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Episode 55 Part I feat. RTP Sports N More - Top 25 CFB rankings, Ohio State Vs Texas , Arch Manning · Sports Avenue Twisted Podcast

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Welcome to another edition of the Sports Ave.
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Twisted podcast. We have a special guest in here
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who's A5 tie consecutive year national smart Ass of the Year
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award. And you know what?
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He's a big time TikTok guy. His name is RTP Sports and more
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Art is formerly known as Randy the Plumber.
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Welcome to the show Randy. Just let the world know what you
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do. Everything else.
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There you are. Tell you what, I like that
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introduction you had there and and look, I am the five time
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consecutive winner right now for the National Smart Ass of the
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Year award. But then I lost it six years
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ago, but I had won it 30 years straight leading up to that.
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So I've been the the National Smart Ass Award recipient 35
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years total of my life. And that you may find that, but
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I'm a slacker. But that's that's pretty good
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accomplishment. Little football, man.
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What y'all say? Is that what you want to do?
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I mean, we got a Florida Gator in here, we got a Texas short
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horn in here, we got a Mississippi State Bulldog.
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That's all kind of pissed off right now, you know?
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So so let's hear about it man. Florida stole our coach.
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We've sucked since. I mean, you know, what do y'all
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got? Well, I mean, I don't know what
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we, well, you know, this year we're hoping is a better year.
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But I mean, but we'll see what we'll see how that goes, I mean.
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Six and six, man. Six and six.
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Six. Hey, be lucky.
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I'm giving you that man. I'm letting you have one.
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Hey, hey, let's hear from the Shorthorn fan there.
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Let's see what. He's got a little short horned.
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Oh man. Pressure.
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All right. The first question I want to ask
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you here is. Hold on a minute now before you
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start asking questions. Y'all got a huge game coming up
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Saturday and you, you don't want to even, I mean you're afraid
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y'all going to get beat by Ohio State?
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Is that what it is? That's why you don't want to
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talk about it. Well, we want, we want to talk
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about the college, the ranking, the top 25 rankings like you're.
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Scared, scared. I this is what I bet you short
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horns doing right now. It's going.
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All right, no, bud that you own. Oh man, all.
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Right, get into your rankings man.
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Get your panties out of a wag. Let's.
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Go All right, So what do you think about the rankings itself?
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Like what was your reaction when you saw you saw the Long, the
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Longhorns, the Bulldogs, the Crimson tried the Buckeyes and
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Penn State ranked the top five and then everything else.
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What was your initial reaction when and you saw the rankings
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and what are your thoughts about it?
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Bullshit, bullshit. Bull, bull.
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The what? What what?
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What did Texas do to get ranked number one?
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They lost. They ain't done nothing but
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lose. OK, who's number 2?
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The Bulldogs, Georgia. Like hell they are.
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Whatever. That's number three.
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Alabama. Roll Tide.
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That's not the top 25. The top 25 is Texas, and then
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it's Penn State, and then it's Ohio State.
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Texas shouldn't be #1 Penn State shouldn't be #2 Ohio State
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should be #1 they're the Champions.
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They haven't lost. They haven't played a game.
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Of course, you know, as soon as they kick that ball off, Ohio
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State's not the Champions anymore.
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You realize that, don't you? Yeah, yeah.
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It's stupid. They can't get ball off.
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They're no longer the national champions.
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Now it's all about earning it. It's right.
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Yeah. So that's something good.
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You know Texas has got going for it is they have a chance to lose
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in the playoffs again. No, man.
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So, So what do you, so who would you think should be ranked in
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the top 10? If you if you look at all the
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rankings right now, because I know that everybody has their
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own rankings and I know you posted your rankings, but just
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for the audience here, for our listeners, like who would you,
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who should be in the top 10 rankings?
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In your opinion, making my head hurt with that, you making my
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head hurt, you make it, You're causing me to have to think, OK
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#1 without a doubt, no question asked, should be Ohio State.
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And nobody's going to argue with that.
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Not one person is going to argue if Ohio State is number one, are
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they? Nobody is they?
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They're the national champions. They got the freaking trophy
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until they kick that ball off, then the trophy don't count no
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more. But anyway, so you got Ohio
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State at #1. Now I, I got Texas up there
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high, but I ain't got Penn State at #2.
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I got Texas at #2. Yeah.
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I got Penn State like man, 7 or 8 maybe.
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But see, I got South Carolina in the top ten in my mind and
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everybody's distant on South Carolina.
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I think South Carolina's going to have a Goodyear.
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Florida, we already know is going 6:00 and 6:00.
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OK, look, and just I'm telling you, just appreciate that.
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Go let your fan base know that the man let us have a 500
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season. We're getting a bowl game.
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It's the. Independence Bowl.
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We know it sucks, but we go. You know, that is just making
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people feel good, you know what I'm saying?
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But looking around the Southeastern Conference, you
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know, man, we, we, how many, how many days has it been since we
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won a championship in the SEC? Now it's been a few, it's been a
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few hours. If the if the SEC doesn't win
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this year, then they're in their biggest drought that Nick Saban
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broke at LSU. That's how far you got to go
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back. And that was a bigger drought
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than three seasons. But you know, that's, that's
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what had to happen. Nick Saban.
