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Texas Longhorns Message You NEED to HEAR Before Tennessee Volunteers Game! · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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Speaker 1: Let's jump into things.
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Speaker 2: We are presented by prize picks and our Tennessee, Texas
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Speaker 2: preview is also presented by prize picks. Boy, we've gotten
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Speaker 2: back to back to.
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Speaker 1: Back weeks with just elite games. And this is one
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Speaker 1: of them that's up there for me.
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Speaker 2: I know it doesn't quite have the off field drama
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Speaker 2: that Ole Miss LSU had. I know it's not top
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Speaker 2: five the way that Texas, Ohio state was, but this
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Speaker 2: is a phenomenal game in the sec and boy, I
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Speaker 2: think when you think about contrasting styles, you know, the,
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Speaker 2: the vet QB versus the young true freshmen, you think
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Speaker 2: about contrasting styles as far as Sark and Hypel and
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Speaker 2: what they like to do. This is a really fun matchup.
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Speaker 2: It sucks that it's at noon. It does not suck
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Speaker 2: that I'm going to it though. So shout out to me.
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Speaker 2: I'm really thrilled for this game. I cannot wait to
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Speaker 2: hear what Cole's thoughts are on it. And so without
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Speaker 2: further ado, Cole floor's yours.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a top 15 matchup between two teams that both,
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Speaker 3: I think, are looking for that signature moment of we
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Speaker 3: have a ride for Texas. We don't need a 20-point
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Speaker 3: comeback against an Ohio State at home to be able
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Speaker 3: to win. But for Tennessee, you know, Tennessee's sitting at 3-0.
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Speaker 3: But for a lot of us out here, we're still asking... well,
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Speaker 3: look at who you played. Like maybe there's just a
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Speaker 3: little bit of a question mark depending on what we're
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Speaker 3: going to see against a real competition. You beat Texas,
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Speaker 3: the number one team in the country. I'll tell you what,
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Speaker 3: a lot of people are paying attention to what you
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Speaker 3: can be moving forward with a young quarterback, but a
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Speaker 3: veteran team built around him. I think on one hand,
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Speaker 3: while we're so focused in on what Texas, I mean,
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Speaker 3: what you're doing for Tennessee going up against Texas, you know,
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Speaker 3: this is a new team that you've never faced before
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Speaker 3: talent wise. From Texas standpoint, They have not been to
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Speaker 3: a stadium or an atmosphere like Neyland on a Saturday.
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Speaker 3: Rocky Top rolling and on a checkered Saturday, which is
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Speaker 3: completely different than any other version of Tennessee football that
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Speaker 3: you are going to see. So what is that atmosphere
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Speaker 3: going to be like? The couple of big takeaways that
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Speaker 3: I have, let's start off with Tennessee. Can you make
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Speaker 3: life easy for Faison Brandon going up against a defense
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Speaker 3: like Texas, going up against a defense coordinator like Will
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Speaker 3: Muschamp that's able to put young quarterbacks in position to struggle?
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Speaker 3: This is what I love about Tennessee. They are a
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Speaker 3: veteran team with a young quarterback. So this is where
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Speaker 3: you turn to your vets and you say, hey, When
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Speaker 3: there's a seven-yard slant that we need to have, Mike Matthews,
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Speaker 3: this is on you to go ahead and make the
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Speaker 3: play against that secondary member. When they're saying, we need
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Speaker 3: to be able to put our quarterback in a position
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Speaker 3: to where we can open up the playbook on second
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Speaker 3: and third down, this is where you turn to a
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Speaker 3: guy like a Deshaun Bishop, one of the most underrated
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Speaker 3: running backs in the country, and say, you need to
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Speaker 3: be able to go ahead and put six, seven yards
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Speaker 3: on contact. I'm very excited for that. The other thing
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Speaker 3: is that I want to see from this defensive.
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Speaker 4: Formation, Can you force Arch May to beat you?
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Speaker 3: Texas has a good run game with Hollywood Smothers and
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Speaker 3: Relique Brown. They're both averaging about four and a half
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Speaker 3: yards of play, if not more. We saw what Texas
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Speaker 3: was able to do at times against Ohio State's defense,
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Speaker 3: where they just said, two, take the ball and make
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Speaker 3: it third and manageable. Zero take the ball, go to
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Speaker 3: the outside, gain six or seven. Can you take that
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Speaker 3: away and force Texas to live in third and long
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Speaker 3: situations and say, if we're going to lose this game,
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Speaker 3: we're going to lose this game because of Arch Manning
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Speaker 3: is picking us apart. There have been slow starts for
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Speaker 3: Arch this season. Now he's looked good, maybe not to
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Speaker 3: the level of what we wanted, but he's looked good.
