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Miami vs Clemson is Going to PROVE Something MASSIVE for Canes or Tigers? · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: We will go to the ACC for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and Miami and Clemson face off in Clemson, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about the weather in the game for Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Not too far away is Clemson, South Carolina. Again, we
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  Speaker 1: may get rain across the entire southeast. It could be
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  Speaker 1: an impact on every single game that happens from Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 1: Bama to Florida, Missouri, all the way down here to
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  Speaker 1: Tallahassee and Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: Later.
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  Speaker 1: So Clemson and Miami, Miami, a big favorite in this one.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's 16 and a half or so Clemson
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  Speaker 1: undefeated since losing against LSU early again, presented by prize picks,
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  Speaker 1: but Graham, big picture thoughts on this one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think this is a fun, interesting game.
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  Speaker 3: I think everybody assumes that Miami is going to like
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  Speaker 3: roll in there and stomp out Clemson. There's kind of
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  Speaker 3: this idea of Miami as this dominant force, which I
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  Speaker 3: totally understand. They're coming off a national title game appearance.
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  Speaker 3: Darian Mensah is playing at a very high level. You've
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  Speaker 3: got Malachi Toney. You've got Mark Fletcher. You've got the
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  Speaker 3: star Damon Wilson coming off the edge. They've got the pieces.
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  Speaker 3: They have the big names. But I am interested to see,
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  Speaker 3: can Clemson offer some resistance in this game? Defensively, Clemson
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  Speaker 3: has been playing really well, honestly, since that LSU game.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they played really well with Cal. They handled
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  Speaker 3: JKS well. in a pretty impressive way, I thought they've
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  Speaker 3: started to find some pressure. Some of these kind of young,
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  Speaker 3: like last wave of heralded blue chip Dabo recruits like
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  Speaker 3: Sammy Brown are growing up a little bit. And then offensively,
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  Speaker 3: it does seem like they're maybe kind of like finding
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  Speaker 3: some footing. I thought Chad Morris sneakily called a very
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  Speaker 3: good game against Cal, like big downs. There were some
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  Speaker 3: nice things they did in the run game and, and
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  Speaker 3: hit some things that I think caught Cal by surprise.
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  Speaker 3: So this could be our first chance. I know that
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  Speaker 3: Miami ended up sort of in a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a sweaty situation with Wake Forest late in that game
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  Speaker 3: in Winston-Salem on a Friday night, but this could be
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  Speaker 3: our first chance to just kind of see somebody with
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  Speaker 3: a few more bodies that resemble what Miami has on
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  Speaker 3: its roster.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree with that. And again, you factor
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  Speaker 1: in the weather. You also think about where Miami has struggled.
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  Speaker 1: They've not been good. Last two weeks, I believe it's
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  Speaker 1: either 18 or 20 combined penalties, the last two games
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  Speaker 1: that Miami has played. You certainly don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: on the road to Death Valley and let that be
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  Speaker 1: a factor. Number two, they've not been good on the
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  Speaker 1: interior of the offensive line. And that has impacted the
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  Speaker 1: running game. And Mario Cristobal has called it out. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: that's a passion of his being an offensive line guy.
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  Speaker 1: And their fan base is not super happy with where
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  Speaker 1: the interior of that offensive line is.
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  Speaker 2: Is Vic back?
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  Speaker 1: I know he was suspended for an undetermined amount of time.
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  Speaker 1: But is Vic back for Clemson? Because I think that
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  Speaker 1: could have a big impact. I should know that since
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  Speaker 1: we're here two days from the game. But can probably
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  Speaker 1: the best defensive front that Miami's seen so far? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking Stanford, FAMU, Central Michigan, and Wake Forest. With
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  Speaker 1: or without him? I think this is probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be one of the better fronts that you've seen defensively.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't call them elite by any means, but one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the better fronts in the ACC for sure.
