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Hutton & Withrow: Tennessee vs. South Carolina Picks, LeBron's Anthem Controversy & Titans' NFL Record Threat | Hour 1 · Hutton & Withrow Show

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  Speaker 1: We are out of the gates on sport and state.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Glad you're with us for Hutton and Withrow presented by
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  Speaker 2: Hard Rock Bet.
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  Speaker 1: He's Chad Withrow. I'm Jonathan Hutton. Chad, good morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Hutton. Thrilled to be with you this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Excited about what's going to be a big day here
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  Speaker 3: on this show as we get ready for a huge weekend.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for your top 10 games of the college
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  Speaker 2: football weekend coming up a little bit later in the show.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you kind of win some, you lose some
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  Speaker 3: each week. And this could turn out to be the
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  Speaker 3: greatest weekend in the history of the sport. But coming
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  Speaker 3: off a weekend, Hutton, where we had the second most
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  Speaker 3: views of any college football weekend on record, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think we're going to match that this weekend with my
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  Speaker 3: top 10 games. I'm just going to make that prediction.
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  Speaker 3: I hope that I'm wrong. I hope every game goes
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  Speaker 3: down to the wire. And we come back on Monday
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  Speaker 3: and we're like, damn, that was a great college football weekend.
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  Speaker 3: But just looking at the top 10, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be tough. There are weeks where I write down 14,
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  Speaker 3: 15 games. and I have a hard time deciding. I
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  Speaker 3: wrote down exactly eight games this week, and then I
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  Speaker 3: had to go find two more at the tail end
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  Speaker 3: of the top ten to put in that list.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've got some good games in the SEC. I
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  Speaker 1: know that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's run through those, man. Let's give some definitive predictions
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  Speaker 2: as we get ready for the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Where do we want to start?
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  Speaker 3: Let's go Tennessee, South Carolina to start because... We've been
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  Speaker 3: talking a lot about Tennessee's physical manhandling of Alabama all week, Hutton,
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  Speaker 3: and now it's what feels like from everybody talking about it,
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  Speaker 3: what Vegas thinks that this is the eventual letdown, the
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  Speaker 3: relief syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be natural.
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  Speaker 3: This is Tennessee's eighth straight game in eight weeks before
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  Speaker 3: they finally get the bye next week. You've got South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina coming off a bye. South Carolina coming off that
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  Speaker 3: bye after beating Florida on the road. What do you
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  Speaker 3: think is going to happen in this game?
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  Speaker 2: See, I think it's bulletin board material here that Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: is the road underdog going into this game. I think
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  Speaker 2: if they were the favorite and everyone were betting into
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  Speaker 2: the hype and the sharp money wasn't going against Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: here and the line hadn't swapped the way it did,
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  Speaker 2: that 6-1 Tennessee is going up there pissed off for greatness.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way I feel. And look, they forced four turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, like 100th in the nation in turnover margin.
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  Speaker 2: They've played a very, very tough schedule. But being the
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  Speaker 2: home favorite, I think that gives motivation to the Vols
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  Speaker 2: to not overlook this game. I realize it's a very
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  Speaker 2: tough place to play. But the turnover issues for the Gamecocks, Chad,
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  Speaker 2: I think the Vols' opportunistic defense paired with South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: just atrocious pass defense. I think McIntyre's going to have
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  Speaker 2: some very definitive play-action throws that are going to be
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  Speaker 2: working well. He doesn't have to go deep with the football.
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  Speaker 2: I will take the points. I take Tennessee to win
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  Speaker 2: the game. And look, I think Shane Beamer has a
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  Speaker 2: lot to play for here. He remains the head coach
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  Speaker 2: with a win. I think that goes without saying because
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  Speaker 2: he's already beat Florida. He'll have the game against Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: But Chad, give me Tennessee to win this game. And
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  Speaker 2: I realize that there's a lot of people that feel
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  Speaker 2: like the letdown's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's happening yet.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a fascinating matchup of styles and what
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  Speaker 3: the strengths are of this team. South Carolina's got the
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  Speaker 3: best rush defense in the SEC. We know that Tennessee
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  Speaker 3: ultimately wants to run the ball, especially in the second
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  Speaker 3: half with their closer, Deshaun Bishop. He is the closer
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  Speaker 3: of this football team. He did that against Alabama. They've
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  Speaker 3: yet to allow 150 yards on the ground this season. Now,
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  Speaker 3: in a couple of games, like Mississippi State and Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: that's because teams can throw it all over them. But
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  Speaker 3: you've got a guy now in his third start in
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  Speaker 3: George McIntyre that doesn't have a ton of experience. Is
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  Speaker 3: he able to throw all over South Carolina this season?
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  Speaker 3: in this game because there will be opportunities in the
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  Speaker 3: passing game. Mike Matthews suddenly has gotten things going for Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: I think there are some strengths that line up well
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  Speaker 3: here for South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're looking for a.
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  Speaker 3: Strength that lines up really well for Tennessee, Carter Miller
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  Speaker 3: is currently listed as questionable for South Carolina. Tennessee, for
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  Speaker 3: the first time, has a clean sheet. They've got all
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  Speaker 3: the guys out for the season, but they don't have
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  Speaker 3: one player who's doubtful, questionable, anything going into this game.
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  Speaker 3: The starting center for South Carolina, Carter Miller from Ravenwood
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  Speaker 3: High School. here in Brentwood, Tennessee. His list is questionable.
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  Speaker 1: Do we recall how.
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  Speaker 3: It went for Alabama a week ago when their starting
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  Speaker 3: center was out for the game and Xavier Gilliam was
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  Speaker 3: in the backfield?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we do. On every play.
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  Speaker 3: And Tennessee could do whatever they wanted on that defensive front.
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina wants to run the football.
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  Speaker 1: They want to run it with their running backs.
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  Speaker 3: They want to run the ball with Lenora Sellers. Even
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  Speaker 3: if he plays at less than 100%, that should be
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  Speaker 3: an advantage for Tennessee across the defensive front.
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  Speaker 1: If he doesn't play... they could wreak.
