Dan Ruvenstein. Welcome 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.400 aboard this college football experience that we like to call 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.360 the Tuoes Cruise, don't forget. If you like the solid verbal, 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.760 subscribe to the show out on Apple, Google, Spotify, stitch, Er, Tune, 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.640 and overcast, all the usual hotspots wherever you like to 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.040 find your podcasts. We are a college football show. We 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.479 do three shows a week. This is the one where 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.640 we look back, try to put it all in perspective, 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.280 figure out what all the results mean. We've also got 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.360 a Thursday preview show as well as a Sunday afternoon 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.720 recap show where we try to really give you the 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.880 full holistic picture. Lieutenant Dan, what's going on in and 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.080 around the world of college football? 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.240 How are you, Tye? I want to de stock this 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.679 salary of performance that we're doing right now. After I 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.520 peeled back the carrot of digital Audio on Sunday. I'm 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.120 good we started our connection. I guess I'll keep it 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.479 on theme. I went down to your stateroom, I went 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.680 down to your cabin, and you had been struggling with 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.280 your voice, yes, traustion, and then you hit record and 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.560 you go, oh hurry, and you are fully in. So 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.080 I want everybody to know that the sacrifice that Tie 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.959 is giving to you. All systems, go man your battle stations, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:40.600 oh fore boting. It's very real, Tie. You are dedicated 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.600 to the craft, and I appreciate it. I am dedicated 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.040 to the craft. I have so much tazzo wild orange 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.000 tea swimming at meat that we might have to go 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.160 over to the side of the boat. Not a sponsor, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.000 not a sponsor. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.520 Yeah, drain the old lizard into the international waters that 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.760 surround us here on the two's cruise Neah, where we 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.880 talk about college football. So, as you know, we've been 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:05.600 playing mini games all throughout our previous versions of this 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.919 Tuesday Show. Today we're gonna give one more a chance 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:17.200 to breathe. Okay, we got some suggestions about this. We 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.280 honestly had it in the Q long before anyone suggested it. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.280 But since since this is more of a nautically themed show, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.280 since we talk about being on the open seas, we 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.520 decided that we would play a game of battleshow. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.760 That ship Milton Bradley's great game of strategy. It's loaded 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.959 with action and suspense. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.840 So here is what we are doing to keep this 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.400 within a college football context. Okay, what we've done is 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.919 you've got a board. It's a smaller board than the 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:54.000 actual battleship board. Otherwise we would be here all afternoon. Yeah, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.840 four by four ABCD one two three four, got our 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.040 own little grids and randomly played on each of our 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:07.520 respective boards are four preseason assumptions that we made that 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.840 are really on the verge of sinking. And so part 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.720 of this game is sort of just to do the 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.120 humanitarian thing and put it out of its misery. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.040 Oh man, yeah, our bad preseason takes. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.359 But also we're competitive individuals and we're trying to win 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.000 the game and sink the others first. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:25.320 Oh, very true. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.360 So what you're gonna do is, I hope you've got 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:29.760 your board ready. I haven't seen it. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:30.440 I do. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.720 Okay, what we're going to do is we're going to 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.040 guess we might have to flip a coin here to 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.720 see who goes first. I've got the sounds queued up. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.280 We're ready to go. We're going to make this as 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.440 close to the real thing as we can. You and 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.680 I are quite literally going to play college football battleship, Dan. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.880 Yes, and what should we call a college football version 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:48.640 of battleship? 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.160 You, I can't take credit for this. You have to 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.280 unveil the official name of this. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.880 So it's the best name that either involves ship or battle. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.520 So we're playing our nasm Arnaz battleship, right. Yes? You 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.560 were you a fan of his Notre Dame career, pro career? 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.400 He was. He was a tim Rette era forty nine 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:14.000 ers for everybody following at home, Arna's battleship battleship. Did 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.320 you like him? I like the name. Oh man, you 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.400 didn't like watching him? I like the name. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.479 He was a receiver, wasn't he he was once he 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.159 got to the pro game? 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.760 Correct? He was a dual threat quarterback in college. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.200 Correct, played quarterback, played receiver, played more receiver once he 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:32.840 got to the league. