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There's Something THEY Are NOT TELLING YOU About Tennessee vs Alabama Football! | Vols · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: Last up today, the third Saturday in October, a fun
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  Speaker 1: one in Knoxville, potentially in store for us. Alabama comes
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  Speaker 1: to town. We are presented by prize picks and Cole.
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd have to be crazy to not start
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  Speaker 1: with quarterback play for Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: And what the heck are we going to get out
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  Speaker 2: of it?
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  Speaker 3: All right. Number one, who's playing quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Cause we don't know yet. I think it's, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be McIntyre. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be McIntyre. He just, he looks different.
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  Speaker 3: Now, but to be fair, so far, Josh Heupel said,
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  Speaker 3: at the time of this recording on Tuesday, at the
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  Speaker 3: time of this recording on Tuesday, it is still up
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  Speaker 3: in the air. Now, I do think it is going
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  Speaker 3: to be McIntyre. Number one, I think that McIntyre, you
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  Speaker 3: can at least trust to make decisions at a more
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  Speaker 3: timely rate than Faison Brandon. Because part of the reason
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  Speaker 3: that Faison Brandon was pulled was because of injury in
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  Speaker 3: the Auburn game.
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  Speaker 2: Throw it out there. It's fair.
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  Speaker 3: The other reason is because of he could not get
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  Speaker 3: a damn thing going. When you throw for zero yards
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  Speaker 3: and an interception, you got some faults to you. And
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  Speaker 3: when you play against a defense like Alabama, you got
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  Speaker 3: to pull the trigger fast. You have to be able
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  Speaker 3: to understand, I see an open window, I got to
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  Speaker 3: make a play. Because Alabama, Alabama this season has struggled
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  Speaker 3: stopping number one wide receivers. Deuce Robinson got after them.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Harbour got after them. Kenny Darby had some moments
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  Speaker 3: in that game that he got after them. They've given
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  Speaker 3: up the explosives. And you have two wide receivers that
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  Speaker 3: may be the best that Alabama has seen up to
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  Speaker 3: this point in the season with Braylon Staley and Mike Matthews.
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  Speaker 3: You get an opportunity, you have to make a play.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that George McIntyre is probably going to
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  Speaker 3: be the starter in this game. And honestly, you just
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  Speaker 3: want to see him be able to build off of
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  Speaker 3: the success. People will go ahead and chalk it on
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  Speaker 3: up that when they played in Arkansas, they've struggled in
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  Speaker 3: Arkansas in the past. Arkansas came with a gung-ho mentality.
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  Speaker 3: It was your first real start of the season with
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  Speaker 3: two batting interceptions. And you still threw for 287 yards.
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  Speaker 3: And you did enough to be able to stop the
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  Speaker 3: rushing attack. Now, Alabama's going to be prepared for the
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  Speaker 3: rushing attack because they know what Deshaun Bishop can do.
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  Speaker 3: And they know what Morris can do. So I think
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be basically telling George McIntyre or Faison Brandon,
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  Speaker 3: whoever it is, to go ahead and beat them through
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  Speaker 3: the year. But you still can because this secondary has
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  Speaker 3: been susceptible to giving up the explosives. Whether it was
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  Speaker 3: last week against Alabama, I mean Georgia, or whether it
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  Speaker 3: was in the past against whoever else they've gone up against.
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  Speaker 3: They've given up the explosives. Now they have the ability
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  Speaker 3: to look like a vintage Nick Saban defense at times,
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  Speaker 3: but still, when you allow it, if you're George McIntyre,
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  Speaker 3: you see the opportunity, go ahead and let it rip.
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  Speaker 3: If you're Alabama in this game, how do you make
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  Speaker 3: sure that you don't fall for two traps? The first
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  Speaker 3: is fans saying, I came away impressed with what you
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  Speaker 3: did against Georgia. Therefore, you don't have to change anything
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  Speaker 3: on up. Georgia's just a lead. It's always one that
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  Speaker 3: people fall for. And number two, how do you not
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  Speaker 3: let the emotions of last week catch you? Because Georgia, remember,
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  Speaker 3: they've beaten Georgia and they've struggled in the past. They
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  Speaker 3: won Georgia two years ago. They lose to Vanderbilt and Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: They also lost to Tennessee. The last two times that
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  Speaker 3: Alabama has gone into Neyland, they have lost the game.