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Speaker 4: Can he be able to.
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Speaker 3: Now be in an environment where you're not going to
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Speaker 3: be able to hear yourself think, let alone get the
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Speaker 3: play in? where you're not going to have to burn
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Speaker 3: a timeout and be frustrated. And it'd be a third
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Speaker 3: and long situation where you know it is a passing down.
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Speaker 3: I think that's really important for the defense for Jim Knowles.
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Speaker 3: I think taking away the vertical deep ball is going
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Speaker 3: to be really important in this game. So the matchup
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Speaker 3: that I'm looking forward to is Dejon Lane, the safety,
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Speaker 3: and Kaean Lee against Cam Coleman. Cam Coleman can be
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Speaker 3: that enforcer downfield. He can go ahead and win the
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Speaker 3: ability to go ahead and force it physically 20, 30 yards.
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Speaker 3: And remember, Kaean Lee comes on in from Auburn. So
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Speaker 3: he used to go up against Cam Coleman in practice.
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Speaker 3: There is some trickery to where he knows his ins
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Speaker 3: and outs of what makes him click. Can you take
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Speaker 3: that deep ball away? Because if you do, well, then
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Speaker 3: you're going to have to dink and duck your way
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Speaker 3: to success. And I've been impressed so far with what
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Speaker 3: the linebackers have done, what Kwon Moss has done.
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Speaker 4: In the nickel position.
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Speaker 3: You can force an Emmitt Mosley to get a reception
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Speaker 3: and it ended up being a game of three. you
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Speaker 3: can take away the element of the speed that is
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Speaker 3: Ryan Wingo in the offensive side. So if they're going
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Speaker 3: to have to run it and they're going to have
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Speaker 3: to win it deep with Arch Manning and you take
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Speaker 3: away that deep ball, you're basically playing a prevent defense
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Speaker 3: that forces a lot of punts. And I think that
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Speaker 3: if you're able to get a turnover early in this
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Speaker 3: matchup for short field position for Faison Brandon, massive, massive win.
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Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys. Now back to the clip.
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Speaker 3: On the other side, I think that when you look
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Speaker 3: at Texas, Texas is going to want to run the football.
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Speaker 3: Texas is 53rd currently in the country right now in rushing.
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Speaker 3: But Tennessee is 83rd in the country in run defense.
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Speaker 3: You know what Hollywood Smothers can do. You know how
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Speaker 3: dangerous Louis Brown is when he gets into the open space.
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Speaker 3: Can they win at the second level of the defense?
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Speaker 3: You get past the defensive line, and now they're going
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Speaker 3: up against Arian Carter. Now they're going up against Amari Campbell.
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Speaker 3: And then they're getting dragged through it, so now it's
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Speaker 3: a second and five. Can you win with that formation?
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Speaker 3: I think the other thing, if you're looking at it
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Speaker 3: from the defensive side... Can you make Faison Brandon have
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Speaker 3: to play within the system? If you take away that
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Speaker 3: rushing attack and they're not able to get anything going
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Speaker 3: with Dwayne Morris, who we're not talking enough about as
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Speaker 3: a good number two complementary back alongside with Deshaun Bishop,
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Speaker 3: it's going to be third and seven. It's going to
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Speaker 3: be third and eight. And again, Faison Brandon has not
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Speaker 3: faced off against a good defense like this. He's been
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Speaker 3: good this season. Not taking anything away from Faison. He
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Speaker 3: may be the best freshman quarterback in college football. But
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Speaker 3: going up against a defense where you are forced to pass,
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Speaker 3: when you have Colin Simmons coming off one end, and
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Speaker 3: a delayed blitz from Raheem Biles coming up the middle,
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Speaker 3: and guys like Bo Maskell in coverage against a Mike Matthews,
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Speaker 3: can you go ahead and win that battle? Can you
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Speaker 3: take away that element of running the football to where
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Speaker 3: you know you are going to be forced to pass?