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Here we go again. You know, Saban, Saban, Saban.
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I'm just glad y'all are not Alabama fans man.
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Then people ain't even real bro. I'm just saying they're just not
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real. They're fake.
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They all. I couldn't agree with you more
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man. I saw one.
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Tonight. I saw one earlier tonight.
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Boy, never even been Tuscaloosa in his entire life.
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He's an Alabama fan. You know, it's like, hey, come.
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On dude. Yeah, you got no reason to be
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doing that to yourself. But now we better layoff them
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Alabama fans because you talking about some people to get butt
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hurt. They get butt hurt worse than
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Georgia and that's hard to do. That's real hard to do.
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But looking like Florida y'all going to fire you coach this
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year or what? I don't know.
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I think I think all depends on keeping their quarterback
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healthy. Lagway, if you can be healthy, I
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think that they can. They can surprise some people, I
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really do. But we'll see.
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Well that's like saying if a frog had wings it wouldn't bust
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its ass every time. No, I get that too.
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And so, so, so who are some sleepers?
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Do you think that could be top 25 during the season like that
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aren't 25 right now that you think that you know are are
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better than you know what they're, what they're being
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perceived at and it could possibly sneak their way in
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later on? Name off some that you got on
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your mind and I'll tell you what I think about them.
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OK, OK, it's it's a good way to go, but let's see here.
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Well, I'm just saying, you know, I mean, we could sit here and
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pull shit out of thin air all night.
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That's right. That's.
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Right. But tell me what you got and
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let's see what you really got. You know, let's see if you're
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working with anything or if you buckle.
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But. What about Georgia Tech, man?
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Now Georgia Tech's one of those plays to one of those schools,
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man, you never know what Georgia Tech's going to do.
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We met them in a bowl game. They whoop their our ass, you
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know, biggest bowl game we ever had in our existence.
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But you know, Georgia Tech most likely will be in the top 25 by
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the end of the season. They're probably going to go 8
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and four this year. Right.
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Yeah, I agree with you. I think they're quarterback is.
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You got to look at them and they're better than a 500 team,
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OK, You automatically know that because they're Georgia Tech.
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You got to give them a 500 team. And then you got to sit there
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and really look at them and go, OK, these guys are going to win
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a couple of games that they might not would have won
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normally, you know, But that's that's just what it is.
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Everybody starts at six and six, in my opinion, and they have
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games that they should win and that's part of the six and they
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have games that they could win and that's part of the other
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six. You know, it's it's because you
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never know what's going to happen.
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You know, look at what happened with Auburn AL with that one
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second that year. Hey, hey, Nick, you got a
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second? Yeah, it's like it's like I
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don't know these rankings preseason, you just never know
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what's going to happen. Like I don't understand how you
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can come up with the top 25 preseason because you don't know
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until game one what teams are going to be right.
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Yeah, they. Just pull it out of thin air.
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It's what I was explaining to my wife on the way home tonight.
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I said, you know, we're going to find out Saturday what
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Mississippi State's got. And she said, well, what do you
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mean? I said, we're playing Southern
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Myths. OK, Southern Myths is a decent
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school that's in a lower conference than us.
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We're supposed to beat them. OK, well if we come out and beat
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the shit out of Southern Myths, we're going to have a good year.
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But if we come out and struggle anywhere on that field with
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Southern Myths, we are going to have a very bad year because the
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SEC does not play OK. If you are off in any way, you
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will be exploited in the SEC. And that's, you know, next year
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we're going to 9 games guys. You know, I mean, we didn't win
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an SEC game last year. We went to, we went 2 and 10.
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Yeah. So we're looking for a a lot
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better year this year. I'll be honest, we I see us
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making a bowl game this year. I see us going 6:00 and 6:00 or
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7:00 and 5:00 if we get lucky somewhere, you know, I don't see
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us beating the institutions that we generally don't beat, but I
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see it's beating some that we beat every now and then, you
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know, and then that's that's where I'm at.
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But Mississippi State be a top 25 school.
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If they can get over that little hump, they'll probably go 6:00
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and 6:00. But if man, if they could pull
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off one or two of those games that they're not supposed to
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win, they could get in the top 25.
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But not kind of expecting that this year.
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You know what it's it's. What about a team like USC?
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Like, you know, they're they're always under pressure to win and
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you know, with their situation, they always have the talent
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going on. Lincoln rallies coach.
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I mean, he's been coaching there for a little while and they
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fired a couple guys like Alex Grinch and stuff.
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Like what do you think about that school?
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Man, USC is like if Lincoln Riley don't get it done this
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year, he's probably fired. You remember when they fired
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Lane Kiffin? Wasn't it like at the at the
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plane when they fired him when they were getting on the plane?
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Oh yeah. What that when it was they fired
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him? I think so, yeah.
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I think it right. And it was like in the middle of
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the season and it was what, his second season or something?
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I mean, it wasn't like he'd been there a long time.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're, they're, they're
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one of those places, man, that they think they should be
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winning all the time no matter what.
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And their program just went down because they were firing
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coaches. You know, it just same thing
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happened in Florida, man. Look what happened in Florida.
