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Oklahoma Playoff Preview: Portal Changes, Injury Updates, and Beating Alabama at Home · Sooner or Later Sports

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Speaker 1: A couple of days away. We got the playoffs in Norman, Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it here on the Sooner Later
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Speaker 1: That's Coop. I'm Jay. Thanks for pulling up here on
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Speaker 1: me Coop got a lot of cool stuff that we're
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Speaker 1: gonna dive into and talk about. Like one of our
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Speaker 1: favorite players at the portal breaks our heart, but we
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Speaker 1: totally understand why he's doing it. We've got to talk
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Speaker 1: about the availability report and how we feel about it
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Speaker 1: going into the game. Then we'll break down the actual
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Speaker 1: game and what we feel like should happen and how
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Speaker 1: we feel like the Sooner can their path to moving
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Speaker 1: on to the next round. Coop, Happy Wednesday, My man,
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Speaker 1: you look good. You don't. You're not choking right now,
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Speaker 1: so that's always a plus, right man.
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Speaker 2: It's it tis the season you know, I like, I
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Speaker 2: don't know, maybe I used to get sick before Christmas
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Speaker 2: because all the anxiety and anticipation and I've just like
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Speaker 2: red myself up and get sick as a child. Now
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Speaker 2: I think that you know, went to a big field
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Speaker 2: field trip, a couple of soccer games, you know, a
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Speaker 2: cub Scout Christmas party, all in the same day. So
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Speaker 2: uh it's it's like, uh it literally was at indoor
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Speaker 2: soccer and was watching and kids lick the glass and
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Speaker 2: so you're like, man, what how did I get sick?
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Speaker 2: Well that's that's why right there. But she was cute
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Speaker 2: though she was she's one of my my daughter's teammates,
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Speaker 2: little sister, adorable, but glass like we'll get people sick.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, not at all. Actually no, that's not precious,
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Speaker 1: it's not huge.
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Speaker 3: Did you ever lick the glass when you were a
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Speaker 3: litle kid.
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Speaker 1: Or like, no, it never is. No, I was. I
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Speaker 1: was actually afraid. I was actually afraid. I was. I
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Speaker 1: was always terrified because it was yeah, I was always afraid.
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Speaker 1: So but uh as we uh get off that topic
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Speaker 1: of conversation. Album Oh oh, but thank y'all for pulling
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Speaker 1: pre record today. Got a lot of stuff going on
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Speaker 1: in the evening for both as we're preparing. We've got
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Speaker 1: a game home game, home playoff game, huge, huge situation
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Speaker 1: for Oklahoma. We talked about it on Sunday, we talked
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Speaker 1: about other times, and we all know that we're both excited.
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Speaker 1: We know that y'all should be excited too. The biggest
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Speaker 1: thing for us really is that, I mean, is there
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Speaker 1: a path for Oklahoma to actually win this game? And
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Speaker 1: we know there is. We'll dive into that. I think
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Speaker 1: the first conversation though, is Portal Talk, Transfer Portal, giveth
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal, take it the way. And in this
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Speaker 1: unfortunate circumstance, one of our favorites has officially announced that
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Speaker 1: they plan to hit the portal. I got Kendl Adobe,
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Speaker 1: and y'all know that we're huge Adobe guys. He's been
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Speaker 1: on the show numerous times. He's been a big support
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Speaker 1: of what we're doing here, and unfortunately our boy is
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Speaker 1: hitting the portal. So I want to give him a
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Speaker 1: shout out. Thank him for you know, being supportive of us,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on and chopping it up with us,
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Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm sad to see him go, but I'm
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Speaker 1: glad that we had the times that we had together.
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Speaker 1: And now he'll get one more year to go play
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Speaker 1: and make something happen. Coop what you think.
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Speaker 3: I mean?
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Speaker 2: This is a it's a human loss just because of
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Speaker 2: the person. I mean, you know, let's not get it
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Speaker 2: twisted like he's a great, uh, you know, football player,
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Speaker 2: but he's just a He's just a dude.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: Our first kind of a brush with Kendall was that,
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Speaker 2: you know, I guess the end of the team awards
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Speaker 2: two years ago. Uh, you know, he got like the
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Speaker 2: Grinder Award and the Grittiness Award and the Sandpaper Award
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Speaker 2: and every award that sounds like something Brent Vinnable created
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Speaker 2: to celebrate guys who are willing to give it all.
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Speaker 2: Plus uh he was the recipient of and man, he
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Speaker 2: will not be remembered the same way that Danny Stutzman
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Speaker 2: was or Ethan Downs was as far as like turning
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Speaker 2: this deference from the laughing stock of college football to
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Speaker 2: you know what we have today.
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Speaker 3: But Kendall Delby is.
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Speaker 2: A very, very very big part of the the resurrection
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Speaker 2: in the one eighty of this defensive unit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was part of that. He was a part
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Speaker 1: of the emergence of this defense. He was one of
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Speaker 1: those ballhawking, hard hitters that helped to mold the room
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Speaker 1: that we have. I mean when he came in, I
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Speaker 1: remember him at Neeo up there in Miama and watching
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Speaker 1: him play, and I'm just like, oh, no, this is
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Speaker 1: a dude. Please can we find a way to get
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Speaker 1: a hold And we got himhim, like yeah, he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be fun to watch, and he was immediately immediately impactful.
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Speaker 1: Then you had how we expected him to make the
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Speaker 1: next jump last season in twenty four because he came
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Speaker 1: in at the end of twenty three and was really
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Speaker 1: showing up, especially at Cheetah getting them sacks, calls and picks.
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Speaker 1: He did start at the season the next year. Is
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Speaker 1: still my favorite play is him losing his mind thinking
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Speaker 1: that he did miss out on an interception and come
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Speaker 1: to find out CANi Walker caught it and took it.
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Speaker 1: So of course I'm stoked, like cracking up at him
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Speaker 1: just losing his mind. He's like, man, I just didn't
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Speaker 1: realize that, you know, it went down, And then of
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Speaker 1: course the injury happens against Tennessee and it was devastating
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Speaker 1: for all of us. And now you know he this season,
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Speaker 1: he came back, looked a little bit, looked like he
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Speaker 1: was recovered, but was dealing with other ailments on the body.
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Speaker 1: And as that room was developing and emerging, it just
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Speaker 1: unfortunately got to the point where he kind of kind
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Speaker 1: of kind of got lost in the shuffle. I think
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Speaker 1: to me though, the picking up of Kendall Daniels and
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Speaker 1: then the emergence of Reggie Powers the third that we
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Speaker 1: expected that kind of made it hard for him to
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Speaker 1: maintain in the shuffle. And then Courtland Guillery goes out there,
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Speaker 1: shows out at corner to where you're you're comfortable with
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Speaker 1: him with Eli Bowen once he came back healthy, right
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Speaker 1: like Eli showed up healthy and you're like, oh shoot,
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Speaker 1: you're nervous about him. He missed the first few games
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Speaker 1: of the season actually up to SEC play and you're
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Speaker 1: worried about, Okay, we're gonna need another corner. What you know,
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Speaker 1: do we probably could step up in that. Courtland shows
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Speaker 1: up and then everybody else you start to see, oh okay,
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Speaker 1: I think we're good. Then you come into the seat you're.
