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  Speaker 1: Cole Thompson, kind of a breakout video.
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  Speaker 2: We will be live on Tuesday afternoon at 1.30, but
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good games this week, and so we
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get to all of them. Let's take a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes to talk about Texas A & M and Missouri, Cole.
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  Speaker 2: The SEC trend this year would tell you that Missouri's
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  Speaker 2: a better team then Texas A & M. But the
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  Speaker 2: way that these games go would tell you that Missouri
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  Speaker 2: should be scared crapless. LSU beats the crap out of Clemson,
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  Speaker 2: goes on the road and loses to Ole Miss. Ole
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  Speaker 2: Miss beats LSU, goes on the road and gets the
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  Speaker 2: crappy out of them by Florida. Florida then does that
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  Speaker 2: to Missouri. Do we complete the circle this week with
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  Speaker 2: A & M and Missouri?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's probably the parody.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously those results of other games don't matter. I
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  Speaker 2: do think they at least flash some kind of a
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  Speaker 2: warning of, hey, you do have to take every game
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  Speaker 2: seriously in this conference and you don't just get by
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  Speaker 2: with a win.
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  Speaker 1: But they won't impact this game.
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  Speaker 2: But A & M Missouri, at least in Vegas, three
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  Speaker 2: and a half point spread like this isn't supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be a blowout despite what both teams have done of recent.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you also got to remind yourself that
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  Speaker 3: Missouri has been, I mean, Texas A & M has
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  Speaker 3: been kryptonite.
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  Speaker 4: For Missouri during the regular season. The last three.
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  Speaker 3: Times they've gone up against each other, It's been a
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  Speaker 3: one-sided affair. Texas A & M wins 38-17, they win 41-10,
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  Speaker 3: and then 35-14. But there is one thing that you
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  Speaker 3: didn't mention I think is really important here. Every one
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  Speaker 3: of those games that we talked about, about the team
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  Speaker 3: being on upset alert, how to go play on the
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  Speaker 3: road the next time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: This game is not on the road. This is at
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  Speaker 4: Faroat Field. This is at Memorial Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: This is in Como, which is a big win, I think,
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  Speaker 3: in favor of Mizzou that they don't have to go
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  Speaker 3: into a house of horrors like every other opponent.
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  Speaker 4: But still, Texas A & M is coming off a win.
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  Speaker 3: This was an emphatic victory, I think, for Mizzou because
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  Speaker 3: of a lot of people, not just myself, but many
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  Speaker 3: out there in the college football public, did not think
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  Speaker 3: that Missouri was a top 25 team. Well, now we're
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  Speaker 3: saying that they're a top 15 team. And honestly, the
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  Speaker 3: best is still ahead for them. The thing with Mizzou
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  Speaker 3: that you look at going into this year is that
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  Speaker 3: in years past, we have kind of slighted Missouri because
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  Speaker 3: of the way that their schedule panned on out.
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  Speaker 4: Who have you really been battle tested against?
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  Speaker 3: Who have you really gone up against that deserves you
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  Speaker 3: to be a 10-2 team flirting with the college football playoff? Guys,
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  Speaker 3: they still have matchups against Texas, against Ole Miss, against Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: Texas A & M has been a thorn in their side.
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  Speaker 3: They get a massive victory over a Florida roster, and
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  Speaker 3: I still think it's going to be pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 4: And Oklahoma's Oklahoma, and you don't know what to expect
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  Speaker 4: in that game.
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  Speaker 3: So if Mizzou ends up going 10-2, there's no denying
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  Speaker 3: that they will be battle-tested and proven of worthy of
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  Speaker 3: being in the college football playoff race. Now for A
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  Speaker 3: & M, it's an opportunity for you to kind of
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  Speaker 3: save your season. A lot of people are saying that
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  Speaker 3: the 8-4 jokes are back. This is an offense that
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  Speaker 3: has no life whatsoever. The defense is allowing far too
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  Speaker 3: many explosives downfield. And that may be the case, but
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  Speaker 3: you are coming off a win wearing God awful uniforms
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  Speaker 3: that nobody should ever see again. The light of day
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  Speaker 3: needs to be burned on those things, but there's an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity for you now to be able to kind of
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  Speaker 3: get back on the right horse, win this game, win
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  Speaker 3: against the Citadel and, And now we're talking about a
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  Speaker 3: 5-2 roster when you take on Alabama to close out
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  Speaker 3: the month of October. And who knows what Alabama is
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  Speaker 3: going to be. They face off against Georgia this week.
