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Chris Doering Talks SEC Football, Why Auburn & Oklahoma Aren’t Feeling the Pressure · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 4: Right, welcome back, he in Nour number two, OH, TV one,
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  Speaker 4: to my boy, Christopher Paul Doring. You know him, you
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  Speaker 4: love him, SEC Network, Florida Gator legend, and he's the
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  Speaker 4: only person I would ever say those words about c D.
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  Speaker 5: What's up, brother? How we doing?
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  Speaker 6: Good morning man, Good to be back with you, first
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  Speaker 6: time with Flynn. Man, looking forward to h to getting
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  Speaker 6: to know you a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Maddy, I've fired up.
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  Speaker 7: I've heard so many stories I've seen I've seen the
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  Speaker 7: different costumes and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So that was like, Man, that's a guy that I
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  Speaker 2: think I could have a beer with.
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  Speaker 6: For sure, we definitely do that. Hopefully you'll be in
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  Speaker 6: meeting days in Atlanta here, well, we will be there.
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  Speaker 6: Good looking forward to We're.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to get his mind right right now for it
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  Speaker 4: what's that. I'm trying to get his mind right for
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  Speaker 4: it right now.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, we've kind of calmed it down a
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  Speaker 6: little bit in the last few years. The early start
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  Speaker 6: time has has hurt me. But uh, we are on
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  Speaker 6: eastern times, so I don't have quite the early call
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  Speaker 6: time as we've had in recent years being there in
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  Speaker 6: Nashville and uh, Birmingham back of the day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that is fair, that is fair. Uh what are
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  Speaker 5: we doing today?
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  Speaker 4: Are we already slinging mortgages today?
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  Speaker 6: Now? You know what, I took the day off radio today,
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  Speaker 6: so it didn't you know, kind of easing into my
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  Speaker 6: my my day a little bit. About to go hit
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  Speaker 6: the gym here in a minute, and uh, and then
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  Speaker 6: we'll get after some mortgages. I think I'm gonna think
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  Speaker 6: able to ride over to the beach tomorrow too.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 6: It's been really hot here as it is been for
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  Speaker 6: everybody else, So might do a little beach time this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: See. Do do you ever wonder, like Flynn and I
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  Speaker 4: were talking about this last week, do you ever kind
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  Speaker 4: of wonder how in the world did we do what
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  Speaker 4: we did in college in this weather?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: I think that's an old guy thing.
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  Speaker 4: Think.
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  Speaker 6: I think like when you're young, you don't know any better,
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  Speaker 6: and then as you get older and you get out
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  Speaker 6: of doing it, it's hard to get back into it.
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  Speaker 6: It's like getting in shape. It's easy while you're it's
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  Speaker 6: easier while you're staying in shape, but harder when you've
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  Speaker 6: gotten out of shape. So I yeah, man, the humidity here.
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  Speaker 6: But let's be honest, though, these kids ain't doing what
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  Speaker 6: we were doing, so you know they'll they'll never have
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  Speaker 6: any sort of idea of what it was like doing
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  Speaker 6: two A days back in July and August in the
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  Speaker 6: heat that we got here in the Southeast.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is very fair because I even appreciate the
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  Speaker 4: fact that I got a couple. If Lynn got it,
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  Speaker 4: you certainly most of your career got like old school
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  Speaker 4: two A days. At the next level, it's like, man,
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  Speaker 4: you young cats, like y'all have no idea, like this
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  Speaker 4: is a grind, and you remember, I'm sure you went
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  Speaker 4: through this, like when you would scrimmage another team, Like
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  Speaker 4: when you're practice with another team in the NFL, it
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  Speaker 4: was like you had four game days in a row
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  Speaker 4: and it was like true to a days you would
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  Speaker 4: go against that team like eights in a four day period.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the intensity level was ratcheted up next level. And
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  Speaker 6: what is he what do you think by like practice
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  Speaker 6: three year into like the full fledged fights that you know,
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  Speaker 6: So it's that that set up for failure inevitably, especially
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  Speaker 6: as deep as in the camp as we used to
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  Speaker 6: be before we get a chance to do some of that.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, man, I I don't miss I don't miss
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  Speaker 6: the uh the grind of being out there, but I
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  Speaker 6: do miss the training camp thing. I was literally just
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  Speaker 6: talking about that on on radio the other day. Man,
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  Speaker 6: as much as it sucks, it's one of those things that, like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you hate it at the time. I do
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  Speaker 6: miss being there with the guys and going through that
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  Speaker 6: and experiencing kind of the bonding that takes place during
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  Speaker 6: during camp every year.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Chris, your vibes are really uh meshing well with
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  Speaker 7: Jake and I show it because like we give off
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  Speaker 7: so many like back in my day, vibes, they don't
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  Speaker 7: go through We did blah blah blah. We you know,
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  Speaker 7: we probably spend half of the show just telling those stories.