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They fired this coach, then they fired that coach, then they
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fired Mullen. Mullen was actually a really
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good coach. Mullen would have already had
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Florida back to national prominence probably two seasons
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ago. He he he took Mississippi State
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to a #1 ranking. That is an incredible coach,
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man, Yeah. Absolutely.
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Yeah, there's a lot of turnover. There's a lot of turnover there.
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Yeah. It's.
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It was stupid, but now you know, they got this coach and I don't
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think that this coach can win a national championship.
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I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, I don't.
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I may eat those words one day, but I don't think so.
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I don't think so. Y'all hired that coach before
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say before Mullen? What was that coach's name?
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Man, trying to think did you must champ for some crap.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, I think that's he wound up.
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In South Carolina. Yeah, yes.
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There's no way that guy could ever win a national
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championship. There's no freaking way, man.
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It's just impossible. It cannot be done, not even with
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that name. You can't win a national
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champion. Yeah, now, now we have.
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Now we have Napier. Napier is our coach now, so.
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Right. And I don't think that guy can
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win a national championship. I'm just being honest.
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No, no, I'm with you. I'm not.
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I'm not sold on to myself. So.
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I don't think he can win an SEC championship or national
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championship and I don't I think that y'all's best case scenario
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with Napier ever, ever is 8 or nine wins, and that is like
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overachieving for this guy. Yeah, yeah, I think, I think
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eight wins is, is possible if the quarterback, you know, plays
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out of his mind like everybody expects him to, but.
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Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, you can have a great quarterback and
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you can have a lot of great things.
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I just don't think that that coach has the intelligence to
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apply all that together. Right.
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I don't believe that he does. I think he does at a lower
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level. I don't think that he is a, you
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know, a top tier coach is what I'm saying, because top tier
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coaches can win championships. If you're not a top tier coach
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and people to get their feelings all hurt and stuff, there's a
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place for you. You know, it's just like there's
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a place for every young man coming out of high school to
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play college football. They just may not like the
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place, They may have never heard of the place, but there's a
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place for everybody to play college football if they want
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to. It's just at what level is your
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talent? And it's the same with coaches.
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You know, you got upper level and you can put them all
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together. You know, Osheron's in that
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level, Nick Saban's in that level, Irvin Meyer.
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You know, I mean, the list is not long.
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No, it's not a long last. No, not a long.
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But I tell you, who's on that level that hadn't won the
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championship is Lane Kiffin. Yeah, he is on that level, but
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like Sarkeesian at Texas. Yeah, I don't.
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Know, man, I don't know. I don't know.
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Because he had every opportunity last year to go after a national
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championship, and he got completely stupid.
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Stupid. I'm talking about this dude
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drank a gallon of stupid juice in the third quarter of that
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game. And that's what I'm talking
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about. It's the mental level that you
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have to be at. I don't know, man.
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I don't know if Sarkeesian is the guy.
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Yeah, you got Arts Manning and you got a lot of shit going on,
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but if you got the coach doing stupid shit in a game that's do
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or die and and Texas had every opportunity to win that game
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against Ohio State. They did.
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They had opportunity after opportunity and now they're fans
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are walking around going what was just a couple of plays
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difference. OK, with those couple of plays
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your coach got stupid, OK, and that's why you didn't win the
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game. You can't sit here and say, oh,
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it was just a couple of plays. Well, they did that, you know,
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they intentionally did that, and that's what cost him.
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I don't know if he's the guy, man.
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And I may eat those words, too. I don't think I will.
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I do not think that Sarkeesian will stand on the sideline and
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win a national championship. I don't think that he has the
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ability to do it. And I'm just being honest about
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it. I'll watch these guys.
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I look at them, I pay attention to them, you know?
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Do you have what it takes? Well, what happens when
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Sarkeesian gets under immense pressure?
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What happens? He loses.
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Look at look at the record from last year.
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How many losses did y'all have at the end of the season?
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Last year, yeah. How many?
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Was it Rocky? Did y'all go 10 and two in the
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regular season? I'm not a Longhorns fan or but.
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You thought he was a Longhorns fan.
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He's an A&M guy. Yeah.
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I'm trying to. Remember back, man?
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Because I can't even remember the score to those games.
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I mean. They don't mean shit to me, you
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know what I'm saying? Yeah, of course.
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Yeah. They don't mean anything to me,
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but what I'm saying is, if you go back and look at each one of
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those losses, you can pinpoint the moment the game was lost.
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If you don't look at it biasedly, you can go pinpoint it
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and you can see that every single time Sarkisian got
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stupid. Yeah, he did right there.
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There was a few games. They come.
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Seven wins, Sark, right? Apparently, for some reason,
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right. Yeah, yeah.
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It's it's like now he has incredible talent and he may
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make it to the national championship game, but look what
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happened to TCU when they made it.
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You see what I'm saying? That's that's the same thing I
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see in him. Like the coach at Alabama that
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they stole from Washington. I don't think that guy can win a
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national championship. He's been on the sideline for
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national championship and he came to pieces.
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He came to freaking pieces. And and that's the same thing
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that happened with TCU. They came to freaking pieces.