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  Speaker 3: What is the letdown spot for them? Next week when
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  Speaker 3: they have to go travel to Neyland to take on Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: you may be getting a beaten and bruised team that
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  Speaker 3: can kind of put you back in the pecking order.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot of things for both sides on the
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  Speaker 3: line in this matchup. I will say, if I were
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  Speaker 3: to say one positive, I mean, if I were to
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  Speaker 3: say one thing about Mizzou, Their quarterback play has been
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal this season. A lot of the people are still
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  Speaker 3: talking about Austin Simmons. Like I saw on three today
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  Speaker 3: list their top 10 Heisman rankings. And Austin Simmons is
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  Speaker 3: nowhere to be found, even though he does not have
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  Speaker 3: a turnover, even though he has been elite making the.
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  Speaker 4: Deep throws downfield.
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  Speaker 3: And he was in his bag against a defense that
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  Speaker 3: had no answers for Donovan O and Caden Lee, two
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  Speaker 3: of the most underappreciated wide receivers in the country up
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  Speaker 3: to this point.
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  Speaker 1: I was just going to say that.
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  Speaker 2: There was so much talk about quarterbacks coming into this year,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be Keelan Russell, Trinidad, Gunner, Arch, which a
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  Speaker 2: lot of those guys deserve the talk. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: that they're not good. There was talk around what Philo
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  Speaker 2: would be. There was talk around could sellers elevate a
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  Speaker 2: roster at South Carolina. What would Marcel Reed do for
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  Speaker 2: this specific matchup? Mateer hype existed. Thanks in part to
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  Speaker 2: you and I, but I don't think enough people were talking.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think not enough people were talking about Austin
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  Speaker 2: Simmons and what he's done through.
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  Speaker 1: Is it five?
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  Speaker 2: Have they played all five games? Are they able to
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  Speaker 2: buy what he's done through five games?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cause they had Kansas out of conferences.
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  Speaker 2: The fifth one, what he's done through five games, especially
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  Speaker 2: against a Florida defense that look had problems, but still
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  Speaker 2: limited Trinidad defense. in some ways, like I think is
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  Speaker 2: incredibly impressive. What about the quarterback on the other side?
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  Speaker 2: Marcel played a little bit better last week, 13 of 19,
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  Speaker 2: one 70, it was Arkansas. So I think you take
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  Speaker 2: that with a little bit of a grain of salt,
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  Speaker 2: less pressure. They ran the ball fine in that game
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  Speaker 2: and got an easy victory in a game that they
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  Speaker 2: never had to sweat in. Um, how, Does he have
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  Speaker 2: to be like, what does his level of play have
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  Speaker 2: to be to go on the road and get a
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  Speaker 4: I won't say it needs to be elite, but it
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  Speaker 4: definitely needs to be better than what it was last week.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like, what's been so far? To be fair.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's been a lot of negative around just
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  Speaker 3: the A & M offense in general. And it starts
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  Speaker 3: up with what you went into the offseason with. You
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  Speaker 3: went and did an internal promotion with Holman Wiggins as
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  Speaker 3: your new coordinator. Because if you were going to be
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  Speaker 3: without Colin Klein as he took the Kansas State job.
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  Speaker 3: But you also try to back portal in town on
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line. And just because if you add in
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  Speaker 3: five guys with experience in the SEC, it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that it's a winning formula. In fact, TJ, I think
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  Speaker 3: I've told you multiple times and Tom when we talked
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  Speaker 3: about it on the show.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's a reason why.
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  Speaker 3: Player like an offensive lineman is let out of their
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  Speaker 3: NIL contract in the SEC.
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  Speaker 4: And it's never for the good of reason.
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  Speaker 3: So just because of you landed someone with experience doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean it's going to be polished. The thing that I
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  Speaker 3: think you can come away with in last week, Mario
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  Speaker 3: Kramer was out for the entire second half of that
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  Speaker 3: Arkansas game, and they were still able to find success
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  Speaker 3: through the year. Now, is that more so because of
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  Speaker 3: Arkansas's secondary is cardboard doo-doo, or is that because you
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  Speaker 3: actually have weapons.