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  Speaker 3: Havoc in the backfield against South Carolina, which would be
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  Speaker 3: a huge advantage for Tennessee. Hutton, I said coming into
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  Speaker 3: this season, I looked at this game the whole time
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  Speaker 3: and I thought, this is a loss for Tennessee. This
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  Speaker 3: is a spot where they lose because they're going into
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  Speaker 3: the bye that week because they have a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a gauntlet with Texas and Alabama and those games going
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  Speaker 3: into it, that this is a natural letdown spot. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it was going to take much of
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  Speaker 3: a letdown to lose Tennessee. Going into the season, this
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  Speaker 3: was a 50% chance for both teams on the ESPN-FBI.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it this morning. While South Carolina is.
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  Speaker 3: A 2.5-point favorite, ESPN-FBI has Tennessee as a 59.5% chance
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  Speaker 3: of winning based on what's happened already this year, even
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  Speaker 3: on the road.
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  Speaker 1: This will be Tennessee's first true road game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: let's face it.
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  Speaker 3: At Georgia Tech, half the stadium was orange, at least.
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  Speaker 3: And then at Arkansas, nobody cared. In the crowd. There
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  Speaker 3: was hardly anyone there. It was not a raucous atmosphere.
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  Speaker 3: George McIntyre is going to go on the road and
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  Speaker 3: feel some noise for the first time this season. I
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  Speaker 3: want to pick the Vols. I badly want to pick
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  Speaker 3: the Vols, especially after picking Alabama last week and being
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  Speaker 3: wrong about it. But I've got to go two straight
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  Speaker 3: weeks where I'm picking the opponent against Tennessee. I think
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina wins a close home game. I think Vegas
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  Speaker 3: does know something. I don't think this is some better trap.
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  Speaker 3: When people look at that line and think that Vegas
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  Speaker 3: is crazy, I think South Carolina finds a way to
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  Speaker 3: win at home. And then Tennessee is going to have
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  Speaker 3: a week off to get ready for a November slate
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  Speaker 3: that's going to feature do-or-die games throughout the month if
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  Speaker 3: they want to be in the college football playoff hunt.
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  Speaker 2: I've been mentioning the defense a lot in this preview
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  Speaker 2: all week, but I'm thinking myself too. At some point,
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  Speaker 2: McIntyre settles in. You knew how I was thinking pregame,
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  Speaker 2: watching him warm up a week ago.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, is this guy locked in? Turns out he was.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out he is.
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  Speaker 2: I come out of that game thinking, this guy kind
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  Speaker 2: of knows who he is and what he needs to
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  Speaker 2: do to get ready. There comes to be a trust
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  Speaker 2: factor at some point where you have to slowly start
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  Speaker 2: to allow him to run the entire offense. And his
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  Speaker 2: receivers are starting to make plays. Jed, I think that
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  Speaker 2: everything's coming together at a nice pace. They're not forcing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things. They still run the ball, what, 60%, 65%
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  Speaker 2: of the time. That's their offense. But at what point
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  Speaker 2: do you start to push the lever forward a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and see if he's kind of starting to come
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  Speaker 2: along within the offense after starting the season.
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  Speaker 1: As a backup?
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  Speaker 2: Look, we've been waiting to see that with the Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: Titans and Cam Ward. That hasn't happened. I do think
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  Speaker 2: with McIntyre, he's calm, cool, and collected, right? And I
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  Speaker 2: think in an atmosphere like this, The way I saw
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  Speaker 2: him in warm-ups last week at home, I think that
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  Speaker 2: serves him well going into the game like this. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a cold-blooded killer is what I saw in
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  Speaker 2: warm-ups last week. When I thought he wasn't locked in,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he looked nervous. Turns out he was the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: He came out throwing the football over the yard, moving
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  Speaker 2: the football down the field. So let's see more of that.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe Vegas is always right. They do know something
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  Speaker 2: we don't know. But in this case... I think the
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  Speaker 2: money just initially wanted to go Tennessee's way, and it didn't.
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina's coming off a nice win. They have a
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  Speaker 2: team that's very talented, but for whatever reason, they've never
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  Speaker 2: put everything together collectively. And they don't play well at
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  Speaker 2: home whenever they get up by, what, 13 to 17 points.
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  Speaker 1: They give up those leads.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And that's something to keep in mind, too, if
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  Speaker 3: you're Tennessee. Even if you fall behind two scores, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, keep plugging, because against Kentucky and against Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 3: they blew some early two, three-score leads in one of
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  Speaker 3: the games, too, that they blew in those games. So
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  Speaker 3: definitely something to keep in mind. Also, with George McIntyre,
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  Speaker 3: there was a lot of criticism of Tennessee's offensive line
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  Speaker 3: earlier in the year with all the sacks they gave up.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I do now wonder how much of that was on
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  Speaker 3: Faison Brandon just holding the ball too long or not
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  Speaker 3: being in the right spot or not having his eyes
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  Speaker 3: in the right spot because he got sacked against Arkansas,
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  Speaker 3: but the sack problems have not been as big of
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  Speaker 3: an issue since. I'll also say, I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee had the right five offensive linemen on the field.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when Wendell Moy got hurt and Nick Moore
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  Speaker 3: came in and Sham Umarov went out and they started
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  Speaker 3: doing some different things with different guys. Donovan Haslam comes
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  Speaker 3: into the game. They became more physical in the interior
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  Speaker 3: of that defensive line. And that's how you see that
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  Speaker 3: you've got a running back in Deshaun Bishop that ran
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  Speaker 3: for more yards between the tackles than any one player
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  Speaker 3: has done against Alabama in a decade. behind that physical
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  Speaker 3: interior of the offensive line for Tennessee. So that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a huge factor in this game also. I'm
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  Speaker 3: also betting on.
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  Speaker 2: The fact, Chad, that the defense will set up the
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  Speaker 2: offense in good opportunistic situations here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm confident in their defense.
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee's formula, we know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to pass to open up the run. You're
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  Speaker 3: going to get Deshaun Bishop going over the course of
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  Speaker 3: the game. And in the third and fourth quarter, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to feed him steadily.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. And you're going to win a game.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to play great defense. You're going to pressure
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback. And you're going to do all of those things.
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  Speaker 3: There will be a game at some point. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: this weekend on the road. But we're George McIntyre. They're
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  Speaker 3: going to fall behind. He's going to have to make
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  Speaker 3: a lot of throws. They're going to have to throw
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  Speaker 3: the ball more than they've thrown it. And he's going
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  Speaker 3: to have to make some big plays.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: I'm taking South Carolina. I think it's very close. But look,
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  Speaker 3: I'm fascinated to watch how Tennessee responds to the huge
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  Speaker 3: win over Alabama. And then what South Carolina looks like.