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  Speaker 7: And we were just talking about the kind of the
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  Speaker 7: break the roll of summer workouts for all these guys
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  Speaker 7: of coming together doing the seven or sevens, the players
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  Speaker 7: only time on the field, and how important that is
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  Speaker 7: in your opinion? Like what can these kids get done
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  Speaker 7: in the summertime without coaches on the field, just themselves
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  Speaker 7: leading up? I mean each team is a little bit different.
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  Speaker 7: I always kind of leaned on the leadership, but like,
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  Speaker 7: what what do you what do you look for.
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  Speaker 2: From a team?
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  Speaker 7: And you can you can put this on your experience
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  Speaker 7: on the summer, the weeks leading up the training camp,
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  Speaker 7: because training camp is an as kicker, but yeah, just
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  Speaker 7: mentally physically, what are they doing to prepare?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting and because you know, I think teams
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  Speaker 6: are built during your your off season conditioning. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's it's built with what you're doing in the gym,
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  Speaker 6: It's built with those six fifteen runs. It's where leadership emerges,
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  Speaker 6: It's where you know, bonding takes place. But actually, I
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  Speaker 6: mean these guys are having a lot more time nowadays
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  Speaker 6: than what we used to with with coaches, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: we got so much hip hop. See in college football,
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  Speaker 6: you know we talk about in IL, which is actually
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  Speaker 6: just pay for play and recruiting, inducements and everything else.
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  Speaker 6: We just don't call it the right things. Well, these guys,
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  Speaker 6: these guys have OTAs now in college where you're out
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  Speaker 6: there with the coaches, you just can't have a ball.
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  Speaker 6: So what do they do. They roll up a towel
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  Speaker 6: and tie it up and stimulated being a ball. Like
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  Speaker 6: I don't even know why we do some of these
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  Speaker 6: stupid things that we do, but it does feel like
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  Speaker 6: coaches have an opportunity to get to know their teams
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  Speaker 6: maybe a little bit better in the offseason because of
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  Speaker 6: the time together. And let's be honest, like that only
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  Speaker 6: makes sense, like why were we not allowed to be
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  Speaker 6: with our coaches and now as big a business as
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  Speaker 6: it is, it truly is, you know, much more like
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  Speaker 6: the NFL, So you should have the opportunity to get
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  Speaker 6: coached during the off season more, you know.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things we were talking about for LSU
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  Speaker 4: is the fact that they don't necessarily have to go
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  Speaker 4: all the way back CD to like day one install
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  Speaker 4: once they get to training camp, because they got a
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  Speaker 4: veteran team, they got a quarterback coming back, and I
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  Speaker 4: think that is helpful, like you can kind of just
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  Speaker 4: look at it and then move along pretty fast there.
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  Speaker 4: But I think that's going to be the case in
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  Speaker 4: the SEC with so many returning quarterbacks. And one of
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  Speaker 4: the things that's going to be intriguing to me once
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  Speaker 4: we do get to Atlanta is you look at Florida,
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  Speaker 4: you look at LSU, South Carolina, Vandy. They know exactly
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  Speaker 4: who they are at quarterback. But the traditional powers over
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  Speaker 4: the last couple of years, you're Georgia, You're Alabama, Tennessee
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  Speaker 4: who made the College Football Playoff last year, Ole miss
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  Speaker 4: is won a lot of games. Like those teams don't
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  Speaker 4: know who in the hell they are at quarterback. Now.
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  Speaker 4: They think they've got some guys that can fill in.
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  Speaker 4: But the league this year, some of the teams that
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  Speaker 4: are trying to take that next step, the ones I
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  Speaker 4: laid out there, they know exactly who their guy is.
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  Speaker 4: But the teams that have been there, the UGA's like
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna have a lot to figure out.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Uga, Alabama, even Texas. I mean, we know who
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  Speaker 6: the guy is gonna be, but we don't necessarily know
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  Speaker 6: what he's going to be. We think we got a
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  Speaker 6: good idea of what he can evolve into.
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  Speaker 5: But the head ball coach had something to say about that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I feel the same way, like, why
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  Speaker 6: are we ready to just crown somebody as being the
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  Speaker 6: best in the league or the the number one draft
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  Speaker 6: pick in a couple of years just because of the
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  Speaker 6: last name. Now that there's a lot of good things
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  Speaker 6: that I love his leadership, but I love you know,
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  Speaker 6: he's he's a guy that hangs with his boys, which
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  Speaker 6: I love at the quarterback position. But you know, I
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  Speaker 6: do think it's an interesting dynamic because you know, this
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  Speaker 6: has every year we go to to media days, you're
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  Speaker 6: you're you're looking at at the returning quarterbacks and projecting
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  Speaker 6: what teams can be based upon the experience at that
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  Speaker 6: most crucial position. We had Matt Moscona on Your Boy
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  Speaker 6: the other day and I was talking about how good
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  Speaker 6: I thought the quarterback play was going to be this year.
