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SEC Champ Contenders, & Who Won Media Days · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: All Star to Yoda presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Yoo yo, Cassie, don't let us down, Yo, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I never opened the show like that, but we hadn't
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  Speaker 2: done it all week and I kind of missed it.
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  Speaker 2: So we're doing that. I just decided to do it.
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  Speaker 2: That's my fault. I didn't tell you, guys. Taylor Shropier
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  Speaker 2: with you in the host share. We got along for
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  Speaker 2: Hillary Alan Cassie Spizally. If you can see this black
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  Speaker 2: dot on my shirt, it's been a morning guys. I
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  Speaker 2: carried in about six things, had the energy drink held
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  Speaker 2: up here and evidently it had some connosation audit. So
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  Speaker 2: now we got a giant wet spot on the black Shirtie, Well,
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  Speaker 2: here's something else. I noticed. Only thing that makes me
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  Speaker 2: more pale than wearing a white shirt in these lights.
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  Speaker 2: Wearing a black shirt that forehead pretty shiny here this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Cassie's probably gonna have to wear sunglasses, changing those cameras
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  Speaker 2: all show long. Look, we are here rocking and rolling,
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  Speaker 2: gonna have a good time on this Friday, jacing matter out.
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  Speaker 2: They needed the day off here on this Friday after
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  Speaker 2: being out in Atlanta all week working so hard. But
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  Speaker 2: we are here with you. We got a Landra, We
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  Speaker 2: got Cassie. Guys, how we feel in a Landra. You
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  Speaker 2: were out in New Orleans for UFC fight week, so
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  Speaker 2: it was a mixer last night.
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  Speaker 5: Went in today, so there's like a press conference. I
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  Speaker 5: had to miss the media day, which I'm upset about
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  Speaker 5: because you get them like one on one at that,
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  Speaker 5: but I mean I just couldn't make it in time.
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  Speaker 2: Well I mean you're dusting a buds anyway. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're actually like but I feel I was wondering yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: Like I was like, if I asked a question at
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  Speaker 5: the press conference and I'm like, Elandro, wonderful, Well, nobody
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  Speaker 5: was doing that, so I would have been the only
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  Speaker 5: one doing that if I would have done that, because yeah,
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  Speaker 5: like okay, amateur, But I wonder if he would have
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  Speaker 5: been like, oh yeah, we talked, Probably not, but.
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  Speaker 2: Not a shot at you. He probably did see many
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  Speaker 2: people at super Bowl Week. If it weren't have been
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl week, I would have thought maybe, like if
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  Speaker 2: it was like a one on one and he did
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  Speaker 2: like maybe two that day super Bowl Week. No chance.
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  Speaker 6: He did say I'll see you at the post Malone show.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see him at the post Bone shows?
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  Speaker 5: I actually did not see him there, but I did
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  Speaker 5: see like Shane Gillis there, which we never We didn't
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  Speaker 5: talk about his sp We'll get to it. But anyway,
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  Speaker 5: I'm like getting off track, but yes, uh press conference
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  Speaker 5: yesterday it was awesome. This is my first time going
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  Speaker 5: to like any sort of fight stuff, so it was
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  Speaker 5: super cool, like a great experience. I was kind of
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  Speaker 5: nervous because nobody from here is going. So I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be at this press conference by myself.
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  Speaker 6: I'm yeah, he's going to the fight. I'm gonna look
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  Speaker 6: like a loser.
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  Speaker 5: And then I'm gonna go to this mixer and I'm
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  Speaker 5: just gonna be like standing by myself, like super awkward.
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  Speaker 5: But as soon as I got there, like I sat
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  Speaker 5: down next not next to this guy, but like near
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  Speaker 5: this guy and he was like, hey, I'm Doug, like
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  Speaker 5: super cool and like I kind of attached myself to
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  Speaker 5: I was like, Okay, Doug, we won't be cool. Turns
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  Speaker 5: out he works for Sports Illustrated, So that's a good
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  Speaker 5: That was a good friend to make. But I did
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  Speaker 5: meet up with our guy Devin snow shout out sentt
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  Speaker 5: y'all pick in the group chat last night. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 5: was fun seeing him and hanging out with him. He's
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  Speaker 5: just as funny I r L and he is as
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  Speaker 5: he is like on the internet or whatever. And it
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  Speaker 5: was so funny because people kept coming up to him
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  Speaker 5: and they were like, you look familiar. Are you the
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  Speaker 5: Red Beans guy?
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  Speaker 6: Poor dove?
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  Speaker 2: But like the traction he's got from there, Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's just so he's wig ins today.
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  Speaker 5: Weigh in so the way and starts at eight and
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, but you're not going to that, No, But
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  Speaker 5: they have a ceremonial one, like a one where like
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  Speaker 5: they do all the fluff and stuff. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: go to that one because it's at four, and they're
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  Speaker 5: also going to do like a Dustin retirement, like you know,
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  Speaker 5: special thing. So Dale Cormier is gonna be out there,
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  Speaker 5: So I'm excited for that.
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  Speaker 2: Did you stay the night? That's the guys.
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  Speaker 6: Cleared for me. On my way there and on the
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  Speaker 6: way back, I was like, oh, thank god, because you know, I.