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Speaker 3: And a young quarterback going up against a veteran defense,
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Speaker 3: kind of put in this position. I think the X
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Speaker 3: factor for Texas... In this.
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Speaker 4: Game is Ryan Wingo.
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Speaker 3: Because I do think that you are going to find
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Speaker 3: a way to blanket Cam Coleman. So can you turn
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Speaker 3: a 7-yard slant into a 30-yard gain? Can you be
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Speaker 3: able to win at the intermediate part of the field?
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Speaker 3: Just right past the linebackers. where now you're going to
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Speaker 3: be able to turn it up, and you're going up
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Speaker 3: against the safeties, and you're going up against a nickel defender,
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Speaker 3: and now they're playing catch-up. That's going to be really
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Speaker 3: dire in this standpoint. And I think another major selling
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Speaker 3: point for Texas in this game, if you were going
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Speaker 3: to want to win, you've got to tire down this
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Speaker 3: Tennessee defensive line. Remember last season, Week 3, it was
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Speaker 3: against Georgia. Georgia came on out, and they had the
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Speaker 3: death march. of all death marches, where they just literally said,
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Speaker 3: we're going to run it up the middle and we're
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Speaker 3: going to make Tennessee's defense basically have noodle orange by
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Speaker 3: the time that we get into the red zone. Can
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Speaker 3: you have that moment if you are a team like Texas?
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Speaker 3: Being able to trust that your run game is going
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Speaker 3: to go ahead and just make it third and two.
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Speaker 3: And then you can throw the football to a Ryan
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Speaker 3: Wingo when it's a gain of four and you win
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Speaker 3: the third down possessions. And then we see the end
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Speaker 3: of that drive and you're in the end zone and
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Speaker 3: eight and a half minutes are taken off the clock.
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Speaker 3: I think those are really big keys for Texas going
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Speaker 3: into this matchup for both teams.
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Speaker 5: Really.
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Speaker 2: If you want to be honest, Tom, when you look
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Speaker 2: at arch in this game, he struggled for a half
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Speaker 2: or more against Ohio state. I don't think Tennessee has
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Speaker 2: quite as good of a defense as Ohio state, just
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Speaker 2: to be fair, but some talent over there for sure.
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Speaker 1: Um, I don't even know if it was so much
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Speaker 1: of what Ohio state was doing though.
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Speaker 2: He was just kind of sailing balls at times and didn't,
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Speaker 2: he just doesn't, I think arch is good. I'm not
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Speaker 2: a March arch hater by any means, but he just,
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Speaker 2: he doesn't look super sharp to me at this moment.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he looks super sharp in the, in
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Speaker 2: the condensed version of the game that I watched that
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Speaker 2: they just played.
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Speaker 1: Um, was it Texas state or who did they play on,
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Speaker 1: on Saturday?
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Speaker 5: Um, UTSA UTSA.
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Speaker 1: Yup.
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Speaker 2: So I didn't think he looked super sharp in that.
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Speaker 2: I think that's a big question for me is the,
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Speaker 2: the arch that you get, not, not that it's all
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Speaker 2: on his shoulders because cams there too.
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Speaker 1: And Ryan's there too. And Hollywood's there too.
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Speaker 2: And really like, there's a lot of guys, but the,
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Speaker 2: the version of arts that you get historically, I don't
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Speaker 2: think he's been great on the road. I think he's
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Speaker 2: had moments. You think about their, their losses, they've all
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Speaker 2: come on the road. And so I, I think this is,
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's only a four and a half, five
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Speaker 2: and a half point spread. Like it, you know, Vegas
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Speaker 2: is not telling you, Oh, the number one team in
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Speaker 2: the country is going to walk in and just beat
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Speaker 2: the tar out of the volunteers. I think this is
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Speaker 2: very much a, a man, the version of arch that
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Speaker 2: we get this week. And conversely, the version of the
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Speaker 2: true freshmen that we get to playing against the defense
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Speaker 2: that he's not seen anything like that's the difference, you know,
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Speaker 2: that that's a big part of this.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you're going to hear the talking heads on ESPN
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Speaker 6: remind you that, did you know Peyton Manning played at Tennessee?
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Speaker 5: You're going to hear that a bunch.