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  Speaker 6: He kind of took a little bit of an exception
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  Speaker 6: to that. And to your point, I think there's about
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  Speaker 6: half the league that feels really good about returning quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 6: and then you know another half who's trying to figure
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  Speaker 6: it out or has a guy that hadn't necessarily played
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  Speaker 6: for that school and that offense before. So I really
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  Speaker 6: like that. I do feel like it's going to be
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  Speaker 6: an offensive inclined league this year with a lot of
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  Speaker 6: really good quarterbacks. But I also look at at all
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  Speaker 6: the different pieces around the quarterback now that come in
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  Speaker 6: and how quickly they're able to acclimate. I know that
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  Speaker 6: you guys there and Baton Rouge are dealing with a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of new receivers or a lot of talent, but
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  Speaker 6: how much have those guys been able to bond so
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  Speaker 6: far in the offseason and get the rhythm down that
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  Speaker 6: you need between the quarterback and wide receivers.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, the great teams, it usually comes down championship team.
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  Speaker 7: It usually comes down to head coaching, quarterback. I mean
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  Speaker 7: it's the ultimate team sport, of course, But I mean
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  Speaker 7: if you don't have at least one, preferably two of
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  Speaker 7: those things, a really good head coach and a really
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  Speaker 7: good quarterback, you're you're behind the eight ball a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: And I want to go back to arch Maning a
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  Speaker 7: little bit. I mean, if there's one guy that is
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  Speaker 7: would be made to handle the media and the pressure,
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  Speaker 7: it would be a Manning because they've been around it
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  Speaker 7: their entire life, right, But I want to know that
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  Speaker 7: this day and age, with the access to social media,
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  Speaker 7: access to everything, you're going to with unless you are
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  Speaker 7: actively trying to not see it, You're going to be
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  Speaker 7: expec everything, the good, bad, the ugly. What is if
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  Speaker 7: you were coaching a guy like Arch, what are you
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  Speaker 7: telling him as far as the cell phone, the looking
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  Speaker 7: at the press clipons, looking at all that stuff, Because
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  Speaker 7: it can be a dang if you don't have the
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  Speaker 7: right mental makeup, it can be a dangerous thing.
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  Speaker 2: But what would you say to a guy like that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, honestly, I feel like Arch is the exception to
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  Speaker 6: the rule, really, you know, And and let's credit Stark
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  Speaker 6: Starts done a great job of managing the quarterback room,
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  Speaker 6: managing Arch manning and his expectation. But I also think
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  Speaker 6: a lot of that came from the family influence as well,
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  Speaker 6: having multiple uncles that have dealt with and a grandfather
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  Speaker 6: that's dealt with it a different era there. But is
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  Speaker 6: a guy that comes from great pedigree, not only athletically
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  Speaker 6: but mentally. And I there's not a whole lot of
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  Speaker 6: guys that were as highly recruited as him that would
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  Speaker 6: have been as patient and waiting for his turn or understood,
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  Speaker 6: you know, how they were going to use him as
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  Speaker 6: they dipped his toe into the pool. So I I
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  Speaker 6: really like the maturity that he has shown. And you know,
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  Speaker 6: he has some fun on social media. You see him
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  Speaker 6: on commercials. He's doing a little bit of it, but
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  Speaker 6: I don't get the sense that it's getting to him
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  Speaker 6: the way that it does some other guys. And let's
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  Speaker 6: be honest, the money thing is something that can affect you.
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  Speaker 6: He comes from a family that has a pretty good
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  Speaker 6: amount of money, so it's not like a shock to
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  Speaker 6: the system where you know, a guy hadn't had anything
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  Speaker 6: all of a sudden, he's got a bunch and he's
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  Speaker 6: going crazy with it. So I just I think all
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  Speaker 6: these things line up to me to feel really good
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  Speaker 6: about what his career is going to be. And often,
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  Speaker 6: let's not forget, I think Stark is the best. I
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  Speaker 6: think he's the best play designer, best play caller in
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  Speaker 6: college football right now. And so it helps that he
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  Speaker 6: gets an opportunity to learn from him and that he's
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  Speaker 6: surrounded with the type of weapons that he has on
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  Speaker 6: that team where they're going to run the football. He
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  Speaker 6: didn't have to win games himself because of the ability
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  Speaker 6: to run with that group of running backs and behind
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  Speaker 6: a really talented offensive line.
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  Speaker 4: Cause you know where the boy Chris Doring here on
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  Speaker 4: OTB CD when I take a look at the SEC
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  Speaker 4: and I know we talk about the same things pretty
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  Speaker 4: often of Hey, this team needs to take another step,
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  Speaker 4: this team has to make it to a college football playoff,
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  Speaker 4: this team needs to win one more game, whatever it
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  Speaker 4: might be. There's a team that's not really in that conversation,
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  Speaker 4: that has really been struggling, and their fan base expects
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  Speaker 4: way more. And I'm surprised it's not a little bit louder.
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  Speaker 6: Are we talking about the Auburn Tigers.
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  Speaker 4: The Auburn Tigers looking at us. We know each other,
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  Speaker 4: so I mean two and six in the SEC last year,
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  Speaker 4: five and seven overall and CD, I just I don't
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  Speaker 4: even feel like we are talking about Hugh Freeze and
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  Speaker 4: him needing to get it together. Really, the noise isn't
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  Speaker 4: as loud as I thought it would be.