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  Speaker 3: Was that a blip on the radar in the swamp?
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  Speaker 3: And they go right back to being a disappointing team.
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  Speaker 3: in this game after the break, or are we going
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  Speaker 3: to see a different South Carolina team? The South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: team that had the huge ceiling, the very high ceiling
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  Speaker 3: coming into the season. We talked to Shane Beamer in Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: He knew how talented this team is, and they were
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  Speaker 3: one of those teams. Hey, maybe this is a sleeper
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  Speaker 3: college football playoff team. Do they play like that team
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  Speaker 3: the remainder of the season?
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch. Same here, man. Same here.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking this until you made the comment yesterday
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  Speaker 2: about Lane Kiffin publicly saying I was rooting for Auburn
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  Speaker 2: because I was thinking Auburn can now parlay consecutive upsets
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  Speaker 2: over Georgia and LSU because I think.
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  Speaker 1: They're a live home dog in an 11 a.m. Central kickoff.
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  Speaker 2: A dogfight in this where LSU coming into a game
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  Speaker 2: where they've already gone on the road. They lost to Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: They do play in these dogfight games. but Auburn was
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  Speaker 2: able to show something against Georgia of all teams, but
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  Speaker 2: LSU favored by seven for a reason over under at
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  Speaker 2: 50 and a half. I, Chad, I think this is
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  Speaker 2: a close game until the fourth and LSU opens it up.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and I I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: I think LSU wins this game, Auburn, not going to
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  Speaker 2: parlay consecutive upsets, but I, I do think they're going
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  Speaker 2: to show that they're more locked in than what we
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  Speaker 2: saw to begin the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think, um, Fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a couple of elimination-type games.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Auburn with two losses also. You've got to
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  Speaker 3: throw them in the mix.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Right now with only the two losses and LSU and
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  Speaker 3: then a game we're about to get to also.
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  Speaker 1: A & M and Alabama. A & M comes in 4-3.
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  Speaker 2: Alabama 5-2 with back-to-back losses. And, again, the over-under here
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  Speaker 2: at 50.5. Bama by 14. Initially, Chad, I love the
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  Speaker 2: under in this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Keelan Russell has been held to under 200 passing yards
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  Speaker 2: in back-to-back weeks. But you made the point yesterday, if
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  Speaker 2: this is a week to get back on track, he's
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  Speaker 2: been served up with the A & M defense to
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  Speaker 2: do just that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it's just kind of the story
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  Speaker 3: of Keelan DeBoer's career at Alabama. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the moment you feel comfortable as an Alabama fan, boy,
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  Speaker 3: we're headed in the right direction. This offense is great.
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  Speaker 3: We got exactly what we thought we did from the
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  Speaker 3: guy from Washington. It's like that's the moment. that they
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  Speaker 3: have 200 total yards of offense and 10 points against Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: And in the moment, Alabama fans are complaining and crying about,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't the program we signed up for, this is.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing like Nick Saban.
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  Speaker 3: They go out and physically dominate someone or look great
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  Speaker 3: the next week. He is a good bounce-back coach, is
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, and Kalen DeBoer. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: talk about he needs to fire Ryan Grubb as offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 3: all these things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not buying that.
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  Speaker 3: Just a couple weeks ago, we were praising this offense
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  Speaker 3: as being one of the greatest. I mean, remember, they
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  Speaker 3: had to score a ton of points to beat Florida State. Also,
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  Speaker 3: in a game, they gave up a lot of points.
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  Speaker 3: They scored a ton on the road at Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 3: I think the offense gets back on track. I think
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  Speaker 3: Alabama wins comfortably, and they cover the spread against A & M.
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  Speaker 1: They may win comfortably.
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  Speaker 2: I just think this is a low-possession grinder is the
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  Speaker 2: way I described it. I think Keelan Russell, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to take some time for him to get back into
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  Speaker 2: rhythm and out of the funk. A & M' s defense, though,
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  Speaker 2: is a defense that can play well at times, but offensively,
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  Speaker 2: they get no help. They've scored two touchdowns, and they
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  Speaker 2: haven't scored a touchdown on the road in SEC play.
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  Speaker 2: Their points scored is two touchdowns, 13 points combined. on
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  Speaker 2: the road in SEC play. Low possession grinder. I think
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  Speaker 2: Keelan Russell makes enough plays to win, and I think
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  Speaker 2: this is the fourth quarter game where the score is
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  Speaker 2: going to be more separated than the way this game
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  Speaker 2: is played, Chad. I'm taking Bama. Finally, Ole Miss and Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back to what we said about South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: and Tennessee. What does Vegas know here with Texas favored
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  Speaker 2: in this game?
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  Speaker 1: I think Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: Knows that it is hard to win on the road
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  Speaker 3: in the SEC, but we've seen it time and time again.
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  Speaker 3: I would say that Vegas would respond, Hutton, and say, boy,
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  Speaker 3: everybody questioned us when the line was so close with
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  Speaker 3: Florida and Ole Miss after Florida was America's sweetheart after
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  Speaker 3: beating LSU in Oxford, a game that we were at.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they do know something.
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  Speaker 3: I think Texas responds after a bad performance against Florida,
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  Speaker 3: costly turnovers, bad decision-making. They lost to a backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: in Florida at home a week ago. I think they
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  Speaker 3: come back at home this week. I think the Longhorns get.
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  Speaker 1: The job done.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to talk a little bit about Arch Manning
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  Speaker 3: a little bit later in the show. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: that edgy Arch is going to be the difference. I
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  Speaker 3: do think that defense for Texas is still good enough
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  Speaker 3: to slow down Ole Miss' offense, even with Trinidad Chambliss
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: being as good as he is. Give me Texas at
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: home to stay alive in the college football playoff hunt
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: and give Ole Miss their second loss of the season.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Glaring styles classes here. Ole Miss struggles on defense. Texas
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: has problems on offense. And I'll take Chambliss and Lacey
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: to make enough plays. I think the Rebels are locked in,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: and they continue to be locked in as the SEC
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: title game favorite with a straight-up.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Win here on the road.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: I'm taking the better overall team that I've seen and
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: the quarterback that is more consistent in this.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe we see two quarterbacks for Texas, Chad. Could be.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: If you're seeing two quarterbacks for Texas, I'm switching my pick.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I'm going Ole Miss.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: So if that's the case, I'll go ahead and call
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: it right now. I don't think this is some, you know,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: not redemption story or, boy, the backup comes in and
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: leads them to victory. If you see the backup quarterback
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: and not Arch Mangany playing this game, that's because Ole Miss.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Is winning the football game.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Bad.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Do Texas fans boo Arch Manning in this game? Is
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: that possible?
