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Was FSU Robbed? Congrats to the Troy Trojans! Playoff Chaos Thanks to Bama! · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Welcome to TIGS Bits. We are wrapping up the college
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football season tonight and I'd say it was a pretty good season
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for all three of us associated with the show.
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Blasey and Jr's Troy Trojans won the Sunbelt Conference for the
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second year in a row. Jr's Tide won the SEC
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Championship and snuck into the playoffs, and my LSU Tigers
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struggled defensively to say the least, but had the best player
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in college football in Jaden Daniels, who should win the
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Heisman Trophy hopefully does. We're going to talk about all of
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that and the Florida State snub. Look, if you aren't following us
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subscribe, comment and share. Without any further ado, let's
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get into it. Lacey it it is good to see you
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my friend. I can't believe.
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Man. I can't believe college football
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season's basically over, dude. Do this.
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You know what's crazy is like I it just as you were sitting
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there doing that intro and winding up the regular season,
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now with the, we actually had the conference championships as
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well. Like how it just seems like
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literally two or three, four weeks ago that we were sitting
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there talking about taking in this season, enjoying each week,
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savoring every moment. You know, both.
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As you know it's LSU fans, Mama fans, Troy fans here, on on on
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here and anybody else who's a college football fan.
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Enjoy each week, you know, And like, here we are, you know what
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I mean? It's over with.
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It's like, God, it happened so fast.
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It's like each season gets faster.
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Man, it's so. Crazy.
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They do. They do.
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And I what I don't, I mean, there has to be some reason to
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why we feel this way. You know, I mean, it's it just
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happened so fast that you just blink your eye and bam, it's,
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it's done. I mean, it's just, it's 1/4 of
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the season, it's 1/4 of the year, but that quarter goes by
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very, very fast, man. But look, we had a we had a
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little mid season show where I had a meltdown which was
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fantastic, you know, hey, nothing changed either from that
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one. For the record, you know, LSU
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defense wasn't fixable. It never, it never got any
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better. And it cost them because they're
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a team that could have, could have made noise and could have
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been in the could have been a playoff team had they had a
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defense. Offensively, they were.
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They were amazing, But. Yes, they were.
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But dude, I mean, we had John Sumrall, the Sunbelt champion
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for the second year in a row. Probably will be the Sunbelt
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coach of the year, I would think.
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What an honor that we had him on here riding down to media days.
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I mean, it just feels like it was like 3 weeks ago that we did
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that man, but it was back in September, wasn't?
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Or late August, Late August. No, dude, that was actually
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July. That was in July.
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Yes, it was. Yeah, 'cause I was in Nashville
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when we were reported that I was there for our national salesman.
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I mean, that's even that makes it even crazier.
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That was in July. Football season hadn't even
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started yet and it feels like it was just yesterday that we we
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were talking to him. It's nuts.
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It's nuts, man. No, it's it's been it's been
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awesome, dude. It's yeah, he's dude.
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I mean what he's done there, Troy, like you know, like it.
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It's so cool. It's so what's strange about it
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though. If you look at last season and
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this season, they're almost identical like they are in the
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way that the schedule played out.
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We went, we started one and two last year and then we reeled off
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10 in a row, ended up with 11 in a row after winning the bowl
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game. And here we go again this
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season, one and two, and we've reeled off 10 in a row again.
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Hopefully we get that 11 to go 11 and O against Duke coming up.
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So it's it's just, but I'm. I'm pinching myself and I
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realize we just got to play for. Two Sunbelt conference
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championships in a row at home and have won both of them.
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I love that it gets. That's so awesome, dude.
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I like that it's at home. You know that that the higher
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seed gets to play that game at at home.
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That's the way. I mean that's the way it should
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be. It makes for, it just makes for
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a great atmosphere. It was fun to watch on TV, you
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know? Yeah, we have.
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We had a lot of bad weather coming in.
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Like there was some. I mean, there were severe
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threats of light, like lightning, and like, we're
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talking about even possible tornadoes.
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So it really scared some people away.
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But I'll tell you who it didn't scare away were those students.
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Those students, they were there. They were loud and proud.
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They were great. Yeah, they did.
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They did a fantastic job. It was a, you know, it was a
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good game to the score, really the IT got away from Appalachian
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State there at the end the Trojans turned it on.
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But it was a, it was a, you know, one possession game going
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basically going into the fourth quarter just wide, wide.
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It was a great football game, a great, a great football game.
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And so tell us a little bit, I got a phone call everybody not
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long after the game. I I was expecting one, but, but
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I wasn't expecting the good stuff that that Blasey brought.
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So tell us about it, man. What happened after the game
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ended for Chad Blasey that night?
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Oh man. So I'll, I'll back up to the
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beginning of that game first because throughout the season,
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you know, we applied for our press credentials and we got
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those for the season. So very first game I pick up,
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you know, I get press passes for every single home game.
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They gave us parking passes. It's so it's so awesome, right?
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You know, so we had that opportunity to go in and and
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that's we were able to interview DeMarcus Ware, spend some time
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there, do some cool stuff. Now, I wasn't able to make it to
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every game, so I wasn't able to make it to all the press
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conferences or anything. I just did some pregame
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activities on the field, got some footage for our show, did
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things like that. But I didn't always go to the
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press conference and so I'd emailed them on Thursday.
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I was like, well, I don't have anything for the Sunbelt
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Conference Championship. Where's my where's my press pass
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here? And I emailed the guy in charge
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there and he asked me what, what it was I needed.
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So I just reminded him, yeah, we've got, I've got tickets,
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we've got an end zone, we've got a tent situation.
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I just need access before and for the press conference and
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then so I get there. But he never responded back
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after that e-mail. And I was like, well, OK, so I
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get there and I go to the place where I picked him up originally
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and there's nobody there. And I was like, man, so I'm
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searching and I finally, I find him, you know, to Adam.
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And I was like, hey, man, I was like trying to get on, you know,
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out here. He said, well, you haven't been
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to the postgame press conferences.
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And he said, I didn't think you really needed those.
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I was like, so I explained my situation.
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I thought, no, no, I was like, I've been here.
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I interviewed DeMarcus Ware. I've been on the field.
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We've done footage from the sidelines from the game, like
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it's been awesome. Thank you so much for the
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access. I apologize I haven't come in
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there to bother the coach after the game, you know, But I
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promise you he was like, well, I'll get you one.
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It's fine as well. I'll be there tonight, you know.
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So I got to show up. I told him, hey man, I'm not.
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I'm about to lose our credentials that we just got.
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So, so, dude. So yeah, I fully planned.
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I was like, OK, I've got to go in after the game.