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Speaker 3: Like, all right, well.
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Speaker 1: You kind of look he got kind of I lost
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Speaker 1: in the shuffle, I guess you could say, especially dealing
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Speaker 1: with his ailments.
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Speaker 2: And I mean at this point, like he's been unable
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Speaker 2: to play full fledged football for well over a year.
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Speaker 2: You know, he got hurt against Tennessee last year. You know,
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Speaker 2: he finally starts coming back in spring practice, has a
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Speaker 2: little dean now. I think that he is one hundred
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Speaker 2: percent healthy right now. Health is not an issue. I
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Speaker 2: think he posted something on X you know, just a
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Speaker 2: few hours ago, and so.
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Speaker 3: You're going to get it.
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Speaker 2: But you know, I do want to point this out,
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Speaker 2: like your goal as a player of his caliber is
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Speaker 2: to play the game right now he is. He is
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Speaker 2: so far behind, you know, the the team just in
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Speaker 2: chemistry wise that you know, it's it's a tough situation,
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Speaker 2: like do you want to come in and support your
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Speaker 2: team as a depth piece and get a few snaps
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Speaker 2: or do you want to say, hey, listen, I recognize
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Speaker 2: the situation, and I don't want to go somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: The coaching staff would rather have him here. But the
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Speaker 2: coaching staff also, first and foremost wants to develop men
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Speaker 2: and wants to afford these men great opportunities. And so
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Speaker 2: it's with this team's blessing that he is going to
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Speaker 2: go seek out another opportunity. And I'll say it, I
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Speaker 2: don't want to see him go somewhere, find whoever's on
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Speaker 2: our schedule next year, go somewhere else, like, go somewhere else,
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Speaker 2: because he is a guy that can blitz, you know,
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Speaker 2: off the edge. He's the guy who can play in
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Speaker 2: the slot receiver. He's a guy who can come up
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Speaker 2: and run support. And so I would love for him to,
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Speaker 2: you know, go to a hell, you know, go to
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Speaker 2: somewhere that you're going to enjoy what you doing.
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Speaker 3: Go to Alabama.
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Speaker 2: I'm absolutely okay with you going to Alabama. We don't
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Speaker 2: see you next year. Go to Alabama, have yourself a
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Speaker 2: good time. But but yeah, I just wish him the
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Speaker 2: best of luck. And you know, a poor situation. And
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Speaker 2: there's been a lot of hubbub about, you know, whether
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Speaker 2: him quitting on the team or not.
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Speaker 3: No, this is a guy who dealt with mailments. He's healthy.
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Speaker 3: Now he wants to go find an opportunity.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that was the thing. It's you know, he played,
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Speaker 1: he got he got to play in four games this year,
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Speaker 1: so now he can red shirt or whatnot. He played Temple,
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Speaker 1: he played in the Auburn game, he played against Kent
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Speaker 1: State and against Texas, and that was where the issue lied.
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Speaker 1: Was he he just didn't get to get Like I said,
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Speaker 1: he got lost in the shuffle, right. It was he
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Speaker 1: was dealing with some ailments and now he's healthy. But
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Speaker 1: by the time he got to where he's ready to play,
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Speaker 1: in my personal opinion, it was you already kind of
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Speaker 1: had your rotations really set like it was nothing like
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Speaker 1: nothing against him. It was you kind of got to
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Speaker 1: that point where you're good and the young players were
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Speaker 1: showing up and showing out man like. And it sucks.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, it sucks, I don't. I didn't. He's
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Speaker 1: one player I didn't I want to lose. I would
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Speaker 1: love wanted to see him play more this season, but
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Speaker 1: it just didn't work out. So shout out Todobe. We
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Speaker 1: show him love. We show players love regardless you know
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Speaker 1: of how the situation goes. We just appreciate you pulled
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Speaker 1: up and gave us the opportunity. So I want to
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Speaker 1: the availability report that dropped last night. You got another
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Speaker 1: one coming tonight. It comes in at seventeen Central. Luckily,
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Speaker 1: the Collegetwall playoff does it similar to what the SEC
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Speaker 1: does and the Big twelve and the Big ten or whatnot.
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Speaker 1: And they put it out. So we started them on
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Speaker 1: Tuesday instead of Wednesday, so you know we usually go
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Speaker 1: live Wednesday nights. We show them as soon as they drop.
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Speaker 1: We have our thoughts on it. Well, since they dropped
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Speaker 1: the game's Friday, they dropped on Tuesday, and we've got
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Speaker 1: an idea what it looks like. So here's what that
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Speaker 1: number that that deal is. So looking at Oklahoma's I
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Speaker 1: guess the really only thing that matters here is the
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Speaker 1: fact that when you look at it, you see the R.
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Speaker 1: Mason Thomas ain't on the list. Javonte Barnes is a probable,
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Speaker 1: Jake Michael is a questionable. I don't expect him to play,
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Speaker 1: but it's good to see that he is back. It
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Speaker 1: was mentioned he had an infection and he was dealing
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Speaker 1: with something. But the good thing is he's made his
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Speaker 1: valiant return. The expectation is he'll be able to play possibly,
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Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't. I think he'll remain questionable.
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Speaker 1: He may shift out. But the other thing, though, Koop
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Speaker 1: and I wanted to point this out specifically, and I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna pass it on to you and then we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about Alabama's players and afterwards. But on the out portion
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Speaker 1: of you see Doby, which you know he's gonna portal,
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Speaker 1: Gentries out, Jeremiah nu comes out. But only offensive lineman
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Speaker 1: on here is Troy Everett. And the reason why I'm
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Speaker 1: pointing that out to you all, and I hope you
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Speaker 1: guys to understand where I'm coming from with this is
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Speaker 1: most of the season you kept seeing at least three
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Speaker 1: offensive linemen on that list, and I was letting everybody
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Speaker 1: know this that the reason why they're on here week
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Speaker 1: after week is the expectation is at some point they're
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to play again this season. And I
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Speaker 1: feel like now we're at that point where there's a
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Speaker 1: possibility that they are going to be available. So Jacob
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Speaker 1: Sexton and Jake Taylor are now on the heatho Zaida
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Speaker 1: also or is no longer on here because they were
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Speaker 1: in there in the past, possibility they could be available
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Speaker 1: as needed. So looking at that, though, talk to me
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Speaker 1: what you think.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you said it right, I mean, you're you're
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Speaker 2: getting to the end here, you don't see. I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's what made it a little difficult is every single
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Speaker 2: time that you saw this list, you saw this just
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Speaker 2: kind of ridiculous list of outs guys. You know, three
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Speaker 2: offensive linemen. You're dealing with offensive line depth for two years.
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Speaker 2: Anytime you saw that, even though you knew it was coming,
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Speaker 2: it still was like God bless America, Like, you know,
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Speaker 2: why can't we just get I don't know, at least
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Speaker 2: one of these dudes to get off the damn injury reports.