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: This is not going to be like when Tennessee went
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: to George McIntyre and beat Auburn after falling behind at halftime.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: They're down two scores already, and now in desperation they're
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: going to the backup, and it's not going to be
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: enough against this Ole Miss team. Coming up, we discuss
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  Speaker 3: That's hardrock.bet.com. Seen plenty of some bad optics.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Guess what? The NBA's back, Chad. We would have known.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. NBA's back, and we've got the bad optics. LeBron.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: LeBron.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: During the national anthem, he's dismissing criticism from the president
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: of how he's been handling that. And, uh, after Trump
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: called him a total disgrace.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, total disgrace.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: And LeBron's response was, uh, must be a slow news day. Um,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: you know, it must be a slow, slow day in
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: the office. Never said slow news day. Um, Hey, you
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: can make your own news by, by doing dumb things. Um,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: is this a national emergency? No. No. With what LeBron
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: James is doing here. Is this something that President Trump
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: should comment on?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's what he does.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I'm not here to say one way or the other
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: whether he should.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: It's just very obvious that this is something.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: If one of his harshest critics, which LeBron James has
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: consistently been, does something that is not only bad optics,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: but just makes him look bad and like he doesn't
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: really respect the flag and people who serve the country
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: and everything else.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: President Trump is going to pounce.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: All over it, and he's going to issue a statement
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: about it, calling LeBron James, as you mentioned, Hutton, a quote,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: total disgrace, in all caps, about LeBron James. Here's what
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I'd like for people to do when you're at a
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: sporting event, and this is for fans, and it's certainly
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: for players, and there are policies. There's been a WNBA
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: policy in place that they don't even go out on
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the court to acknowledge that you stand during the national
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: anthem and And you don't make gestures. If you're swaying
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: to keep your legs loose, you know, with your hands
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: behind your back, it's totally fine. Everybody does that in
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: basketball games.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: But there's a way that you stand and you acknowledge
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: the national anthem. I remember being at the Grizzlies-Knicks game,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: you know, a couple years ago and watching it. And
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I'm like, everybody, look at that. They're uniformly go out
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: for the starting lineups. They're standing facing each other. The
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: coaches are on one end. The players are all here.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: There is clearly a protocol in place for how you
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: acknowledge the national anthem.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think anywhere in that.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: NBA protocol is there anything about practicing your four iron
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: swing when you're doing it the way LeBron James was
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: and practicing a fadeaway jump shot at another point during
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: the national anthem.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: It's intentional.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: It's totally intentional. It's for attention.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to honor the flag of the country
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: that elected this man as president. That is what LeBron
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: James said. That's the message he is trying to send.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And if I'm going to.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Make a mockery of it and do this and that,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: this is my way to give the middle finger to
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: the president.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: And he probably knows, oh, I might get a response
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: from this.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I don't care because then he's going to come at
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: me and it doesn't bother me one bit.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I don't like it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I wish everyone would just stand and acknowledge the national anthem.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: That's not old school of me. That's someone who loves America.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: And I love the people who serve our country. And
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: when I'm standing for the national anthem, I'm thinking about
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: those that lost their lives for our country and those
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: that currently serve our country. And I want everybody who's
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: an American citizen to do that. Clay joked that if
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: it was the Chinese national anthem, LeBron James would stand
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and honor it the entire time.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And sadly, he's probably correct. Yeah, he wouldn't be doing this. Yes.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: He wouldn't be doing this.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: He's treating this like he's listening to Sandstorm during an
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: intro video for the team, right before tip-off. You know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: like they're playing something on the Jumbotron instead of playing
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the anthem.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: But you're right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Intentional, that's the right word. It's for attention and it's intentional.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: It's intentionally for attention.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yes. That is LeBron James. And you're right.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: That's something you would see as they're like breaking huddle
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: and they're playing the pregame hype video before the opening tip.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: That someone would be doing. Not something you do during
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: the national anthem.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Rob North, Carolina. And knowing LeBron, he's so.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Was going back.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: ESPN had a story about all the run-ins with LeBron
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: James and Donald Trump over the years.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: He called him.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: A bum when Laura Ingraham of Fox News said he
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: should shut up and dribble. He said, we will definitely
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: not shut up and dribble. I will definitely not do that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I mean too much to society. He said, I mean
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: too much to the youth to shut up and dribble.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: And I'm thinking, a guy who says, I mean too
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: much to society, this is the type of stuff that
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: he does. I bet the NBA sent some sort of
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: memo out about, hey, new season, just a reminder, here's
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: our protocol for the National Anthem. Now that the WNBA
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: not being out there for the National Anthem is getting
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: some attention. The NBA may have sent something to all
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: their member teams. Here's how we do it. LeBron James
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: probably got told that by someone or the coach is like, oh, okay,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: I'll go out.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: There and stand. But you know what I'm going to do?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I'm going to stand with my WNBA sisters and I'm
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: going to practice my golf swing while I do it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to practice my free throws for the
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: national anthem and not stand there like I'm supposed to.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: You're just being a bratty little boy.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: At that point is what you're doing.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: You're standing there and you're thinking, oh, the teacher told
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: me to do something and there's a certain way to
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: do it, but that's just boomers out there that believe
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: you stand and put your arms behind your back or
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: put your arm on your chest for the National Anthem.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: That's not me, LeBron James. I mean way too much
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: to society. I've been doing this in this league for
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: far too long. I do what I want, so I'll
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: practice golf during the National Anthem.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's BS. It's ridiculous.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's some national emergency or But when
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: the president talks about it, then it's going to become
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: a huge national story.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And let's say this, too.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The NBA, you mentioned the owners sending something out, and
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: maybe they did, maybe they didn't, from the league, not
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the owners. Keep in mind that the NBA also practically
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: owns the WNBA. They're in control of the media contracts
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: that they have. Chad, in the NBA, you don't need
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: this for attention. You don't need this to be discussed.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: The brand itself is good enough. In the WNBA, they
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: have to have the Caitlin Clark drama. They have to
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: have Sophie Cunningham drama. They have to have the anthem drama. Otherwise,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: we're not talking about the games. We're not talking about
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: anything that's going on with their league. That's the truth.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: It's not getting the attention to detail. Unless it's controversial,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: you know, unless it's splitting up part of their fan
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: base into a group that's lumped in with Trump. And
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: that's what LeBron is playing to here.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: It's all an act.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: It's no different than any book we've ever seen him
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: read being on page two. When he's sitting there, he's
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: reading a book, or if he's talking about a movie
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: that he likes. He can't name two details about it,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: and he can't be past page two on a book
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: that he's reading and tell you any.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Of the details that he likes or why he's reading it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: The LeBron James book club is less extensive than the
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Andrew Luck book club, is what we're saying. If he
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: held a book club podcast.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: There would be fewer books to discuss.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: There was a montage of all the photos of him
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: either at a locker or walking into an arena, holding
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: a book or reading a book. He's always reading page two.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: He's never in the middle of a book. If I
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: were going to fake it, I would flip to halfway through.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: He's like first page.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: LeBron James has definitely read two pages of more books
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: than any player in NBA history. Bill Walton was famously
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: well read, but he read the entire book and LeBron
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: James read two. He read more books, but he only
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: read the first two pages of all those books that
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: he read. Yes, no doubt about it. By the way,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: do you know that the WBA finals are currently taking place?