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Speaker 6: And probably to a small degree, that could be in
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Speaker 6: the back of the mind of Arch Manning, at least
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Speaker 6: in the lead up to the game. But when it
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Speaker 6: comes to this, you're playing in one of the most
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Speaker 6: hostile environments in all of college football. So this is
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Speaker 6: going to be a challenge, period. If I'm Jim Knowles
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Speaker 6: and this Tennessee defense... You know your strength is the
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Speaker 6: interior of your defensive line. Xavier Gilliam, the transfer from
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Speaker 6: Penn State, has been very, very good for them this season.
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Speaker 6: This will be a step up in competition for him
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Speaker 6: to deal with, but I still think he can have
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Speaker 6: success against the interior of that offensive line. line for Texas.
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Speaker 6: I love what the linebackers look like. Another transfer from
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Speaker 6: Penn State and UNC before that, Namari Campbell and Arian Carter,
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Speaker 6: obviously leading the way.
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Speaker 5: That's been the strength.
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Speaker 6: So if I'm Tennessee, I'm maybe electing to take away
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Speaker 6: the run and putting it on Arch. The thing that's
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Speaker 6: been intriguing about this passing game, to the points that
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Speaker 6: you just made, TJ, Arch has looked unsure of himself.
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Speaker 6: He often operates better when he's improvising. And we just
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Speaker 6: saw the greatest improviser quarterback in the country in Trinidad
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Speaker 6: Chambliss this past weekend against LSU.
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Speaker 5: It's not quite that.
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Speaker 6: I don't know how much Sark really lets him just
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Speaker 6: kind of dial things up. But if there's not a
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Speaker 6: run game to support Arch, that's where you'd be a
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Speaker 6: little bit worried as a Texas fan. But I think
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Speaker 6: they're going to be able to find enough success to
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Speaker 6: move the football and put them in third and manageable
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Speaker 6: situations like Cole pointed out. The thing that's really interesting
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Speaker 6: for me so far this season, Cam Coleman, 11 catches. Wingo,
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Speaker 6: 13 catches. Mosley, 11 catches. You might think that because
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Speaker 6: Cam Coleman's standing over there, you'd force feed him. Kind
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Speaker 6: of like what Julian Sane and Ohio State have done
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Speaker 6: with Jeremiah Smith. And we saw that backfired in the
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Speaker 6: second half of the game in Austin. This offense is
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Speaker 6: not necessarily about one person. And I think that benefits
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Speaker 6: Arch is that he can play within the system. And
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Speaker 6: it's not, hey, look for number eight and then take off.
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Speaker 5: You do wonder, though. I don't know.
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Speaker 6: I think I disagree with Cole in that, yes, I
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Speaker 6: think Dajon Lane is a talented safety, but I don't
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Speaker 6: know if Tennessee has the people to cover Cam Coleman
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Speaker 6: for four consecutive quarters if he was focused on within
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Speaker 6: the passing game in a way that deviates from what
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Speaker 6: Texas has done so far this season. Sark pretty much
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Speaker 6: is going to stick to his guns for the most part.
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Speaker 6: I think it behooves Arch to be able to have
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Speaker 6: a number of options in the passing game in this one.
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Speaker 6: So I think that's going to be the path to success.
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Speaker 6: I think he's still going to be a little bit,
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Speaker 6: you know, not as clean as you would like is
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Speaker 6: the best way to put it. I think he's still
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Speaker 6: figuring things out. The guy we saw at quarterback at
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Speaker 6: the back half of last season, he's not shown up
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Speaker 6: quite yet. I think he'll get there, but I don't
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Speaker 6: necessarily think he's going to get there in this hostile
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Speaker 6: of an environment.
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Speaker 5: On the flip side of the ball.
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Speaker 6: I think what Texas can do, I'm sorry, what Tennessee
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Speaker 6: can do offensively Texas should have answers for it. They
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Speaker 6: should have answers against their pass catchers. They should have
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Speaker 6: answers in the pass rush and the likes of Colin
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Speaker 6: Simmons and other pieces. It's going to be a matter
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Speaker 6: of how much do they get out of Bishop?
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Speaker 5: How much do they get out of the running game?
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Speaker 6: Because I think that sets the table for everything that
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Speaker 6: Tennessee wants to do, because you can't put this all
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Speaker 6: on phase on Brandon whatsoever. I completely agree with that
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Speaker 6: point that Cole made earlier. Honestly, I don't feel like
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Speaker 6: there will be a ton of turnovers in this game.