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They couldn't keep it together. And that's what happens in the
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national championship setting is one team is going to come out
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fired up. You're hardly ever going to see
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both teams go up and down the field.
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Usually one team is going to go up and down the field a couple
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of times to start a national championship game.
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What happens after that defines who you are.
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And TCU came to pieces and and you know, it's, it's what it is.
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That's what I saw Texas do, man. They came to freaking pieces in
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that playoff game. They could have won that game,
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but they, they were more interested in coming to pieces
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around everything. It, it was just, it was a mess.
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It was a disaster. You know, I said in the second
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quarter, no way Texas wins this game.
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No way. Not going to happen.
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They don't have enough spunk in them.
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They don't. It's just not there.
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That's all. Comes back from the coach, man.
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The coach is the biggest cheerleader on the sideline,
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period. If the coach is not doing his
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job as the biggest cheerleader out there, then that's it.
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It's, it's a done deal. So I would not expect Texas to
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win a national championship under Sarkeesian, period.
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And they'll probably realize that one day, you know, Ryan
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Day. National.
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Championship caliber winning coach.
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He stood on the sidelines, he took the pressure and he turned
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it on. Why?
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Everybody else in the playoffs, every single team they played
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turned it off. They just put the pedal down and
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they kicked everybody's ass all the way to the trophy.
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You know that. Can your team do that?
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Florida cannot do that, bro. Texas, I don't know.
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They've proven that they can't, you know.
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So what's it come down to? National championship this year?
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You know who who's going to be standing on those sidelines with
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that national championship trophy at the stadium?
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Winner take all who, who you got, you know, do you got Ohio
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State? Do you got Texas?
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We ain't got Florida. Everybody knows that shit.
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We ain't got Mississippi State either, so don't go there.
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I mean, who, who, who's the two teams that you see absolutely
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rising to the the cream of the crop this year?
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Penn State's one that comes to mind with their defense.
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But I mean, I think Drew Aller, I think he could take the next
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step as quarterback. I was talking tonight to to a
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friend of mine and, and, and I I think he's the I think he could
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take a you can surprise some people that share thing.
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Yeah. You know, if he does that,
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amazing. Name.
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What's that coach's name at Penn State?
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Ain't that Franklin? Yeah, Franklin, that's it.
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Yeah, Yeah. He'll never win a national
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championship, never under any circumstances.
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He ain't got it, man. He's had too many opportunities.
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Penn State does the same thing every single year without fail.
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They blow a whole bunch of steam at the beginning of the season,
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and then they fade. At some point, they're going to.
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Fade they do. We got a 12 team College
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Football Playoff right? Only about three of those teams
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has a legitimate shot at winning it when it starts.
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Literally only about three of them out of the 12, you got 8 or
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9 schools that are not going to win that damn thing no matter
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what. You could give them 14 points
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and they still ain't going to win it.
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Yeah, it's it's just, but that Franklin guy, no Penn State
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people, they'll get all their feelings.
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What has he done? What has he done other than
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utter failure? Nothing.
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Nothing. He shows that he can get a team
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over ranked and that they can fall to pieces when it's all on
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the line. Really the only team that has
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shown us that they're not going to do that is Ohio State.
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And I don't like Ohio State, man.
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I don't. Like the suck eyes at all the
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suck eyes. Oh my.
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God. Yeah, but nuts.
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Just to clarify things, if there's Ohio State person
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listening, I do not like y'all. All right, Let me ask the next
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question here. What would you say is the
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toughest conference in football right now?
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Because you mentioned by SEC they just can't win a damn title
23:10
for some damn reason, right? Like it's been a significant
23:13
amount of time. So what are the, what are the
23:15
conference you think is tough tough besides SEC itself?
23:21
Well, there is not any tougher than the SEC and the only reason
23:24
SEC hadn't won a championship in the past couple of years is
23:27
because the SEC destroys the SEC.
23:30
We hurt each other like this one.
23:33
Florida and Georgia play right. 3/4 of the players are bleeding
23:38
somewhere before the game's over.
23:41
OK, they're they're injured they they got.
23:43
But that's that's the only reason that any other conference
23:46
ever wins anything is because we spend the whole year beating the
23:49
shit out of each other. And I know them big 10 people be
23:52
like no, we're big and we're bad.
23:53
Bullshit. Come down here and play an SEC
23:55
schedule and tell me how big and bad yo ass is.
23:59
You know you, you are wimps. Big 10 big.
24:02
Was there even a Big 12 anymore? The Big 10's like 16 teams or
24:08
something now or 18? Or yeah.
24:10
They call them teams from from I think was PAC 12 and PAC 1212.
24:15
Don't exist or do. They don't.
24:16
They have like 2 now. It's big Big 12 ACC, the PAC
24:21
there is PAC 12, but it doesn't get talked about.
24:23
I think they only got like 2 teams.
24:25
They only got like 2 teams or something left.
24:27
Yeah, or something like that. Because they all play for the
24:30
Big 10, Big 12, whatever. We play for the PAC Joe
24:34
Championship every year. We're no shit.
24:36
There's only two of you. You.
24:39
Had one Damn. Thing But you know, the Big 10
24:42
has proven to be a strong conference.