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Speaker 2: So now you know Troy Everett, I mean, he it
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Speaker 2: was a knee ligament, right, So I mean, like you're
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Speaker 2: not really gonna press that with him.
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Speaker 3: I agree with you. I think Jake Michael.
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Speaker 2: More on the he is known no longer infirmed, but
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Speaker 2: you know there's had some weight loss with the with
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Speaker 2: his situation, you know, Jake Sexton, Jake Taylor, you know,
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Speaker 2: hopefully you don't have to use them because I'm guessing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we haven't seen them in a year, you know,
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Speaker 2: Jake Taylor that is, you know, I mean for the year.
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Speaker 2: I mean we saw him at the very very, very
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Speaker 2: very beginning. I think section was like first snap of
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Speaker 2: the game right against Illinois State or first drive.
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Speaker 3: But you haven't seen them in quite a long time.
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Speaker 2: So obviously are they going to be able to come
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Speaker 2: in and do anything against an.
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Speaker 3: Alabama team in the playoffs? Probably not.
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Speaker 2: But you've got bodies there, and you go and you
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Speaker 2: win this weekend, you have yourself another two weeks of
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Speaker 2: practice time for those guys to get back into it
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Speaker 2: and then you know they become a quality depth piece.
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Speaker 2: So excited to see you know this stuff again. I
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Speaker 2: hate it for Troy, just one of the heart and
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Speaker 2: soul as a captain on the team. Gentry is a
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Speaker 2: guy that you just can't find health. And then obviously
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Speaker 2: we already talked about Dolby, and then nukembe another young
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Speaker 2: kid who is showing a lot of practice. You know,
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Speaker 2: I guess Pops and so you know, anytime you you
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Speaker 2: think of it from like not having them as a player,
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Speaker 2: but then also them not getting a chance to experience this,
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Speaker 2: because you know, how many times do you hear people say, well, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we went to the super Bowl the first year, and
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Speaker 2: I thought, man, we're gonna be here every year.
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Speaker 3: We went to playoffs our first year, and we thought
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Speaker 3: we were gonna be here every year.
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Speaker 2: Like this, this isn't a guaranteed situation to get to
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Speaker 2: play in the playoffs at all.
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Speaker 1: And Hill I'm a great example of that. I remember
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Speaker 1: back in twenty twelve when the Thunder first made their
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Speaker 1: run to the NBA Finals, and for me, it was okay,
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Speaker 1: teams young, they got a whole bunch of players that
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Speaker 1: should be able to come back together. Blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna concern myself. We're trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out how to go to the game. You know, we
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Speaker 1: should be back. We go I'll just go the next
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Speaker 1: time and then you know, we go you know, however
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Speaker 1: long we went without going back. And so this last
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Speaker 1: season I found a way to make it to a game.
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Speaker 1: I was like, figure out how to get my butt
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Speaker 1: to one of these games because there's no guarantee that
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Speaker 1: we'll be able to get back. So in that, you know,
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Speaker 1: vein of as you may mention, their koop is same
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Speaker 1: thing when it comes to the playoffs, the going back
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Speaker 1: to it is going to it in general is tough.
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Speaker 1: It's not something that's a guarantee, and so you know,
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Speaker 1: when you have the opportunity, you take advantage of it
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Speaker 1: and you go and enjoy it. And the good thing
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Speaker 1: is is that you know, for a lot of these players,
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Speaker 1: they they're definitely taking advantage and going to enjoy that
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Speaker 1: as well. So I'm excited about that. I'm excited that
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Speaker 1: we're getting healthier. That's probably the biggest thing is we're
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Speaker 1: physically getting to the point where ready to go hit
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Speaker 1: the field and we're not in a situation where there's
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Speaker 1: a bunch of ailments where we're not going to be
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Speaker 1: able to play a lot of players. We're getting healthy
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Speaker 1: error while others are trying to figure out their health status.
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Speaker 2: It's I mean, there's a lot of guys who weren't.
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Speaker 2: You know, Jade Jackson, he didn't show up very often.
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Speaker 2: But this is a guy who's been, you know, really
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Speaker 2: battling through some stuff. You heard it in his interview
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Speaker 2: this past week where he's basically saying like, yeah, I
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Speaker 2: have not been healthy, and you know, I don't know
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Speaker 2: if you call it cowardice or whatever, but I think
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Speaker 2: we talked about before the season, I say, wouldn't it
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Speaker 2: be great to be in the playoff, not be in
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Speaker 2: the SEC championship game for a tiebreaker scenario.
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Speaker 3: Get that extra week of health and go in.
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Speaker 2: So Alabama at a disadvantage having to play in the
18:49
Speaker 2: SEC Championship game against another big boy, And I'm wondering
18:54
Speaker 2: if teams don't use that strategically going forward, because Alabama
18:59
Speaker 2: had to play if they won or lost, they're still
19:02
Speaker 2: playing this coming week.
19:04
Speaker 3: So like, the how is that going to affect things
19:08
Speaker 3: in the future.
19:09
Speaker 2: Is in a situation you had a banged up quarterback
19:11
Speaker 2: and you roll out your backup because win or lose,
19:13
Speaker 2: you're in that precedent's been set and at least you
19:18
Speaker 2: can be like, well, I mean they had a banged
19:20
Speaker 2: up quarterback, and there's just a lot of there's a
19:25
Speaker 2: lot of slippery slope material that I think that it
19:28
Speaker 2: can happen going forward. Different subject, but still, I just
19:31
Speaker 2: it's good to have that extra week off because you
19:34
Speaker 2: didn't have to play in the coffee championship game.
19:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as you say that, truth be told, I
19:40
Speaker 1: feel like the only real conference that can leverage that
19:43
Speaker 1: is probably the Big Ten in the Big in the
19:45
Speaker 1: in the SEC. I think they're the only two because
19:48
Speaker 1: they're really the only two conferences that's most likely going
19:50
Speaker 1: to have at minimum three to four teams because for others,
19:54
Speaker 1: like for example, to Big twelve BYU beat Texas Tech,
19:57
Speaker 1: they're in that actually puts them in an in ten
20:00
Speaker 1: get shifted around and that can potentially move some other bodies.
20:02
Speaker 1: So you only really have that which are really your
20:04
Speaker 1: power too that the conference championship game isn't as important,
20:10
Speaker 1: even though to me, Comferce championship still are awesome to have.
20:15
Speaker 1: It'd be nice though, if they shifted it to where
20:20
Speaker 1: we got to figure out a way to get the
20:22
Speaker 1: calendar together. In my personal opinion, that's the tough part.
20:24
Speaker 1: And I know that why they had that week off
20:26
Speaker 1: mainly not only because of the Army Navy game, but
20:29
Speaker 1: at the same time as finals week. And you know,
20:34
Speaker 1: as much as everybody wants to pretend like, oh, well
20:36
Speaker 1: they're professional, they're still in college, it still counts. There's
20:39
Speaker 1: still rules behind that, and so those rules are gone.
20:41
Speaker 1: We abide by said rules, and they're gonna need to
20:43
Speaker 1: figure out a way to get this calendar going to
20:45
Speaker 1: where to me, you probably should move everything up a week.