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Speaker 6: I feel like there will be one backbreaker at some point.
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Speaker 6: That's going to be really critical in this game. I'm
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Speaker 6: really excited about this one. This feels like a coin flip.
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Speaker 6: I know Texas is favored by five and a half,
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Speaker 6: but Tennessee getting the home turf advantage and the way
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Speaker 6: that Brandon is played, the way that running game looks,
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Speaker 6: the way the defense feels like they can compete, I
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Speaker 6: feel like there's a chance this can be close.
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Speaker 5: I'm still leaning towards the long.
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Speaker 3: Out of curiosity, do you guys think that the environment
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Speaker 3: of Neyland, knowing what this game means and just knowing
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Speaker 3: how that atmosphere is, does that play any bit of
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Speaker 3: a role in maybe it being in favor of Tennessee
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Speaker 3: if they can rattle Arch early?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you rattle them early.
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Speaker 6: And like I said, yes, the lore of Peyton Manning
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Speaker 6: looms large at Tennessee. So all the talking points are
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Speaker 6: going to be there in the lead up to this.
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Speaker 6: And I think the Manning family is going to be
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Speaker 6: obviously in attendance for this to support Arch.
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Speaker 5: So I think there's that.
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Speaker 6: I think the Vols realizing the significance of this victory,
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Speaker 6: what it could mean for them for the rest of
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Speaker 6: their season, they're going to be putting as much heat
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Speaker 6: as humanly possible on Arch Manning in this game. So yeah,
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Speaker 6: I think home field advantage genuinely matters in college football.
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Speaker 6: It matters in the SEC. It matters in this matchup. Arch,
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Speaker 6: even though he was at home, He didn't look comfortable
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Speaker 6: until the fourth quarter, really, against Ohio State. He's got
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Speaker 6: to speed up that clock a little bit. But kind
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Speaker 6: of like we saw with Sam Levitt in LSU, he
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Speaker 6: didn't really feel settled down at all in that game.
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Speaker 6: And Lane Kiffin talked about it after the fact. When
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Speaker 6: a quarterback has their confidence shaken early, it's tough to
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Speaker 6: get it back.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if Arch... Arch doesn't strike me as
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Speaker 5: that type of quarterback. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 6: He got his confidence later. If anything, he got more
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Speaker 6: confident as the game went on. It was shaky at first,
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Speaker 6: some deer legs, and then he got it together. This
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Speaker 6: is going to be a whole different beast for him.
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Speaker 2: In the game in Athens last year, he had a
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Speaker 2: first-half interception. In the game at Kentucky last year, he
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Speaker 2: finished with 132 yards. In the game at Mississippi State,
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Speaker 2: he had a first-half interception. And then I didn't look
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Speaker 2: up the game against Florida, but obviously they took the
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Speaker 2: L there.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember specifically.
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Speaker 4: I think he had two picks in that game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, two interceptions.
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Speaker 2: They both did come in the fourth quarter, not the
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Speaker 2: first half.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 2: Some, you know, but yeah, on the road, he's not
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Speaker 2: been as good, which is understandable. It's a lot harder
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Speaker 2: to play on the road than it is at home.
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Speaker 1: And so I get that.
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Speaker 2: And that's a different, those are different levels of teams
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Speaker 2: to Kentucky fired coach, Florida fired coach, Mississippi state awful
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Speaker 2: last year.
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Speaker 1: Georgia, I'll give you that one. Like, I'll give you
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Speaker 1: the Athens game. Like, no worries. Yeah. Being on the
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Speaker 1: road is.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it definitely has a propensity to have an impact.
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Speaker 2: I don't know specifically that it will. Maybe he hears
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Speaker 2: this podcast. Make sure you're subscribed, Arch. Maybe he hears
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Speaker 2: this podcast and we inspire him by doubting him. But, like,
15:36
Speaker 2: his track record has shown that he's not as good
15:38
Speaker 2: on the road.
15:39
Speaker 1: And so I... you know, now execution matters.
15:42
Speaker 2: Tennessee's defense has got to show up and they've had
15:44
Speaker 2: a lot of injuries on that side of the ball.
15:45
Speaker 2: And it's certainly a concern, but yeah, I think we're
15:48
Speaker 2: very well within our rights to say he needs to
15:51
Speaker 2: go out and prove it on the road. And if
15:53
Speaker 2: he doesn't do it this week, then you're wondering, all right,
15:55
Speaker 2: is he ever going to.