24:45
They just don't have a, you know, like the SEC.
24:47
OK, all right, so in a typical year, you could put six or seven
24:53
SEC teams in the playoffs. You could because you got six or
24:57
seven teams that could get in there and kick ass.
25:00
The Big 10. Who you got, man?
25:03
Yeah. Who you got, you got Ohio State,
25:05
you got Michigan. You, I mean sometimes Penn
25:10
State, but I mean they just, they kind of got their ass
25:14
whooped. Indiana.
25:16
Iowa. Yeah.
25:17
Michigan State? Yeah.
25:19
Nebraska. Michigan.
25:20
Not not year after year, though. That's what I'm saying is is
25:24
year after year you got about 6 teams from the SEC that could
25:27
compete in the playoffs. But you only year after year,
25:30
you only maybe have three if you're lucky to have four Big 10
25:33
schools on a typical year that are that are that can get in the
25:39
playoffs and be really competitive, you know, and then
25:42
you got teams like SMU that really don't belong in there
25:45
that plays absolutely no freaking body nobody, you know,
25:49
hey, we need to be in the playoffs.
25:50
And what happened? They got the shit kicked out of
25:53
them. And I said before that game,
25:56
they was going to get the shit kicked out of them.
25:58
I made a freaking video saying they were going to get the shit
26:01
kicked out of them. And people like, I'll come back
26:04
to this video after this game. Well, they didn't come back.
26:08
If they came back, they left quietly.
26:11
They didn't make no more comments, but you know, Big 10
26:16
would have to be ACC, man. Shit shit, you got Clemson and
26:22
maybe you might have Miami. Maybe.
26:25
Florida State is probably losing the Alabama here in a couple of
26:29
days. Oh yeah, definitely.
26:31
You know de Boer, he's got to win.
26:35
He's got to get him in the College Football Playoff this
26:37
year. They not going to win the
26:39
College Football Playoff. That guy ain't never going to
26:42
win national championship, but they he's got to get them there
26:46
or he's he's going to be on the hot seat in 26.
26:52
And you know what happens when the coaches know when he's on
26:54
the hot seat? They get nervous and they they
26:56
wind up getting fired. Do you think they're a team that
26:59
can improve Florida State from last year?
27:01
Like, I mean like how much improvement?
27:04
From last year. I mean, they were God, man.
27:08
They were a barn fire. God awful, Right, Right.
27:11
But do you think they can improve to a point where they
27:13
can make a playoff, though? Like, I don't know about that
27:16
much. Yeah, I don't think so either.
27:18
No, hell no, It wasn't Florida State.
27:21
Oh, and forward to start the season.
27:22
Yeah. They were awful.
27:24
Yeah, they were awful. Yeah.
27:26
And then they starting against Alabama this year, which is
27:28
stupid, but Florida State if if they go if OK.
27:34
So they're six and six team to start the season.
27:37
OK. Are they good enough to beat
27:40
somebody that could really beat them?
27:43
Probably not. But we're fixing to learn a lot
27:46
about Florida State here in a couple of days because they're
27:48
fixing to play Alabama. We're not going to really learn
27:51
a lot about Alabama because Alabama is just probably just
27:54
going to kick their ass, you know, and you're not going to
27:57
really know because Florida State's week.
27:58
And I know it's in Florida State's house, but I expect that
28:01
game, and I mean truly, I expect that game to be over with before
28:05
halftime, you know, and my brother-in-law is a Florida
28:08
State fan and he'll be listening to this.
28:10
And you know what buddy, I don't give a damn.
28:14
I don't know to your face that Florida State sucks.
28:19
You know, I asked him the other day, I said you going at Florida
28:22
State and Alabama game. He said hell no, he knows
28:27
they're going to get trashed. They're going to get killed,
28:29
yeah. Yeah, but Alabama's a little
28:31
pissed off right now. You know, they've been sucking
28:34
high and tit now for a couple of years and they, they kind of
28:37
sucked the last year under Sabin, you know, and, and and
28:40
they, they kind of, you know, getting all butt hurt right now.
28:43
But it ain't going to matter. I mean, Alabama should go 10 and
28:47
two. They'll probably make the
28:48
playoffs, 1112 seeds, some shit like that, and they'll lose in
28:54
the first round. Yeah, it's Alabama's definitely
28:58
not the team. I think Georgia could rise up
29:02
again this year. I think they could.
29:05
But I'm going to take somebody. Yeah, I'm going to tell you
29:08
somebody that may rise up very quickly, and that's Miami.
29:13
Miami got them a hell of a quarterback from Georgia.
29:17
Oh, Carson back, right? Yes, and I, I, he's going to win
29:22
10 games. He's going to win 10 games.
29:24
Miami's probably in the playoff. Take my chances.
29:28
I don't know who their coach is. Never paid much attention to
29:31
him. He might be OK, he might not be,
29:34
but he ain't in that elite class right now.
29:38
And and there's very few of them in that class.
29:41
I'm going to just be honest with you.
29:44
But that's just the way I feel about it, man.