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So dude, following the game, first of all, watched our kids
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go out there. It was great.
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Hal was there with me. He had his son there with me.
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I had my son there, Hell with me, and they rushed the field.
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They tore down the goal posts and that thing.
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Snapped like a twig, dude. I I went, wow, that that's one
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of those old school, the old, old way that whenever the teams
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where people would storm the field and the the goal posts
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would come down, like that thing, it looked like you just
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breathed on it. The thing just snapped.
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It was awesome. It got absorbed so fast that it
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was like crazy. It was just gone.
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Like. Did they eat that thing?
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What do they do with it? But like in the corner that we
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are in is the corner that you would exit the stadium to
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because it's the northwest corner of the stadium and that's
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where we are. So right below us is that
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tunnel. And so every time they were
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coming with a piece of the field goal, they're coming right by us
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to leave the stadium with it. And then we look up and there's
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Murphy riding that thing like of.
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Course he was. Of course he was.
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And my son and my son's just walking next to him.
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He's a little bit more cautious than than Murphy is, so he's
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just walking next to this thing. Look at this kid.
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Our field correspondent too, by the way.
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Everybody. Mr. Murphy Lair.
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Absolutely. Murphy Lair lighting that goal
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post out of the stadium. That's amazing.
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Oh, it's so good. So, so I'll wait for that to go
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down. They drag the stage onto the
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field. They go, you know, shoot the
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confetti and the, you know, the sky award the trophy.
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So I'll wait for that. That's play out.
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Then I go down onto the field. I was letting the madness kind
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of settle in. But yeah, that's so.
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So I'm down the field and just seeing different people.
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And I I saw Rusty Witt who's their strength and conditioning
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coach and I go up to and he's got him a big cigar, you know,
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celebrating. And I just said, hey man, what's
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up coach? I was like Chad Blasey just
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introduced myself to him and told him how great of a job I
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thought he's done the last year or two that he's been there, you
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know, and it's just his his impact has been tremendous.
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Well, a guy that I worked with, he used to be his strength and
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conditioning coach over at Louisiana with the raging Cajuns
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and he told me about him. You know, like last year's like,
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dude, that guy's amazing. And his story is even more
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amazing. You know, he's a Green Beret
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special forces guy left out of coaching to go serve his country
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and then come back into coaching and they were just saying this
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guy is just unreal. He was like he he, he has you
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ready to run through a brick wall, you know.
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So heard so much about him and obviously seeing what our team's
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done the last two seasons as we get into the third quarter,
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sometimes we're down some. It's close and it's like we just
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here goes that gas pedal, you know what I mean?
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Like wow, we're really like start dominating the line of
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scrimmage. You know our run game finally
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really opens up using the fourth quarter and it's been
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consistent. Game over, game over, game over
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game, you know, so, So I was just thinking about that,
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talking with him. So I'll kind of speed this up.
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But anyway, I'll go in, get to go into the locker room, listen
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to the post, the the, the speech after the game that he give
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delivers to the team. That was awesome, you know.
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And then then I'm kind of lost because I have not been.
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I I will admit I have not been to a post game press conference.
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So I didn't even know where that would take place.
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So I'm trying to get out of this locker room, but it's kind of a
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madhouse, you know, Everybody celebrating, they got cigars.
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It's packed. I start walking one way and I'm
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like, I think this is the way out.
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Maybe. I'll probably take me down the
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hallway to get here and I end up in the damn showers literally.
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Like I've turned the corner. Like don't think this is going
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to work for me. Let me back, back out.
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So now I got to go back through everybody.
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And now I'm starting to that timer's going off in my head.
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I'm like, dude, this press conference is about to start and
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I'm not there, you know, like and I start walking.
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I end up in the weight room and it dude, their their facility
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there at that end zone. It's really impressive and it's
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pretty huge, you know. So you kind of get lost and I'm
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standing there and look up and there's Coach Summer off.
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He's happened to be standing there.
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He looks over at me. He was like, you look lost.
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And I was like, I am, I'm trying to get to the post, post game,
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press conference. He was like, come on son, let's
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go, Just follow me. So he and I sit there and chat
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the whole way, you know, It was so cool.
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We're walking. He's like, there's my brother in
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front of me. He's got his kids.
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They came down from Atlanta to watch the game today, he said.
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So that was so cool. He and I were just rapping,
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walking in. He's got his hand on my
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shoulder. We're talking with the door
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opens up and it's the guy who was about to take my, my, my
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credentials from me, which, hey, I understand.
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He just thinks I've been clowning around with this and
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not taking it seriously. But I have been.
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I've just been in different places.
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Silent. And 2nd just kind of just nod my
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head at him like, yeah, how's it going, Adam?
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Yeah. So Coach and I show up
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fashionably late to the press conference.
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All the press is there. They're seated except for me,
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you know. Oh, my Lord.
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Coach Chad blessed with takes bits here.
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So you know, we've we've seen all season, we saw last season
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like this is a team like the first half may be slow
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sometimes, but like that second-half, like how much of
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this do you attribute that to rusty Witt football like?
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A ton of it. Our guys, I think, are the best
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trained football team in America, and I think they commit
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themselves to taking care of their bodies.
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Our guys are pros. You know, all three of these
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guys do a fantastic job and Witt does a great job and Colin,
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Kenyon, Nick, Steve Harvey. All the guys that work in our
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weight room just serve and develop our players so well and
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the guys buy into that. And you know, I think the weight
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room builds the physical part, but it also builds the middle
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part and it reinforces the core values of your program.
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And Coach Witt does a fantastic job.
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Me and him are, you know, almost like brothers with how much we
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talk about big picture vision of the team and the pulse of the
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team and you know, talking about complacency, being a killer and
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meeting him text all parts of the day until, I mean we're
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always going to make a fourth. He's been a huge part of the
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success and and really you know probably some people may not
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think this is the smartest thing to share but when I took this
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job I had a plan to not keep coach wet.
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I was going to bring my own straight coach and and I met
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with the players and a lot of them, some of these guys that
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are up here said Coach Witt's awesome because I said, hey give
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me two things you changed and two things you should keep the
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same. And all of them are like Coach
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Witt, keep him, Coach Witt keep him.
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Coach Witt keep him. And I'm going, well, what are
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they asking for their staff decisions.
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And then I sat down and got to know Coach Witt and I thought
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this might be a pretty good fit. You know, he's we're kind of
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like kindred spirits in some regards.
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I'm not sure if that's compliments myself because he's
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a Green Beret and he's tougher than nails and sometimes a
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little bit crazy, but he has really helped and he loves our
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players. We talk about our core values,
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attitude, tough as this one love Rusty has tremendous love for
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our players. So yeah, that was the video of
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of Blasi in the post game, post game, press conference,
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championship post game press conference.