15:55
Speaker 1: Do it on the road?
15:56
Speaker 2: And Neyland is a, I mean, a hundred thousand people, man,
15:58
Speaker 2: like this is not like you're not, I mean, you're
16:01
Speaker 2: not going to do it on, you know, in Starkville or,
16:04
Speaker 2: you know, which again, I mean, went there last year.
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Speaker 1: You're not going to Missouri. This isn't, you know, some, no,
16:10
Speaker 1: no atmosphere stadium. Like this place is going to be
16:12
Speaker 1: a circus at noon on Saturday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I, I think that while everything is going to
16:18
Speaker 3: be focused in on arch, the other thing that I
16:20
Speaker 3: would be really focused in on is can you, if
16:23
Speaker 3: you're Steve Sarkisian, not get into your bag of tricks,
16:25
Speaker 3: if it's not necessary. Cause the thing that I really
16:28
Speaker 3: wonder about is that, will you try something just to
16:30
Speaker 3: go ahead and go pound for pound with another offensive
16:34
Speaker 3: guru like Josh Hypel?
16:35
Speaker 4: And it ends up backfiring.
16:37
Speaker 3: I mean, like to go back to that, go back
16:38
Speaker 3: to week two, Fourth down call. You're running it efficiently
16:42
Speaker 3: against Ohio State's defensive line. You're getting yards after contact
16:45
Speaker 3: with Hollywood Smothers. In what damn world is calling a
16:50
Speaker 3: jet sweep with your wide receiver the right play here?
16:54
Speaker 4: And in an.
16:54
Speaker 3: Environment like Neyland, where you already are probably going to
16:57
Speaker 3: have to burn a timeout because you can't get the
16:59
Speaker 3: play in in time because the atmosphere is going to
17:02
Speaker 3: be so big. It's little moments like that that can
17:04
Speaker 3: carry a lot of weight. I think that, again, veteranship
17:07
Speaker 3: plays a massive role for this Texas team, but it's
17:09
Speaker 3: not like Tennessee is like this young up-and-coming roster. It's
17:13
Speaker 3: a young quarterback with a veteran offensive line, with veteran receivers,
17:17
Speaker 3: with a veteran running back play, with guys who have
17:20
Speaker 3: been a part of a Jim Knowles defense or in
17:22
Speaker 3: that type of formation before that still are gelling.
17:24
Speaker 4: But they've been in these type of games in the past.
17:27
Speaker 3: So... You know, can you, if you are Steve Sarkisian,
17:30
Speaker 3: stick to the script and maybe not try to go
17:32
Speaker 3: so off-key because if you want to flex your muscles
17:34
Speaker 3: and say, look, I know ball better than anybody else
17:36
Speaker 3: out there. That's, I think, a big storyline that not
17:39
Speaker 3: enough people will pay attention to. Like, if you told
17:41
Speaker 3: me that this game came down to one play and
17:42
Speaker 3: it's because somebody messed on up, I don't think it
17:45
Speaker 3: would be Hypel. I think it would be Sark making
17:47
Speaker 3: the wrong decision at the worst time possible.
17:51
Speaker 2: As much as Josh Hypel, you know, pulls levers and...
17:57
Speaker 2: controls what's going on with them. I feel like he
18:00
Speaker 2: does such a good job. This has nothing to do
18:01
Speaker 2: with the game, but I just told point made me
18:03
Speaker 2: think about it. How many like massive brutal mistakes do
18:08
Speaker 2: you remember him making? Like where it costs his seat?
18:10
Speaker 2: Like they've under executed. Remember that game in Arkansas a
18:13
Speaker 2: couple of years ago? Like they've, they've gone out and
18:15
Speaker 2: played poorly in games, but like where he makes a
18:18
Speaker 2: dumb decision and like, I'm not, I don't want to
18:21
Speaker 2: say like Mario ask against Georgia tech, but like something
18:24
Speaker 2: like that, I got, or, or Napier, like snapping the
18:26
Speaker 2: ball through a guy's legs on a fourth down against Georgia.