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  Speaker 5: Was nervous about it because it was supposed to storm
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  Speaker 5: and it was storming like when I left. When I
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  Speaker 5: left to get there, it started pouring, and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: oh my gosh, please please please.
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  Speaker 6: But it's like the sky's cleared up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, knock on wood reading last night about
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  Speaker 2: the storm thing, like it dropped from like thirty percent
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  Speaker 2: development to like ten. Now that could change, but like
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  Speaker 2: it kind of just seems like it's not gonna rain,
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  Speaker 2: maybe quite as much as they thought it did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it will, maybe it won't, but uh yeah, apparently
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  Speaker 2: the worst of it, Like it was going to be Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: It might have been yesterday though. It just depends, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited about the way in like I wish
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  Speaker 2: I was going because I like how every time it's
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  Speaker 2: it's only the male fighters. They get on the way
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  Speaker 2: in stage right, they're super serious and they always go,
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, they do every every dame right here. This happen, Like,
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  Speaker 2: what do we do like that? Yeah, I just said
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  Speaker 2: he was number one. We can't get up there number one, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: come on, somebody's gonna lose. But uh, I always think
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  Speaker 2: that's really funny. All right, Look, we got a lot
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  Speaker 2: on the dock today and what I what I kind
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  Speaker 2: of do is our one's gonna be kind of a recap.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna recap sec media days, react to some things.
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  Speaker 2: Our number two, we're gonna go a little bit all
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  Speaker 2: over the player. We're gonna have Nick Underhill one actually
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  Speaker 2: today since we didn't get to him on Tuesday. And
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  Speaker 2: then hour three we're gonna preview the weekend. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: preview LSU football season. We're gonna get a Laundra's prediction
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  Speaker 2: on the UFC fight, probably last full segment of the show,
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  Speaker 2: since it's the big fight of the weekend. So we
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  Speaker 2: got the whole show laid out for you, and right now,
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  Speaker 2: let's get this thing started.
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  Speaker 2: Now for starters, getting in for starters for a segment
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  Speaker 2: show look at US. Okay, So SEC Media Days obviously
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  Speaker 2: was all week long. It wrapped up yesterday, and you
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  Speaker 2: hear a lot of like, oh, here's my projected order
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  Speaker 2: of finish. We're going one through sixteen. I am not
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  Speaker 2: going to go one through sixteen because that would take
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  Speaker 2: about thirty minutes. We're not going to do that. What
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  Speaker 2: I want to do is kind of maybe give you
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  Speaker 2: my top three teams in the league, maybe the teams
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  Speaker 2: I feel the best about, and then the teams at
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of the league. I'm gonna have these two
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  Speaker 2: of it here. Check me see if I'm right or wrong,
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  Speaker 2: or whether they agree or disagree. Landro love that so
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  Speaker 2: projected order of finish at the at least at the top,
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  Speaker 2: there's three teams at the top. For me, it's LSU,
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  Speaker 2: It's Georgia, it's Texas. I know everybody wants to go Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about them a little bit later in the show.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get there with them yet. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: some question marks on that team. LSU is obvious. They
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  Speaker 2: hit the portal hard. They got better at every skill position,
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the ball, like outside of offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: You went from having multiple question marks to very few. Now,
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  Speaker 2: are the transfers on the d line going to workout
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  Speaker 2: or the transfers in the secondary gonna work out? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. But talent and depth wise, you're better right
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  Speaker 2: now than you were any point last season. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I feel so confident in LSU, and they have the
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  Speaker 2: most stable quarterback situation in the entire conference coming into
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  Speaker 2: the season. The next team is Georgia. Look, Georgia lacks
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  Speaker 2: weapons on offense. Gunnar Stockton is a new starter. I
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  Speaker 2: understand that, but in my opinion, Kirby Smart has earned
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  Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt. Like you'd be hard pressed
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  Speaker 2: to find me two coaches, I would tell you we're
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  Speaker 2: a better college football coach right now than Kirby Smart.
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  Speaker 2: He has earned the benefit of the doubt in my hies. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I just mentioned Stockton as a new quarterback. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: play a ton last season, but he showed some promise.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they didn't ask him to do a ton
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  Speaker 2: in that SEC Championship game against Texas, but he was efficient. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: he got the job done in a really tough situation
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  Speaker 2: like he played against the Texas and then Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: in the playoff game. Both of those teams had top
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  Speaker 2: five defenses last year, like those are elite college defenses,
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  Speaker 2: and he held his own. It was not disastrous. He
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  Speaker 2: looked like he belonged out there an offseason where he
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  Speaker 2: knows he's the starter, where he's getting all the one reps.
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  Speaker 2: There's a chance that Gunner Stockton takes a step forward.
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  Speaker 2: Now maybe he doesn't, But what else I like about
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Kirby freaking smarts your coach. You know that defense
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  Speaker 2: is going to be elite. So if Gunner Stockton can
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  Speaker 2: just go in there, take care of the football, not
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  Speaker 2: turn it over, not put his defense in a bad spot,
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  Speaker 2: that defense is going to keep you in every game
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  Speaker 2: you play in twenty twenty five. That's what Carson Beck
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  Speaker 2: did first year start. And I remember last year Beck
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  Speaker 2: had the turnover issues before his injury kind of put
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  Speaker 2: Georgia in some binds at times. If Gunner Stockton can
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  Speaker 2: eliminate all that, I think he'll be fine. I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's been in this program, what four years now?