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  Speaker 6: It's funny because I think you got two different approaches,
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  Speaker 6: polar opposites. The way you talk about your team. You know,
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  Speaker 6: Brian Brian Kelly has really kind of magnified what the
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  Speaker 6: expectation of the fan base is in terms of what
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  Speaker 6: they expect from this year's team. Meanwhile, Hugh Freeze is
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  Speaker 6: talking about we just we need to make a bowl game.
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  Speaker 6: Get the hell out of here. Make a bowl game
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  Speaker 6: like that ain't enough. And particularly because of the expectation
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  Speaker 6: coming in and what they've done on the recruiting trailers
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  Speaker 6: the last couple of years, I do think this is
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  Speaker 6: a team that's poised to make a big jump this year.
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  Speaker 6: They played a lot of games where they lost in
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  Speaker 6: single digit ball games last year, So I think, as
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  Speaker 6: Lynn said, I mean, it's so much is about the quarterback,
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  Speaker 6: and I believe that Jackson Arro getting a fresh start
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  Speaker 6: and a different offense surrounded by a lot of really
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  Speaker 6: good players. I mean, this is a receiver corps that
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  Speaker 6: I think could be one of the best in the
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  Speaker 6: league this year. They went out and got the Speedster
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  Speaker 6: from from Georgia Tech to kind of compliment with what
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  Speaker 6: Cam Coleman brings to you. So I actually am kind
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  Speaker 6: of buying, cautiously buying that that Auburn could be a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of a dark horse team this year in
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  Speaker 6: the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to hear.
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  Speaker 7: I want to hear Chris Dorian's kind of just your
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  Speaker 7: power rankings, preseason power rankings going into the season when
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  Speaker 7: you look at everything from what people did in the
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  Speaker 7: off season to what they're returning to everything.
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  Speaker 2: Going into it.
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  Speaker 7: Walking into game one of the twenty twenty five season,
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  Speaker 7: give me your top three or four power rankings in
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  Speaker 7: the SEC and then also tell us why LSU is
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  Speaker 7: number one.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 6: I'm high on LSU.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a little biased too. I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 6: was talking about this yesterday on our show, just how
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  Speaker 6: many LSU folks I'm surrounded by. I was doing the
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  Speaker 6: show with Caroline Finton, who is another LSU grad, And
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  Speaker 6: I think back to that magical twenty nineteen season, the
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  Speaker 6: way that I was kind of welcomed into the fan
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  Speaker 6: base by so many of the great Tiger fans. I
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  Speaker 6: really have enjoyed watching Jay Johnson's run the last couple
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  Speaker 6: of years. He was fantastic with us yesterday on our show,
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  Speaker 6: and I guess pass I'm maybe finally going to get
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  Speaker 6: my autographed l s U jersey from him, the one
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  Speaker 6: that I had to Yeah Wetay.
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  Speaker 4: Off the bet with Yeah Yeah, doing has a baseball jersey.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to get Jay Johnson to sign it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna personally make sure that happens. Don't lean on g
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  Speaker 4: to get it done.
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  Speaker 6: I'll get it he he did. I mean I mentioned
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  Speaker 6: that at the end of the interview yesterday and Coach
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  Speaker 6: Johnson said that he was going to get with the
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  Speaker 6: equipment guy as soon as the interview was over to
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  Speaker 6: make sure I had that that purple and gold jersey
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  Speaker 6: up in my office. So I'm committing to that. And
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  Speaker 6: when I say up in the office, has I mean
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  Speaker 6: leaned up against the cabinet as I know that makes
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  Speaker 6: you a little upset, but I yeah, I mean I'm
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  Speaker 6: high on LSU. I'm interested in what you guys think about.
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  Speaker 6: Like I made this assertment that I think this is
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  Speaker 6: maybe the most important opener that I can remember for
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  Speaker 6: any team in a long time, given the lack of
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  Speaker 6: success that the program has had in general the last
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  Speaker 6: five years and openers and particularly with Brian Kelly the
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  Speaker 6: last couple of years. But at the end of the
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  Speaker 6: end of the day, the way that the playoffs is
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  Speaker 6: set up now you can lose one or two games,
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: is still get in and it isn't not a conference game.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: You know, it's crazy. You guys would agree with me,
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: Like seeing that Florida LSU game in September as the
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: as the conference opener, like it, that is a that
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: may be a more important game. But I do feel
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: like there's a lot of angst about what this opener
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: will looked like there in Death Valley.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how I feel about Florida LSU
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: being that early. I gotta be honest with you, that's
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: an October game every day, all day, and for it
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: to be right there, and you're right like those teams
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: and they've got some tough opponents before they even get
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: to each other. It might be a must win situation,
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: like your first time out of the gate in conference.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it is, you know, jumping right into the fire. Now,
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: you guys remember last year, Florida had a brutal schedule
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: to open the month of September. I had to play Miami,
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: got physically embarrassed in that one, and then two games
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: later had to play Texas A and M and got
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: manhandled on the line of scrimmage there as well. I
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: do like the schedule for Florida this year. They get
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: to eat into a little bit more Long Island in
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: the opener and then South Florida week two. But I
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: don't know if there's a more brutal stretch of four
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: games success in succession than what Florida plays. They got
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: to go to Miami to play the Hurricanes, or excuse me,
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: they got to play They play you guys in Baton Rouge,
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: then Miami and then have to play Texas at home,
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: and then Texas A and M and College station. Like
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: that's gonna be a defining run for Florida. But I
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: do think remember the old days has we did on there,
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: we talk about, all right, where's the three game stretch
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: that matters the most for teams and what they can
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: or can't be. I think now with Texas and Oklahoma
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: in the league and a little bit more difficult scheduling
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: out of conference, we're seeing these these stretches where you know,
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: four games in a row or are brutal. So it's
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: it's it's kind of a sign of the times. But
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: as fans man, I would much rather get a chance
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: to see my team playing ball games like this than
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: playing SCS opponents.