18:29
Speaker 2: Like just things that you're like, Doug, what are you
18:31
Speaker 2: doing here? I think Hypo does a really good job
18:33
Speaker 2: of staying within himself. I think that's an underrated aspect
18:36
Speaker 2: of how much, how much, you know, lever pulling he's
18:40
Speaker 2: doing at all times. He does a good job of
18:42
Speaker 2: staying within himself, I guess is my major point.
18:45
Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember if there was a point in
18:47
Speaker 3: the game against Mississippi State last year. Because I know
18:49
Speaker 3: they were trailing at one point. If I'm not mistaken,
18:53
Speaker 3: they blew the lead. Because there was the fumble return
18:56
Speaker 3: for the touchdown where they took the lead. They allowed
18:58
Speaker 3: Mississippi State to get the field goal. There was a
19:00
Speaker 3: bad interception.
19:01
Speaker 4: Then they scored a touchdown. They came back. And they
19:04
Speaker 4: tied at 34.
19:06
Speaker 3: But I'm wondering if in that game, was there a
19:07
Speaker 3: moment that he royally screwed on up that allowed Mississippi
19:10
Speaker 3: State to gain momentum?
19:11
Speaker 4: But again, what you said is it's seldom. Like maybe
19:14
Speaker 4: if you like, I don't know. You know what?
19:17
Speaker 3: There, there, the one thing I will say, and this
19:20
Speaker 3: is just me personally, and it's not because of it's
19:22
Speaker 3: the team that I pull.
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Speaker 1: It's because you hate every team, bro.
19:24
Speaker 4: Every exactly.
19:26
Speaker 5: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: I would not have tried to throw it into the
19:29
Speaker 3: end zone on that one play to Zabian Brown last
19:32
Speaker 3: season and.
19:33
Speaker 4: The third Saturday in October, right before halftime, where they
19:35
Speaker 4: go out and they get the pick six.
19:37
Speaker 3: Cause that's when I think momentum immediately went over all
19:39
Speaker 3: the way over to Alabama. But besides that, I'm nitpicking here.
19:43
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that is nitpicky because a better throw
19:45
Speaker 2: and you're up to, you know, like you're up to score.
19:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
19:48
Speaker 1: Or they weren't up. No, but you're not, you're not
19:51
Speaker 1: down to.
19:51
Speaker 3: I think they would have been trailing by three.
19:54
Speaker 4: Maybe I'll tell you a second.
19:56
Speaker 3: Yeah.
19:56
Speaker 1: They were down 10 and that made it 17. That
19:59
Speaker 1: was it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: All right, Tom, who are you picking?
20:05
Speaker 6: I'm going with Texas in this one. I think it's
20:08
Speaker 6: going to be, I think it's going to be competitive.
20:10
Speaker 6: I want to say this is like 27-24. I think
20:15
Speaker 6: there's a chance Tennessee covers. But, man, yeah, I still
20:19
Speaker 6: think I favor Texas. I like their overall talent for
20:22
Speaker 6: the most part. Yeah.
20:24
Speaker 3: I think this is actually going to be a really
20:25
Speaker 3: rocky game to begin for Texas.
20:27
Speaker 4: I do.
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Speaker 1: On a rocky top.
20:29
Speaker 5: No pun intended.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go, Dolly.
20:33
Speaker 4: Listen, by the way, fun story.
20:34
Speaker 3: Not only is this the battle of the UTs, this
20:36
Speaker 3: is a battle of country music, of Texas versus Tennessee.
20:39
Speaker 4: So who's better, Dolly or George Strait? I mean, a
20:42
Speaker 4: lot of people will go ahead and make that comparison.
20:44
Speaker 3: I think that what really sells me in this game
20:47
Speaker 3: is that as much as the environment is so hospitable,
20:51
Speaker 3: I've seen Texas be in the situation before with a
20:54
Speaker 3: quarterback like Arch Manning, and I haven't seen it from
20:56
Speaker 3: face on Brandon.
20:57
Speaker 4: And I will take Texas by four.
20:58
Speaker 1: I got 31-27.
21:03
Speaker 2: Good old Rocky top 34, 31 Tennessee wins an absolute thriller.
21:09
Speaker 1: I am because I'm going to be there.
21:10
Speaker 2: I'm going to, I'm willing this into existence. I, I
21:13
Speaker 2: would like to see that place, just the, the roof
21:16
Speaker 2: blow off of it, the non-existent roof. But yeah, I, I,
21:20
Speaker 2: I think yeah, Texas is the better team. Tennessee needs
21:24
Speaker 2: to be the better team for, Yeah. More of the
21:28
Speaker 2: game than they're not 31 minutes.