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So you know Tigs bits, dude, we're just growing.
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We're at conference championships now, you know?
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I mean, we're nothing but winners in this room anyhow.
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I mean, we don't have, unfortunately tonight we don't
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have our compadre Jr. the handler.
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He shot us a text just a a few minutes before we we were
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jumping in. He was apparently trying to
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trying to get well all day, but he said it's just a no go boys.
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My throat's out. He's flying to Vegas, I think
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later on this week. I'm sure he's doing some going.
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I'm sure they have some shows or something with Justin Moore out
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there, so no big deal. We'll have him back.
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But I hate it for him tonight because, I mean, I have to give
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credit where credit is due and the Alabama Crimson Tide have
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won the SEC Championship. And like I said, all we do is
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win in here. All three of us are winners in
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some form or fashion. But, but yeah, the.
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So no big. Shocker there.
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No, it's not. It's not a big shocker at all.
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But hey, I was not a shocker that Alabama beat Georgia by any
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means. It's not a shocker if Alabama
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beats anybody but Georgia, 29 in a row.
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That game all of a sudden, Really.
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I never looked at it as a quarter final playoff game until
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Saturday. And I'm like, oh, we'll wait.
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You know, there's some things now that if that maybe, you
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know, if Georgia were to lose, all right, then this creates
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pure chaos across all of college football.
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We alluded to that a little bit last week, and it certainly did.
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It certainly did. And it landed them into the
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college football playoffs. So what are your thoughts on the
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four teams that made it? Michigan, Washington, Texas and
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Alabama. Do you think they got it right?
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So here's the thing. You know, based on what they had
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to work with, which has taken six teams that you could easily
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argue should be in that top four now.
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You know, you could, you could argue from any standpoint and
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they had to put four teams in there.
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I mean, there's just no way around it.
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Two people were going to be really unhappy.
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It's is Georgia still a top four team?
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In my opinion, absolutely. They are for sure.
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Florida State deserve to be in there.
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Yeah. Did Bama just beat #1 Georgia?
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Yeah. I mean, it's like, dude,
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everybody has an. Argument.
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They all have an argument. Keep going.
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Yeah, they do. And it's like and I think
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they're still, their job was to based on the format.
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Right now, here's the problem. We should be at 12 teams
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already. The ACC commissioner was one of
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those that said, oh, let's pump the brakes a couple years ago
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and and if they hadn't have done that, they would be in the
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playoffs right now. You know what I mean?
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Like let's get this thing going and that now this is a year
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where it really, really hurt them and hurt other teams too.
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So this would have been an exciting year for that 12 team
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playoff. There's a lot of good football
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Oregon in the mid. There's like so many other teams
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there that would have been really cool to see what would
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have happened. So man, it is what it is at the
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end of the day is, is Alabama better than FSU.
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And that's the way the criteria is right now.
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Who's the best four teams? And and I think they are.
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I mean, I think if they if they played tomorrow, bam, would
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probably be what, an 8 to 10 point favorite.
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I would 7:00 to 8:00 or 9:00 somewhere, I don't know, minimum
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right. So I guess they got it right.
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But I still feel bad for Florida.
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State they may even be would be even more than that.
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Honestly. Maybe.
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You know, I mean, I I feel, I feel terrible for Florida State,
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for their fans. I mean, you know, you you're in
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a Power 5 conference, You win your conference, you don't lose
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a single game. You beat the brakes off of LSU.
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Really. In the second-half you beat an
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SEC, a top tier SEC team. Who you beat them worse than
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Alabama if you're going to just compare them SEC versus ACC.
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If Florida State beat LSU worse than Alabama beat LSU.
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I mean if you're I'm not taking any moral victories from either
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one of them. They both sucked losing.
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But but you know I mean and then the argument really comes I mean
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you do that. I think that you have to include
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them because it's just a slap in the face of the other 21 kids
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that are playing that you're just saying that that that
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quarterback was the whole reason, which, I mean, yeah,
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Jordan Travis is an amazing player and he is what got them
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offensively there, but their defense is pretty daggum salty.
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They deserve to play in the playoffs, you know, and now they
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they get to. We'll see what happens whenever
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they play Georgia. But I mean, that's too two teams
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that I think will feel slightly slighted and then who knows
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what? That could be a great ball game,
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and it could be a fun one, or it could just be a disaster of a
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you know, they may both be sleepwalking whenever they they
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play. But you never know, like if
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there was, if there was some like a little bit more juice in
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that action, you know, I mean, like, I still obviously think
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Georgia's the better football team today, but who?
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Who knows, man? I mean, you know, like, who
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knows? But like and who knows how that
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game is going. Well, you get a month.
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What I do like about next year is you got automatic qualifiers.
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There's no more of this subjective Find the four best?
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No. Who is deserving?
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You're deserving. You just won your conference
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championship. You're in.
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You're in, right? Yeah.
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You just, you just you're the highest rated group of five team
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and you won your conference championship.
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You're in like you know what I mean?
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There's these automat and then you give these at large bids but
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like there should be automatic pathways and right now there's
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just not. That's just unfortunately that's
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what happens. Yeah, I mean you have.
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A Power 5 and you have four slots.
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Let's say all five of them go undefeated.
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Or all five of them have one loss.
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Yeah. Who goes?
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Who's more worthy of the other? You know, And.
20:32
And I I would have included them.
20:35
Then my conversation then just comes, so there's going to be
20:38
one, one loss team that makes it.
20:42
Is it going to be Alabama? Is it going to be Texas?
20:45
And I go with Texas based off of that because they played head to
20:49
head and Texas went on the road and went to Alabama and beat
20:54
them pretty good. And I mean they should have beat
20:56
them worse than they did, really.
20:57
The score doesn't even reflect what they did in Tuscaloosa that
21:02
day. So I I mean, and it's not
21:06
because I'm an Alabama hater. I'm an LSU guy that I don't
21:10
think. I think Bama absolutely deserves
21:12
to be in the playoffs because of what they did They and you win
21:16
the SEC. I think you you're you're in.
21:19
But they didn't go undefeated, and I think that they should
21:23
have only included one team that had won loss.
21:27
And then you can make that argument with Texas or Alabama.
21:30
And if they played today, who would win?
21:33
I can tell you when. If they do end up playing
21:35
Alabama's going to win, you ain't beating saving twice in
21:39
the same year. No way.
21:40
Good luck. So it's in.