20:51
Speaker 1: That's kind of what it feels like. Everything needs to
20:54
Speaker 1: be moved up and make it to where you play,
20:58
Speaker 1: like the first weekend of the games, possibly Thanksgiving weekend
21:04
Speaker 1: or something like that. I don't know. There's a lot
21:05
Speaker 1: of things to look at and a lot of philosophy
21:08
Speaker 1: just talk about We can talk about that another time.
21:09
Speaker 1: And literally got as nauseum. But when you look at
21:12
Speaker 1: the injury report of Alabama though, that tight end Jos Quaves,
21:15
Speaker 1: as well as the other tight end Danny Lewis, Boy,
21:18
Speaker 1: that's an interesting one to me. That was a dude
21:21
Speaker 1: that cooked us. Yeah, how is that gonna go?
21:27
Speaker 3: Quavis?
21:28
Speaker 2: Quavis did not play against Georgia, man. I want to
21:33
Speaker 2: say that he played a little bit against Auburn.
21:36
Speaker 1: But I don't think he did, but you might be right.
21:39
Speaker 1: I look it up. Let me look it up.
21:41
Speaker 2: Look look it up while I'm while I'm blabbing here.
21:43
Speaker 2: But I you know, I actually think that I have
21:46
Speaker 2: it right here. But anyway, where I'm going with this is,
21:51
Speaker 2: you know, he had he had a lot of.
21:55
Speaker 3: I don't see any quaves here, so maybe not. But anyway,
22:01
Speaker 3: he was. He's good. He's a great, big body.
22:04
Speaker 2: He obviously is great as an inline blocker and as
22:07
Speaker 2: a receiver. But Jay, I'm curious. I mean, they lose
22:12
Speaker 2: an asset or he's not going to be one hundred percent.
22:14
Speaker 2: And you know, I've read a couple of different things
22:18
Speaker 2: from Alabama insiders. Some people are saying that he is
22:22
Speaker 2: at practice and he's going to try to give it
22:24
Speaker 2: a go. I mean, that's not promising. You're you know,
22:28
Speaker 2: you're in on the nitty gritty every single play as
22:30
Speaker 2: a tight end. And we saw, you know, when Michigan
22:35
Speaker 2: came to town. They're big tight end. Uh you know,
22:38
Speaker 2: same situation in or out, in or out. And then
22:42
Speaker 2: you know, uh, same thing with Northfleet at Missouri. So
22:45
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of these tight ends. And it's
22:47
Speaker 2: hard for you to get helpedy as a tight end
22:49
Speaker 2: because again, whether you're chipping on a play before you
22:52
Speaker 2: go out, where you're blocking on a running play, you've
22:55
Speaker 2: got a running back running up your backside, you've gotta
22:57
Speaker 2: you know, guards, you know, being pushed by backwards and
23:00
Speaker 2: falling on your ankles. But I think Quavis, you know,
23:04
Speaker 2: I bet this team wants to see him again and say,
23:07
Speaker 2: all right, what can you do if you're your O
23:12
Speaker 2: C doesn't pull some try to like a shady shenanigans,
23:16
Speaker 2: you know, to get you the ball, you know, because
23:18
Speaker 2: they did that five separate times and Quavis. Three of
23:21
Speaker 2: the plays that Quavis really got off on we were
23:24
Speaker 2: those plays, uh you know, the running back falling down.
23:28
Speaker 2: There was another one where he did the clap, look
23:30
Speaker 2: to the side and then when OUs guys looked aside,
23:32
Speaker 2: clap again. So I think Brent Vinnibles was like, hey,
23:35
Speaker 2: bring it on, let's uh, let's see what Let's see
23:37
Speaker 2: what you could do without your Shenanigans.
23:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you got. I mean it requires trickery
23:42
Speaker 1: in order to get past the staff, which is a
23:44
Speaker 1: good thing I mean in our in our aspect, we
23:46
Speaker 1: can talk about that. It's you know, so it's an
23:49
Speaker 1: ultimate sign of respect that I just can't go straight
23:52
Speaker 1: at you all the time. I have to mix things
23:54
Speaker 1: up because you are a formidable opponent. So I'm not
23:57
Speaker 1: even mad at them for doing that because I understand,
23:59
Speaker 1: like how how she's gonna be revientables in the way
24:01
Speaker 1: that he does things here. So let's uh, I'm not like,
24:05
Speaker 1: I have no issues with that because I get it.
24:07
Speaker 1: That's it's a challenge you're playing against. You're going against
24:10
Speaker 1: one of the best DC's in the country, and statistically
24:12
Speaker 1: he's proven it. That's the best part about this team
24:14
Speaker 1: and the way they're playing is they're playing like they're
24:16
Speaker 1: one of the best in the game when it comes
24:19
Speaker 1: to doing this. So yeah, you know, shout out to
24:23
Speaker 1: shout out to the coaching staff there at at Alabama
24:30
Speaker 1: recognizing that now many they're gonna be tough. They're gonna
24:33
Speaker 1: be a tough one to deal with.
24:34
Speaker 2: So I would say on on their report, there's three
24:38
Speaker 2: guys missing and that's LT Overton, uh, Drake Kirkpatrick, and
24:42
Speaker 2: there was another defender. But like, those are big deals.
24:46
Speaker 2: I mean, Overton's a really good run stuffer. He's not
24:49
Speaker 2: going to be showing up in the box score for Saxon,
24:51
Speaker 2: you know, Herris and pressures and stuff like that. And
24:54
Speaker 2: as you're trying to Kamarion Howard's a big one too.
24:58
Speaker 2: Kevin Riley another running back. So like when you got
25:03
Speaker 2: when you got that offensive line situation, we are healthier
25:09
Speaker 2: than we were against Alabama.
25:13
Speaker 1: They're right healthy.
25:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm saying, like our offensive line against their
25:21
Speaker 2: defensive line. With with with Overton, you know you're going to,
25:25
Speaker 2: you know, want to try to establish something for a run.
25:28
Speaker 2: You know, we ran for almost nothing against Alabama the
25:31
Speaker 2: first time. The Overton one is a big one. That
25:34
Speaker 2: being said, Jay, it's still Alabama. They probably got a
25:38
Speaker 2: very very physically gifted four or five star guy that's
25:42
Speaker 2: going to come in and replace him. So it's not
25:45
Speaker 2: like that you're getting a slack. It's not that you're
25:47
Speaker 2: getting a two sixty five, you know, six foot tall dude.
25:51
Speaker 2: Like you're probably still going to have an NFL body
25:54
Speaker 2: coming in. But Overton obviously is the incumbent starter. So
25:58
Speaker 2: if you can keep these things going, that's one less
26:00
Speaker 2: rotation piece that they can run out there too.
26:03
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, you're you're you're definitely going up against talented players.