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  Speaker 1: What does Miami's offensive line look like up front and
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  Speaker 1: in that middle to go up against the best? If
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  Speaker 1: you're getting pushed back against Stanford, Wake, FAMU, and Central
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  Speaker 1: Michigan at times, obviously they dominated FAMU, and they looked
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  Speaker 1: better against Central Michigan too. But if you're getting pushed
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  Speaker 1: back in some of your power for competition, and then
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  Speaker 1: you've got to go on the road at Clemson, and
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  Speaker 1: that interior of the offensive line hasn't, whether it's gelled
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  Speaker 1: together or figured some things out or adjusted some technique,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the fix is there for Coach Mirabelle, that is
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  Speaker 1: a big question to me. If you need any example
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  Speaker 1: of what defensive line pressure can do for a team,
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  Speaker 1: go look at Knoxville last week, where both defensive lines combined,
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  Speaker 1: as good as Colin Simmons was, Both defensive lines combined
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  Speaker 1: for 16 sacks. I mean, they wrecked both offensive game
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  Speaker 1: plans for large parts of that game. I do think
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  Speaker 1: that if you look talent on talent, yeah, Miami should
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  Speaker 1: win this game.
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  Speaker 2: There's a reason.
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  Speaker 1: They're a 17 point, 16 and a half point favorite
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  Speaker 1: on the road. But if you're starting to think about like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: what do we need to do to compete? Not just
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  Speaker 1: on the road at Clemson, but then beyond. it all
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  Speaker 1: starts up front and a Miami fans know that Miami
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  Speaker 1: staff knows that because they watched what their team was
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  Speaker 1: able to do last year. They were able to bully
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  Speaker 1: most teams they played up front and it's not been
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  Speaker 1: the same level from the interior offensive line perspective. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing that I want answered. I know
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  Speaker 1: that Darian Mintz is probably going to have more touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: than incompletions on Saturday. I know that Malachi Tony, if
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  Speaker 1: he gets the ball in space is probably going to
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  Speaker 1: do something special. I know that Damon Wilson will probably
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  Speaker 1: make a big player too. Um, conversely, I know that
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  Speaker 1: Clemson's wide receivers can probably make a play or two
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  Speaker 1: against this secondary that's a little bit banged up for Miami.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're Miami, to me, it's not just about
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  Speaker 1: winning this game, which Mario would disagree and say, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's just about going 1-0 here. But I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bigger picture in, okay, is this really a
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  Speaker 1: team that's going to go compete for it all, or
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  Speaker 1: do they have two bigger questions on the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: in the secondary with penalties and composure there? to really
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  Speaker 1: put them in that elite category. And I think some
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  Speaker 1: of those questions start to get answered against the best
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  Speaker 1: front they've played all year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, 100%. And I think that you look at Miami,
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  Speaker 3: their offense, like if you look at their kind of
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  Speaker 3: radar chart, right? Like game on paper, if you look
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  Speaker 3: at their radar chart over here, past success rate, yards
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  Speaker 3: of drop back, past EPA, like all of these advanced
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  Speaker 3: stats in the past game, very good. Their success rates,
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  Speaker 3: on late downs, very good, low average third down distance,
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  Speaker 3: like lots of stuff that you like, but they don't
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  Speaker 3: run the ball explosively. And really they, they have not,
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  Speaker 3: despite Malachi Tony's just, just being Malachi Tony and being
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  Speaker 3: maybe the coolest player in college football, they've not actually
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  Speaker 3: been that overly explosive in the past game either. And
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  Speaker 3: so that, that part is interesting. I think that Clemson,
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  Speaker 3: It would surprise me a little bit just with how
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  Speaker 3: Miami has been over the last few weeks for them
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  Speaker 3: to come in and just run the ball down Clemson's throat.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with what you said about the interior Miami's
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  Speaker 3: offensive line, but I would point out that even Okunlola
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  Speaker 3: at tackle has not been very good in the run
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  Speaker 3: game to this point in the year. We know that
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  Speaker 3: he's got all the tools to be a dominant zone
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  Speaker 3: run blocker, but There are some things that just haven't
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  Speaker 3: quite come together, and maybe that's kind of a product
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  Speaker 3: of beating the crap out of people, right, and not
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  Speaker 3: being pushed a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I do think that Clemson can probably put them into
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  Speaker 3: more third and longs and put them into some more
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  Speaker 3: situations and maybe have some athletes to at least like,
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  Speaker 3: not take Tony away, you're not going to take him away,
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  Speaker 3: but force Mensah to get off Tony and into some
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  Speaker 3: other reads at times. We saw Wake Forest adjust in
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  Speaker 3: the second half of that game and force him off
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  Speaker 3: some of his first reads. He did not look as
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  Speaker 3: comfortable as he had looked to that point in the season.