29:46
I love college football. I love the the study of college
29:49
football, you know, in the, the understanding of how it all
29:54
works and what the advantages are and the disadvantages like
30:00
them Sanders boys up in Colorado were at huge disadvantage
30:04
because their daddy would not shut his mouth.
30:06
Hell. Yeah.
30:08
And I mean, nobody wants to hear from Dionne, OK?
30:12
Nobody wants to hear anything from Dionne at the NFL level,
30:17
right? You know, it's all about what
30:19
you can do. And and nobody and look, one of
30:21
them boys one. Of them got cut, I was just
30:23
going to say that one of them got cut by the by the Buccaneers
30:26
already. He was out throwing punches man.
30:29
Shiloh I think is his name or. Shiloh, Shiloh Sanders.
30:32
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then you got Shadour.
30:35
I mean, he he's made the the roster at Cleveland, which is a
30:39
big accomplishment. Even though it's the Browns and
30:42
we all know the Browns are going to suck hind tit.
30:45
They're going to hyperventilate all season because that's what
30:49
the Browns do, you know, and I can hear them Browns fans now do
30:53
don't know what he's talking about.
30:54
Really. Just go back and look at the
30:56
last 30 years. Just go back and look, That's
31:03
all you got to do. They're going to suck to the
31:06
day, to the end of times. They're just going to suck.
31:12
You know, they can't help their self.
31:14
The Saints are going to suck as long as GAIL Benson owns them.
31:18
I'll just be honest with you. You know, Tom Benson died,
31:22
willed the team to GAIL and she has no idea what she's doing.
31:27
The Saints have done nothing but go downhill since the day she
31:30
took over. You know, because it takes a
31:32
whole lot of stuff and a whole lot of moving pieces to win in
31:36
the NFL. It's it's a struggle.
31:41
Do you know what separates the average NFL game from when from
31:44
winning and losing? The average NFL game. 3 plays,
31:52
33 can play 3 plays that would have went the other way is the
31:58
difference in win and lose. And look at how many games are
32:01
won by last second field goal. 3 plays that led up to that field
32:06
goal cost you the game because now they're on 4th down right?
32:12
Yeah, absolutely. You blew 3 plays that allowed
32:16
that field goal to happen and now look at what's happening
32:19
with your field goal kickers, man, these kids coming out of
32:22
school now or cook kicking 65 yard field goals because they
32:27
have these great instructors. Yeah, now, yeah, they have
32:32
people that study it so intensely, these kicking
32:35
instructors, and that's all they do.
32:37
They live, breathe and think kicking.
32:39
And and I watched the video the other day on TikTok, a kid in
32:43
high school hit a 70 yard field goal.
32:47
Yeah, not during the game. You know, they were just out
32:50
there kicking balls. But you got to be able to do
32:54
that, to do it in a game. Yeah.
32:56
But I mean, we're going to start seeing longer and longer field
32:59
goals over the next 5678 years, especially with the fact that
33:06
the kickoff is now kind of like null and void.
33:09
You know, it's, you know, where are you going to show your
33:12
impressive leg strength? Now you've got to get, you've
33:15
got to kick longer and longer field goals.
33:17
You got to work harder and harder, get bigger and bigger
33:19
calves, You know, and wow, one day we're going to see field
33:24
goal kickers walking around with these huge calves and they're
33:27
going to look all weird to us. You'll never say that before,
33:35
but you'll say it then look at the calf on that guy.
33:40
But but yeah, we don't got off on the NFL now and away from,
33:44
you know, and now we got a NASCAR playoffs too.
33:47
It's all starting this week. You know who you got winning it,
33:51
Who y'all got winning the the championship?
33:53
Spit it out. Oh.
33:56
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who, who, who's up
34:01
there in the rankings this year. Are you serious, man?
34:05
I, I, I'm, I don't watch NASCAR religion.
34:08
I used to. I used to a long time ago, but I
34:11
don't watch. I don't watch as much as I used
34:13
to, so. Note to self, when you invite
34:16
the most famous NASCAR fan in the entire world onto your show,
34:19
you need to know shit about NASCAR.
34:23
Did Joey Logano stays? Is he still a neighbor?
34:26
He's in. The playoffs, but he That's
34:31
slogano to you. Slogano.
34:36
He got so mad when I gave him that nickname.
34:39
Yeah. He won't even be my friend on
34:43
Twitter. Everybody else is.
34:45
But not Joey. No, no, no.
34:47
He I think I made him cry or something.
34:52
It it, it was not nice, whatever it was.
34:56
So what you got Florida at this year?
34:58
I got him at six and six. Come on, what you think?
35:01
Let's see who's right. I think they're going to win
35:05
eight games. So you got.
35:07
Home there, Yeah, Yeah, I think, I don't know, it's a tough
35:10
schedule. I'll say 7:00 and 5:00.
35:13
Yeah, you know, you can get the Gator Bowl with eight and four
35:16
record. Yeah, that'd be a good bowl game
35:19
for them. They'd be a home game.
35:21
They would be, I mean, I mean the safe, the safer play is
35:25
probably, I would say 7. But yeah, I would love to see
35:29
him win 8. But I mean, it was so tough.
35:31
It's such a tough schedule. We got this every.
35:34
Every year, man, it's every year.