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  Speaker 3: And it's because of the explosive Josh Heupel's offense and
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  Speaker 3: because the lack of the offensive personnel with Jalen Milrow
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  Speaker 3: in that game in 2024 underneath Kalen DeBoer. So do
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  Speaker 3: you have a game plan that will allow you to
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  Speaker 3: be sufficient when it comes to winning at the point
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  Speaker 3: of attack? Kalen Russell, you're going to have to understand
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  Speaker 3: that pass rush is going to be there. Like it
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  Speaker 3: or not, Tennessee comes into this game as the number
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  Speaker 3: one team in Saxon college football. They have done a
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  Speaker 3: phenomenal job underneath Jim Knowles this year. getting pressure on quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 3: and taking down QBs under duress. So you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to get rid of the football in a timely manner.
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  Speaker 3: The impact of Ryan Coleman Williams in this game is
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  Speaker 3: going to be really big. Who can be the guy
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  Speaker 3: that can step on up and be a security blanket
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  Speaker 3: for your quarterback as he is playing in a hostile
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  Speaker 3: environment like Neyland? Because you have Rico Scott, that's done
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  Speaker 3: a really nice job this year being a number two.
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  Speaker 3: You've done a really nice job with Lottie Brooks being
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  Speaker 3: a number three. Both have been explosive. This is one
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  Speaker 3: of those games to when you look at a Noah
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  Speaker 3: Rogers who dealt with injuries at the start of the year,
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  Speaker 3: but was killing it throughout all of spring practice. That's
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  Speaker 3: the guy that you say, this is where we need
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  Speaker 3: you for. I think you're going to need the run
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  Speaker 3: game to be able to win at the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: Get a couple of hard yards after contact. and I
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  Speaker 3: think that you're really going to want to see in
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  Speaker 3: this matchup, is runs to the outside. I've noticed that
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee has done a nice job being able to bottle
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  Speaker 3: up through the A and B gap, but sometimes they'll
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  Speaker 3: allow a running back to hit to the outside corner
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  Speaker 3: to get a few more extra yards. That's when EJ
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  Speaker 3: Crowell and Atreshawn Brown can really find ways to beat you. Well,
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  Speaker 3: Daniel Hill maybe plays the second fiddle in this game. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: time of possession is really big in this matchup. I
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  Speaker 3: think that you're going to have to have an explosive
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  Speaker 3: player to Keelan Russell. What we have seen, what we
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  Speaker 3: saw for most of the Alabama game, what we've really
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  Speaker 3: seen in the game against South Carolina, what we saw
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  Speaker 3: in the game in the second half against Florida state
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  Speaker 3: after you gave, or after the second delay with Florida state,
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  Speaker 3: that's a version of Keelan Russell. We're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to see because Tennessee's defense is better than advertised.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be able to get after you. I,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this with BYU and, um, a Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: But again, I do think you're asking quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: from your defense. If you're Tennessee here, which Tennessee, I
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  Speaker 1: think does have a really good defense. That's not me questioning.
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  Speaker 2: Them at all.
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  Speaker 1: I just wonder if they're able to slow down Russell enough,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know that I have a ton of
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  Speaker 1: confidence in, uh, the offense from Tennessee putting up a
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  Speaker 1: ton of points.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Bama can get got. We saw Georgia run the
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  Speaker 2: ball really well. Tennessee's got a good rushing attack.
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  Speaker 1: We saw Florida State throw the ball really well against
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  Speaker 1: this secondary.
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  Speaker 2: And so if you're Tennessee, can your defense hold?
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  Speaker 1: They held Texas down, but I also think Texas has
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  Speaker 1: a pretty clunky offense and continues to have a pretty
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  Speaker 1: clunky offense. Obviously, your defense cannot have a third quarter
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  Speaker 1: like it had against Arkansas. You cannot have a fall
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  Speaker 1: asleep third quarter. And I understand the energy, the fumble
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  Speaker 1: that led to some things.
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  Speaker 2: I get that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that that didn't have an impact, but
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  Speaker 1: that can't be the case this weekend. You can't have
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  Speaker 1: a quarter where Bama can just kind of do whatever
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  Speaker 1: they want. Um, not that I think that'll be the case,
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  Speaker 1: but I think you're asking quite a bit of Tennessee's defense.