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  Speaker 2: He said behind Stetsan Bennett. Carson Beck waited his turn
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  Speaker 2: like Gunner Stockton's been there, done that, and then the
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  Speaker 2: last team I want to highlight is the Texas Long
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  Speaker 2: Wars because they're very similar to Georgia. I think they
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  Speaker 2: have a really good college football coach at Steve starkejan Now.
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  Speaker 2: I've said it multiple times this show, other shows I
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  Speaker 2: filled in. I'm taking a wait and see approach with
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  Speaker 2: Arch Manning, and I think that's the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: I think Arch is very talented. And look, if you
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  Speaker 2: had to put me on the spot, is Art's going
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  Speaker 2: to be good or bad next year? I'd say Arch
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  Speaker 2: is probably going to be very good, but we still
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  Speaker 2: need to wait and see. My biggest issue with Texas
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  Speaker 2: is they lose a lot of weapons on offense. You
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  Speaker 2: lose Matthew Golden, Isaya, Bond, Gunnerhilm those are your top
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  Speaker 2: three receivers from a year ago, and you lose multiple
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  Speaker 2: offensive linemen, one of which was drafted in the top ten.
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  Speaker 2: Is gonna start at left tackle for the New Orleans Saints.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot like Georgia, their defense should be one
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  Speaker 2: of the best in college football. Again this year. You've
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  Speaker 2: got Michael taff back. That was huge. Jacob matt were
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  Speaker 2: raving about his performance at SEC media Days. Just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days ago. All of these teams have flaws,
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  Speaker 2: right Georgia and Texas are breaking into quarterbacks, and I
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  Speaker 2: think they lacked some explosive weapons on offense. LSU has
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  Speaker 2: an experienced quarterback, has a ton of weapons on offense.
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  Speaker 2: The offensive line is not where you want it to be.
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  Speaker 2: You're waiting for the defense to finally show up and
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  Speaker 2: be more consistent. All these teams have flaws, but it's
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  Speaker 2: just a combination of coaching staff, players on the team. Like,
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  Speaker 2: these are the teams I feel are the safest picks
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  Speaker 2: right now. That may change, who knows what's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen here in the offseason lead up to the season,
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  Speaker 2: But right now there's maybe the three safest teams that
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any of these teams are going to
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  Speaker 2: be an absolute disaster. Guys, top three teams, LSU, Georgia, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Did I miss anybody?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Is there a team you think could win the SEC
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  Speaker 2: or will win the SEC that I did not mention?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, sorry, Georgia librariies. Okay, So LSU, Georgia and Texas those.
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  Speaker 2: Are your options about three in the conference right now?
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  Speaker 2: Is there somebody that you would take out and move in.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I can't either, And there's nobody else that's like really
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  Speaker 5: sticking out to me in terms of like having.
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  Speaker 2: All the pieces right, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: So I agree with you.
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  Speaker 5: But did you say I was kind of I'm trying
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  Speaker 5: to get the libraries, but I was kind of listening
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  Speaker 5: that you said Texas lost a lot of pieces.
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  Speaker 2: On offense the receivers.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, okay, So I agree with that as well,
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  Speaker 5: So I'm kind of like I kind of want to
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  Speaker 5: leave them out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Star on office is a lot like Kirby on defense. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and you bring in Jamie French and Khalik Lockett to
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  Speaker 2: five star freshmen. They're freshmen and if anybody can make
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  Speaker 2: them look good at Steve Sarksian.
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  Speaker 5: No, I like his play calling and I like him
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  Speaker 5: as a coach, so I see that too. But I
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  Speaker 5: don't know, like I can't, like you can't I do it, Bama.
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  Speaker 5: I can't really get that.
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  Speaker 2: I get there's question marks all over the place. Like
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  Speaker 2: everyone wants to say, oh, there's so many quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 2: the SEC. Not really, We'll get to that a little
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  Speaker 2: bit next segment. Like there's there's really not a ton
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  Speaker 2: as far as experience outside of Garrett Osmack all Right,
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  Speaker 2: I got a bottom three here before we go to break.
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  Speaker 2: This is pretty easy to me, Like Arkansas is going
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  Speaker 2: to be in my bottom three. I know there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people that are excited about them. I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I really thought Sam Pittman would have been out of
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  Speaker 2: there by now. Like even though it's hard to say,
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  Speaker 2: I like Sam Pittman, but I mean, look when you
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  Speaker 2: look at his year by year, this is year. This
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  Speaker 2: is year six for Sam Pittman at Arkansas. The first
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  Speaker 2: year he took over in twenty twenty obviously an awful situation.