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: I couldn't agree, But we talked about that the other day.
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: It's like, do whatever you have to do with the
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: playoff rules and how you're going to get in do
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: whatever you have to do to make sure that these
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: games stay here and they don't go back to scheduling
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: and other stuff.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean that kind of leads me to
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: a good question.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Let me let me ask you a question playing real quick, Like,
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: as players, we wanted to play the best competition, man,
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: we wanted to get a chance to test ourselves. Don't
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: you love the idea of mandating the Power four teams
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: all having a game against the other Power three conferences
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: and being able to see how you match up against
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: the ACC, the Big twelve, and the Big ten, Like
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: it feels like that should be something that we could
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: at least mandate to really get a better temperature of
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: which conferences are the best and the teams out of
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: conference that are the best.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: I love any idea that puts the best against the best,
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: no matter what part of the country and no matter
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: what the patch or the conference is on your jersey,
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: doesn't matter. I mean every year, we used to get
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: so excited for all the bowl games because you saw
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: the interconference matchups, Like we should be having that throughout
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: the year. And that's that's why, you know, you get
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: into these conversations about the committee and all this I
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: just I just prayed that it never gets to the
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: point where we have to go back to just strictly,
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: you know, you have to be undefeated or one loss
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: to be able to be in the conversation of getting in.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: So meanwhile, the thing about like literally obviously didn't win
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: the Big Ten, didn't even play for the Big Ten championship,
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: and lost their final game of the season when we
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: were playing. You lose the final game of the season,
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: that's pretty much a death wish. So like I do
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: think that Ohio State, once they got past that Michigan game,
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: was playing the best of any team in the country.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: So I think now college football is like, hey, let's survive.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Let's give ourselves a chance to be in position at
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: the end of the year, and you know, if we
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: can find a way to start clicking on all cylinders,
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: you can get hot in the postseason like a lot
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: of the other sports do in terms of determining champions
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: So it is a bit of a survival, particularly in
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: the grind that the SEC is now. But honestly believe,
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: with what happened last year in the postseason, we're gonna
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: get at least one or two nine win teams in
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: this year, something that we talked about last last year
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: a lot when Ole Miss, South Carolina and Bama got
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: snubbed at nine and three. But I do think that
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: we'll see at least one, if not multiple, nine win
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: teams from the league getting in this year.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: A r There he is our boy, Chris Doring, SEC Network,
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• 19:45
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• 19:48
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• 19:50
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  Speaker 4: There he is Chris Doring, always good enough to join
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  Speaker 4: I do want to recap some of what CD was
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: talking about there, kind of look at what the SEC
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: looks like and kind of some of the different tiers.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Some of those teams like in Auburn that nobody's talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Try to knock them all, right, welcome back in OTB
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  Speaker 4: one oh four five ESPN ban Rude, I brought up
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  Speaker 4: Auburn Flynn because we talked so often about Okay, LSU,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: they need to get to a cass football playoff. They do,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: but they were nine to four last year, five and
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: three in conference play. It needs to be better. We
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: all agree, A and M who a lot of people
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: make fun of, and I get it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: It's fun.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: I do it as well. They were five and three
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: though in conference play. Now eight and five overall. They
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: did lose to Notre Dame, who played in the National
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Championship game. But it's not good enough by any means.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: But it's not falling off a cliff, right, Even the
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Florida Gators last year they're four and four in conference play, right,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: they want to be better now. They did take strides,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: they beat LSU, they beat Ale Miss at the end
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: of the year. But we talk about those teams so
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: often of they gotta be better. They got to be better.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: They got to take another step and I'm talking about
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: not just here on this show because obviously, like we're
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: not talking about all these SEC teams every single day.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about even on off campus over on serious XM,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: like we'll talk, you know, the totality of the conference.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: We'll have callers and interaction, and those are the teams
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: that people want to talk about. I'm like, Oklahoma was
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: two and six in the SEC last year, six and
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: seven overall. The Auburn Tigers were two and six in
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: the SEC, five and seven overall, and nobody's bringing that up. Like,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: no matter where I go, no matter what show I do,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: I'm like, it's always you know, it's it's A and M,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: it's LSU. Alabama's got to get back to the playoff.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Florida's got to be better. And I agree with that,
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: But like when when you think about but when you
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: think about like the powers that Oklahoma and Auburn have been,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Like I'll argue when when we were in school, like
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: the Auburn Tigers were one of the toughest matchups we had.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: Well when I got to school, that was that was
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: the rival at the time. Of course, the LSU, the
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: rival fluctuates with time and who's good at winn and where?