21:44
It's just like Florida. Florida State's a different team
21:46
without their quarterback. Alabama's a different team with
21:50
their quarterback finally really coming into his own right,
21:54
developed throughout a season that's really, like,
21:58
unbelievable. To do it in that spotlight like
22:01
that's crazy. You see people do that at
22:03
smaller schools where the spotlights not so great but like
22:06
man from getting benched just thinking like oh he might be an
22:10
OK producer at some point like to becoming a just an absolute
22:13
sensation for for your team like that's that's pretty wild like
22:16
so he's A and I hear I hear the kid talk man he's.
22:19
He's he's a good. He's got a good head on, he.
22:22
Does he? Does.
22:23
He's good. He has gotten better and better
22:26
in every single game. I mean, I think what Nick Saban
22:30
has done this year at Alabama has been unbelievable.
22:33
It is why he is the GOAT. It is why he is the greatest of
22:37
all time, the best football coach ever.
22:41
He knows how to get the most out of what he is working with and
22:46
some years that he has had teams that it was a lot easier for
22:51
him. They already had the leadership
22:52
built in. They were able to, you know, the
22:54
McElroy years and stuff like that.
22:56
They just had that nucleus around them to to be able to
23:02
win. And for the players to go in,
23:03
they had to buy in. Dude, they they were.
23:06
They were spiraling down after that Texas game and people were
23:11
starting to write, Starting to write him off right, Saving off.
23:15
Right, Alabama off. Do they?
23:16
Almost. You know they got there almost
23:18
lost against USA South Florida, not UCF like.
23:22
South. Yes.
23:23
Correct. They were in bad.
23:24
They were in shambles. It didn't and I did not think
23:27
there was any chance they would win out at that point for sure
23:32
and and but they did you know and they they they beat LSU then
23:37
they then they have the the Auburn game which it took a
23:40
miracle and a fourth and 31 miracle to win it.
23:43
But that is whenever they when he hit that when they hit that.
23:46
I said Oh yeah it's their year and I and I think that's it.
23:51
I think they're going to win it. I think they're going to win the
23:53
whole thing. Got to have luck.
23:54
Yeah, you got to have luck. I do too.
23:56
I think that that that cemented it in and my only hope as an LSU
24:02
fan is that this of the, you know maybe this this retires
24:06
Saban. I hope they win it so that he
24:09
retires and bye and let's move on.
24:12
Let's see what happens next. Let's get past this.
24:17
Yeah, let's. Yeah, I bet he's done an amazing
24:19
job and he did a great job at LSU as well.
24:22
I love Nick Saban. I always have never, never
24:26
hated. He hated that he left to go to
24:27
Miami, understood that he wanted to get back in the college game.
24:32
Absolutely Loathe that it was Alabama that he went back to.
24:36
But you know, but the job wasn't open to come back to LSU and
24:43
that's your wish. Sure, wish he would have but.
24:47
Oh well, and be a lot different right now.
24:49
We'd probably be on about our 13th national championship had
24:52
he been here, because he had already built it, you know?
24:55
And I'd be willing to bet there'd probably be an LSU like
24:58
you'd probably have LSU tattooed on your phone.
25:00
Oh, most likely, yeah. It'd look like Post Malone or
25:02
something at this point, with all the natties all over me.
25:12
So you know what? Maybe he did.
25:14
You he may have. He may have.
25:15
He did your favor. Yeah, I want to apologize to
25:17
that bobble head doll of Nick Saban's that I had, that I threw
25:21
into a fire whenever he left and joined Alabama.
25:25
That thing is probably worth something.
25:27
I could have sold that thing. I think it was with Bank One.
25:29
They had these series of bobble heads.
25:31
I just trashed that sucker and everybody that I know did as
25:35
well. I'm not sorry for that.
25:38
I just wish I had a cabbage. Understandably so.
25:44
Hey, here's an argument that that I thought my come up more
25:49
during all this. Like, OK, so every coach is
25:51
given their argument why they're the best, why they should be in
25:54
there against their resume. And you know, everybody just
25:57
assumed it should be Michigan and assumed it should be
25:59
Washington, which I agree with to some degree.
26:02
But dude, what about Michigan in this cheating?
26:04
Yeah. Like why didn't they really
26:05
drive that a little bit more? Like, wait, these guys, if this
26:08
is true, they have been stealing signs If this is true.
26:11
I'm not saying I'm not, but. Apparently it's true.
26:13
Because they. It looks very rough, you know,
26:16
like, why wouldn't you be arguing that?
26:18
Like, I'd argue if I was FSU, I'd have been arguing every
26:20
direction possible. Like, dude, are y'all going to
26:22
really let this cheating batch in there a bunch of cheaters
26:25
into this post? Like, I thought they would be
26:28
suspended for this season. When I when it just started all
26:31
coming out, I was like, there's no way they're going to let them
26:33
in the playoffs. They've been stealing signals.
26:36
Like you know if it's a run, play, you know if it's a.
26:38
Pass play. Like, dear God, yeah, that's
26:41
huge. It's very huge, yeah.
26:42
I I kind of thought the same thing too.
26:44
I mean, they're certainly worthy of what they've done on the
26:47
field, but if they've had a little bit of help, it's just
26:50
being kind of swept under the rug, like it.
26:53
And just what what is the precedent now in college
26:57
football and college sports, period.
26:59
You can cheat. It's OK.
27:01
You're just going to get slapped on the wrist.
27:02
Your coach will get suspended for three games.
27:06
You're going to be fine or you know, that's that.
27:08
All all good and dandy. You don't like it at a place,
27:12
you just transfer out. I mean, the bowl season, we'll
27:15
talk about some of these bowl games that are coming up because
27:17
there's some that are interesting, but for the most
27:21
part they're going to be terrible.
27:23
Kids are opting out. They don't sit out.
27:25
If you're going to the pros Now the way that you do is you don't
27:28
play in your bowl game. You don't risk injury.
27:31
Hey, they're just not. It's that part is not fun
27:35
anymore. And I I think that the playoff
27:37
is actually going to kind of spice some of those bowls up and
27:41
make some of the stuff a little bit.
27:42
You know it's going to make make that a lot more fun next.
27:46
Seat is I think, and you're right.
27:49
I think the timing's actually perfect for it based on the
27:51
environment that we're in today with nil with going to you know,
27:56
the the amount of money you're making there.
27:57
The amount of money you've got the opportunity to make in the
27:59
NFL and like you said these guys skip skipping all these bowls.
28:03
Well, suddenly this actually brings the juice back where hey
28:06
let's stay, let's go win a national championship versus you
28:09
know, everybody bailing and running off.
28:11
So yeah, yeah, I don't know and I want to add to something.