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  Speaker 2: He goes three and seven twenty twenty one, nine and four,
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  Speaker 2: and that was the year of But who's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: can Pittman turn this thing around? Since then? Seven and six,
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  Speaker 2: four and eight last year a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: bounce back seven and six as well. But everyone's going
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  Speaker 2: to say Taylor Green's going to take that next step.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think he is. And that's not to
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  Speaker 2: say Taylor Green's a bad quarterback, like I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he is. But he's been a starter for three years
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  Speaker 2: in college football to a Boise State won last season.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what Taylor Green's done. Fourteen touchdowns, six picks, eleven touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: nine picks, fifteen touchdowns, nine picks. We kind of know
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  Speaker 2: who Taylor Green is. Last year there were question mark saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: can he make the jump from Boise State to Arkansas.
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  Speaker 2: He can't, but he was the exact same player. And
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  Speaker 2: I mean completion percentage and everything, sixty one, fifty seven, sixty.
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  Speaker 2: He's been really consistent across the board. But that's who
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Green is. They lacks him explosive weapons, Like I
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  Speaker 2: think they'll have a decent run game, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get there with Arkansas the other team. I
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  Speaker 2: want to look at his Mississippi State. I like Blake Shapin.
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  Speaker 2: I think Blake Chapan's a really good player. Like I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you guys realized this. Blake Shapin last
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  Speaker 2: year before getting injured, played in four games. He had
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  Speaker 2: eleven total touchdowns and one turnover for Mississippi State. Blake
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  Speaker 2: Shapin was balling. Problem was he didn't have any support
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  Speaker 2: on the outside. I still don't think he's gonna have
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  Speaker 2: a ton of support on the outside like Blake Chapin
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  Speaker 2: could do that once again. I don't think it's going
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  Speaker 2: to make a huge difference. I'm not sure about Jeff
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  Speaker 2: Lebby as a coach. I know he's all about the swag.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see the swag with Jeff Leby. I think
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi State's really going to struggle. And then the team
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  Speaker 2: I got probably at the bottom of this conference. I
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of people want to pick Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going with the Kentucky Wildcats. Like that's good.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of question marks with the wild.
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  Speaker 2: That might be the team I will pick. Do finish last.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are gonna pick Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 2: but they're gonna struggle at quarterback once again, they cannot
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  Speaker 2: get it right. They went from Will Levis, who actually
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  Speaker 2: was pretty good as last year. You bring in Devin Leary,
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of hype around him, did nothing. Bringing
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  Speaker 2: Brock Vandergrif last year, had a lot of hype around
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  Speaker 2: in former five star from or Cham did nothing. Now
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  Speaker 2: you bring in Zach Kelzotta, who has played college football
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  Speaker 2: for about a decade, but he hasn't exactly wowed anywhere
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  Speaker 2: he's been. I mean Zack Kelzotta's claim to fameus he
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  Speaker 2: beat Alabama in college station like two and a half
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  Speaker 2: years ago. Since then, like he got benched to Texas
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  Speaker 2: A and m didn't he drop down to incarnate word.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's coming back up into the SEC. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't see it. And as bad as that offense was
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  Speaker 2: a year ago, they at least had weapons. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they lost their major weapons, like Barry and Brown obviously
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: playing right here in bat rugs this year. He was
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: a huge weapon for him a year ago. Now they
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: couldn't get the ball too because they had a bad quarterback.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: But Dane Keith, he actually had a really good year
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: last year as well. He's gonna play in Nebraska next year.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: You lose your top two receivers, you're breaking in another
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: quarterback who, in my opinion, is a below average college
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: quarterback anyways. And I'm not saying Mark Stoops is a
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: bad coach, Like I know Matt and T Bob always
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: pick on Jake because Jake's a big Mark Stops. I'm
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: somewhere in the middle. I think Mark Stoops is a
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: good coach. I think he's done a lot more at
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Kentucky than a lot of people. Can I just think
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: the program's kind of stay all right now, Like where
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: is Mark Stoobs going to this point? Every now and
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: then you're like, Okay, he's won nine games, he's won
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: eight games, Like that's good for Kentucky. He's not doing
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: that right now, and like I don't see a path
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: forward for him to be able to do that, especially
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: in the NIL era, Like Kentucky's all about basketball. Football
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: is gonna come second for them, So what are they
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: really going to be? I struggle with that. So look
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: kind of a little bit of a recap my top
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: three teams and I'm most confident in going into the
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: season LSU, Georgia, Texas. My bottom three that I am
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: least confident in, Arkansas, Mississippi State, and Kentucky. All Right,
• 16:43
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• 16:45
  Speaker 2: the laws. Shoot, Tigers, are we more confident or less
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: confident than them? After media days? We're breaking that down
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  Speaker 1: This just one from players to legends, Hester and Flynn
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  Speaker 1: breakdown l s U football like only champions can.
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  Speaker 2: Cause you ever heard the story about that time Jake
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  Speaker 2: was out. It was like the day before fourth of
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  Speaker 2: July and he like forced the laundry to play the
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  Speaker 2: entire free Bird, like all eight minutes of it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: song to play the whole day.
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  Speaker 6: This is such a great song. Oh, it's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like it's almost like Nickelback's a good band
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  Speaker 2: played air guitar though for like that four minutes.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: Yet he made me play the entire solo of free Bird.
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  Speaker 6: That's great.
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  Speaker 5: Like we we set here for eight minutes uncomfortable. I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to like crawl into my skin.
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  Speaker 2: Like Alon just like trying to wave to it and
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  Speaker 2: be like, hey, can we turn this down?