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  Speaker 4: That are starting to break on out and put into
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  Speaker 4: their roles?
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  Speaker 3: Isaiah Horton still is a mismatched nightmare for any defensive
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  Speaker 3: back in college football just because of his frame, physicality,
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  Speaker 3: catch radius.
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  Speaker 4: He can go ahead and step on up.
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  Speaker 3: But for Reed, I think that there is still a
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  Speaker 3: point of view that needs to see him be more consistent.
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  Speaker 3: You need to see more timely throws.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, his best asset is being mobile.
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  Speaker 3: It's the ability to make plays with his legs, understanding
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  Speaker 3: his surroundings, realizing nothing is available, tuck and run, go
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  Speaker 3: up for six or seven, Keep momentum on your side.
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  Speaker 4: Winning the time possession, I think, is going to be
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  Speaker 4: really important in this game.
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  Speaker 3: I think for Marcel Reed, the big storyline is, can
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  Speaker 3: you avoid the turnovers? Because of, let's just be honest,
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  Speaker 3: as much as Missouri wants this win, Missouri has been somewhat,
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  Speaker 3: Missouri has dealt.
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  Speaker 4: With problems with Texas A & M in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Ucko has been able to figure out the ins
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  Speaker 3: and outs of an offense underneath Eli Jurgens, which still
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  Speaker 3: could be the case. But at the same time, you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to give them short field positions with Austin
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  Speaker 3: Simmons in this offense. because of your turnover-prone mentality. And
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  Speaker 3: like it or not, Marcel Reed has been a turnover-prone
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  Speaker 3: quarterback throughout his entire tenure at Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 4: You saw it in the matchup against LSU. You saw
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  Speaker 4: it against Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: You certainly saw it in the Arizona State game that
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  Speaker 3: allowed the Sun Devils to come back in. And you're
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  Speaker 3: playing on the road in an environment that is ruckus,
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  Speaker 3: that has the momentum.
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  Speaker 4: On their side.
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  Speaker 3: If you play a clean football game, I think there
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  Speaker 3: is still a shot for Texas A & M to win.
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  Speaker 3: If you give short field positions and allow Jamal Roberts,
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  Speaker 3: Brett Norfleet, Donovan O, Caden Lee to be able to
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  Speaker 3: do whatever they want against the secondary, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: has been a problem. not only because of the inconsistencies
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  Speaker 3: downfield by guys like Ricky Gibson or Des Rickson coverage,
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  Speaker 3: but more so because the pass rush has not been
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  Speaker 3: able to get there in the forefront to make quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: feel pressure. But if you allow them to win on
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  Speaker 3: open field and get into the short field position, this
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  Speaker 3: could be a blowout by the middle of the second quarter.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to pause for just a sec.
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  Speaker 2: Your mic kind of sounds like it's a little, like
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  Speaker 2: I can hear you fine, but it sounds a little
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  Speaker 2: underwater ish.
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  Speaker 4: Um, how about now?
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  Speaker 1: Way better. A thousand percent better.
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  Speaker 2: Um, So the thing I want to focus on for
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  Speaker 2: a moment is we talked about Marcel Reed's play. Missouri
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  Speaker 2: did such a phenomenal job last week of making Florida
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  Speaker 2: incredibly one-dimensional and limiting what I think both of us
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  Speaker 2: would have agreed on is probably the best rushing attack
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  Speaker 2: in the conference to like nothing this weekend. Like rushing,
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  Speaker 2: like they, I mean, Jaden Ball had, I think, 12
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  Speaker 2: yards on his first carry. And on that first carry,
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  Speaker 2: I was watching the game and thought, Oh, this is easy.
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  Speaker 2: I had my prize picks lined up for ball tease
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  Speaker 2: way down. And I was like, dude, we're a quarter
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  Speaker 2: of the way there. And then he rushed for one
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  Speaker 2: yard the rest of the day. on like 10 carries. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and then, you know, do, do Clark had a yard,
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  Speaker 2: I believe. Um, they made them incredibly one-dimensional does can
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  Speaker 2: a and M. Can A & M counter that? Because
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  Speaker 2: obviously Missouri is going to try. I think Missouri would
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  Speaker 2: be very comfortable saying, hey, we're going to let Marcel
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  Speaker 2: go out there, and if he can beat us, he
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  Speaker 2: can beat us, but we think he'll make some of
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  Speaker 2: those turnovers that Cole's talking about, and so we'll limit
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  Speaker 2: the run. Does A & M have a counterpunch for
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  Speaker 2: a Missouri defense that was, I don't know, elite last
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  Speaker 2: week is it too much to say elite against.