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: But man, I remember if you went there like you
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: were like I remember like seeing the highlight video, like
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: the recruiting highlight video that they used, and it was
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: like Phil Collins in the air tonight and it was
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: Auburn smoking cigars.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Cublic Is that him?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, that's why you didn't win in Tiger stating
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: for like twenty years after that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: But yeah, it's so interesting because LSU's so unique because
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: the rival does fluctuate like that, And yeah, to hear
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: to hear that they were two and six in the SEC.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: They haven't had a lot of good there.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: And I'm trying to figure out, as you're saying this,
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: why are they getting that pass? And is it because
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: they've been so good in the past do they get
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: like a little legal.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Because Brian Harson, like if he if he stepped in
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: the wrong direction, people were like ready to throw him
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: at town. I mean there was a there was a
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: literal coup against him that turned out not to be
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: true to try to get him fired. But because Hugh
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Freeze when he was an old mess beat Alabama a
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: couple of times, it feels like he gets this like
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: ultimate pass.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what was it? The cheerleader thing? There was this rumor.
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: There was never a proven about Harrison and a cheerleader,
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: but there were people in Auburn that one of him fired,
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: Like the day he stepped went on campus.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: People hated that higher.
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: Their philosophy was, we're Auburn, we don't hire a guy
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: from Boise State like he was. He was des in
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: avail before he even got there.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: I feel like in college football with some of these teams,
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: it's like the court of public opinion. It is every
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: now and then can be pretty reasonable and look at
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: the situations and be like, all right, this school, this
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: football team, the organization. There's so many things happening that
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: are wrong, like bad, like we understand why they're like
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: we almost felt like it's a rebuilding, like Tennessee a
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: handful of years ago, like they were in the same
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: position like how do we ever get back to this?
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: And they the noise was probably equally as low then
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: because I think everybody just understood like this is this
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: is a rebuilding. We got to figure out how to
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: get back. The expectation isn't there, Like when you talk
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: about A and MLSU, like that expectation is there because
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: of recruiting classes, recent success. But like the team that
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: shocks me over Auburn is Oklahoma because they have had
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: recent success.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: You're exactly right.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: And you know so many times when we start talking
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: about the Big Twelve, everybody thinks it was Texas OU,
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Texas OU.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: They swapped punches.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, you dominate the Big Twelve.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: They wanted so in recent like they've had success recently,
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: how was that noise not?
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: When the playoffs got expanded, they were there every year.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Now they didn't win a game in the playoff, but
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: they were there at a seat at the table.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma sooners two and six in conference play and.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Then Texas went to the SEC championship game, which.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: So then they have heis. They have two heismans in
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the last but six years.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: You got Bakery and Murray runner up. And if it
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: wasn't for Sir Joseph Burrow having the year he had,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: herds would have wanted.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: To And a handful of years later the two and
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: six in conference play and that noise isn't deafening. Bren
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: was like a get off first year Oklahoma no and.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: They have look and so I feel like Auburn's just
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: continuing to add like good receivers. But then you get
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Jackson Arnold at a quarterback. He was a quarterback for Oklahoma
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: last year, like he was kind of in and out
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: of the lineup, like there was nothing. Now he had
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: injuries a receiver. I do get that, but there was
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: nothing that gets you excited. I think enough to think
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Jackson Arnold can come in and turn it around. Now
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: for Oklahoma, I will say this about them, they have
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: done everything they.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Can to try to hit reset.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: You go get Jah Mattier from Wazoo, You go get
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Jay Nott at running back from cal You go get
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Jim Naggy from the Senior Bowl. Jim Naggy's now their
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: general manager. So they they've at least they've tried to
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: add to the roster because I think Vinnibles understands you
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: can't win two conference games at Oklahoma and lift to
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: tell the story.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: No, he is not the way it works. I dare
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: you to do that again this year you be gone
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: for sure. But yeah, I mean it's the noise around
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: Auburn has seemed like it's been kind of a cluster recently,
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: but not not with Oklahoma. That is the shocking part.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: To me about all this is why they are not
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: calling into the show your show and screaming about that.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: I would assume that he is on a hot seat,
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: am I Am I wrong for thinking that he has
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: to be.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: This is year three, right, see. But the problem with
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: it's still two wins, right.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: But the problem with Auburn in the.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Way they've kind of handled things, like they're still paying
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Brian Harson. And not to say that Auburn doesn't have money,
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: I mean they do have have yellow wood, they have
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: deep pockets, like we understand that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about that. I'm talking about Oklahoma Inventable.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I'm just going over like, so that's what for Hugh Freeze,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, like that's maybe why it's not loud there.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: I haven't heard anything from.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma either as far as like he's got to win
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: nine games or he's gone like Lincoln Riley leaving the
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: way he did. It feels like it hurt soon, like
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: they because for them and their eyes are like we're
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: not a place where our coach leaves to go anywhere else.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: We're Oklahoma, and it feels like it hurt them, and
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: like they got this guy in Invinables that wants to
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: be there, has been there before as an assistant, and
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: it feels like he's getting a little bit more leeway
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: because of that.