35:37
Welcome to the FCC. And now they're going to 9 games
35:40
and they're telling us that we got to play one of the top
35:44
conferences in one of those three games that we got.
35:47
So we only got 2 cupcake games next year.
35:50
Everybody. I mean, it's, it's nuts, man.
35:53
It's nuts. That's what the SEC does,
35:56
though, that's say we destroy ourselves from internally, you
36:00
know, and then by the time we send somebody to the playoffs,
36:02
they're all beat up and wore out.
36:05
Yeah, man. And then you got the rivalry
36:08
games, you know, of Alabama makes the playoffs.
36:10
They just played Auburn. You know what I mean?
36:13
I mean, they, they, they them two guys, they tear each other
36:15
up. Yeah, that's what they do.
36:18
Not as bad as old missing out and a Mississippi State, though.
36:21
Oh. God.
36:22
And you know, we don't call them old miss around here.
36:25
We call them old piss. I like that.
36:30
Yeah, the Egg Bowl. It's it's life or death.
36:33
I'll be there. We're not playing on
36:36
Thanksgiving. We're playing on Friday this
36:37
year. And yeah, we'll be there.
36:41
We will be there Row one. That's awesome.
36:46
We got great seats for the Egg Bowl.
36:49
Let me let me ask you one quarterback and he's probably
36:53
been the most talked about it. I mean, he's the popular name
36:58
and that's that's Arch Manning. Like what do you expect from
37:01
this season? Is he a guy that could carry
37:04
this team? Like you said, you don't see
37:05
Texas going far, but what can you expect from him?
37:09
Oh, I expect everything from Arch Man and I expect nothing
37:12
from his coach. That's the problem is Arch
37:15
Manning has incredible talent. Arch Manning could go lead right
37:20
now, could go lead Ohio State to the national championship,
37:23
Georgia to a national championship, without a doubt,
37:27
maybe even Clemson. And if if Arch Manning would
37:30
have went to Penn State, Penn State could have actually won a
37:33
national championship. And that Franklin guy could
37:35
prove me wrong. The problem with Texas is the
37:38
head coach of Texas. That's the problem.
37:44
It just he something there, man, something there.
37:48
But he has incredible talent. Arch Manning is probably going
37:53
to win the Heisman this year. And see, I just gave y'all a
37:57
Heisman at Texas. You ought to be thanking me
37:59
right now, you know what I'm saying?
38:02
I would say it's his Heisman to lose.
38:04
But that means nothing for the success of the playoffs.
38:09
That means nothing because in the playoffs it comes down to
38:12
coaches decisions. Regular season games, not so
38:16
much, you know, not so much. But these coaches, they tense up
38:21
in them, them crazy situations. And it shows on the field
38:25
because when the coach tense up, everybody tenses up because they
38:29
can feel it. You know, if Texas would let me
38:33
in their locker room, say they made the national championship
38:36
game, if they'd let me in their locker room to give the pregame
38:39
talk, they'd go out and win it. They'd go out and win it because
38:42
I'd tell him, I'd look him right now and I'd tell him when your
38:45
coach starts acting stupid, ignore him.
38:49
Just ignore him because he's going to have about 5 stupid
38:52
minutes in this game and it's proven over and over.
38:57
It's like, it's like, you know what the definition of insanity
39:00
is. Doing the same thing over and
39:04
over and expecting a different outcome.
39:07
Yeah. Like, it be like them people
39:09
getting on the Titanic over and over again and expecting the
39:12
ship not to sink, you know, or we just call those people Ole
39:15
Miss fans where I come from. Yeah, they, they just on the
39:20
sinking ship and they never get off, never get off.
39:24
But yeah, Orange Manning is. He's a badass, man.
39:28
He's a badass. He's going to be a Heisman
39:30
Trophy winner. If he don't get hurt and he
39:32
stays healthy, he's going to be a Heisman Trophy winner, no
39:35
doubt, no doubt at all. What what I'm who I'm interested
39:40
in is this saying, kid, we don't know nothing about this kid,
39:44
man. Julian saying from Ohio State,
39:48
we don't know nothing about him. You know, he's supposedly the
39:52
latest, greatest thing. But OK, when that ball snaps and
39:56
you're in big time college football game, shit changes
39:58
quick. Ark.
40:00
Manning has 10 times the experience this kid has going up
40:05
against him. Harsh man, and I think it's got
40:07
9 touchdowns. Sayings got one.
40:12
Yeah. The thing, you know, that's the
40:14
thing you never really know with with some of these guys when
40:17
they're making like, you know, like playing for the first, you
40:21
know, when they haven't had much playing time at all.
40:23
It's like you don't know what this guy's gonna be yet, you
40:26
know, especially with teams like that.
40:29
But Arch Manning can't win you the game, you know what I'm
40:31
saying? He could be, he could.
40:32
His his grandpa proved it in New Orleans.
40:35
Archie Manning, one of the greatest quarterbacks New
40:38
Orleans ever had, they couldn't do crap with him because the
40:40
team around him was terrible, you know, and the coaching was
40:43
bad. This Ohio State, Texas game
40:46
comes down to coaches and experience.