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: And do you know what the series is at between
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: the Golden State Valkyrie? Is it Valkyrie or Valkyries? I'm
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: confused if it's plural or it's Valkyries.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I think it's Valkyrie. I do know that because we've
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: talked about which have the S. No, I don't even
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: know about this, Chad. I have not been paying attention.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: You know what I know?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Because I read Sporting State.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I know that they're not coming out for
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: the National Anthem. To your point, I don't know.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: What's going on in the games. I did know that.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I happened to glance.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: My TV to my right is on ESPN. I happened
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: to glance at one point yesterday and saw Stephen A.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Smith talking about Angel Reese having 12 points and 11
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: rebounds in one of the games. I didn't know Angel
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Reese was in the WNBA Finals. That's a problem for
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: your product. And this has also been a problem for
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the NBA. I am an NBA fan growing up. I
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: grew up in the Michael Jordan era.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I loved it. There's really good players in the NBA.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying there's not. There's a reason to watch
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: the games as the season goes along, but it too
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: often gets overshadowed by this stuff. I watched the second half.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: It was a pretty good game between the Sixers and
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: the Knicks. I was rooting for the Sixers. I'm rooting
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: for LeBron James' team. I want them to be the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: New York Knicks of this year. and be that franchise
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: that hasn't won in a long time that goes on
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: and wins a title.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I'm interested in what they're doing in Philly.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: But I get less interested when I see LeBron James
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: practicing his shots out of a bunker during the National
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Anthem because this then becomes the narrative and the talking
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: points around the game. And then everybody wants to come
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: back and say, boy, let's make it about the games.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: You're just distracting from the games. First off, the WNBA
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: product to me is not good enough to care that
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: much about the games.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: They need this type of stuff. The NBA, I don't think,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: needs it like the WNBA needs it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: And so LeBron James, it's an intentional misstep. That bothers
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: me about this. Let me just compare it to other leagues.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: And I think the league to compare it to is
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the National Hockey League because they play practically two anthems
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: every single night in that league. Chad, I never see
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: this there. I don't see a bunch of skating in
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: circles and warming up. I see both teams at the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: red lines getting ready for a game where they're honoring
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: two different anthems at the arena. And there's not a
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: bunch of antics going on here. This can be done
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: without having to practice your golf swing. Again, there's no
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: attention to be had by some of the best players
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: in that league trying to draw attention to an anthem
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: or something political. It's about the sport itself. Again, it's
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: intentionally for attention. I don't see it in the hockey.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I'm talking in a league where I know that they
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: come out for the anthem, and that's done with intention.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Not the case. Football, absolutely, you see it there, too.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: There's just so many people on the line, and teams
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: do this in different ways where you can salute the
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: flag on the sideline, or you have to line up
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: on the line. Uh, Vrabel used to make every, every
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: player lineup on the line. There are different ways to
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: do it in hockey and in the NBA, there is
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: a certain way to do it. And, uh, LeBron just,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: you know, drawing attention to himself on purpose.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, going back to high school, like we were
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: taught a certain way to stand in line and where
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: we were in the line each year. when they played
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: the National Anthem. Baseball, travel teams, tournament teams I was
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: on for Mount Joy Little League, the coaches would say,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: we're going to stand down at the baseline. They're going
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: to announce you before the game. Both teams stand down
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: the lines, and you're going to stand there, and you're
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: going to put one hand behind your back. You're going
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: to take your hat off, and you're going to put
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: it here, and we're going to stand and face the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: flag for the National Anthem. That stuff is cool. That's
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: part of what makes being an American a cool experience.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: This is not old-timey. It's not boomer.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: It is being patriotic and respecting and appreciating the country
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: you live in. And great point about the NHL, because
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: if LeBron James was an enforcer in the NHL and
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, let's say, and he's
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: out there on the line getting ready, LeBron James, everything
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: with his mentality, everything he thinks right now, you know
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: what he would do during O Canada? He would show respect.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Because LeBron James cares more about Canada and not disrespecting
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Canada or another country than he does disrespecting that flag.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Because that flag to LeBron James represents one man, Donald Trump.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Right, instead of the country. Exactly.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is an elected representative as president of the
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: United States of America. There have been other presidents. Barack
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Obama is one of them, who LeBron James worships. There
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: have been plenty of presidents, Joe Biden, who he supported.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: You respect the flag. It's not about one person who's
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: in office at that time. Respect the flag. Because I
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: guarantee you if he was in the NHL, he wouldn't
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: be practicing his golf swing during O Canada. And that's
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: what really bothers me about this. He would be at
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: attention for that. Clay talked about the Chinese national anthem,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: which is funny. I think any other country, LeBron James
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: would rather be seen disrespecting the American flag than be
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: seen as someone who disrespects another country or another country's
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: anthem or flag.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: And what about the Falcons, Chad? So the Falcons, we
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: got a photo of this, right? They released some new
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: branding for an upcoming game, and it's very Third Reich-ish.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: This looks like Nazi propaganda with the way that Falcon
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: looks and, of course, the gold involved in the logo
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: of it. This is where I think a chief executive
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: officer over common sense could be involved.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Marketing.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Just someone that in the meeting room says, guys, if
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: you're doing the Rorschach test on what does this say
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: to you and you see that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I would think Nazis.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: The first time I saw that color, especially if you
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: take the Falcon out of it, it looks like Nazis
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: is all you think about. Someone in the room has
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: to see that and say it. And if you don't
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: have the courage to say it in that room, then
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: you should be fired from the Falcons. If you knew it,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: if you come out after the fact and said, man,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I saw that, And, you know, I'm a history buff.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: And the first thing I thought was Adolf Hitler and
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: the Nazi party. And I didn't say a word because
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to offend the person who put it together.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: You should be fired. Because that's why you do things
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: like that. There needs to be checks and balances. And
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: someone needs to come up with and say, hey, you
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: know what? This is not a good idea, guys. Because
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: they are getting roasted in the mentions immediately. Millions of
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: people responding, trashing them for this decision.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: And let's also, common sense would tell me and you,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: all of us, They had a selection. They were given
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: several pitches of this. They probably had, you know, seven
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: to ten options to choose from. And they laid them
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: out on a table, you know, like, hey, which one
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: looks the best? And they chose this one. They chose
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: this one. One can only imagine how bad the other
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: ones must have been in salute to Germany back in
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the Nazi era compared to this.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Do something better than that. Use some common sense.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: What's up with all the marketing geniuses now running all