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: I turned it down and Tea Bop goes don't get
• 19:20
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• 19:23
  Speaker 2: That crazy fact that was a whole segment you just
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  Speaker 2: played free Bird.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: People were like, oh, I thought I switched the channel
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: to you in ninety eight point one, like it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Was I mean this was last fourth of July. Yeah,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I think it was like the day before because we
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: were all on the fourth. But yeah, feeling himself that day.
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  Speaker 2: This is the type of music this is. This is
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• 19:53
  Speaker 2: med days obviously this entire week, which is why Jake
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: and Matter not here today. They did fly back home yesterday.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: That everybody's always going to ask, Okay, well, you know
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: who won SEC media Day, so who wanted who lost?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think you can win or lose SEC media Days. However,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Eli Drinkwinz did win it yesterday. We'll get to that
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: a little bit later. As far as like being more
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: confident or less confident in LSU after media Days, I
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: hate to give you the boring answer, but like I'm
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: kind of the same. And the reason is I'm high
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: on them for a number of reasons, a little bit
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: of what we talked about last segment, Like they're one
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: of my top teams in the SEC. Garrett Nosemeyer is
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the top reason on this list. When you look at LSU,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: they by far have the most stability in the conference
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: at the quarterback position. It's weird to look at because
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of the top teams in the SEC this
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: year have questions a quarterback. A lot of the teams
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: you think are gonna struggle. They actually have a little
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: bit of stability. Vanderbilt of Mississippi State, like those teams
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: know at Arkansas, like those teams know who their quarterback is.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: They're just going to struggle everywhere else. And when you
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: look at some of the quote unquote elite teams, Gunner
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Stockton first year's starter, arch Man into Texas first year starter.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Alabama's likely going to roll with Ty Simpson, He's going
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: to be a first year starter. Like oh Miss Austin
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Simmons first year starter. All of those teams have a
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: ton of talent around the quarterback position. It's just the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: most important position on the field is their biggest question
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: mark going into the season. It's more than Nu Smier though,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: like I mentioned, you have the most stability at the
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: quarterback position. You were awesome in the transfer portal. There
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: was a ton of talent a wide receiver and defensive back,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: which is a big question market. Look, Karin Lacy made
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: big plays for you a year ago. Mason Taylor left
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: this program as the best tight end in school history.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I think you're better at wide receiver and tight then
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you wear a year ago. Depth wise, Aaron Anderson's back
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: because Avion Thomas is back. Chris Hilton was just at
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: SEC media days. Coaching staff expects him to have a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: big year. You add Barran Brown, Nick Anderson, who's six
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: foot five coming over from Oklahoma. I think he's gonna
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: be a matchup nightmare. Like that's six guys I just
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: listed right there, and that's not counting some of the
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: freshmen and some of the guys that are that are
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: under the radar a little bit. Kyle Parker coming back
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: from injury. I mean there's weapons galore on offense. I'm
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: sure you lose Mason Taylor, but tradeds Green he's back.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: He's gonna have a bigger role. Bower Sharp is a
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: lot more versatile than a lot of people are giving
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: him credit for at the tight end position. And then
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: on the defensive side of things, you need a corner
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: help and safety help in a big way. He and
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: aj Hawsey and Tamarcus Cooley at safety. I think both
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: of those guys are going to start Week one. You
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: go get man Sword Delaying at the corner. You go
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: get jakeem Jackson a corner like you have completely rebuilt
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: that defensive back. Ash and Stamps is still there as well.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Entering pretty much his third year as a starter. He
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: started a good bit as a freshman, was your starter
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: all year last season opposite Zaia Alexander. Like Ashton Stamps,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: He's been there, done that, he knows this defense. He's
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: played in big time football games. He's gonna be fun.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: You also have five star freshmen DJ Pickett, who's been
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: on campus for a while.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: You have a lot more depth on the d line.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: You lose both. You lose Bo Davis, who, as far
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: as like on field, in my opinion, may have been
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: the best coach on your staff. Him and Brad Davis
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I think are the two just best fundamental teaching coaches
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: on your staff. But Kyle Williams knows what he's doing.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: He's played the defensive tackle position at a high level
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: for a number of years. You added a lot of
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: depth and you have a mod bro back. You have
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Dominic McKinley back who both showed flashes as a freshman.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: They're gonna be bigger, stronger, faster, more ready to go
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: here in year two. In this program, you're also cleaned
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: up at ed rusher save you On Jones and Brayden Swinson.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Like Britain Swinson was a weapon for you a year ago.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: He was a game changing player. Both of those guys
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: are gone. Then you lose to Sean Womack to the
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: transfer port. Gabriel Rliford played a little bit as a
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: freshman last year. Did you bring in Jack Pyburn, Jamari Butler,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: who a lot of people aren't talking about, and then
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Patrick Payton, the really good pass rusher from Florida State
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: A lot of the question marks you had a year ago,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: you did an excellent job of filling that void. The
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: biggest concern, obviously, can that O line hold up A yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I was actually having this conversation with a buddy of
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: mine yesterday. He was like, Hey, how do you think
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the O line's gonna hold up against Clemson's D line.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: My response was, I think they're gonna struggle in Game one.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: But the fact that Brad Davis coaches this group, I