26:06
Speaker 1: So we're not gonna pretend like you know, We're not
26:09
Speaker 1: gonna gaslight y'all and pretend like you know, Bama ain't
26:11
Speaker 1: got talented. Their their roster is full of dudes that
26:14
Speaker 1: are four five star, top tier talent, So we ain't
26:21
Speaker 1: gonna lie to y'all and say that they they ain't
26:23
Speaker 1: got nobody. So but I uh, from there, now that
26:28
Speaker 1: we see the injury report, we've got an idea of
26:32
Speaker 1: what to prepare for. Honestly, in this game, it's gonna
26:37
Speaker 1: be one of those where I'm curiously where Oklahoma goes.
26:41
Speaker 1: And so let's, uh, let's take a gander at how
26:46
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Oklahoma's path. I guess you could say, I guess
26:50
Speaker 1: that's probably the best way of saying it. What is
26:51
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's path to potentially winning this game? Let's jump and uh,
26:58
Speaker 1: let's look, let's let's talk about that, because to me,
27:04
Speaker 1: that's where things get interesting. How exactly can we win
27:07
Speaker 1: this game? Coop? Like, what is what do you feel
27:10
Speaker 1: like has to happen in order for us to get
27:12
Speaker 1: there and win it?
27:16
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think at this point you can
27:20
Speaker 2: get away with the turnovers like you did against LSU.
27:25
Speaker 2: OHU has always I mean, I guess such you would
27:29
Speaker 2: say since ole miss oh you has been able to
27:33
Speaker 2: you know, uh, make these mistakes, leave food on the
27:37
Speaker 2: table and still just be inevitable at the end. I
27:42
Speaker 2: think that with a lot of game plan timing, uh
27:45
Speaker 2: you know, to look at Oklahoma right now, Indiana's looking
27:47
Speaker 2: at Ou and Alabama and if you're looking at Ou,
27:51
Speaker 2: and I do not think that they're going to this
27:55
Speaker 2: this this Ou team that's going to play. I think
27:57
Speaker 2: it's going to be more, uh more reminiscent of Michigan
28:00
Speaker 2: and Auburn than it is of LSU. But you're gonna
28:05
Speaker 2: have to eliminate the mistakes. You don't want to do that.
28:08
Speaker 2: You're looking to cause mistakes. So on offense, I think
28:10
Speaker 2: it's simple. I think that you have to you have
28:14
Speaker 2: to give Dramatier just cutting clear opportunities on offense. You know,
28:20
Speaker 2: let run plays be run plays, Let pass plays be
28:22
Speaker 2: pass plays. And Jametier needs to see the open buffet.
28:27
Speaker 2: When when the buffet opens, you got to throw the
28:29
Speaker 2: ball and you have to also have to anticipate the ball.
28:33
Speaker 3: But I think that this team is going to go
28:35
Speaker 3: with Jometier on offense.
28:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to hinge on his decision making in
28:42
Speaker 1: the game. And I agree with you there because looking
28:46
Speaker 1: at the way that Alabama should probably will probably walk
28:49
Speaker 1: into this game, how they will quote unquote limp into
28:51
Speaker 1: this game. Getting rid of the ball quickly is going
28:56
Speaker 1: to be critical. It's going to be pretty windy, it's
28:59
Speaker 1: probably a little gross. It's not gonna be a good
29:05
Speaker 1: weather situation, quote unquot it's gona be cold. Outside of that,
29:10
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be bad, but it's gonna be cold and
29:13
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little windy. So we're gonna have
29:15
Speaker 1: to play as if it's cold and if it's windy.
29:17
Speaker 1: And to me, John should be healthy enough to handle
29:22
Speaker 1: most of this.
29:24
Speaker 3: Yes, that that's just my thought.
29:27
Speaker 1: I don't think that the good thing is we've had
29:30
Speaker 1: the three weeks him and the running backs. It's gonna
29:36
Speaker 1: be big on It's gonna be big on the decision
29:45
Speaker 1: making portion of it. I think that's kind of where
29:47
Speaker 1: I'm really stuck at. Yeah, and the run game is,
29:52
Speaker 1: of course, it's gonna need to really do something.
29:55
Speaker 2: Uh you know for the run game, I think that
29:58
Speaker 2: you need to be able to you between you're gonna
30:02
Speaker 2: probably see two running backs with the bulk of the carries.
30:07
Speaker 2: I think you'll see three running backs with carries, and
30:09
Speaker 2: then I think that you're gonna see Jametier. Finality on
30:13
Speaker 2: offense is I think that you need to have four
30:17
Speaker 2: or five opportunities for Jaron Kannick. You need to have
30:20
Speaker 2: your running backs probably average just north of three point
30:24
Speaker 2: five a carry, and jo Matier needs to convert maybe
30:28
Speaker 2: two first downs with his legs.
30:32
Speaker 3: I think that if.
30:33
Speaker 2: You can do that, you're gonna know that Setanna is
30:36
Speaker 2: gonna get something. At some point, you're seeing Giovanni starting
30:40
Speaker 2: to kind of look like he's rounding in a form,
30:42
Speaker 2: and then Keantes Lewis.
30:44
Speaker 3: Is all the way back.
30:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like.
30:47
Speaker 2: I think on the offense, you just like I said,
30:51
Speaker 2: take what's there for you, m now Jay.
30:54
Speaker 3: On the defense, I have a feeling.
30:59
Speaker 2: That are Mason Thomas returning is going to and the
31:03
Speaker 2: way that Bret Ventibles is going to coach these guys,
31:05
Speaker 2: it's going to be take their soul early. Let's take
31:09
Speaker 2: it to another level. Jaden's healthy, David Stone's healthy, Don
31:14
Speaker 2: Williams is healthy. G Baby's healthy. All these guys. This
31:18
Speaker 2: is why they stuck around. This is why they're.
31:20
Speaker 3: Here, Kip, Kobe, everybody is here.
31:23
Speaker 2: And I say that this defense, you continue to do
31:26
Speaker 2: what you're doing on the outside. The guys just need
31:28
Speaker 2: to make sure that you don't allow yourself to any
31:30
Speaker 2: of the big plays, but you make them earn every
31:34
Speaker 2: single ounce of what they get and you make them
31:36
Speaker 2: remember it also.
31:39
Speaker 1: Yeah every time.
31:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just see.
31:42
Speaker 2: This defense taking it to another level and saying, all right,
31:46
Speaker 2: if there was any doubt, let's erase it.
31:49
Speaker 1: That's what it is, and hitting people in the mouth.
31:52
Speaker 1: The good thing is we're at home. And this is
31:54
Speaker 1: the only reason why I'm very confident, Okahom's be able
31:56
Speaker 1: to pull this off. Is being at home. Will. It's
32:01
Speaker 1: just gonna help in the confidence factor. It's gonna help
32:03
Speaker 1: in the the way that we should be able to
32:08
Speaker 1: perform going into this game. It's we got that. That
32:11
Speaker 1: to me is probably the best part about it, is
32:15
Speaker 1: being at the crib. We should be able to do that. Now,
32:18
Speaker 1: I want to talk about something on the defensive side
32:20
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32:47
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32:49
Speaker 1: Oklahoma numbers shown up in here, So you got TYD
32:54
Speaker 1: Simpson at two hundred and thirty something yards passing. I'm
32:57
Speaker 1: hoping that we can hold him to less than that.