28:15
So nothing against the Michigan players.
28:17
Those guys responded unbelievable.
28:20
Like after all this came out the coach was suspended.
28:22
So there's nothing nothing against.
28:24
I'm just. I'm not.
28:25
I'm just surprised that I didn't hear Florida State's coach here,
28:28
Georgia or Kirby Smart or even Nick Saban.
28:30
Just arguing, even going, hey, why these guys up here?
28:33
I think they've been cheating, so.
28:35
But everybody stayed away from it.
28:37
But props to the players in Michigan.
28:39
They've, they've responded unbelievable.
28:42
Like like great. They did, they did.
28:44
They had a hell of a season you know beat their biggest rival
28:47
and and they get rewarded with a a hot Alabama team.
28:52
Congrats, you know, I mean, did you see, did you see their?
28:57
Faces when they announced I. Did not.
28:59
I didn't see I I missed it, but I'm sure, I'm sure they weren't.
29:03
Just stoked. I've never seen so much.
29:06
Like, they were so dejected. Like when that happened, like,
29:09
dude, they were just the deflation in that room was
29:12
unbelievable. They were like, oh boy, oh boy.
29:17
Marty. Nick Saban, huh?
29:19
Yeah. Yeah, We've never beat him.
29:20
Have one. No, they probably never will.
29:22
But yeah, I mean, I do think that's going to be a good ball
29:26
game. I really do.
29:28
You know, I mean it. And I look, I look for it.
29:30
It's probably the game that I'm looking the most forward two of
29:34
all of them until we get to the national championship is that
29:36
Michigan, Alabama game. Two true blue bloods.
29:39
The, you know, two of the most, I believe they are.
29:43
But they are the two winningest football programs in college
29:47
football. And I I may be wrong, but if
29:50
they're not, they're right up there.
29:52
So they are, and it's in the Rose Bowl.
29:55
You know it's going to be awesome.
29:58
I thought that was pretty cool. I was like, man, what a, you
30:02
know, such greatness there. You got Michigan to get Alabama
30:05
and we're going to the Rose Bowl.
30:06
Like that's that's the game, You know, Like, you know, so it's
30:12
just like a few years ago when Georgia and Alabama met, didn't,
30:15
didn't they beat in the first round and Georgia won.
30:18
Like to me that was the national champion.
30:20
Oh yeah, it was. You know, like not not to say
30:24
that Washington can't win because Washington's shown that
30:26
they've got a hell of a squad too.
30:27
And they finding a way to beat Oregon twice.
30:30
Oregon's no joke at all, you know, So I don't know, man.
30:34
It's going to be, it's going to be something in Texas.
30:37
Nothing against Texas, I just. I don't know.
30:39
Yeah, I mean, was that Oklahoma loss for Texas, you know, worse
30:45
than Alabama's lost to Texas. Oklahoma's a good, good team,
30:51
too. But you know, they, Texas should
30:53
have won that game, that they blew it.
30:56
You know, they were a heavy favorite, all of that, and they
31:00
blew it. So I did apply for the
31:02
Birmingham Bowl. So Troy is going to be playing
31:04
Duke at the Birmingham Bowl. I applied today to get media
31:08
credentials for that. That's going to be on the 23rd.
31:11
Yeah. I'm going to try to go up a day
31:13
early and get involved in a few of like some more action like
31:16
maybe to get some interviews like while they're like, yeah,
31:19
before. So yeah, I'm going to see how
31:21
that how that. Should I'd like to hear from the
31:23
running back money man. Kids, good he's going to do.
31:30
He's going to do well in in the NFL like he's an NFL caliber.
31:36
Running back and he gets it. He's such a smart kid too and
31:38
such a good person Like like you know, listen to cut coach
31:41
Summer. I'll talk about him.
31:42
Just like his work ethic the type of person he is and like
31:45
the team first kind of guy like Oh my God this guy just gets it.
31:49
Yeah, he's going to he's definitely going to make an
31:51
impact at that next level. He's only a junior man.
31:54
I I don't know if he's going to come out and and declare for the
31:58
draft this year. Hang around one more year.
32:00
Love to see him here. But if it works out for him to
32:02
go then take off buddy. You know what I mean?
32:04
Like. Whatever.
32:05
Whatever's best for you. Hey, buddy, if you'd like to win
32:08
a Heisman, we'd love for you to come play at LSU next year.
32:11
If you want. Just come on.
32:15
And if you have any, if any of you, if any of you boys, hey,
32:19
any of you boys at Troy can play defense.
32:22
And I've seen you can. We're looking.
32:25
So come on, come to Tigerland, baby.
32:28
We'll have fun, I promise. You can.
32:30
Come on, Tigs bits. We'll have a good time.
32:32
So just transfer all over. So is there ever, is there ever
32:37
going to come, a day where suddenly like 10 years down the
32:40
road, the defensive coordinator Troy just goes, let's go and
32:44
just take the entire defense with him runs over to LSU or to
32:47
wherever, I mean. If they don't put any rules,
32:50
they don't put any rules in place to stop it.
32:52
Yes, that will happen at some point.
32:55
I mean basically Deion Sanders did that this year at to
32:59
Colorado. You know didn't quite people
33:02
seem to forget that he lost the last eight in a row.
33:05
But they they remember the the beginning, you know when they
33:09
were four and O or whatever and then that was that.
33:13
But I mean he did a great, he did do a great job.
33:15
They that's three more games I believe, than they won last year
33:19
and you know, building a culture, you're not going to
33:22
turn it around overnight but. No.
33:25
If he'd had that, if he'd kept having any level, if he'd have
33:28
finished like 1-8 or nine games this year, that's just been
33:30
stupid. Oh, it would have been.
33:32
That's not supposed to. Happen.
33:33
No, no, no, no, no. But he he got them looking good.
33:37
He got them relevant again. And that's one of the one of the
33:40
fun stories of the football season.
33:43
They're not on the bowl list, though.
33:45
They didn't make a bowl. They did not make a bowl.
33:48
I'm looking forward to the Troy Duke game.
33:51
Duke is sitting out. Some players, I mean, I don't
33:55
know what the line is on the on the game.
33:57
I'm sure Duke is most likely a favorite.
33:59
No, I think, I think. I think Troy's a favorite right
34:01
now. Are they?
34:01
OK, well, they should be, yeah. I'm trying to remember I've
34:04
looked at so many lines today. I was just checking out some of
34:06
the stuff. They're either favored by like 4
34:08
or 6 points. OK, all right.
34:10
Well, hey, Troy should be a favorite in that game because,
34:15
you know, Duke's lost Mike Elko. He's going to Texas A&M.