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: trust Brad Davis. I think Brad Davis is a great coach.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: You lack experience there. You got bodies. You just don't
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: really know what you're going to get out of those bodies.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: But if anybody can coach those guys up, it's Brad Davis.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. I actually saw this if I
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: can pull up this tweet. Yeah. Danna Orlovsky yesterday was
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: talking about SEC media Days and he said, right now,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Garrett Nosmeyer is the best quarterback in college football. Two
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: things I love about him, He said, he's outstanding pocket management.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Nine percent pressure to sack rate, that was the lowest
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: in the SEC. I'll tell you right now, if Garrett
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Olsmeyer has the lowest sack rate in the SEC, once again, LSU,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: you might win the national championship because that means the
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: offensive line held up. You saw how good they were
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: pass blocking. A year ago. Where the O line struggled
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: was in the running game. This old line did a
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: pretty good job in the bowl game. And I get it,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: it's a bowl game. It was against Baylor. You're not
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: playing them this year in a likelihood, but they were
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: thrown into the fire. I mean, you pretty much had
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: five new starters on the offensive line and you did
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: not allow a sack against a David Randon defense. That's
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: pretty impressive to me. Like I get, the bowl games
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: don't mean a ton, but you want to give confidence
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: to your fan base moving into the next season. That
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: did that a little bit for me, again small sample size,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: not an SEC opponent, but a good defense with a
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: good defensive coach. They held up well. If they can
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: be an average offensive line this year, I think your
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: offense is going to be just fine. Nelsmar has the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: weapons to get the ball out quick. And even if
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: you're not great at run blocking like you were a
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: year ago, I think you're better at the running back position.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Cayden Durham's a year older, Caleb Jackson's been in this
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: program for three years now. You bring in two stud
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: running backs, Harlem Berry, the number one running back in
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: all the high school football last season, then j T. Lindsay,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the big time recruit from ash Up at Alexandria. You're
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: going to be better at the running back spot. Last
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: year you basically had Caden Durham, Josh Williams. That was it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Johnny Murray goes down after the first game of the season,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Caleb Jackson never found his footing throughout the year. That
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: was all you had. You had two running backs. I
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: think you got four. If Caleb Jackson is still up,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: that can make an impact on this team. There's a
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: lot of ways you can help the O line.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: No.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I was getting the ball off quicker to lose playmakers
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: and the running backers being overall better. That's the biggest
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: question mark though heading into the season. Outside of that, though,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: even the dB rou I trust Corey Raymond. Even on
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the d line. Kyle Williams doesn't have the coaching experience,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: but he's played at a high level for a number
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: of years. And you're pretty talented, Dare You're better at receiver,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: You're better at running back. I think you're really good
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: at linebacker. It's a room. We don't talk about a
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: ton that offensive line can hold up unless you could
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: have a really good season. All right, we're going to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: take a quick time out. Put a button on SEC media.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: DA's when we come back. There was a lot of
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: talk for a lot of media members that were out
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: there at SEC Media Days. Biggest surprise and biggest disappointing teams.
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  Speaker 2: Who you think that could be in the SEC in
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. We'll talk about it next. You're run
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  Speaker 2: button on SEC media days. We talked a lot of
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  Speaker 2: SEC media days here and I on number one, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I tease it a little bit there. Going into break,
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  Speaker 2: I saw a lot of media members talk about who's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be their biggest surprise team and their most disappointing
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: SEC team in twenty twenty five. I'll start with disappointing
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: because this one was easy for me. It's the Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: Volunteers Tennessee made that run to the College Football Playoff
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: last year. I'm still shocked by that they're gonna have
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: a solid defense again this year. I just don't think
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: that offense will be good at all. You're breaking in
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: a new quarterback and Joey Maguire. You don't have a
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: ton of weapons on offense. Now, the pushback people are
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: going to say is or their quarterback last year wasn't great.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: You didn't have a ton of weapons last year. I
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: understand that Nico wasn't good. Like I think his numbers
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: off the top of my head, I think his numbers
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: were like nineteen touchdown six picks something like that, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: like over half of his touchdown passes were outside the SEC.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I get all that. I don't know how you replaced
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Dylan Samson if you're the Tennessee volunteers, that is my
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: biggest concern. Dylan Sampson last year SEC Offensive Player of
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: the Year. He was a monster. I mean he ran
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: for over fourteen hundred yards fourteen ninety one twenty two
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns. It was Dylan Sampson that kept you in
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: games a year ago, not Nico Iamalia. Nico wasn't good
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That's why when everybody's like, why is Nico demanding three
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: and a half million dollars a year to go in
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: there and have a nineteen to six touchdown interception ratio
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: and you patted your stats out of conference. I'm not
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: worried about them at the quarterback position because I don't
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: think they were good their year ago. Replacing Dylan Samson
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: is going to be so hard. They're still gonna have
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: a good defense, but how good you replace the James
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Pears He was a really good player for you. You
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: have another guy on the defensive line you have to replace.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: While I think it's gonna be good, I think there's
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: a chance that defense takes a slight step back. I