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: I agree, But at some point the administration there has
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: to say, just like you just said, we are Oklahoma,
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: like we cannot accept below mediocrity in our conference, right,
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: we can't accept, but we can't accept being in the
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: middle of the pack, let alone the bottom of the pack.
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: So how much of a lease do you give? What
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: message does that send to all of your alumni, your boosters,
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: your fan base, what messages that sense saying, you know,
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: two wins is not enough to get you put on
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: a hot seat.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe he is.
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: I mean they're not going to come out and say that,
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: you know he's on a hot seat, of course, But
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: you know, I think where there's smoke, there's fire, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: if there's no smoke, there's certainly there's no fire.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: How about this before we take a break, here's Oklahoma's scheduled.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: I know a lodger's loving this conversation right now. She's
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: probably raised to hate the Sooners. You got Illinois State, okay, whatever,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Then you got Michigan. You got Michigan at home. Now
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: we don't know what Michigan is going to be. There'll
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: be a preseason top twenty five team. Maybe Bryce Underwood
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: is the quarterback to start off there at Michigan. And
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: then you go on the road, which why on the
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: road to Temple? What in the whale is going on there?
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: You're Oklahoma.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Now you're playing in Eagle Stadium Lincoln Financial, But that
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: doesn't really matter. You're going to Temple, like playing.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: A neutral site at Temple. That's basically what it was.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: You're staying like if Okay, so like La Shoe will
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: go and they'll play like if they went to Houston.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: They play it in NRG. But that's the biggest alumni
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: base for l s U. Makes sense, right, You give
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: those Tigers there in Houston a chance to go see
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: l s U play in Houston. Nick Saban would be
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: famous for somewhere in Florida, like he would go play
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: a game at South Florida because it was like the
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Tampa area that was big for them. It was a
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: big time recruiting ground for them. Oklahoma is not creating
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: a pipeline and recruiting to Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 9: That's so what is happening far from and then Temple
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  Speaker 9: and they're awful.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you have to well, I know you have to
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  Speaker 7: schedule the big time game. So far in advance, I
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  Speaker 7: don't know. Temple is not a big time game. When
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  Speaker 8: They were like, guys, Lincoln Financial Field early in the season, A.
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  Speaker 10: Kick what You're right, they're not going to fill that
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  Speaker 10: out either. There's like it's gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Look, there's gonna be three people there.
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  Speaker 9: It's gonna be incredibly empty there. I would be shocked
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  Speaker 9: if there were ou fans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 7: You're putting yourself in a voluntary no win situation at
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  Speaker 5: NFL stadium.
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  Speaker 8: Man, all right, we can Financial at night? Great eleven
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: So that surprised me as well. So I'm glad the surprised.
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  Speaker 4: And then okay, then they play Auburn and that's gonna
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  Speaker 4: about here. Then you get a bye week, and then
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  Speaker 4: But then you've got Texas in Dallas at South Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Now they get Willie b during the day and not
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  Speaker 4: night that's that's good for them. But still at South Carolina,
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  Speaker 4: Ole Miss, at home, at Tennessee, at Bama.
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  Speaker 8: I think those are five losses. I think they lose
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  Speaker 8: all five of those games. I mean, find me a
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  Speaker 8: little boy, to your point, your point they get Williams
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  Speaker 8: struggled their ass off at eleven AM last.
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  Speaker 4: Year Williams seventeen broken pencils.
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  Speaker 8: In a game that, in my opinion, l s you
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: shouldn't have won a year ago. Like, that's five losses
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  Speaker 8: for Oklahoma right there.
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  Speaker 4: At best it's two and three, yes, right now, it
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: looks like it's now. I love Jeometerier quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: I love him. He is a too gritty to be
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  Speaker 5: pretty like type of guy.
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  Speaker 2: But man, where's material coming from?
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  Speaker 5: Washington State? He was cam Ward's uh back up.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: They actually had like a two quarterback system at times
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  Speaker 4: where they would play together.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty badass.
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  Speaker 4: Like he Jeometereer would get it running back and they'd
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  Speaker 4: But buckle up sooner because after that Alabama I talked about,
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  Speaker 4: All right, we'll take a break talking Moore sec football
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said it, I said the weekend vibe would
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  Speaker 4: pick up as the show went along, picking up a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: This song like gets me like little service vibes.
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  Speaker 10: What would you put what would you like? You know
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  Speaker 10: how they bring out there? You put on it?
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  Speaker 4: Did any of y'all get like from tigers?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 10: Whatever people bring in?
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  Speaker 4: It's just like I feel bad. I'm like, you don't
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  Speaker 4: have to do Yeah, you don't have to.