34:19
You know, you don't know who you're going to get.
34:21
They got some kids sitting out. A couple of guys are hitting the
34:25
portal, but they can still play just because they're in the
34:27
portal, and that's a whole new thing too.
34:29
Now just put yourself in the portal and see what you might
34:32
get. If you don't get, just stay,
34:33
Stay where you are. I saw many days to figure out.
34:35
I saw. Somebody suggest that every kid,
34:39
every good quarterback that's in college football should just put
34:42
themselves in the portal just to see that.
34:44
Was Carter, wasn't it? I think it was.
34:46
I think it was. It was.
34:47
I think it saw that too. And he's right and he's right.
34:49
And I hadn't really thought about that until he said it.
34:52
And I I heard him say that before and I thought he was
34:54
being kind of funny before. And I read that today, I think
34:57
it was or yesterday and I was like, you know what?
34:59
He's he is right. Like just put it out there,
35:01
especially if you're at a really high profile team.
35:04
And just what are you going to get from the nil deal?
35:07
Like if you know, hey, I can go get a bag of money, maybe it's
35:11
worth me getting over there, you know?
35:13
Man, Carter does a great job of We've had him on the show.
35:17
Carter Carter, Bryant. You can follow him on X YouTube.
35:23
All of those. He has a he has a show.
35:25
Carter. Power Hour with Carter Bryant
35:29
and Power Hour LSU. Power Hour SEC.
35:32
He's an LSU guy but he's not. He doesn't drink the kool-aid
35:36
LSU stuff but he can break it down.
35:38
He just, he's very knowledgeable about sport any kind of sports.
35:41
He always has been. So go check his show out.
35:45
Yeah, we had him on. That was really when we we did
35:47
our little football show. He's who we had on during that
35:51
week. We had a couple of sports guys
35:53
on to get their take and he pretty much nailed it.
35:56
I mean in that episode that that we had with Carter, he he
36:01
predicted Beau Nicks to win the Heisman.
36:03
I don't think that's going to happen.
36:05
But I mean he's right there. He made the finalists, came out
36:07
today as we're recording this, the Heisman 5. 49 and three.
36:12
Is that right? Did I see that two days ago?
36:15
I hadn't seen that #49 touchdowns and three intercepts.
36:18
Believe that is correct. That's pretty wow.
36:20
Very well. Just from a Hey, if you're
36:22
looking for a quarterback in the.
36:23
Oh yeah, like that for for sure. I mean, the kid had a great he
36:27
had a great year, no no doubt about it.
36:29
I think he kind of played himself out to me with the
36:33
Heisman the other night. He didn't win the two games
36:35
against Washington you know so, so I mean but that doesn't
36:40
doesn't demean his amazing season that he had Michael
36:44
Pinnix with Washington. That dude has an arm.
36:49
I mean he's just a gunslinger. He's your he is going to do very
36:52
well in the NFL. You know I I'm very, very
36:57
impressed with him. He throws a pretty ball man.
37:00
Like he just throws that high sailing, beautiful tight spiral.
37:05
He he's he's very, very good. So but of course Jayden Jayden
37:10
Daniels, this is the human highlight machine this year for
37:13
LSU. If it wasn't for him, I think
37:15
LSU probably goes four and eight.
37:18
Yeah. I mean, it would have been
37:19
rough. I'll do it.
37:20
He's a yeah, he's a he's a he's an absolute freak.
37:25
He is like just it's it's it's crazy, you know, he does it
37:29
throwing the ball and then I'm running the ball like like
37:32
Michael Vick type very much. It kind of reminds me of Vince
37:36
Young back in the day. You know what I mean?
37:38
What Vince could do with his legs and and his command and not
37:42
not just, you know what I mean? Like he he could really, really
37:45
take over a game. He can.
37:46
He can. He's such a good kid, too.
37:48
He's one of those that's just, he's just a good kid, you know?
37:53
I mean just just there's not, there's not anything bad to say
37:57
about Jaden Daniels. Not.
37:59
Not a single thing. It looks as if the Saints, if
38:02
they'll keep on losing, they may be able to get him.
38:05
So, yeah, they just keep on at this point in time.
38:11
Whatever it takes to get rid of Dennis.
38:13
I don't even give him the courtesy of calling him by his
38:15
last name. Let's just get Dennis the hell
38:17
out of here. I'm done with him.
38:20
Done with him, man. Hey, I heard today.
38:23
I was listening to local sports talk radio.
38:26
Going to pick Riley up this afternoon, and this is the the
38:31
best season that Dennis has ever had.
38:35
The best start after 12 games, once again, where they're at is
38:40
five and seven. That ain't going to cut it.
38:43
I mean, it's just that ain't going to cut it.
38:45
And I don't know. I don't know what the answer is.
38:47
I think they just need to clean house in New Orleans and
38:51
basically just start all over. I mean, you look at the
38:53
Patriots, it's just a it happens, you know, you lose.
38:58
You lose everything that you had for so long with Brady and with
39:01
Breeze. And you know, there's still some
39:03
lingering parts that are left over and all but it it's it's
39:07
over, that runs over. It's kind of kind.
39:10
You know the difference. Between the Patriots and the
39:13
Saints, is that Sean Payton was smart enough to get?
39:18
Yeah. He knew that it was.
39:21
He knew it was over to. Leave and just kept driving that
39:24
bus and it's like. And they're going to end up he's
39:26
ultimately, probably, they're probably going to fire Bill
39:29
Belichick, which is insane. Isn't that crazy?
39:31
But Bill Belichick fired. Yeah, yeah, one of the greatest,
39:34
one of the greatest coaches of all time.
39:36
But I understand. I mean, that's, that's the name
39:40
of the game. That's the business.
39:41
I mean, it's all about results. And if you're not winning, you
39:45
know you're not going to stick around and they they've got to
39:47
do something in New England to to to mix it up.
39:51
It's just you got to put new, fresh, a fresh start.
39:55
But it would be, I mean the Saints really and truly are in a
39:58
prime, prime position to be able to to get one of these
40:02
quarterbacks. They don't have a strong history
40:05
of picking anybody from LSU, which is odd.
40:09
But the Saints never really they they've got.
40:11
They've had a handful over the years, but just always seem to
40:15
avoid LSU. But I think they would be wise
40:18
to pick up a kid like Jayden Daniels.
40:21
You know, he's he's a guy that could come in like and I know
40:23
the NFL a whole nother level, everything faster, everything is
40:26
coming at you. But he's that kind of guy that
40:29
could go in and have a little bit more success than the well.
40:31
Look at CCJ Stroud, what he can do and you know with what I
40:35
mean, he came right in and and they play, they play similar.