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  Speaker 3: That offense think about this tj they were without their
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  Speaker 3: two starting defensive ends as well so like their status
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  Speaker 3: wasn't even a factor in the game stupid now like
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  Speaker 3: like to be fair the offense that's run by buster
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  Speaker 3: faulkner is very similar to the one that eli drinker
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  Speaker 3: which has has derived So the defense goes up against
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  Speaker 3: it all the time. I think like Brooks Austin on
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  Speaker 3: the phone guy was talking about it. Like the one
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  Speaker 3: offensive line that's going to know how to prepare for
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  Speaker 3: a Jaden Baugh is Missouri because they see it all
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  Speaker 3: the time in practice.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like, does A & M have a similar offense?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I think they want to press downfield. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they run the football efficiently well. Now, again, in the
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  Speaker 3: Arkansas game, they finished with 231 rushing yards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they had four rushing touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: Does Arkansas' defensive line have a pulse right now compared
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  Speaker 3: to Missouri's defensive line? Missouri's defensive line looks more so
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  Speaker 3: like LSU's defensive line where you couldn't do a damn
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  Speaker 3: thing running the football. I mean, you faced with less
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  Speaker 3: than 200 yards of offense in that game. So the
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  Speaker 3: reality is that I think that you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to win with Marcel Reed because I don't see this
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  Speaker 3: rushing attack going with Jermarion Moreau. KJ Edwards, whoever else
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  Speaker 3: is going to be in the backfield for this matchup.
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  Speaker 3: I think that you're going to have to rely heavily
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  Speaker 3: on the explosives. And to be completely frank, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that you have the weapons right now that are
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  Speaker 3: fully capable to be able to make those plays downfield.
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  Speaker 4: But what's funny is that the Lions only set at 3.5.
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  Speaker 3: I think for good reason. They know that Missouri has
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to have the letdown moment. But more specifically,
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  Speaker 3: A & M has been a thorn in the side
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  Speaker 3: of the Tigers every single year.
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  Speaker 4: They've handled business in Como. They've handled business at Kyle Field.
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  Speaker 3: So never say never in this game, but at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, I thought last season, Mizzou was hindered by
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  Speaker 3: insufficient quarterback play. And we're kind of seeing it unfold
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  Speaker 3: now in Charlottesville with Virginia. Bo Pabula is a mobile quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: and he knows how to utilize his legs. Austin Simmons
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  Speaker 3: is a mobile quarterback to a certain degree. Now, not
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  Speaker 3: to the same level as Bo Pabula, but here's the counterpoint.
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  Speaker 4: Austin Simmons has a howitzer. And Austin Simmons has a.
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  Speaker 3: Great rapport being able to find Donovan O, Brett Norfleet,
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  Speaker 3: whoever else in that receiving core, Caden Lee, for gains
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  Speaker 3: of 20, gains of 15.
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  Speaker 4: And when he got into a rhythm last week, he
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  Speaker 4: couldn't miss. So all you need to see.
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  Speaker 3: Now at this point is can my quarterback that is
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  Speaker 3: currently still flying under the radar be able just to
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  Speaker 3: nick and pick apart this defense on early drives to
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  Speaker 3: get into a rhythm? And then once he's in a groove...
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  Speaker 3: all right, now we're going to throw in some run plays.
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  Speaker 3: Can we trust that that defensive line is going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to shut down Jamal Roberts? And if they can, okay,
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  Speaker 3: well now you got to worry about the passing attack downfield.
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  Speaker 3: The big storyline for me in this game is going
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  Speaker 3: to be, can A & M get pressure on Austin Simmons?