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  Speaker 1: If the offense can't get up and going, how effective
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  Speaker 1: do you think Tennessee's rushing attack can and will be
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  Speaker 1: considering what we just saw Georgia's RB three go and
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  Speaker 1: do to this Bama defense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, it can be effective. Now, again, you also have
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  Speaker 3: to look at it from Georgia's offensive line and that's
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  Speaker 3: a key staple that I don't think people will look into. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Both Dwight Phillips and Bo Walker were able to get
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  Speaker 3: their yards. Georgia has a sufficient offensive line that was
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  Speaker 3: able to win a lot of those battles. And most
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  Speaker 3: of the time, the Alabama-Georgia game comes down to the
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  Speaker 3: trench warfare. And it did in this game, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: because of their ability to run it consistently for the
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  Speaker 3: explosive plays. Like, how many times did you look at
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  Speaker 3: Alabama in that game where they did a good job
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  Speaker 3: of stopping Bo Walker on first down, and then here
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  Speaker 3: comes a gain of 20, or here comes a gain
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  Speaker 3: of 11? Like, that's a big deal. I think Tennessee's
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  Speaker 3: offensive line is going to carry a lot more weight
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  Speaker 3: in this matchup because of the defensive line of Alabama
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  Speaker 3: still is one of the more dangerous ones in college football. Now,
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  Speaker 3: on the flip side, it can be said about Tennessee's
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  Speaker 3: defensive line being one of the best in college football
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  Speaker 3: because they have been ahead of schedule, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: underneath Jim Knowles in year two. But I think about
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line for Tennessee. You don't have Wendell Moe
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  Speaker 3: for this game. He's out for the year.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's year one for Jim Knowles, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 2: You said year two. Oh, my bad.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry to correct you, but I didn't want the comments
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  Speaker 2: to get you. So I got, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: My bad. It is your one.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wait a minute. Is this your two? No,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like we've.
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  Speaker 3: Had, but anyways, um, This offensive line for Tennessee, I think,
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  Speaker 3: is going to carry a lot of weight. Because if
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  Speaker 3: they can open up the running lanes like they did
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  Speaker 3: against Arkansas' defense for Deshaun Bishop, or like they did
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  Speaker 3: against Auburn's defense for Deshaun Bishop, yeah, Deshaun Bishop will
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  Speaker 3: be a better running back than what you saw with
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  Speaker 3: Peanut Phillips and Bo Walker. It will be probably the
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  Speaker 3: best running back that Alabama has seen this year. Because
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  Speaker 3: I think he's a top 10 running back in the
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  Speaker 3: sport and a top 3 running back in the SEC
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  Speaker 3: so far. He is the offense. But you are going
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  Speaker 3: to have to have that offensive line create opportunities. I
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  Speaker 3: think it can, but here's my theory. Here's my concern.
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  Speaker 3: Is it going to be consistent? Or is it going
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  Speaker 3: to be one or two breakaway runs that we have
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  Speaker 3: seen in the past where Bishop just goes rampant for
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  Speaker 3: a gain of 42 and then stop, stop. Okay, well
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  Speaker 3: now you have to throw it downfield and you're putting
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  Speaker 3: pressure on George McIntyre to have to make the throw.
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  Speaker 3: Or Faison Brandon to make the throw. Because Alabama's second,
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  Speaker 3: I mean Alabama's front seven can still get after you.
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  Speaker 3: Their defense still, when it wants to, can play up
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  Speaker 3: to par and be able to go ahead and knock
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  Speaker 3: you in the teeth if they can.
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  Speaker 2: Give me the difference in this one. Is it Keelan Russell?
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's Keelan Russell.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's better than Keelan Russell.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you switch quarterbacks, I'd probably like Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: in this one. I think Tennessee can do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things really, really well. I worry about the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: play being enough. I think that's the biggest difference between
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  Speaker 1: these two rosters. Cause I do like Tennessee's defense. I
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  Speaker 1: like Alabama, you know, like I do like Tennessee's rushing attack.
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  Speaker 1: I think they have good weapons. I think quarterback play
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  Speaker 1: could hold them back in this one. I like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things for Bama. I like the wide receivers.