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  Speaker 7: We break down like no one else can you know,
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  Speaker 7: hold the sparklers this time.
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  Speaker 4: If it's said from from tigers, if it's from tigers
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 10: What if it's said more game than a gumbo pot.
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  Speaker 4: I believe the premises out of the building, not just
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  Speaker 9: And what if it was big boys lady holding it up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man. It's only only appropriate time to say big
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  Speaker 7: we call maybe Fridays. This fall is like bottle service Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, bring a sparkler. Howould they feel about that?
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  Speaker 8: I mean there's something that will not the ones that
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  Speaker 2: We'll be good.
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  Speaker 5: I think. Wouldn't mind a sparkler?
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  Speaker 8: No, actually, old bottle rockets, or you can heat up
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  Speaker 8: the place a little bit, like it gets cold.
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  Speaker 5: That's he does. I'm so much happier over here it
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  Speaker 4: Be over there.
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  Speaker 8: Honestly, like when when shows like Solo and I'm over there,
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  Speaker 8: I'm never cold during the show.
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  Speaker 5: It feels great. I can wear short sleeves again.
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  Speaker 7: I don't have to wear this seat over here. This
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  Speaker 7: It's like soaking wet because I'm sweating, I'm freezing.
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  Speaker 4: We're also doing push I got it, flew over here
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  Speaker 8: The uhou the excellent eighteen wheeler driver hit the guy
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  Speaker 10: Truck and those people drive like driving.
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  Speaker 8: I was telling Matt for the show. I knew the
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  Speaker 8: intersection before they even released where it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was like, exactly where that is?
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: Is that the worst one?
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 4: Is that the one where you get off and your
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  Speaker 4: if you were going to downtown, din't the anti It's right.
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  Speaker 8: There where you got like Chick fil A on one side,
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  Speaker 8: Mickey D's on the other.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my man was just hanging. He was clipped in.
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  Speaker 4: Thank good.
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  Speaker 2: It's always where ship protection kidding me.
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  Speaker 10: He did, but for him, I wasn't the lane blocked.
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  Speaker 2: Off though, Yeah, that's that's on multiple people.
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  Speaker 10: But also it was behind.
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  Speaker 9: It was like an epidemic of eighteen wheeler drivers driving
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  Speaker 9: insane and not paying attention to where they're going, as
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  Speaker 9: if they're not driving the biggest vehicle in existence.
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  Speaker 8: Also, trust me, wouldn't have mattered if that lane was
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  Speaker 8: blocked off not there not there not, there.
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  Speaker 4: Would an eighteen will like on the interstate, Like when
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  Speaker 4: you're traveling and one like knows that, okay, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: get over, But what's he really going to do if
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: I do? And they do it and they come like
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  Speaker 4: an inch from hitting your car? Man like, yeah, they
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  Speaker 4: turn road rage up to eleven. I'm like going in
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  Speaker 4: the other lane. I'm like, pull over. You can't see
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  Speaker 4: me because you're so high up, but I'm trying to
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: get my horms high.
• 40:53
  Speaker 10: I get so mad.
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: I get so mad when they're in the fast lane
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: going slow and I'm like, you need to get out
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  Speaker 9: of my way.
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  Speaker 7: They're going sixty one, but the eighteen wheeler quarter mile
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: ahead of him going sixty r so they got a
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: pass on at sixty one. It's maybe just like skinny
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: one on the right, but he just hit it a
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: little bit harder.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just like as my Dad used to always say,
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  Speaker 4: it's the long, skinny one on the right.
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: Push it down, push it a little bit harder, that
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  Speaker 7: lead foot a litle bit heavier, guys, that's all we need.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm sure all the eighteen wheel drivers listening to
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  Speaker 7: this show the tens of thousands video where you give
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  Speaker 7: sure they're good drivers.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, dang.
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• 41:44
  Speaker 4: But except for that game, they're not driving a mass
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: of hot I'm gonna.
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: Need y'all to realize what y'all are in.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got those bright yellow vests on. They're there.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: So when that guy keeps going, you think, what's that
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: phone call? Like boss from his like he knows he
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  Speaker 4: hit him? Does he call him? Or is he just
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: like wait for them call him?
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: I hit what?
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: I had no idea.
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: I always loved the vehicles in front of you driving awful,
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  Speaker 8: and it's like the company, It's like, how is my driving?
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: That's what I just said.
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  Speaker 7: You think the guy working that that fell right, there
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  Speaker 7: that got hit, called that number, said not good.
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  Speaker 2: I was in college driving called eight eight.
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  Speaker 10: I was in college called one much money?
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: Oh I know, two idiot.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 8: I was sad to work in college and I had overslept.
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  Speaker 8: We had a late night the night before, and I'm driving.
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  Speaker 8: This guy's going twenty five and a forty five, So
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  Speaker 8: I called the damn number in front.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: He's like, do you ever complain to my Can you
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  Speaker 2: tell your guy to speed up? I'm going twenty miles
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  Speaker 2: under the speed and it just hung up the phone.
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