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  Speaker 3: I would be shocked if Clemson won this game somehow
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that, but I wouldn't be shocked if
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  Speaker 3: this game is 10 points at halftime and 14 going
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  Speaker 3: into the fourth quarter or something like that, and there's
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  Speaker 3: at least a little bit of resistance. Yeah, yeah. Great.
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to steal your word, but you got
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  Speaker 2: it out before I could. No worries. Vic is back.
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  Speaker 1: He was back for the UNC game. Sorry that I've
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  Speaker 1: missed that, but has played in the last two games,
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  Speaker 1: so he'll be there. So, again, Miami's interior offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: the task gets a little tougher. with one of Clemson's
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  Speaker 1: better players back. The big question I would have is
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  Speaker 1: Clemson's offense. And I think you think about the way
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  Speaker 1: this game may play out. And I think it is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely plausible that this game, I mean, we already saw
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  Speaker 1: it once, that this game does get away from Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: And if Miami starts to get things rolling at all,
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  Speaker 1: you wonder about Clemson's ability to fight back and respond
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  Speaker 1: against a defense that does present a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 1: up front. I think they can be gotten with how
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  Speaker 1: good Clemson's weapons are. on their wideouts. But if a
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  Speaker 1: young quarterback going up against one of the better defensive
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  Speaker 1: lines as far as pressure rates go, in the conference,
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  Speaker 1: if he doesn't have time, then I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: you've got two Jeremiah Smiths out there. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: have time to get him the ball. So I guess
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  Speaker 1: my biggest question would be how much success, because I
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  Speaker 1: do think he's been building. I think you're exactly right
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  Speaker 1: on where Tate Reynolds is now versus where he was
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  Speaker 1: three weeks ago. I think he's been improving consistently. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a really stiff test this weekend against Miami. How
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  Speaker 1: effective do you think their offense can be? And I
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  Speaker 1: would guess the follow-up to that is, if it's not
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  Speaker 1: very effective, then that's where I think this thing could
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  Speaker 1: turn into non-competitive in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Which is a very realistic route.
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  Speaker 3: Their offense has been really bad in a lot of respects.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to point to anything that they've done well
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  Speaker 3: With consistency, their defense lately has kind of– I think
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  Speaker 3: the defense has risen its level. And Reynolds did start
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  Speaker 3: to do some things in the second, third, and fourth
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  Speaker 3: quarters on the road at Cal where you were like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I see it. You're managing things and you're making some
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  Speaker 3: throws over the middle and just putting together some decent
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  Speaker 3: offense that built into drives and eventually built into some
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  Speaker 3: explosive– plays for them in the run game, right? Which
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  Speaker 3: is not something that we saw at all in Baton
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  Speaker 3: Rouge in week one. I know that Cal's defensive personnel
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  Speaker 3: is not LSU's defensive personnel, but still, I did think
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  Speaker 3: like you had a moment with Tate Reynolds there a
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  Speaker 3: little bit on the road, 3,000 miles from home. That
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  Speaker 3: might be significant for him and his career and just
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  Speaker 3: for this Clemson season and for Davos kind of career
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  Speaker 3: arc at this point as well. in the sense of, like,
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  Speaker 3: in this ACC, maybe Clemson can scratch out, like, a
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  Speaker 3: 9-3 season or an 8-4 season. And if they do that,
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  Speaker 3: then I don't know that some of the conversations we
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  Speaker 3: were having after week one are going to be relevant anymore.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that this Clemson offense, can they pass block? Like, Miami,
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  Speaker 3: you know, honestly, with the ACC not doing the injury
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  Speaker 3: report deal that we've seen from the SEC. It's hard
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  Speaker 3: to know what Miami's defensive secondary personnel is going to
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  Speaker 3: look like because I think you saw them feel the
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  Speaker 3: lack of presence of some of those injured corners against
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  Speaker 3: Wake Forest in the second half of that game. I
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  Speaker 3: could see Clemson being able to take advantage of something
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  Speaker 3: like that. Honestly, the thing that would help Clemson pass
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  Speaker 3: protect for Reynolds some would be if Miami's not maybe
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  Speaker 3: all the way where they want to be from a
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  Speaker 3: personnel standpoint in the secondary. Because truthfully, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: you want to leave some of those backup corners on
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  Speaker 3: an island. It probably forces Miami into playing some more zones,
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  Speaker 3: which probably kind of limits some of the pressure package
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  Speaker 3: options that they have on the table in front of them.