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  Speaker 1: I like the defense. I like the offensive line. I
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  Speaker 1: think quarterback is the biggest differentiator between these two teams.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think I'd lean Alabama here.
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  Speaker 3: Close.
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  Speaker 2: Give me like 24 to 20.
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  Speaker 3: You know what? Actually, I'm going to push back a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. Well, quarterback is certainly a big deal. Tennessee's defense,
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  Speaker 3: which has been, again, phenomenal in year one underneath Jim Knowles,
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  Speaker 3: has gone up against two of the weaker offensive lines
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  Speaker 3: in the SEC back-to-back weeks by facing off against Auburn
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  Speaker 3: and then facing off against Arkansas. And let's not act
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  Speaker 3: like Texas' offensive line is elite by any means whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: So as much as Alabama's offensive line is still a
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  Speaker 3: work in progress underneath Kalen DeBoer, I do think that
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  Speaker 3: it's better than Auburn's. I think it's better than Arkansas's.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's probably, if not at the same
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  Speaker 3: level of Texas, maybe better than Texas.
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  Speaker 2: So slightly better than Texas's.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they still got six sacks in that game.
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  Speaker 3: And what was it? 10 tackles for loss, if I'm
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  Speaker 3: not mistaken? Like, they still got pressure on them. But
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  Speaker 3: I think that that is a major difference maker. Because
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that George McIntyre or Faison Brandon playing
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  Speaker 3: in an Alabama Ryan Grubb offense would be able to
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  Speaker 3: put up the same numbers that Keelan Russell would. in
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  Speaker 3: games against Mississippi State, in games against South Carolina. But, like, still,
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line has done a decent job. Now, pass
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  Speaker 3: pro has been a struggle. Keelan Russell was sacked four
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  Speaker 3: times in the Georgia game. Keelan Russell was sacked four
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  Speaker 3: times in the Mississippi State game. They can still give
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  Speaker 3: up a couple sacks. But I do think that it
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  Speaker 3: is better than Auburn's. And definitely better than Arkansas's. And so, like,
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  Speaker 3: while you're playing with momentum, I think that you're going
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  Speaker 3: to get a couple of lull moments where the pass
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  Speaker 3: protection will be good... And I just trust Russell to
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  Speaker 3: make that big-time throw to.
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  Speaker 2: Rico Scott downfield.
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  Speaker 3: Or Pritchett. Or Caleb Edwards, for that matter. The tight
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  Speaker 3: end play has been really, really good in this game, too,
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  Speaker 3: which I think is a major difference for Alabama. I
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  Speaker 3: think that with it being in Neyland, this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a lot closer of a game that people
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  Speaker 3: will give credit to. And there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: that right now say Tennessee does not deserve to be
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  Speaker 3: ranked at 5-1 because of how it's looked. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not here to push back entirely. But I do think
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  Speaker 3: that this is one of those games where because of
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  Speaker 3: it is in Neyland, it will be.
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  Speaker 2: A low scoring affair.
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  Speaker 3: A lot more low scoring than most people think. But
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  Speaker 3: I also am not trusting George McIntyre to be able
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  Speaker 3: to pull this one on out. I will go 24
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  Speaker 3: to 13. I just don't see Tennessee's offense getting enough
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  Speaker 3: in the passing attack. And honestly, maybe not even Keelan
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  Speaker 3: Russell gets enough in the passing attack. Maybe this is
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  Speaker 3: like the big game where Dijon Lee says, my bad
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  Speaker 3: for throwing a punch and I take one back to
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  Speaker 3: the house because I'm going up against his young. that
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  Speaker 3: may end up being a bigger reason why the score.
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  Speaker 2: Is, is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I think we both like low scoring. I'll say again,
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  Speaker 1: a little closer, 24 to 20 Tennessee. You'll need some,
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  Speaker 1: need some work to get there. I saw Ashton Daniels
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  Speaker 1: throw for a lot of yards against this team. I
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  Speaker 1: think McIntyre can hopefully get a little bit going to
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  Speaker 1: keep this game more competitive, but for TJ Pinger, for
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  Speaker 1: Cole Thompson, that was our preview of at least some
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  Speaker 1: of the good games that'll happen here in week seven.
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  Speaker 1: We will see you guys on Sunday at some point
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