32:59
Speaker 1: That's what I'm say. The defense is gonna hold him
33:01
Speaker 1: under to thirty. We're gonna keep him at around that
33:04
Speaker 1: number because we're at home. We should be able to
33:07
Speaker 1: But Ken John Mattereer throw for two touchdowns. I'm gonna
33:10
Speaker 1: give him and Sitanas some luck because I feel like
33:13
Speaker 1: those two combined together. Ryan Williams will probably have a
33:16
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33:48
Speaker 1: Coop defensively going up against their offense. I'm I'm gonna
33:53
Speaker 1: say as I kind of made those picks. The focal
33:57
Speaker 1: point is getting to Ty Simpson, and I think the
34:00
Speaker 1: game changer is the fact that our Mason Thomas is
34:02
Speaker 1: gonna play now. The good thing is, and we talked
34:05
Speaker 1: about this here before the game, that our Mason's not
34:09
Speaker 1: playing in Tuscaloosa. I think we'll be fine on the
34:12
Speaker 1: defensive line, with the way that Taylor Want has shown up,
34:14
Speaker 1: the way that Pigiatabare has stepped up, the way that
34:17
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones Juniors produced, and Daniel Koye is starting to
34:20
Speaker 1: break out as well with his technique, I think we're solid.
34:25
Speaker 1: I think even a bigger one than our Mason Thomas
34:29
Speaker 1: coming back. Truly to me is Jaydon Jackson. Like you mentioned,
34:33
Speaker 1: you know, if you go look at the last three games,
34:35
Speaker 1: he was roughly under fifteen snaps per game over the
34:38
Speaker 1: last three games after Tennessee and that's when he was
34:41
Speaker 1: dealing with something and you talked about it earlier he
34:43
Speaker 1: mentioned now he's healthy. Yeah, I think that he's gonna
34:47
Speaker 1: go out there and slap some folks. Let's just put
34:49
Speaker 1: it that way very much.
34:51
Speaker 2: And Jay, this can get clipped by an Alabama fan
34:58
Speaker 2: because if something happened, and you know, it goes the
35:01
Speaker 2: other way. But my prediction on this game is the fact,
35:05
Speaker 2: like kind of what you just said, we put Ty
35:08
Speaker 2: Simpson in hell. He has not had a great game since.
35:14
Speaker 2: I mean, he looks statistically good, but as you read
35:18
Speaker 2: the BAMA message boards, like yeah, we got to hit
35:20
Speaker 2: some deep shots and they're like bah ha haha, he's got
35:23
Speaker 2: the hurt back. Jay, My back is sore right now
35:25
Speaker 2: and I'm having trouble sitting here just leaning forward to
35:28
Speaker 2: the microphone.
35:29
Speaker 3: So like.
35:31
Speaker 2: I this is why I'm like you got to have
35:33
Speaker 2: these business decisions. I think that with the rotation on guys,
35:37
Speaker 2: we have not seen like balls to the wall Taylor
35:41
Speaker 2: Wine and r Mason Thomas at the same time this season.
35:45
Speaker 3: Nope, dudes hurt a little bit. You're telling me that
35:53
Speaker 3: whether it is one of the you know, one of.
35:56
Speaker 2: The fascinating blitzes or just you know, organic pressure, ty
36:01
Speaker 2: Simpson's gonna get hit. And that's where I'm picking is
36:05
Speaker 2: is there a chance.
36:06
Speaker 3: That he.
36:08
Speaker 2: Throws some you know hail Mary's and you know, completes
36:12
Speaker 2: one or two gets past pastor interference on one of
36:15
Speaker 2: the guys. Sure there's a chance of that, but we
36:17
Speaker 2: are going to hit him early. And often you go
36:19
Speaker 2: back to like the any they remember of the Titans
36:21
Speaker 2: when he's like, I don't want them to gain another line.
36:24
Speaker 2: At the end of the game with you know, Alabama,
36:27
Speaker 2: Brent Vinnibles started saying, all right, everybody go hold up
36:31
Speaker 2: on the outside, everybody go. And once Brient Vinable started
36:36
Speaker 2: doing that, because if we sit in the zone, ty
36:39
Speaker 2: Simpson's gonna have some opportunity to throw the ball around.
36:44
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna light him up. I think he's
36:46
Speaker 2: gonna light him up. We're gonna give away some. And
36:50
Speaker 2: but at the same time, I don't think it's gonna
36:54
Speaker 2: be enough, because thank God, in college football. I mean,
36:57
Speaker 2: he could throw a bomb sixty yards downfield if Gilroy's
37:01
Speaker 2: gets burnt, or if r s Robers Fors Juniors gets burned,
37:03
Speaker 2: something like that. You just passed an afferance that's fifteen
37:05
Speaker 2: yard penalty and now they got to light him up again.
37:09
Speaker 3: So I think Tys Sens is gonna have a tough day.
37:14
Speaker 1: I agree with you there. I do think that the
37:16
Speaker 1: day is gonna be one of those of it's not
37:20
Speaker 1: gonna be as exciting of a day that he would
37:23
Speaker 1: probably like to have. But and I don't know if
37:29
Speaker 1: he eats us up. I'm gonna be honest, I don't know.
37:31
Speaker 1: I think if he really eats us.
37:33
Speaker 3: Up, I think I didn't say eat him up. I
37:35
Speaker 3: said he may get some.
37:36
Speaker 2: He may get one or two to where he just
37:39
Speaker 2: throws a ball up over the top and says, hey,
37:41
Speaker 2: you got two freaks for wide receivers, go catch it,
37:43
Speaker 2: you know, between Horton and and Ryan Williams, and got
37:48
Speaker 2: the guy that I can't even remember, that's top my head, Jeremy.
37:52
Speaker 2: I always want to call him Jeremy and that throws
37:54
Speaker 2: me off. Anyway, there's gonna be an up. There's gonna
37:57
Speaker 2: be an opportunity there also with the with tied end.
38:01
Speaker 2: But I don't care if jam Miller is back. Jam
38:05
Speaker 2: Miller's run for one hundreds once this season. Yeah, and
38:11
Speaker 2: you got back from injury for like the third time
38:14
Speaker 2: this year. I mean they're going to be one dimensional
38:20
Speaker 2: and I and I think that also, jam Miller being
38:22
Speaker 2: back takes more snaps out of the Hill Kid, and
38:27
Speaker 2: the Hill Kid was the one who actually had anything
38:29
Speaker 2: against us.
38:30
Speaker 1: And honestly, I think Hill's yards came from with Jayden
38:33
Speaker 1: Jackson being out. Yeah, I think that that's where, you know,
38:39
Speaker 1: our biggest strength comes back is I think he's one
38:41
Speaker 1: of the better run stuffers. Not saying anybody else isn't
38:43
Speaker 1: good at it. I think that. I just think that
38:45
Speaker 1: he's one of the better ones, and we're gonna take
38:48
Speaker 1: advantage of that. We're going to You're gonna you're gonna
38:52
Speaker 1: see you're gonna see the line play in a better
38:56
Speaker 1: probably in a better.
38:58
Speaker 3: Just overall all.