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: think it's kind of a wash at the quarterback position,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: and it's tough to replace the SEC offensive player of
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the year. A lot of people still expect big things
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: out of Tennessee. I thought they overachieved last year, so
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: there's obviously a chance that they can do that again
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  Speaker 2: this year. I don't see it, though, And honestly, I
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: considered Alabama here, but I don't think Alabama's gonna be
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: a disaster. That's why I didn't put them here. The
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: expectations is just so high. Like, Okay, the over underwind
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: totals came out yesterday and Alabama is it nine and
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: a half? I just can't get there. Whether it's Ti Sumpson,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Austin Mack, or Keeland. You're gonna have a brand new
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: starting quarterback. Jalen Milroe was your best running threat a
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: year ago. He's obviously gone. You lose Justice Haynes in
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: the transfer portal. You have jam Miller running back. He's
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: a fine running back, but jam Miller doesn't scare you
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: if you're an opposing defensive coordinator. Ryan Williams one of
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: the best receivers in college football. He's out there, but
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: what do you have outside of him right now? Jeremy Bernard.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe you'll have one of those highly doubted freshmen step up,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: But I mean outside of Ryan Williams, there's not a
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: ton of weapons on that offense, so you don't have
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: a ton of help around that first year quarterback. The
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: defense will probably still be good a lot like Tennessee.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: But I just can't get there at nine and a
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: half right now. Ty Simpson, maybe Austin Mack, like one
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: of those guys is gonna have to show me before
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: I can hump on the Obama hype train. Year after
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: year after year, everyone ranked Obama so high, and rightfully so,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: because you had an X factor that nobody else had
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: named Nick Saban. Nick Saban's not in that building anymore.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Kaylen de boor is a good football coach. He really is.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: You go look at his record against Dan Lanning. A
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: lot of people think Dan Lanning is one of the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: best coaches in college football. Hand up, I do as well.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Kaylin de Borr has a really good winning record against
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Dan Lanning, So I mean, he knows how to win games.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: But you're just not Nick Saban. And that's okay, But
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: let's stop hyping up Alabama like Debor is Nick Saban.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: That's the only issue I have with the Crimson Tide
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: going into this year. As far as my surprising team,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: like a team that may be able to overperform, this
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: one was hard like I considered Missouri. The only problem
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: is I don't know how big of a surprise that's
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: gonna be. Like at this point, Eli drink Wentz has
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: proven he can win games like they quietly won ten
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: games a year ago. If a really easy schedule, like
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: you're in the SEC, but you have six consecutive home
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: games then your bye week. I don't know how that happens.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know who Eli's paying off to get that
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: easy schedule, because they probably had the easiest schedule in
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: the SEC a year ago and they have it again
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: this year. So with an easy schedule, approving coach who
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: has done it in the past, Like, I don't know
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: how big of a surprise that's going to be. I
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: considered Florida. However, I'm pausing on DJ Lagway a little
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: bit more than most people are. It's all Jake and Matt.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: We were listening to him when we were back in
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: studio the other day. They were talking about Jackson Arnold
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: and they were like, hey, you know Jackson Arnold. His
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: numbers were up and down at Oklahoma a year ago,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: and they were Jackson Arnold last season sixty two percent completion,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: just fourteen hundred yards, twelve touchdowns, three interceptions, and Jackson
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Arnold was benched, ran out of Oklahoma. Now he's at Auburn.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: So why is everyone so high on DJ Lagway. Lagway's
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: numbers last year fifty nine percent completion, twelve touchdowns and
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: nine interceptions. Jackson Dart was actually better across the board
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: than DJ Lagway. I get it. You look at Lagway.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: He's a big guy, he's a former five star. The
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: ball just looks different coming out of his hand. I
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: understand that, but you're gonna have to prove it to me.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: DJ Lagway did not do that a year ago. He
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: just didn't. There were times he looked like the best
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: quarterback in the conference. There were times he looked like
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: he's a freshman thrown into the fire before he was ready.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: I gotta see the consistence. Maybe Auburn, maybe just because
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: everybody's expectations are so low for the Auburn Tigers. Well,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: this is Hugh's third year. He struggled really bad his
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: first two years in Auburn. I get that. I do
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: think this is probably the best offense he's had. Like
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Hugh Freeze's biggest problem is he hitched his wagon to
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Peyton Thorn two years in a row, and that was
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: the wrong decision. Peyton Thorn was not a good quarterback.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: He was not an SEC caliber quarterback. That's the guy
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: that Hugh Freeze fell in love with. And with it,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: you have Jackson Arnold coming over and again a lot
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: of people have mixed opinions about him, like I was
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: just talking about, but he's still a step up for
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Peyton Thorn in my eyes. And if Jackson Dart doesn't work,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Jackson Arnold doesn't work out as the starter, you have
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Ashton Daniels, who is the starter at Stanford a year ago,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: and you have five star freshman Deuce Night. So if
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Jackson Arnold stumbles out of the gate, you can pull
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: him like that. You got talent behind it. Cam Coleman,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: for Auburn is an absolute study at six hundred yards
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: eight touchdowns as a true freshman, a big bodied wide receiver.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: And then you bring in Eric Singleton from Georgia Tech,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: who a little bit more of an underrated signing. As
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: far as like transfer portal, I thought he was one
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: of the top receivers in the transfer portal out of
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Virginia Tech. He's a solid option. You pair him on