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  Speaker 3: Can they do anything against this offensive line that I
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  Speaker 3: think is vastly underrated in the grand scheme of college
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  Speaker 3: football right now to be able to win at the
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  Speaker 3: point of attack to make Austin Simmons feel pressure? Because
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  Speaker 3: of so far, it feels like he's not going up
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  Speaker 3: against that. And then the one time that he did,
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  Speaker 3: it was in the game against Troy, and he had
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  Speaker 3: 91 passing yards. Even still, I don't think that there's
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  Speaker 3: going to be 91 passing yards against this Texas A
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  Speaker 3: & M secondary. They allow far too many explosives. And
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  Speaker 3: to be fair, as much as we can talk about
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  Speaker 3: what we've seen from Jackson Harris and Reed Harris and
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  Speaker 3: countless other names, Donovan O is going to be the
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  Speaker 3: best wide receiver that they probably have gone up against
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  Speaker 3: at this point in the season. And if not him,
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  Speaker 3: well then guess who else is right next to him?
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  Speaker 4: Caden Leak.
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  Speaker 3: And Caden Lee is basically an unstoppable force with what
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  Speaker 3: you're seeing since the days at Ole Miss working alongside
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  Speaker 3: with Austin Simmons.
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  Speaker 2: When we look at this spread and it's three and
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  Speaker 2: a half points, that's a little bit interesting because you
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  Speaker 2: usually get three points for home field. I do wonder
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  Speaker 2: if the odds makers are baking in a little bit
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: of a letdown after. And now, again, you did mention
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: like home and away. That's an advantage for Missouri. If
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: you had to go to Kyle Field for this, I
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: wonder if they're baking in a little bit of a
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: letdown because we've seen so many freaking letdowns this year
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: after big wins, specifically in the SEC, but I think
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: it's happening in the ACC too.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: I wonder if that's a little bit of their logic there.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: But I feel like the spread is maybe a little
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: closer than it should be, but thoughts around that, and
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: then give me a pick.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: On this one. Yeah, I mean, again, Mike Yelko's been
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: able to handle Eli Drinkowitz. They've played three times since 2021.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: That year that they won the first time in 21,
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: he wasn't the head coach of A & M, but
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: he was the defense coordinator, and he was able to
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: shut them down. So Eli Drinkowitz has been kind of
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: hindered by the success of Mike Yelko on the defensive side. Now, credit,
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: they didn't have a quarterback like Austin Simmons throwing the
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: football around and making life a breeze. They didn't have,
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: I think, as good of an offensive line in 2021
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: as they have right now.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: So maybe there's some things that lean into it.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: But certainly, history says Texas A & M has woken
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: on up for the matchup against Mizzou and handled business
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: wherever the location of the game is. So I can
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: understand why you would say, once again, looking at the
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: trend of how teams continuously... lose their cool in the
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: next matchup after an impressive victory against a top 10 team,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: that this is an opportunity for Mizzou to kind of
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: be let down. And after an A & M win,
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: maybe they're feeling a lot better about themselves. Maybe they
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: have a good identity offensively that knows how to be
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: able to go toe-to-toe with the Mizzou that will be
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: able to slow them down and force them to either
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: win with Jamal Roberts or win through the year, but
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: take away and make the offense one-dimensional. The bottom line
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: is that I am looking at one offensive unit and
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: I'm seeing a ton of question marks still. You're going
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: on the road to face off against a team that
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: is coming off of an emphatic victory. And you're going
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: up against a quarterback that has all the momentum to
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: continue to play at a high-end rate. I don't think
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: that you've seen wide receivers like Donovan O or Caden
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Lee just yet. I think that as much as you
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: can say that there will be a back-and-forth battle, I
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: have to see a little bit more from Marcel Reed
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: in a win that was never in jeopardy, in my opinion,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: against Arkansas. you still only threw for 170 yards. So
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: maybe you are able to have a better game plan
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: because of you know how to run the football.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: But at some point, I think that Missouri.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Is going to test Texas A & M and say,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: you are going to have to win deep, whether it
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: be with Horton, whether it be with Armstrong, whether it
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: be with Craver, if he's fully healthy for this game,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: you are going to have to beat us on the
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: vertical passing attack. And I can't trust that right now
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: out in Collins Station. So I think Missouri is going
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: to win this one. I think that this is a
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: back and forth battle for three quarters. But I think
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: by the fourth, you start to see that defensive line
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: be worn down just a little bit enough for one
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: of those big breakaway runs that we saw against Florida
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: by Jamal Roberts. I'm going to say this is a
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: 10 point swing. Give me something along the lines of
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: like 31 to 20 final score. Mizzou ends up going
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: to five and one. And they're starting to feel like
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: a team that we need to talk a little bit
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: about more as a college ball playoff threat.
• 17:19
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• 17:28
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• 17:29
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