40:38
They have a similar style. You know he would have a
40:41
learning curve just like CJ Stroud is kind of as the later
40:46
in the season. Now teams are starting to know
40:49
how to defend him. The NFL is the NFL.
40:51
It shows you why it's the best league week in and week out.
40:55
The longer in the season you go, if you're still able to put up
40:58
video game numbers, then you're just unbelievable.
41:02
They found a way to to slow him down some.
41:05
Some you know, but they. But.
41:08
But yeah, I I would, I would love to see Jayden Daniels make
41:11
it to New Orleans. It would.
41:13
That would be a lot of fun. That would be cool.
41:17
That would be cool. But jumping, jumping back to
41:19
some of these other bowl games, I mean, I'm not going to go down
41:22
the list of everything, but there are some pretty
41:25
interesting ones. The Lockheed Martin Armed Forces
41:28
Bowl. I know you're fired up for that.
41:31
You got JMU versus Air Force. Yeah, you do.
41:34
You know, JMU making their very first bowl appearance at a
41:38
phenomenal season, You know, hats off to them.
41:41
I wish we could have played JMU in the in the Sunbelt Conference
41:45
championship game. You know, like it would have
41:47
behooved both of us. Like, honestly, like because I
41:49
think whoever wins that game, if they would have been able to
41:52
play, we would have been that premier group of five.
41:55
School this year. And and we would have it it, you
41:59
know I think they would have gone over.
42:01
I think we would have gone over. I think we should have gone
42:04
over. You look at strength of
42:04
schedule, but that's a whole another argument.
42:06
But like, so you got Liberty, SMU and it comes down to Troy,
42:10
but JMU obviously. So.
42:12
So that's going to be really cool.
42:13
I I like what they're doing there.
42:15
It's cool. I'm glad they're in the
42:16
conference. Yeah.
42:17
So I'll be rooting for. Oh yeah, yeah, they they're,
42:19
man, they're building something, something special there and just
42:22
having game day there. That day they lost.
42:26
But to Appalachian State. But but man, what an at.
42:30
Basketball team's ranked #18 in the country.
42:32
Are they? Yes.
42:34
They got five programs to have be in the top 25 in football and
42:39
in basketball right now. Like, no, I thank God they're
42:42
here. I'm, I'm glad to have them.
42:44
Their fans are seem a little bit unrealistic, but that's OK.
42:47
I get it. I feel the same way coming in
42:49
first year. Like get out of the way.
42:51
You know what I mean? I get it a little bit, but.
42:53
Yeah. But overall, hey, they're solid.
42:56
They are. They are, man.
42:58
Of course. LSU plays in the Relia Quest
43:00
Bowl. They play Wisconsin.
43:02
I think that has the potential to be a pretty good ball game.
43:05
You know, I mean, I I think it. Yeah, I do too.
43:08
It's not, not the worst by any means.
43:11
Oregon and Liberty now that in the Fiesta Bowl.
43:13
The Fiesta Bowl is always fun. It's always crazy and you never
43:18
know what's going to happen. Kind of like when Boise State
43:20
won. They beat Oklahoma that time
43:22
when they were not supposed to many years ago.
43:25
But I love the Fiesta Bowl. It's always fun.
43:27
That game's going to be fun. There's going to be a lot of
43:29
points scored in that one. Yeah.
43:32
All right. So I I got to say something I
43:35
should I should just let you move on with that and just.
43:37
Not, no. I think you should say something
43:38
all. Right.
43:40
So look, Liberty has gone undefeated this year.
43:43
Great football team. You know the things they've done
43:49
it's it's it's really cool. But man it's just I really hate
43:53
this because they are representing the top group of
43:57
five team to go play Oregon and they're 27 point underdogs.
44:02
And here's the fact if and I won't even say Troy, right let
44:06
me just back off for a minute and this is not a knock on
44:08
liberty. It's just, I just, I know what
44:10
they have watching them. Seven of their wins came from
44:14
teams that were ranked outside of the top 100.
44:18
OK, not the top 25, the top 100. And I just don't like, I think
44:24
SMU would have given them a better battle than what
44:30
liberty's going to be able to put up against Oregon.
44:31
And I think JMU would have given them a much better battle, just
44:35
like I think Troy would have. But I'm not knocking liberty.
44:38
I'm going to root for them. I'm a group of five.
44:40
Yeah, right. I'm going to root for them.
44:41
But but I just kind of. I thought the selection
44:44
committee. I thought it was interesting.
44:46
The selection committee said let's put the best teams, the
44:48
best four teams in this playoff. Right.
44:51
They also had the same obligation to put what's the
44:54
best group of five team that has an opportunity to go play in
44:57
this New Year's 6 bowl and beat Oregon.
45:01
I'm sorry. Liberty's just not it.
45:03
You know like in my opinion nothing against liberty, man.
45:06
Like like I said I hated to even say anything.
45:08
I just wanted to move on. But I'm like you've used, like
45:12
you've used different criteria to select your best group of
45:15
five team than you did for your top four.
45:18
So I just, I don't know, man. I'm a little aggravated because
45:21
it's going to make us look bad, you know, like I think there's
45:24
AI think SMU would have been better served to play in that
45:26
game. But yeah man, just kind of
45:28
wrapping up bowl games and all of that.
45:31
Couple more that that look intriguing.
45:33
You have Ohio State and Missouri playing that in the in the
45:37
Cotton Bowl. I think that could be a lot of
45:39
fun. Don't know who all you're going
45:42
to get playing in that game but I think you're going to get a
45:45
hell of a shot from Missouri So Ohio State better show up
45:49
because Missouri can score. I mean they're they're damn good
45:53
football team. I'm this is LSU best win of the
45:57
season was going there and and beating them in a day where I
46:00
was just like yeah, that this defense is just so terrible.
46:04
Well no Missouri did the same. They did it to everybody too.
46:07
You know they. They're good.
46:09
They're good. Real good.
46:11
Ole Ole Miss and Penn State play in the the Peach Bowl.
46:15
That'll be fun. Saw that?
46:17
That'll be fun, you know, You know Lane's come going to come
46:20
in there with some some kinks to to mess with with Penn State and
46:25
Penn State has a really good defense, so.
46:28
So that game's fun. I like.
46:29
I like Lane Kiffin, man. I do, too.
46:31
I'm glad he's in. Oh.
46:32
Yeah, I think it's all hell. Yeah, I am too, man.
46:34
He he. I mean there's no one better on
46:38
Twitter than him. He he gets in his way but he
46:42
doesn't care. He doesn't care at all.