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  Speaker 3: So that to me is probably a huge storyline, like
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  Speaker 3: how that looks in the hour or two before this game.
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  Speaker 3: If that information is out there, that could certainly influence
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  Speaker 3: Miami whether I want to bet on this game or
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  Speaker 3: who I want to bet on in this game. But
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  Speaker 3: I think that Clemson can put together some drives in
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  Speaker 3: this game where maybe they can just kind of stack
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  Speaker 3: some small gains. And they're going to challenge– like they
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  Speaker 3: will challenge Miami in the sense of, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 3: like in the fourth quarter in Winston-Salem the other night,
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  Speaker 3: Damon Wilson looked 15 pounds overweight and a little bit
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  Speaker 3: gassed and was coming off the field. Like there were
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  Speaker 3: sort of some of those types of things that were
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  Speaker 3: happening for Miami and not across the board by any
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  Speaker 3: means at all. But I'm curious to see if Clemson
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  Speaker 3: can just sustain a little bit of not even necessarily
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  Speaker 3: drives that get points at times, but can your bad
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  Speaker 3: drives be six, seven, eight plays instead of three and out?
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  Speaker 3: Because if so, that might– might add up on Miami
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  Speaker 3: a little bit as this game goes along.
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  Speaker 2: I am very interested from the Clemson perspective.
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  Speaker 1: You talked about a team that can maybe eke out eight, nine,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even ten wins. When you look at their schedule
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the way, and football weekends don't happen
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  Speaker 1: in a vacuum, injuries pile up, certainly it's easy to
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  Speaker 1: do this right now on October 1st. Miami this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: Charleston Southern next week, they should win. Virginia Tech's a
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  Speaker 1: fun story. They're a dog right now, I think, to pit.
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  Speaker 1: They could have a loss coming into that October 24th
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  Speaker 1: game in two weeks. They might have two losses coming
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  Speaker 1: into that game. We'll see how the season plays out.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't overly inspiring last weekend, but Clemson could win
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  Speaker 1: that game at home. They go to Florida State, where
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  Speaker 1: I think, again, good game, but I think they're a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better than the Seminoles. They should beat Syracuse.
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  Speaker 1: I think Georgia Tech's a mess right now. Duke is
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  Speaker 1: undefeated too right now, but we'll see where they are
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  Speaker 1: in late November. And then South Carolina, who's also a mess.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of winnable games on the back half
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  Speaker 1: of this schedule. I don't know that I would take
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  Speaker 1: the over on 9.5, but I would probably take the
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  Speaker 1: over on 8.5. And you're talking if Clemson can kind
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  Speaker 1: of just hold serve for a lot of this season,
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  Speaker 1: they could finish 10-2, 9-3 probably at worst, and two
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  Speaker 1: of their losses beat up top 10 teams in LSU
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  Speaker 1: and Miami.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not the Clemson standard.
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  Speaker 1: I know that's not what Dabo built in 2016 and 2018.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are basically the best of that next
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  Speaker 1: tier and your only two losses are to Miami and LSU,
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  Speaker 1: I'd also say like, man, you just you can't let
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  Speaker 1: what happened to LSU.