39:08
Speaker 1: Trying to think what's the best way to say it.
39:13
Speaker 1: There's just gonna be more more in sync. That's probably
39:21
Speaker 1: the best way to say it. It feels like they
39:23
Speaker 1: all they all rely on each other heavily, right. They
39:28
Speaker 1: have the quote unquote family mentality behind them, and so
39:32
Speaker 1: for them, it's we've gotta get in sync. And the
39:38
Speaker 1: best way to be in sync is, you know, having
39:39
Speaker 1: everybody out there.
39:41
Speaker 2: So Jay, would you say that if the defensive line
39:43
Speaker 2: is completely in sync, they're gonna say say Alabama to
39:47
Speaker 2: go bye bye bye.
39:49
Speaker 1: Ain't no lie bye bye bye.
39:54
Speaker 2: Let's also say this, David Stone and Jay Jackson are
39:57
Speaker 2: are are? I mean those are best friends?
40:00
Speaker 1: They really are?
40:02
Speaker 2: Them both looking at each other and going, you know,
40:05
Speaker 2: bash brothers like Team Ramrod, whatever you want to do.
40:09
Speaker 3: Like that's that's it.
40:11
Speaker 2: This could be the last game on Owen Field or
40:15
Speaker 2: Gaylord from Family Memorial Stadium for Grayson Halton, our Mason Thomas,
40:21
Speaker 2: potentially Kip Lewis, Robert Spears Jennings. These guys want to
40:26
Speaker 2: give one final show. Grayson Halton, I can promise you.
40:29
Speaker 2: I just saw that is in the East West Shrine game.
40:32
Speaker 2: He's accepted his invitation. Robert Spears Jennings is in one also.
40:38
Speaker 2: Hey listen, it's it's this is the first I mean,
40:43
Speaker 2: correst me if I'm wrong, right, Like, this is the
40:45
Speaker 2: first time that we've that there's been campus is hosting
40:49
Speaker 2: Round one games. So last year, last year, last ye, yeah,
40:53
Speaker 2: last year was okay, yeah when we brought this, yeah, okay.
40:57
Speaker 2: So this is the first time that that's oh, you's
41:00
Speaker 2: been able to do this and send off guys. You know,
41:05
Speaker 2: there's no way to like maximize what this means to
41:09
Speaker 2: these guys.
41:09
Speaker 3: And they're at home.
41:11
Speaker 2: It's going to be loud as hell, and I think
41:14
Speaker 2: that there's gonna be a lot of juiced fans out there.
41:18
Speaker 1: No, I agree what people feels realizing that game that
41:23
Speaker 1: even though Alabama did out gain Oklahoma what about two
41:27
Speaker 1: hundred yards or whatnot Bama after the third quarter and
41:30
Speaker 1: they took that lead, they didn't pass the fifty yard
41:33
Speaker 1: line for the rest of the game. Oklahoma led for
41:38
Speaker 1: over fifty minutes of the game, Like we had the
41:41
Speaker 1: lead change, yeah, fifty two and some change. That tells
41:46
Speaker 1: me everything I need to know about what the possibilities are. Bend,
41:50
Speaker 1: don't break. Sure, the turnovers always help, but when you
41:54
Speaker 1: create them, that's what matters. Like you say that you know,
41:58
Speaker 1: Kennedy said that BAMA gave it way. I don't know,
42:01
Speaker 1: but I know that in the reports, Kaylin de Boor
42:03
Speaker 1: is saying that both daniel Lewis as well as Josh
42:06
Speaker 1: Quavis will be available. I heard that Quavis's situation was
42:10
Speaker 1: like a something of a foot situation that could that
42:15
Speaker 1: could you know, could a kind of uh you know
42:20
Speaker 1: not could back He's gonna get could backfire. Yeah, it's
42:25
Speaker 1: not gonna be fully healthy, not the way they want.
42:27
Speaker 1: And I do think that, like you said, Brin Vinimbles
42:29
Speaker 1: and Them's gonna be paying attention like crazy to where
42:34
Speaker 1: that dude is and prevent him from going out there
42:38
Speaker 1: and quote unquote cooking us with some of those those
42:40
Speaker 1: those places that he's at. So all we gotta do
42:44
Speaker 1: is continue to stick to the script and play. So
42:49
Speaker 1: what's your final prediction for this game? Got a couple
42:52
Speaker 1: of days, but we're gonna go ahead throw our Wednesday
42:54
Speaker 1: night predictions out there.
42:56
Speaker 3: Hey, I think that you need to spread into over
43:00
Speaker 3: under before you do.
43:02
Speaker 2: Now, no, I don't get I think go ahead for
43:06
Speaker 2: the listeners, just so that you can pull that up
43:09
Speaker 2: as I'm pulling going.
43:10
Speaker 3: Through kind of the thought process.
43:12
Speaker 2: But I've got I mean, I think that this team
43:16
Speaker 2: is absolutely going to be lit up. They're going to
43:20
Speaker 2: be extremely excited to get back out there and do
43:23
Speaker 2: what they want to do.
43:25
Speaker 3: I think that you have a.
43:26
Speaker 2: Pretty good plan on offense to where you know, you
43:30
Speaker 2: know that you can take what we did last game.
43:33
Speaker 2: You can bring in some of the healthier, more experience
43:36
Speaker 2: offensive line set up. Now these guys have gone through
43:39
Speaker 2: top twenty defense, after top twenty defense, after top twenty defense.
43:43
Speaker 2: I think that Jo Matier is going to have himself
43:45
Speaker 2: a little bit more success, more extended drives. You're going
43:50
Speaker 2: to have the opportunity to get get into field goal
43:53
Speaker 2: range several times and give Tate Sandel an opportunity to
43:57
Speaker 2: pup it through a few a few through so also
44:01
Speaker 2: on defense already mentioned it, I think the brave Bennable's
44:03
Speaker 2: going to come out and absolutely be ready to light.
44:05
Speaker 3: It up early.
44:06
Speaker 2: I got ou winning thirty seventeen, and I really do
44:11
Speaker 2: think that we're going to see several field goals by Tate.
44:15
Speaker 2: I think eventually you're going to have one of those
44:16
Speaker 2: opportunities for want of them to get off, you know,
44:20
Speaker 2: Satania big long run, Johanni Gibson. Maybe maybe a big
44:24
Speaker 2: run by x Rob. You're going to have a big
44:27
Speaker 2: explosive play happened that That is what you're as a
44:31
Speaker 2: defense against OU's offense is. Yes, they're not going to
44:34
Speaker 2: consistently be good, but somehow they always find a way
44:37
Speaker 2: to get one of these big plays, and that type
44:41
Speaker 2: of stress is going to be tough on a team
44:44
Speaker 2: that I'm just going to say that a lot of
44:47
Speaker 2: a lot of the reason why I feel that Alabama's
44:49
Speaker 2: going to be in the struggle bus is you saw
44:52
Speaker 2: it last year. Oh you lit them up. They go
44:54
Speaker 2: out and they need a miracle against Auburn. They go
44:57
Speaker 2: and they you know, play a very very inferior Michigan
45:01
Speaker 2: team and see no success there too. Somehow at the
45:07
Speaker 2: end of the season, these things have gone the wrong way.