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.240 And the name is cool. It is very cool. U 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.479 double major. It looks like with a three point two gpa. 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.520 Now that is one more major than I had, and 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.200 he went to a better school than I did, So 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:50.400 much respect, Daniel. Are you ready to play Arna's. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:57.280 Battleship, Battleship Milton Bradley's great game of strategy. It's loaded 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:57.719 with action. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.600 I guess we could have gone with Bill Blanken Battleship 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.640 something like that, but we could have. Yeah, it's okay, 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.560 let's go. I'm not a huge A one sauce fans. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:20.640 Let's go A two, tie A two? All right, No, no, no, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.320 Dick didn't hit anything. Ding means he didn't hit anything. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.839 Ding means it. Okay, let's go. You get to guess now, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:28.839 or do I get to go again? I get to guess. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:35.880 Okay, I am gonna guess A two. I'll go far 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.000 corner D four. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.760 Yes, there's a hit. Yeah, that's officially what do we got. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.840 So I thought Miami would win the Coastal end up 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:56.200 in the ACC Championship game. It's not looking like that'll 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.280 be the case. Tie. I thought that defense, which returned 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.359 a good amount of guys and an offense that was 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.279 talented enough, and we didn't know before the season and 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.040 when we recorded our AEC previeould be Nikos Perry or 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.320 Jared Williams ended up being Williams. But I guess I 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.840 just did not foresee the offensive line and the mistakes 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.279 and the catastrophes on both sides of the ball, the 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:22.080 big play errors coming. And so I am officially singing 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.480 year one Manny Diez hopes of going to an ACC 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:30.240 championship game, and I don't know if the prognosis is amazing, 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.880 but they should recruit well enough. He obviously deserves time 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:39.760 to establish a culture. But I feel very wrong in 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.919 thinking that Miami was going to be the team. So 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.840 Miami's ACC championship game hopes you are officially at the 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:47.719 bottom of the ocean. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.640 Well, if you look at Miami so far, three and 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:55.080 four on the year, they've lost to Florida North Carolina, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.800 Virginia Tech, and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech the overtime one 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.599 that we saw back in in week just a few 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.599 days ago, one in three in the ACC, one and 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.000 three in the ACC. On the schedule right now, we've 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.720 got road games against pitt and Florida State. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:12.040 We've got a. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.200 Home game against Louisville, home game against Florida International, and 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.720 then they close out the year on the road at Duke. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:23.200 At least according to some projections, they are favored to 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.640 win all of those games. I think the hardest, I 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:33.360 guess would be at Pitt, maybe rivaled by Florida State, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.080 you know, both those games feel kind of the same 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:36.320 to me. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.000 But does something excellently well And we'll get to that. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.560 Maybe maybe not. And I think you're right at Pitt. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.320 We saw what you happen to UCF there. I think 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:46.880 that's the answer the thing. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.600 That I look at Miami and say, And it isn't 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.280 all that different from my own preseason projections, which, by 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:53.960 the way, I mean, you take the hit for this one, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.160 but I was right there with you. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:55.720 Now. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.240 They needed to get more consistent quarterback play, and of 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.280 course they bring over Tamar. Tell you Jared Williams gets 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.760 the start. There was a lot of praise with some 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.160 of what he did early on. Manny Diaz got the 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.480 hype stirred up down and Coral Gables just has not materialized, 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.280 has not materialized at all. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.200 In fairness, there are moments for Miami defensively where they 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.160 look absurdly good. It's just that we're describing it as 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.200 moments and not quarters or series is strung together, or 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.920 games or has it's moments. There are times where they 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.679 just look otherworldly on defense. And that's I mean, as 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.640 up and down and as weird as the coastal is 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.400 not good enough to be that moment to moment. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.319 The one thing that I will point out and then 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.400 I promise, Saul, let you have your turn. Yes, Miami 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.720 has lost all four of those games by one score 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:54.679 or less. Four points against Florida, three points on the 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.440 road at North Carolina, seven points against Virginia Tech, and 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.520 of course the overtime game that they lost is past 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.439 weekend to Georgia Tech. Second order wins, which is something 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.560 that our friend Bill Connolly tracks has Miami at five 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.000 five point four, meaning if things go a little bit differently, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.240 this could be a five win team as opposed to 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:13.880 a three win team. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.640 Could obviously be a lot different of a story. Ifs 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.600 and butts tie, ifs and butts, bigger picture as we 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.640 look forward, now, where does Miami go from here? 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.360 How do you feel about Miami's prospects? 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.839 Well, the offensive line has to improve. We're talking after 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.120 the season, talking next offseason. The offensive line has to improve. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.240 There have been really nice again, the word is moments 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.079 for Jaron Williams. I think they're going to continue to 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.080 recruit well, and it's it's a year zero one. It 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.720 was an unexpected retirement from a head coach, and so 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.480 there is something that is incredibly deserving about saying, okay, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.440 this all happened unexpectedly, was all thrown together sort of 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.360 last second, unexpectedly. Again, it's going to be okay. I 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:57.000 think losing to Georgia Tech is completely indefensible. Losing in 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.520 the way that they lost to Virginia Tech late also 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.840 sort of indefensible. So I don't know what you know. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.240 There's like win expectancies and stuff like that. If Miami 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.080 can get to the point where they just win where 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.840 they should, they're like a nine to three team, They're 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:12.920 just not there yet. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:17.640 All right, your turn. You guessed A two incorrectly. See 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:18.720 if you could do better this time. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.480 All right, let's stick with the two theme and we'll 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:33.559 go B two. You got me mono a mono here? 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.479 Yeah, yeah, yeah, playing Arnez Battleship. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:37.320 M hm. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:43.920 I have here maybe my most controversial opinion. It was 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.160 certainly one that I was very confident about going into 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.720 the season, and that was that this Michigan team was 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.760 not only going to win the Big Ten but also 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.079 make the College Football Playoff. Wow, you doo, okay, lot 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.760 to peel back here, A lot to peel back here. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.720 This has not worked out well, no, suffice to say, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.839 but Michigan is five and two. They're five and two, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.520 at least in terms of a win loss record. That's 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.560 better than Miami. You could do worse than five and two. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:14.559 Correct. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.520 Of Michigan's five remaining games, though, given the way they 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.199 look on offense, you could see like four of them 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.360 being competitive. I don't think that's too big of a stretch. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.839 The issue that we say that is because the new 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.120 offense has yet to click. That may still happen. There 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.480 were moments down the stretch against Penn State where yeah, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.720 I kind of clicked. They didn't give up, they played hard. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.360 They probably should have tied it if they don't have 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.640 a drop pass in the end zone. They just need 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.800 more of those clicks. You need to get it together 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.640 earlier on in some of these games. Right now, they 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.440 are fifth in the country, and this is something that 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.719 I know you and I have texted about fifth in 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.240 the country and starting field position. Yeah, yet it's just 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.199 that their offense is super inefficient at the moment, not 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.840 getting any bang for the buck there. They need to 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.080 find a way to correct that, and they need to 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.520 start by at least looking a little bit more organized 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.280 on offense. Maybe the defense hasn't been quite up to 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.679 the level that we've seen in past years. It's still 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.720 really good and still more than good enough to give 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.960 this offense good field position. It's just a shame they 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.000 can't turn it into more. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.440 Yeah, And it's one of those things too, Where on 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.600 first downs are they can they get a six yard run. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:30.199 It's not complicated complicated things. It's not cracking this giant 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.360 mystery that is football. It's basic things that they can't 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.720 consistently string together. They find themselves in third and long 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.920 a little bit too often, and even though they've been 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.480 okay on third and long, they're just they're finding themselves 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.719 there far too much. It's not like they're playing opponents 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.600 on their skill level. Penn State is, Ohio State is, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.520 but the rest of the year they're more talented than 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.600 a team like Wisconsin. At the very least, they should 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.480 be losing that game last second that they should be 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.160 in that game for four straight orders, and so we've 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.200 sort of talked ad nauseum about the Michigan issues this year, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.720 but it's self inflicted. It's the turnovers, it's the fumbles 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.080 I think they have. You know, they're they're comparable in 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.200 terms of turnovers already to where they were last year 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.600 all year, and so you can only give the ball 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:24.400 away so much before you just say, I guess we're 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.360 just doomed. I guess we're just doomed. And I don't 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.640 think Michigan full. They may well beat, you know, the 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.199 back half of their schedule until Ohio State in an 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:38.280 exciting way, but something is just off. And I was 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.640 with you in the optimism, and I'm not going to 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.200 say that we should be tearing down the Michigan season 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.120 because they could go nine and three and win a 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.600 bowl and go ten and three. That's not, you know, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:54.400 a crazy, crazy thought, but they're way behind Ohio State, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.840 and that was what the change was meant to affect 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.960 the distance, then close the gap between Michigan and Ohio State. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.640 And that's just it's not a reality. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.720 That was part of the reason for the optimism because 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.560 of course Ohio State bringing in a new coach, even 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:13.880 though he was already on the staff. Dudes, right, Whenever 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.480 you swap out a legend, it's it's tough. It's a 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.720 coin flip to begin with when you swap out a coach, 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.360 and especially when you're replacing a legend, it's just you 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.600 never know what kind of traction you're going to get 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.440 on that front. And they have not done much to 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.040 close that gap. On offense, They've looked very disorganized. Here's 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.680 what they look like now. I mentioned that four of 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.840 the five games are competitive. The big Notre Dame game 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.680 this weekend, it's at home, it's at night. They're around 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.800 a point and a half favored in that game, which, okay, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.800 a little confusing to me, but fine, tough game, easily losable. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.800 They're at Maryland the week after Notre Dame. I think 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:52.880 I think they should have that one in the bag. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.960 But then final three weeks of the year home against 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.240 Michigan State. That's a rivalry they should have. Wait, but 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:05.200 yes it is. Who knows at Indiana in between Michigan 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.760 State and Ohio State. That's a letdown look ahead spot 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.760 that we've been talking up since June. And Indiana ain't bad. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.680 That's a losable game right and then obviously Ohio State 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.600 to close out the year. Obviously thought maybe will be 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.400 a little bit of a closer scenario when we got 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.080 to week fourteen, when we talked about it again back 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.320 in June. But right now Ohio State does look like 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.040 their leaps and bounds better and. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.880 In terms of ifs and butts at the same time, 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.640 they go to the wire against Army and what do 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.840 we know now about Army. Yeah, not particularly great this 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.080 year now, so that looks worse. They might be a 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.720 top seventy eighty team that looks worse right now. They 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.760 blow out Rutgers. They have a great defensive game against Iowa, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.520 and i was a tough team Illinois, even though now 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.720 in retrospect we've seen Illinois beat Wisconsin Penn State. If 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.040 Ronnie Bell catches that ball, you have what a tie 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.440 game lay against the James Franklin team. That's a good 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.840 spot to find yourself in. Yeah, it is. Well, it's 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.000 just it's IF's and butts again, and it's it's It 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.640 could go either way from Michigan at this point, and 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.920 I am I'm still excited to see which direction it goes. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.840 I'm not fully willing to give up on an exciting Michigan, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.440 but we should sink those playoff hopes down to the 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:18.320 bottom of the ocean. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.760 What do we think about Michigan now moving forward? Because 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.160 if we after the season big right, if we focus in, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:30.640 if we focus that periscope in on the future state 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.200 of this offense. Shaye Patterson gone after this year, but 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:38.360 elsewhere on the offense, maybe aside from the line, which 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.840 we know as a veteran group, there's a lot of 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.280 young skill talent on this roster, so a lot of 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.120 those guys will be back. Presumably Dylan McCaffrey will be 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.840 back as well, and the new starting quarterback in Junior 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.800 twenty twenty, he will have had a year in this 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.720 system now under Josh Gaddis. Provided they hold on to Gaddis, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.360 Where do we like come down on this Michigan offense 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:03.120 moving forward. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:10.600 I think they'll hold on to Gaddis. I think it'll 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.560 go up. I do I have high hope they've recruited 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.680 well enough. Zach Sharboney seems pretty promising a bigger back 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.320 as a true freshman thrown into it. I think fumble 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.480 issues can be dealt with, you know, a big toss 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.480 up will be what happens with the junior receivers to 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.000 replack Nico Collins and Donovan People's jones, and see, you know, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.919 they're obviously not maximizing their value. So I imagine a 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.560 couple of them at least will be back just in 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.560 hopes of proving that they have NFL draft potential. So 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.840 I am I'm going to remain bullish on Michigan, and 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.280 I know they're in Columbus next season, but the schedule 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.400 should be I don't do you have their their schedule 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.920 twenty schedule in front of you. It seems like it'll 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:54.800 be okay. I still am hopeful that when you consistently 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.000 year over year have an excellent defense and all you 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.879 need to do is produce and above average off with talent, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:03.480 there's a lot to still be hopeful for. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.439 Well, maybe we'll talk about LSU in a little bit. Perhaps, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.399 maybe we'll talk about LSU in a little bit. And 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.000 it was a similar story there for. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.359 A long time at Washington Michigan September fifth in the 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:16.359 twenty twenty season. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.240 All right, so who's up? I guess I'm up, Yes, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.880 I am up to guess I'm going to go? Where 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.400 was I was D four last time? Correct, I am going. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:39.000 B four crap? 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.000 I thought maybe you did the corner thing where you 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:42.200 stacked them all in the corner. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.640 No, I'll give you another shot, though, Tay. 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:53.240 I feel bad, okay, D three. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:01.200 Ah wow, Like Shaye Patterson, I'm just a miss after 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:02.160 a miss that was great. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.199 I'm trying to work my way out from the corner. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.679 I'll give you one more shot, tie another one. I 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:13.320 feel terrible. Yeah, all right, let's go. We'll go D 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:23.960 D one. Yes, I knew you had another one in 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:24.840 that D column. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.400 I knew you would do that. I do. Yeah, I'm 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:32.760 deeper Dan. Your hit and my miss, really, and this 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.879 is very specific, is an actual miss is Mississippi States. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.200 I was very high on year two of the Joe 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.360 Morehead experience. Moving past there, what I thought was going 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.359 to be the end of very bad quarterback play. I 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.119 thought they'd have a complete team, returning the receivers that 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.720 they did, returning an underrated running back in Kylon Hill, 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.399 returning a pretty experienced offensive line. And I know, you know, 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.680 losing Montes Sweat and Jeffrey Simmons was huge, but good linebackers, 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.320 upperclassmen on the line, some experience in the secondary, not 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:03.840 a lot. I knew that was gonna be a question 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.679 coming in, but I didn't fully see how they could 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.160 fall off the way that they have. Obviously, you lose 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.600 to Tennessee and you have to have a sit down, 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.919 you have to have a conversation, and so Keithon Thompson 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.720 leaves and comes back, and Tommy Stevens comes in, and 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.159 you know, he and Joe Morehead have this rapport, and 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.520 Garrett Trader, this blue chip quarterback, starts getting time. I 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:26.760 still felt pretty good about them two three weeks into 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:32.000 the season, but the mistakes on offense and god, the 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.680 last I mean I was saying the last. The entirety 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.800 of that Auburn experience has me so soured on the 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.000 twenty nineteen season for the Bulldogs that I have to 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.520 write it off. I have to sink that take to 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:52.160 the bottom of the ocean. Just the picks against Tennessee 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.120 and coming out of a bye week, and to look 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.840 that listless on offense, just mistake prone. And even when 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.800 they have completed passes to their own team, they've been okay, 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:05.119 they've been pretty good, but that's that's a pretty big qualifier. 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.160 When you throw the picks that they do. So, Yeah, 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.399 they've been thrown on and have had, you know, the 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:14.360 continued struggles throwing where this was the best pass defense 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.479 in the SEC last season. Yeah, and they did actually 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.760 have some success even though the score would indicate otherwise 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.240 against LSU. I thought they did a pretty good job. 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:25.840 They tightened up in the red zone against LSU early 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.040 and it was a close game for that first half. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.040 But I just I didn't see it. I had a 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.440 lot of faith that the Mississippi State team would build 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.000