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: of the organizations? Football organizations ran by marketing professionals, quote-unquote?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: It's bad.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: JT, do we have what someone responded with, what the
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: new 49ers branding and logo is going to look like
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: in response to what they did?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: That made me laugh, the hammer and sickle.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: We're going to go Soviet. It's going to be Soviet
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: night at Levi's Stadium as the 49ers get ready to
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: battle the Third Reich and the Nazi Party. I mean,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: this is just terrible, terrible decision-making by the Atlanta Falcons.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Trey in our YouTube chat chimes in and says, The
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: flag protects LeBron's protest. It's not disrespectful when the sitting
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: president threatens nuclear war, is a rapist, etc., Also, Vrabel
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: is a scumbag, was his response to that. Yes, the
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: flag and the Constitution protects your right to protest. This
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: is not a protest. This is LeBron James being a brat.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: And being intentionally, I'm just not going to do this
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: because I don't like the president. And you were incorrect
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: to say that the American flag represents one president. You
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: can hate the president all you want, Trey, or anybody else.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: It does not.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Represent one sitting president. I've disagreed with a number of presidents.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: and their stances on things. I believe there are other
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: criminals who have been in office as the president of
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: the United States. But when you see the flag, think
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: about the men and women who serve our damn country.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: It represents every American, not one party.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: That are in forward territories, in areas of hostility that
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: are out there protecting us right now. That's who I
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: think about when I see the flag, the whole of
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: the United States. The whole of the United States is
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: not one man. or one woman, or one president. Hell,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: LeBron James, in this summary I read of his problem
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: with Donald Trump, has said that. I'm not going to
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: let America stand for this one racist guy who is
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: the president of the U.S. That's what LeBron James said
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: at one point. It cannot stand for just that. Well,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: then put some truth behind your words there and make
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: sure you're showing that that flag doesn't represent one person
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: that you disagree with, or hate, or dislike, or whatever
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: word you want to throw into it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Those serving our country, they serve the country no matter
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: who's in office. We know several of those people, Chad,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: who have served many different tours. And several different presidents
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: have been in office during those times. And they protected
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: both of them, too. Chad, coming up, one could only
• 35:02
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• 35:05
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• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Chad, the Tennessee Titans.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Who would have thought that the Titans are coming into
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: a week where they just need to beat the Cleveland
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Browns in order to win back-to-back games. And they can
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: do that and they can tell a lot of demons
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: of the last four years, hey, GTFO, they have not
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: won back-to-back games yet. since November of 2022. This was
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: whenever John Robinson was the general manager. In fact, this
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: is the last really thing that anybody can point to
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: John Robinson for that's connected to the team, although this
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: roster is somehow still connected to J-Rob.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's all his fault. You ask certain people, it's
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: all his and Vrabel's fault.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's still to this day.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: We've had multiple GMs come through now, multiple head coaches,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: and somehow that big bad John Robinson is the root
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: of all evil. But I tell you what, when he
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: selected Isaiah Wilson, that one move just set the franchise
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: back to where we are right now so many years
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: later because of that. It's ridiculous. He made his mistakes,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: but his hands are clean of this team now.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Give me a break. Yeah, exactly. It's been a while.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: It's been a while.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: November 17, 2022 was the exact date. We watched that
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Thursday night game at Old Smoky where the Titans beat
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: the Green Bay Packers.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: That night. That was the last time.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: And it was four days before, November 13th, from Sunday
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: to a Thursday night football game, back-to-back wins for the Titans.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I don't have all the franchise NFL.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: I'd like to know a longer streak of not winning
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: back-to-back games than the Tennessee Titans.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's the Lions or something. I could find it. JT,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: see if you can look that up for us.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: What's the longest a team has gone in between winning
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: consecutive football games in the NFL? Let's see if AI
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: can produce that for us quickly.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Doesn't it have to be the Lions or the Browns?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: That's my initial guess.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, I would guess one of those two teams. But
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: even them, I mean, maybe like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: when they started out as an expansion team in 76.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: They went like five years, maybe, until they won back-to-back. Well,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to your point, I mean, the Jets were awful last year.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: They won back-to-back games last year. Who would have thought, too,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: just going into the season, you think about the teams
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: that are really struggling, and you think about the Titans
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: are going to have the same record as the Chargers
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: going into last week, winless. The Titans by week five
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: are going to have the same record as the Los
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers. And by the way, they're going to be
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: facing the Colts who are going to be having a
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: down year, the Texans who are going to be coming
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: in with just one win. They're going to come in
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: with no wins. And you didn't know the Titans record,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: but they're going to have the same record as the Chargers.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: You'd be like, the Titans got off to a great start.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Great start. No, a worse start even than some of
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: these teams.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Brooks Carter, by the way, says he has a very
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: reliable database and he is looking it up right now
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: to let us know because he's now interested to see
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: if the Titans hold the record for longest time in
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: between consecutive games.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: We'll compare it to him because the longest stretch... an NFL.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Franchise has gone without winning back-to-back games is 67 games
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: that has tracked the Dallas Cowboys from the mid 1965
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: to mid 1970.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: So five years. The Titans nearly said it. Or they
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: still could.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Oh no, it's still very much alive. Let's not Let's
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: not get ahead of ourselves. Let's not act rash. They've
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: yet to beat the Cleveland Browns. The Titans could very
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: easily set this record if they go another season with this.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: The Dallas Cowboys were not the franchise I was thinking
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: that would be there. We'll have Brooks confirm, but that's
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: five years. Were they playing 16 then or 14 during
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: the season also?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe 12 or 10. Yeah, so they could have.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: It was longer than that.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: From mid-65 to the.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Mid-70s, would be 10 years. Close to it. So maybe
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: playing 10 or 12 games. Oh, I took that to mean, okay,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: 10 years. I took that to mean the season. It
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: said from mid-1965 to mid-1970.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so not plural, just mid-1970, the year.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: I have a hard time believing that.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Mid-1965, the year, to mid-1970, the year. Well, you know what?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: That's why AI is smarter than we are. I'm sure
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: they're right and I'm wrong, but that's... That's a tough
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: one to buy, that it was a 10-year stretch. But
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: the Titans, by number of games, Hutton, could certainly get
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: to that point.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Brooks will tell us soon.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: So the question would be, this is a game where
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: the Browns have a very good, very good run defense. Chad,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: you found that out because you took the over for
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Derrick Henry rushing yards last week, right?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Or two weeks ago?