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the other side of the field, him and cam Coleman.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: That's a really good duo for Jackson Arnold to get
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: the ball to. It's probably better than any weapons he
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: had a year ago. Like yes, he had Bower, sharp
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: and tight end, but he lost Nick Anderson after one
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: game we had talked about that there was not a
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: ton of weapons over there at Oklahoma. I think Jackson
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Arnold may have better weapons this year. You do have
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: to replace Jarques Hunter, but Freeze can figure that out.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: They got talented running backs over there at Auburn they
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: always do. Can the defense improve is another big thing.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Their defense last year not up to the Auburn standard.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Say what you want about Auburn, their offenses have struggled
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: in recent years. They've always had a good defense. They
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: did not a year ago. If you could shore up
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball and Jackson Arnold can
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: do just enough to upset some teams, maybe there's a
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: chance the Auburn Tigers surprise people. I don't feel great
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: about that, just because it's like I mean, I mentioned
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: it earlier. I gave you like my top three teams,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: my bottom three teams. There's kind of a log jam
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: there in the middle where it's like, hey, whichever coach
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: pushes the right buttons at the right time, this team's
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: gonna emerge. I don't have faith that Hupreeze can do that,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: but I do think this is the best team he's
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: had by since he's been over there with the Auburn Tigers.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to take a time out when
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: we get back. Well, obviously LSU plays Clemson in the opener,
• 39:10
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• 39:15
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• 39:19
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• 39:21
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  Speaker 2: Dabo Sweeney is corny in his own way. We all
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: know that, whether it's genuine, whether it's a disingenuine. Anytime
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I've defended Dabo Sweeney, I've always said, look, he's uniquely himself,
• 42:41
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  Speaker 2: At least he's honest about things. However, this one, this
• 42:49
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  Speaker 2: video ready? Okay, Dabo Sweeney? Was it some speaking engagement
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• 42:57
  Speaker 2: He was telling a story about how he went into
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: a bar owned by L Shue head coach Brian Kelly.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: All right, give us one second, we'll get that video
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: to you. But anyways, he talks about how he has
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: a he went into a bar owned by l Shue
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: head coach Brian Kelly, and Kelly's wife had a bootique
• 43:28
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• 43:31
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• 43:34
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  Speaker 4: Great least little spot. So my brother or my sister
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: in law, she's saying, hey, Brian Kelly has a place.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: His wife has a gift shop right on the corner
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: there in Greaton Beach. I'm like, oh, really, that's pretty cool.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: You know, I had no idea. So anyway, we go
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: there and I walk off, I go into the store,
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: me and Calf walking in the store. Caf buys something
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: because she's trying to port missus Kelly or whatever we're doing.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: So if she buys something and we go in the
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: store and I'm walking around, I go out and they're
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: like yeah, and he's he's got a concert. He's gonna
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: have a concert in the back. So I'm like, okay,
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: I'll walk out in the back. There's a little stage
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: in the back and there's like some I think it's
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: like fake grass or whatever, just a small little area,
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: and it says Brian Kelly, you know, performing live on
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: this day whatever. And I'm going, freaking nam Brian Kelly
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: sing play.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: So I'm like taking pictures and I'm sending that to
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: Brian Kelly. I'm sitting, I'm sitting, I'm sending all these
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: pictures of Brian Kelly.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: And then I'm then I'm like, I'm.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: Going, you know, I'll get on the stage, you know,
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Brian Kelly.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just kind of having some fun.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: I'm like, you know, hey, I got and I send
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: all this to Brian Kelly.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Well, then the guy that was with my brother, he's
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: walking over because Cass said something about I don't know
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: what said I I just can't believe that Brian Kelly,
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: this is really cool. And and she's and you know,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: like we we know we play them or something in
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: the opener or whatever.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: To the gun He's like, he's good.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: What And as it turns out, there's another Brian Kelly,
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: and he's.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Like he's the he's any what's the band?
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: Anybody know? It's uh something Florida Georgia Line or something.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: I think it's called Florida Georgia Line or Georgia Florida
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Line Band, Florida Georgia Line Band. And he's like the
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: lead singer or something. And I've even heard their songs,
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: but I.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Don't, Okay, So he sends these pictures to Brian Kelly.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know if this is true. Guys, I'm gonna
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna kind of call out our guy dad, but
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: it Sweeny here. First off, why the hell would you
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: think that Brian Kelly was performing a concert? Look back
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: may have the pipes of an angel. I don't know,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: I never heard it, but like that's where your thought went. Also,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: if you have Brian Kelly's name in your phone and
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: you're good enough friends to text him back and forth,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Brian Kelly of Florida george line does not spell Kelly
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: the same way as our Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly Florida,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Georgia line is k E l l E y. Like look,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I like Dabo. This just seems a little disingenuous to me,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Like it was try hard in my opinion. And again
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm a dabbo defender at a lot more than
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: most people. I think he's a good coach, But I
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: just that one I was just kind of like, all right, like,
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: let's let's slow down a little bit, Dabo, Like you
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: don't you don't always have to be that guy, all right?
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Coming up here in hour number two, we're in not
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• 46:30
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• 46:31
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