40:49
And Ryan Day has got it that that's going to come into play
40:57
in this game. I guarantee you the, the, the
41:02
true experience of the coach is what it's going to come down to.
41:08
And you know, I give Texas a 40% chance of winning that game.
41:15
But just because of that, just because of that, just because of
41:19
you got a national championship coach going up against the coach
41:22
that fell apart in the playoffs, that's what you got.
41:27
That's what happened. Nobody needs to kid their self.
41:30
It's exactly what happened. Texas had every legitimate
41:34
opportunity to win that freaking game.
41:37
Man. Football is a game of strategy
41:40
and they got their ass kicked on strategy because the coach was
41:45
not strategic enough. It is 60 minutes.
41:50
You know, if it was a 15 minute game, you could win it by luck.
41:54
If it was a 30 minute game, you could still say that.
41:56
But after 60 minutes on that clock, knowing that each play
42:00
averages less than 6 seconds is your average.
42:05
Yeah, it's man. Nah, whatever that score is,
42:11
that coach had a better strategy than the other.
42:17
Like Auburn and Alabama playing in the Iron Bowl.
42:20
One second on the clock, Alabama tries to kick a field goal.
42:24
That the Auburn strategy was let's put someone in the end
42:29
zone in case they come up short, then we have a chance to run the
42:33
ball back. That was their strategy, right?
42:37
Well, how many coaches don't put that player in the end zone
42:40
because they're they're got all this bullshit in their mind and
42:43
they can't think straight? You know, you just put the
42:46
player in the end zone, look what happens.
42:49
Yeah, that's all strategy, every bit of it.
42:52
But after 60 minutes, whoever wins that game had the best
42:55
strategy of the day, period, hands down.
42:59
You can have all these great players and you can have all
43:01
this stuff just like NASCAR. You can have a great driver, but
43:05
if you have no strategy to win that race, you're never going to
43:07
win it ever. Just like a national
43:10
championship. That's the moment.
43:12
See, that 60 minutes of a total life, that 60 minutes, that's
43:20
the only 60 minutes that counts. Now, who is going to come up
43:26
with the brilliance and who's going to fart, fall and fumble?
43:30
You know, Notre Dame come apart in that game, man.
43:33
Come apart in it, dude. They they didn't they didn't
43:36
look like they even belong there.
43:38
Yeah, at one point. I mean, they were just getting
43:40
their asses handed to them, but Ohio State kind of did that to
43:44
everybody. They just kind of took
43:46
everybody's ass and handed it to them.
43:49
Yeah, because Notre Dame looked fine in the rest of the games
43:51
leading up to that game. They look like they belonged,
43:54
you know, they really did. And you know.
43:56
So 60 minutes, man, ECU got to those 60 minutes and what
44:00
happened? You know, it's it's every time.
44:05
Then you got your really good games, you know, where both
44:07
teams fight and brawl for 60 minutes and it's a close game.
44:13
But the points is all that matters.
44:15
If you have one point more than your opponent, then you have
44:19
better strategy than your opponent had because it's 60
44:22
minutes long. Look at the length.
44:25
You know, there's no mistakes here.
44:26
There's no all of the officials this year.
44:29
Officials now, dude, No, no, no, your, your strategy sucked.
44:37
And it's this very strategic game when you break it down and
44:40
understand it, it's a game of literal inches, literal inches.
44:45
How many times have you seen a fourth and one and then send
44:49
somebody over the top to get 3 inches, you know, and that's all
44:53
they care about is those 3 inches.
44:55
You ever noticed that they don't run a play that'll get them 10
44:58
inches. They don't run a play that'll
45:00
get them 10 feet. They run a play that'll get them
45:03
those three freaking inches because that's all they care
45:06
about right at that moment. If we don't get that 3 inches,
45:09
then they're going to get that 3 inches.
45:12
Yeah. It's just that simple.
45:14
They're going to take it away from you.
45:15
That's what the game is. It's give and take.
45:18
I give you the ball. My goal is to take the ball away
45:20
from you and use all means legally possible to do it.
45:25
If, if I'm a defender and they're throwing the ball at, at
45:27
you, then my, my whole job is to stop you from catching that ball
45:32
no matter what, no matter what within the rules.
45:37
And that's it. That's all those moments is all
45:39
that matters. That one time that that defender
45:42
jumps up and slaps that ball away, that's the play that that
45:46
team now is not going to win the game.
45:48
That one play right there, you know, because they had a better
45:53
strategy than you had. But I love college football,
45:57
man. I love football in general.
45:59
You know, I study the game and and and and really, you know,
46:03
like dig into this thing and why is this and why is that and and
46:08
everything. How does this happen?
46:10
Why does that? I'd have probably been a good
46:11
coach. Yeah, probably really good
46:14
football coach. I know they'd have been fired
46:17
up. Oh, it's been up in.
46:19
That locked room, to be looking at every one of them.
46:22
I've looked at every one of them and I said this was the moment
46:24
right here, boys. This is the moment.
46:26
No other moment has ever mattered in your entire life.
46:30
Ever. And when you take that field,
46:32
you get out there and you RIP their heads off.
46:35
You RIP their heads off, you hit down their throats.