45:10
Speaker 2: They just got embarrassed by Georgia. And I think that
45:13
Speaker 2: we can do the oh you Georgia game plan better
45:16
Speaker 2: than Georgia can or we did the first time.
45:20
Speaker 1: Yeah we can. I'm still staying at the conservative numbers
45:25
Speaker 1: of twenty to ten. I do think our offense surprises everybody.
45:30
Speaker 1: Right now, when I pulled it up, the spread is
45:34
Speaker 1: sitting still at one and a half. Alabama is the
45:37
Speaker 1: favorite on the road, which is very interesting. The juice
45:41
Speaker 1: is heavy on Oklahoma though, so it feels like they're
45:44
Speaker 1: trying to entice more Alabama traffic. But we'll see over
45:52
Speaker 1: unders at forty and a half, so I don't think
45:54
Speaker 1: we hit forty. I do expect it to be another under.
45:56
Speaker 1: I think this defense does that to people. I think
46:00
Speaker 1: the offense is gonna surprise everybody. It's been a few weeks.
46:02
Speaker 1: It should be healthier. Running back room looks good. Ex.
46:05
Speaker 1: Rob Tory Blaylock should be at a better spot now.
46:09
Speaker 1: Javonte Barnes has anticipated to get some snaps. He's one
46:12
Speaker 1: of your better pass blockers. At the same time, he
46:14
Speaker 1: can still run. He's healthy now, his red shirts not up,
46:17
Speaker 1: and he's been a practice guy this entire time. He's
46:20
Speaker 1: been available for it, so I can totally see him
46:23
Speaker 1: getting a few snaps to help the young pups as
46:27
Speaker 1: they're dealing with, you know, their ailments. But and I
46:31
Speaker 1: think that Jeometier now practicing without any tape on his thumb.
46:34
Speaker 1: I think that he's probably closer to the eighty five
46:38
Speaker 1: percent tile area of confidence in his hand and his knee,
46:43
Speaker 1: So give me John Mattier to have one of his
46:48
Speaker 1: better games, similar to LSU, but without all the interceptions.
46:52
Speaker 1: I do expect at least one turnover. But I do
46:54
Speaker 1: think that when we get into the tempo thing, he
46:57
Speaker 1: starts to get into a groove. You're starting to see
47:00
Speaker 1: John play at a much better level than he did
47:03
Speaker 1: sorry LSU game when you when he was going, dude
47:06
Speaker 1: was looking good, and then you started to see openings
47:08
Speaker 1: happening and they started hitting him. He started to hit
47:10
Speaker 1: those opening spots, and I feel like when he's in
47:12
Speaker 1: a rhythm and tempo, that's when he's at his best.
47:15
Speaker 1: I expect us to do the same thing in this game.
47:17
Speaker 1: Give me Oklahoma twenty ten. Close game, but fun one.
47:21
Speaker 1: I don't think that I'm a be spot on this time.
47:23
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm a hit twenty three to
47:25
Speaker 1: twenty one again and then for the rest of my life.
47:27
Speaker 1: I've already gone to Vegas and tried to use that
47:29
Speaker 1: and it didn't work. So we did not win any
47:31
Speaker 1: money folks, unfortunately. So but now I'm gonna go twenty
47:33
Speaker 1: to ten. Think Oklahoma wins. I think, of course, covering
47:37
Speaker 1: the spread. I think they do the under under the
47:40
Speaker 1: forty and a half because I just don't feel like
47:42
Speaker 1: I feel like with the weather being windy and cold,
47:47
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a low scoring, fun battle. So y'all
47:52
Speaker 1: make sure y'all put y'all's predictions in the comments. We'll
47:54
Speaker 1: be watching it throughout the show. I said, it's pre
47:56
Speaker 1: recorded as the days are going crazy, but we appreciate
48:01
Speaker 1: y'all pulling up and joining us. Coop last words as
48:05
Speaker 1: we continue.
48:08
Speaker 2: I mean, this is you know, this has been an absolute,
48:12
Speaker 2: uh you know, fun season. It's been one to where
48:15
Speaker 2: you've got certain aspects of this team that you can
48:18
Speaker 2: count on every you know this, there's there's no question.
48:22
Speaker 2: Like we said, the identity you know of this team
48:24
Speaker 2: last year was a really really good defense and just
48:29
Speaker 2: nothing on offense. The identity this year is an absolutely
48:33
Speaker 2: stellar defense and then an inevitable offense. Somebody the offense
48:37
Speaker 2: just finds a way to get it going. I think
48:40
Speaker 2: there's a lot of confidence in this team. It being Alabama.
48:44
Speaker 2: I mean on a Friday night, you know, you got
48:47
Speaker 2: Christmas lights outside, you got some cool good old u
48:50
Speaker 2: you know, Christmas weather and Alabama Oklahoma on in primetime
48:54
Speaker 2: on Friday night. I mean like, this is this is
48:57
Speaker 2: this was the type of game that was in when
49:01
Speaker 2: the Playoff Committee and the playoff scenarios started coming around.
49:05
Speaker 3: This is why you want to watch.
49:06
Speaker 1: College football exactly. I'm happy that the playoffs are going
49:10
Speaker 1: to be on campus this year. I hope next year
49:13
Speaker 1: they take the suggestion another The first couple years they
49:16
Speaker 1: couldn't change anything, but I really hope that they take
49:19
Speaker 1: the suggestion of next year where the first two rounds
49:22
Speaker 1: on college campuses, because to me, that's, to me, the
49:25
Speaker 1: essence of college football and you really have a greater
49:27
Speaker 1: appreciation when you do that. So the team like it
49:31
Speaker 1: will be great if Indiana was hosting next round instead
49:34
Speaker 1: of going to the Rose Bowl, that'll have been so
49:36
Speaker 1: much better. Even with the weather, it'd been just you know, football,
49:40
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what we're excited about. So all right,
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49:52
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49:56
Speaker 1: I plan on going to the Oklahoma Breakdowns Live show
50:00
Speaker 1: on third Tomorrow night. Thursday night, at Riverwind Casino. I
50:03
Speaker 1: do plan on being there. Uh, that is my goal
50:06
Speaker 1: as of right now. So I just got to make
50:08
Speaker 1: sure all my ducks are in a row and I
50:10
Speaker 1: can drive on down to Norman to River Wind and go.
50:13
Speaker 1: You know, I'll probably do a little gambling while I'm
50:15
Speaker 1: there too, but go hang out and enjoy the show.
50:18
Speaker 1: So if y'all are there, find your boy, you know,
50:21
Speaker 1: come come holler at me and say hi. If Coop
50:23
Speaker 1: gets bored, he may make the drive down and hang
50:27
Speaker 1: out too. So but we appreciate all the love and
50:29
Speaker 1: support for this season. It's been awesome. Our goal is
50:32
Speaker 1: to for it to continue. So let's get this w
50:35
Speaker 1: Let's head to the Rose Bowl in January. Make the
50:38
Speaker 1: magic happen. Coop's jaw out Peace