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: No, I didn't take anything with Derrick Henry last week.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: I don't think Derrick Henry scored. He had very few
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: points for a fantasy team.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: He did.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Anytime touchdown, he did score. He did score a touchdown
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: from short yardage. And I believe it was on a
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Wildcat deal. But he was shut down. I mean, he
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: had very little to work with against the Browns defense.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: They're going to shut Tony Pollard down. That's just what
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: they do. And what does that mean? Well, it means
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: that Cam Ward's going to have to throw the football.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: And I just, do I trust that?
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: No.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I don't trust that. I trust Carnell Tate, but I
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: don't trust the accuracy of the quarterback. And it's not
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: like he's going to get the ball to anybody else
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: in this. Gunnar Helm has been non-existent. Is Calvin Ridley
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: on this team? I haven't heard his name in a
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: long time. Wandel Robinson is used, but in a limited variety.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: It's Carl Taylor bust or the run game.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Do you remember when the Titans were an organization that
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: would bring in a free agent or someone and they
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: would thrive? Like Delaney Walker. Delaney Walker was the last one.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: You know, like Delaney Walker would come in. But like
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: for years, there was always someone. They didn't hit on everybody,
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: but there'd be someone they'd bring in that wasn't much
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: somewhere else.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: And they really improved when they got the Titans. Nate Washington.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Kyle VandenBosch going years back.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Nate Washington. Nate Washington's a good one.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Nate Washington, a great example. Kyle VandenBosch. There were guys
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: who the Titans got a hold of.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Logan Ryan. Logan Ryan, a great example.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Who's been that guy since Rand Carthon took over? Who
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: is the guy that you would say came in as
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: a free agent, thrived with this organization, played better? And look,
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: some of this is separate of the players around them.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: You can have a really good individual season and be
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: on a bad team. You're allowed to do that. I
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: can't remember the guy who did that where you thought,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: I didn't expect this out of him based on what
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: he's done. Instead, you get a bunch of legerious sneeds
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: who are overpaid that come in to do a job
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: that don't do it for any number of reasons. Elante Taylor,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, a healthy scratch. And Elante Taylor was told he.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Needed a reset.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: He didn't seem too happy about it when they interviewed
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: him at his locker. About being scratched from the lineup.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Well, now they're going to move him inside. The talk
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: is they're going to move him inside and have him
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: play the slot after they signed him to play the
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: outside corner. He hasn't been able to handle the coverages
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: is what I heard it described by the media. To me,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: it's like you've got to be able to play on
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: the outside one-on-one. And here's the other problem with this.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Salah's defense, the pass rush has to be able to
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: get to the quarterback. Now, they did that last week.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: They did that last week. But it all starts up
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: front with Silas' defense and then works its way back.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: It helps the corners because you can get to the
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: quarterback with four or they're bringing heat. But it's really
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: about the four and the rotation, right? If you go back,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I went back and looked at the San Francisco. San
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Francisco had a ton of injuries. If you go back
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: last year to like week 12, just randomly pick a
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: week in the second half of the season and look
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: at who he's working with, a defensive coordinator, and who
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: he's rushing the passer with, I don't know these guys.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of these dudes. And they're still routinely
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: getting after the quarterback. Last week's the first time we've
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: seen that. Can they continue to do that against Deshaun Watson,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: who all of a sudden, Deshaun Watson is looking pretty good.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: He's looking closer to the quarterback he was prior to
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: going through all of the legal stuff that he went through.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: The Titans are in a good spot, but a tough spot.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Because they come in at least with a little momentum.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: But they're in a tough spot because the momentum's not
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: with their quarterback. It's not like the quarterback made some.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: He made two good throws that I remember. He made
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: more than two. But two throws that are part of
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: the description of why they won the game. It's the
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: third down throw to Cardinal Tate that ended up in
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: a field goal after the Jeffrey Simmons forced fumble to recovery.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: And then later, it was the touchdown... that he threw
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: to Carnell Tate in the back corner of the end zone.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Both great catches, but also good throws. Other than that,
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: it's not like he had anything going for him. The
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: first half was abysmal. Got to do more than what
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: we've seen. A lot more to beat this team coming
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: in on Sunday.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I'm totally with you. By the way, I've read
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: that wrong.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: It wasn't mid-1970s. It was mid-1970s. So yeah, 65 to mid-70s.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: So apologies. I was reading that incorrectly. David in the
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: YouTube chat pointed that out as well.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: So five years.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: So the Titans could break the record. If they don't
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: win this week, I don't know that they're going to
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: win two consecutive. I mean, again, I said this about
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: the Texans game too. Are you going to get a
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: better opportunity than an 0-4 team at home? And they
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: lost 26-3 in that game. Are you going to get
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: a better opportunity than a game that's basically a pick-em
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: with the Cleveland Browns at home coming off a win
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: to win two in a row this year? Looking at
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: the schedule, I don't know that you're going to have
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: a lot of great opportunities. So this thing could go
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: into year five with not winning two consecutive games.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: And it goes into the new stadium.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Also, the NFL is not the NFL of 1965. No.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Right now.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: This is a different era. You have more opportunities to
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: win back-to-back. Yes, and everything's built to promote parity. Where
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: you just don't.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: That's what.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: College football fans and SEC fans are having a hard
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: time adjusting to the new reality in college football, which
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: is parity. Every week is its new story, and you
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: don't really know what's going to happen. There's a lot
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: of unpredictability between teams because the bad teams have gotten better,
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: and the greatest of teams aren't quite as dominant and
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: deep as they were even three to five years ago.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: That's the NFL. That's the NFL model. So it makes
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: it even more improbable for a Titans team in the
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: 2020s to not win two consecutive games than it did
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: for the Dallas Cowboys in the mid-60s.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: One thing I do know, Chad, is Jeffrey Simmons is
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: playing lights out at his position, man. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: is a conqueror in the middle. He gets after it, dude.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: If anything, he's worth whatever low ticket price people are
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: paying to go to these games.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think Jeffrey Simmons would like to get traded
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  Speaker 3: to a contender?