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  Speaker 2: You can't let a snowball like that.
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  Speaker 1: Happen because at 10 and two with a close loss
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  Speaker 1: to Miami, maybe you make it into Charlotte with a
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  Speaker 1: one loss ACC record. you're kind of getting talked about in,
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  Speaker 1: in some conversations that would happen. Not that I think
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  Speaker 1: Clemson is really deserving of a playoff spot right now.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's not the argument I'm trying to make, but
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  Speaker 1: 10 and two with losses to Miami and LSU is
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  Speaker 1: not the worst result when we think about what those
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  Speaker 1: teams are and might be this year. But if you
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  Speaker 1: lose both of them by 50, like you did week one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, then I think you're kind of seen as
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  Speaker 1: a paper champion at that point or a paper 10
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  Speaker 1: win season. So, I would like to, for Clemson's sake,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to see them be competitive in this
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  Speaker 1: game because then that does give me hope over these
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  Speaker 1: last seven.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks of, yeah, they're probably going to beat everybody else
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  Speaker 2: on their schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Not that you can't slip up in Doak or can't
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  Speaker 1: slip up to James Franklin or Lenore Sellers couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: a go-off game in a rivalry.
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  Speaker 2: He's done it before. But, yeah, I think that the way.
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  Speaker 1: That Clemson looks, even in a potential loss, if they
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  Speaker 1: cover the spread, I'll tell you that, if they cover
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  Speaker 1: the spread, I'd feel a lot more confident about the
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  Speaker 1: direction that Clemson's season is heading in. Though, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this is a playoff team that goes
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  Speaker 1: and wins multiple games or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd feel better about where they were overall.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the other side of it, too, is
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  Speaker 3: just what were the reactions when Davo hired Chad Morris, right? Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, there's some of that there where
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: it looked like he was kind of getting into a
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: little bit of, like, old man bunker mentality. Yeah. Maybe
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: the old man's lost it and he's a little bit potentially.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Not, right?
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: But he could also go out in this game and
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: get his ass beat, TJ. Like that's very much on
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: the table. So I don't want to get too excited
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: or positive on him quite yet here. But I do
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: have a hunch a little bit that maybe it's a
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: backdoor cover or something like that. But this game right now,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: You know, it's sitting at 16 and a half in
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: a lot of places, which I would love to bet
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: it at 17 and a half. There are a couple
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: that have it at 17. But, you know, I think
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Clemson kind of hangs around. Maybe it's a backdoor cover
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: type of scenario. I could certainly see that. But I
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: think that they'll offer some resistance to Miami's offense and
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: maybe just kind of force– whether it's Miami comes out
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: on the opening script and, and goes for a touchdown
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: and then Clemson adjusts to that. And it stays kind
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: of within seven to 10 for a little while, or
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: it is the opposite scenario where Clemson shuts them down early.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: And then Miami kind of gets it in gear. Like
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I expect Miami to pull away in this game, but I,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I am going to take Clemson in the, in the points.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I will go the other way.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong on that just for Clemson sake. Like, to,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to have them be a little more competitive this year.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Cause I think it, I'm not one of these big, like, Oh,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: college football is better when college football is always great.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So I'm not, but I do like to see, you know, I, I,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I would like to see Clemson be a little more competitive.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you for Miami sake, I think the exact
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: opposite exists. Like I, I think they need to not
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: have another scrape by an ACC team that we don't
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: think is great. Um, and you know, dilly dally around
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: through the whole season. Um, and then get to the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: playoff and you're like, well, wow, this is actual competition.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I know they have to go to South Bend. So
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I think both teams kind of, I don't know how
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: important it is for teams to cover the spread. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: know that weather and backdoor covers and things like play
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: into all that, but I think it's a game where
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Miami really needs to look impressive. And it's a game
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: where Clem, because people will be watching and it's a
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: game where Miami needs to, or Clemson needs to go
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: out and, and, and look competent as well. So, Interesting,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: but I will take the other line. I'll take Miami
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to find out.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: A way to get it done.