46:45
I could do just has no give a FS.
46:47
He does not care. He just says it a creates
46:51
controversy. But I tell you what he has done
46:55
an awesome job at Ole Miss. I mean I don't like to say that
46:59
but it's true. I like Lane Kiffin.
47:02
You know, whenever they originally hired Coach O at LSU,
47:06
part of the reason of why they hired Coach O was because Lane
47:11
Kiffin, they're they're like best friends.
47:13
Lane Kiffin was going to be the offensive coordinator along with
47:17
Coach O and everybody's like, well then yeah, you have both of
47:21
them recruiting and both of them on the same team.
47:24
You still get 2019, you still get all of that.
47:27
You still are going to get that run.
47:29
But could you imagine how dangerous they would have been
47:32
for a couple of years together? It would have been nuts.
47:34
But then he went on and Florida Atlantic.
47:36
Florida Atlantic. That's it.
47:37
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then And then, of course,
47:41
bolted on the Ole Miss, which I'm surprised that he hasn't
47:45
left Ole Miss yet, to be honest with you.
47:48
Yeah, he's almost like he's waiting on a job in Tuscaloosa
47:51
to come open. I think you might be right.
47:55
Like, you know what? So he's done that before, right?
47:57
He's jumped. He went out to USC, and then
48:00
like, oh, that was just too much.
48:01
You know what I mean? Like, well, hold on, let's, I
48:03
got a pretty good thing right here in Ole Miss, You know, I
48:05
mean, I'm competing. I'm making a lot of noise.
48:08
Will they win 10 games? Game 9/10/10, Dude, that's
48:13
unbelievable. You win 10 in SEC West.
48:15
I mean that is doubt. Very stout, strong, very strong.
48:19
And they they had, they had, they beat Alabama, they are in
48:22
the SEC Championship. Had they beat Georgia?
48:25
They're in the playoff. But but but they they can't find
48:29
Atlanta if they tried, brother. So sorry, Ole Miss fans, but
48:36
it's the truth. Yep.
48:39
Lane Kiffin is like if Pat McAfee started coaching college
48:42
football, Blah blah. You know what?
48:44
I mean, like, I love. I like them both, dude.
48:46
Oh, I love. I do too.
48:47
He's so, he's so cool, dude. Like he's so like, Dang, man.
48:51
I like, I watch him. Like I watch his show and then I
48:54
watch him. He does the show, the the Pat
48:56
McAfee show from game day the day before.
48:58
I'll have that on, like listening to that, even if I'm
49:01
driving, you know, like, dude, I I don't like what that guy does.
49:04
I don't know when he and his energy brings so much energy.
49:07
I don't know when. When the dude sleeps, it's like
49:10
he's constantly pumping out some kind of content.
49:13
He's live somewhere. The team that he has around them
49:17
all the time, his team. Kudos to you guys.
49:21
Y'all are amazing, that edit those videos, pump them out, do
49:25
all of his socials and all of that stuff because he's just on
49:29
camera all the time, every day, just always just pumping out
49:33
content. But he's fantastic.
49:35
Some of my friends don't like him.
49:36
They're like, I can't stand him. Like, what do you what?
49:39
What can you not like about a dude who has an unbelievable
49:44
work ethic, a ton of energy, extremely entertaining, keeps it
49:49
fun, loose like the dudes. Perfect for sports.
49:52
Like how can you not like the guy?
49:55
I don't understand anybody. How I could see that he's a
49:58
little too much for somebody. I I I totally.
50:01
I get that. Totally get it.
50:02
But what he's brought, what he's brought to college game day,
50:05
Like at first, like, I'll be honest, like when I saw my game
50:07
day, was it last year, was his first year or whatever.
50:09
But I was like, huh, let's see how this works out in this
50:12
dynamic because I could tell it was a little like, you know,
50:15
like they were trying to get used to it because their their
50:16
flow was a little little more, you know, kind of even keel and
50:20
cool. And then suddenly you got who
50:22
what is this guy doing? He's and not only is he is a
50:24
little different in ruffling the feathers.
50:26
He's kind of taking over the stage suddenly.
50:30
But now it's so good, man. And and and it all worked so
50:34
well. Like dude, I love it.
50:36
I love that day before show he does with the Pat McAfee show is
50:40
there on campus dude. That's how good of a.
50:42
Show it is. It's game day.
50:44
It is. It's better than game day.
50:46
They do crazier stuff. It's more fun, dude.
50:49
I mean, it's out there. I saw him at.
50:51
What was that? I forget where he was at and
50:53
throwing, you know, basketballs, the kids getting to shoot
50:56
basketballs, having basketball goals.
50:57
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Somebody like somebody won like
51:01
$5000 or something, just. Yeah, dude, It's fun.
51:06
Pat McAfee. Love your show.
51:07
Yes, Sir. Love to have you.
51:08
Come on, we would love that. Talk about you.
51:10
Yeah, man, come on. I mean, Marty's been on here.
51:13
Why? Why wouldn't you come on here,
51:14
Pat? I mean, you know.
51:16
I agree he should. I think we beat this like a dead
51:19
horse. We've talked about everything
51:20
that everybody else has talked about, but there you have it.
51:23
Everybody. You have the Tigs bits, official
51:27
end of the season, football wrap up show Blasey.
51:31
Any last thoughts? What a season so far, right?
51:35
We we still got bowl games. We still got playoffs, but like,
51:38
what a year, man. What a year so far.
51:40
Personally obviously as a Troy fan like that I've loved it and
51:44
and always look forward to college football in the season
51:47
and I I never take these types of seasons for granted in any
51:50
capacity. So got to take it all in just
51:53
like we talked about the first of the year.
51:54
You know what I mean? Just enjoy each and every week
51:57
and whatever the whatever it gives you like you said y'all
52:00
aren't in the playoffs right You're but dude you have you
52:03
have a Heisman Trophy winner probably sitting out there at
52:07
LSU this year so you got to you got to pull from each year what
52:11
it is you know like so. That's right.
52:14
Heck of a. Year, dude.
52:15
It's it's been awesome. Can't wait to see what these
52:17
bowl games produce and what the playoffs show.
52:20
So it's it's it's it's going to be fine, man.
52:22
But that's it, man. Other than that, I mean go
52:25
Trojans. There you go go Trojans.
52:27
Congrats to the back-to-back Sunbelt champions.
52:31
Congrats to the Alabama Crimson Tide, as much as it pains me.
52:36
And congratulations to Jayden Daniels, your 2023 Heisman
52:42
Trophy winner. This comes out on Thursday.
52:45
That's Saturday. But it's going to happen.
52:47
We're speaking it into existence.