21:29
Speaker 1: Can they do that? I don't know.
21:31
Speaker 2: I do think arch could have some shaky stuff that happens.
21:35
Speaker 2: I almost wonder for phase on. He's so inexperienced and
21:39
Speaker 2: you always wonder like, Oh, well, can he do it
21:40
Speaker 2: in this big moment with all this pressure?
21:42
Speaker 1: You know what?
21:43
Speaker 4: He's 18.
21:43
Speaker 1: Yeah.
21:45
Speaker 2: I don't want to pretend like he doesn't know. But
21:48
Speaker 2: like sometimes when you're just a, you're just like, you're
21:50
Speaker 2: just a kid. Like you don't know what you don't know, man.
21:52
Speaker 2: You just go out and play.
21:53
Speaker 1: And maybe him being loose screws them up.
21:57
Speaker 2: Maybe him being loose is like the best thing that
21:59
Speaker 2: could possibly happen for Tennessee. I think Josh will put
22:03
Speaker 2: him in really good situations. I think the team that
22:04
Speaker 2: runs the ball better will have a great chance in
22:06
Speaker 2: this game. If Bishop and Morris and those guys can
22:08
Speaker 2: get going, then Tennessee will do great. If it's smothers
22:11
Speaker 2: in the other side, they'll probably win, but how the
22:14
Speaker 2: trenches match up. I think Tennessee has got a better
22:16
Speaker 2: offensive line. in the matchup, but I think Texas has
22:18
Speaker 2: a better defensive line.
22:19
Speaker 1: So it's good on good. This is a phenomenal game.
22:22
Speaker 2: Like it's not the notoriety of LSU Ole Miss, but
22:27
Speaker 2: I think it's every bit as good.
22:28
Speaker 1: So phenomenal.
22:29
Speaker 3: Out of curiosity, if you could just humor me, because
22:35
Speaker 3: Tom and I both picked Texas to win.
22:39
Speaker 4: Scale of one to 10, you'd be surprised at this
22:40
Speaker 4: upset or upset.
22:45
Speaker 3: Five.
22:46
Speaker 4: See, I'm at a two.
22:48
Speaker 3: Like, I easily could see Tennessee winning this football game. Like,
22:51
Speaker 3: I teetered this before going into today. Like, I really
22:54
Speaker 3: went back and I was like, I was trying to
22:56
Speaker 3: find every reason why Texas would lose. And I just
22:59
Speaker 3: think it's the veteran quarterback is going to do enough.
23:01
Speaker 4: But I'm at a two. If you told me Tennessee
23:03
Speaker 4: wins this one by seven, I won't be surprised whatsoever.
23:06
Speaker 4: Not even a little bit.
23:07
Speaker 6: I think this is a coin flip and like even
23:09
Speaker 6: just projecting ahead a little bit for Tennessee.
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Speaker 5: Next, you host Auburn. You should be better than that team.
23:14
Speaker 5: You're at Arkansas.
23:15
Speaker 6: You should definitely be better than that team. You host Alabama.
23:18
Speaker 6: There's another coin flip and like I kind of like Tennessee.
23:20
Speaker 5: At home in that one. That feels pretty good.
23:22
Speaker 6: At South Carolina, definitely like Tennessee. Hosting Kentucky. Kentucky is
23:28
Speaker 6: going to jump up and bite people. We talked about
23:29
Speaker 6: that in the offseason, but like Competitive game, but I
23:32
Speaker 6: still like Tennessee.
23:33
Speaker 5: Tennessee at Texas.
23:34
Speaker 6: A & M late in the season as a definite
23:38
Speaker 6: college football playoff eliminator. I like Tennessee again. Home against LSU,
23:43
Speaker 6: a tough one. And then at Vandy to end the season,
23:45
Speaker 6: I like Tennessee in that one, even though they've had
23:47
Speaker 6: their struggles with Vandy over the years. Tennessee's got a
23:51
Speaker 6: good road ahead of them. They're fortunate with the way
23:53
Speaker 6: the rest of the schedule shakes out. But if you
23:55
Speaker 6: win this, I think this helps Josh Heupel long-term as.
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Speaker 5: The head coach.
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