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  Speaker 1: Man, I've thought about this for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Does he really want to be in Nashville? Not Nashville
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  Speaker 3: as a city, not that he hates the city, but
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  Speaker 3: do you think that he really wants to be a
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: part of this organization right now, or would he be
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: thrilled if he got traded to the Buffalo Bills? I'm
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: just throwing a team out there that's going to be
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: a contender.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, personally, he bought into the defensive-minded head coach,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everyone did. Sala, because of the Brian Dable addition, too.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the young quarterback, you finally, you're headed in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction in terms of the coach you had
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: versus the coach you just hired, right? You have more
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: of an alpha mentality, guys who have been there and
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  Speaker 2: done that, who know what they got right and what
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  Speaker 2: they got wrong and how they're going to change, and
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  Speaker 2: a coach that was going to be in his favor.
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  Speaker 2: And then it's still like this? The problem is no
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: one else in the locker room is like him. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I want to win championships. I want to
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  Speaker 2: be like Derrick Henry is the way I would think
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  Speaker 2: about it, Chad. At some point, you want to go win.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't– he wasn't a part of the good runs.
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  Speaker 2: He's been a part of some really down years, Simmons has. So,
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  Speaker 2: Brown's coming in off a victory last Sunday. They boast
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  Speaker 2: one of the top defenses. They're 4-2. Look at what
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  Speaker 2: Vegas has done. The bad teams are actually starting to
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: win a little bit. And meantime, you've got Jordan Elliott deal.
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  Speaker 2: You've got Elante Taylor being benched. It's the lowest total
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  Speaker 2: on the board right now. This is a combined total
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  Speaker 2: of 36.5 to 37.5 total points. The defense can play
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  Speaker 2: really well and still lose by 14. I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Brooks letting us know that he's getting the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the info, but the Titans currently are at 64 games
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  Speaker 3: without consecutive games won.
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  Speaker 1: So they're 3-1. from the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: The Cowboys probably started late in the 65 season and
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  Speaker 3: then went early in that fifth season. That's why they're
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: so close in actual games. And they didn't play as
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  Speaker 3: many games. I think they played 14 then, so that
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: would make the difference in the years also instead of
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: 17 now.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to get the rest of the.
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  Speaker 3: Info for us, but If that's true, Hutton, the Titans are,
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  Speaker 3: if they lose the Browns, they are two more games away.
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  Speaker 3: If they don't win the next two, essentially, they'd have
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  Speaker 3: to win consecutively. After that, they will have set the
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: NFL record for longest streak of not winning consecutive football games.
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  Speaker 1: That is atrocious.
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  Speaker 3: David Griffin says in the chat also, the Titans quarterback
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: stats are also like the mid-1960s currently with the passing statistics.
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  Speaker 1: Well said, David. Well done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This is a quarterback who had 36 different games in
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: college with over 300 yards passing. We've yet to see
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Cam Ward pass for over 200. He's coming off a
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: game where he passed for 102. They average 14 points
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: per game. Jeffrey Simmons has to have a defense that
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: only allows 13. Titans have cashed the under, by the way,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: in four of six games.
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  Speaker 3: Even in this game, though, Hutton, the pass game and
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: the win with Cam Ward, I'm watching him and thinking,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: he He plays the game like a lackadaisical flag football
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: player at times. Even when he escapes pressure.
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  Speaker 1: He's not moving his feet.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: It looks so odd when he's just all running it
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  Speaker 3: to someone. There's no adjustment or improvement with this is
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: how your feet should look when you throw the football.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: It's like he's stubborn to the point of, I'm going
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: to look like I'm playing fraternity flag football as a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback no matter what, and you can't tell me how
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  Speaker 3: to play the game. And that's going to get him
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  Speaker 3: cut and out of this league.
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  Speaker 2: 11 games left in the season. The death march could
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: be on here with Cam Ward at quarterback. I say
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  Speaker 2: that could be because it'll take an injury. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not rooting on that for him. But that's the only
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: way you'll see the backup. And, yeah, it's the Titans. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not picking them in this game. 19 points from
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: special teams.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Brooks lets us know in the YouTube chat, the Browns
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  Speaker 3: had a 65-game streak of no consecutive wins from 2014-20.
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  Speaker 1: To 2018. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That includes an 0-16 team in there.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: The Cleveland Browns come to Nashville to play the Tennessee Titans.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say Browns or Lions.
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  Speaker 3: So if these numbers line up, if the Browns win,
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: they would then tie the Titans. They would force them
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: into a tie with matching the Browns from 10 years
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: ago with their 65-game streak of not winning consecutive games. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's the headline.
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  Speaker 3: You get stats like that on shows like this, ladies
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  Speaker 3: and gentlemen. Well done by JT and Brooks putting that together,
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  Speaker 3: and well done by me for asking the right questions
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  Speaker 3: so these guys could get to work on getting us
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  Speaker 3: the stats. But history is on the line at Nissan Stadium,
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: old Nissan Stadium, this weekend, Hutton, when the Browns and
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  Speaker 3: Titans play.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: It's a Jim Nance-worthy game right there. Hey, coming up,
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Arch is edgy. That's straight ahead here on Hutton & Withrow.