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Michael Bratton Talks SEC Football Predictions · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Mike. Welcome in, sir. How are you Hey? Doing great?
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  Jacob? Thanks for having me as always, man, I appreciate you as
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  always having taking a small poll for people that come on, are you buying
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  and playing in C double A football when it comes out? I'm still playing
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  in C double A fourteen? Very good? Yes, Jake, I am
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  very very good. Hey, we're joking, but we're not. I think
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  we're going to buy a deal and put it up here so we can play
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  up here at the office. So I know that will decrease productivity by a
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  large amount, but we'll just have to figure that out. Hey, speaking
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  and figuring it out Texas A and m Let's go there first. What is
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  your take on ELKO and what they have done at least in the transfer portal?
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  We won't. I mean spring practice is about to kick off everywhere.
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  But what is kind of the ceiling, the you know, the floor.
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  Can he do any better than his two predecessors in Kevin Sumlin and Jimbo Fisher?
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  And are you expecting him to? Yeah? I think it's uniquely set
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  up for him to do that, Jake, because if he makes a college
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  football playoff, that's something his predecessor couldn't do. Now, it's obviously much
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  easier because it's a twelve team formatt But people are at the end of the
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  day, they are not gonna care about that. They're gonna care how many
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  times you make that and how many times you're competitive competing in the SEC.
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  And can he beat Texas? I mean, that's well, that's something Jimbo
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  didn't have to worry about, but something that else Elko, Sure he will.
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  He'll have to beat the Longhorns probably about every time he faces him a
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  Kyle Field. They expect to win that game. So maybe there's a little
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  bit of added pressure specifically on that one game. But we know what we're
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  getting with Mike Yelco. We're gonna be elite on defense. May not be
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  elite immediately, but by year two they better be. And I really like
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  to hire a Collin klent and offensive coordinator. I think he is someone that
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  is that adjust to his players and is a new age offensive mind for college
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  football, and that is certainly something they were lacking under Jimbo Fisher. Michael
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  Bratton on your radio that SEC podcast Final to Exit, just search for SEC
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  might get in and enjoyed today, all right, LSU. I don't know
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  what to I mean, look, LSU, we know recruits well, they
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  can no matter who's there, They're going to recruit. Well, got to
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  replace Jadon Daniels. They feel pretty good about Neu Smeyer doing that in that
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  quarterback room. Whole new defensive staff, LSU ten to one. I know
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  you put this out their courtesy of bet Online underscore ag to win the SEC.
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  They have the one, two, three, four, five, six
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  best sides to win the SEC championship this year at least today. What can
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  you expect of LSU and Brian Kelly? Yeah, this is a team,
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  Jake, A lot of people are high on and I just I don't get
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  it. And that's not to say that they're going to be bad. They
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  just won twenty football games in two years in the SEC. That's that ain't
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  easy. So I'm not saying they're terrible or anything, but I'm just trying
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  to figure out someone that was just completely pathetic on defense. How are we
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  going to turn that over in one offseason? Even though we've overhauled the coaching
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  staff, our best overall player, for some reason, we are dead set
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  on playing him at a position which kind of killed his production last year.
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  Looks like they're dead set on doing that again. Quarterback won the highest when
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  he's gone. Top two receivers were borderline all Americans. They're gone, and
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  they've never been able to really have a running game runner Brian Kelly. So
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  why in the world is everyone excited? And if you look at their schedule,
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  Jake, I mean it's tricky right out the gate. Southern Cal in
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  Las Vegas, U SCLA the first month as well. That's something that has
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  played Brian Kelly at LSU. They can't win the first game, and I
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  think if they don't beat Southern Cal, I mean, I think we're looking
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  at an eight win team at best next season. So I think there's immense
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  pressure for LSU going into a game that I think most people expect them to
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  win. But if he goes oh for three and season openers, I think
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  it's gonna be a down year in the LSU. No, I would tend
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  to agree with you. I've got them set if everything goes right at nine
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  and three. That sc game is what is, like you said, kind
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  of where they hinges playing against Lincoln Riley breaking in a new quarterback, a
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  lot of new skill talent at sc Paper Tiger on defense. So they need
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  to win that game. Let me ask you about a few more teams here
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  that we typically don't talk about. Kentucky. You know they We've talked about
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  Kentucky with you, like a lot of these teams for years with you,
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  and you know they're they're a really solid football team. Mark Stoops has built
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  a solid program. You look at it. Georgia quarterback now coming over in
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  Vander griff can he get them over the edge? And what is over the
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  edge? I mean they can they be looking at a playoff spot. I
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  don't think that they can compete obviously now with the Georgia's and the Texas Is
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  and Ole Misses and Alabama's of the this year of Tennessee. But can they
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  be in the at least a conversation for one of those playoff spots come November.
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  I don't think so, Jake, And I think this is one of
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  the main programs that is fighting against an in game SEC schedule. Yeah,
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  and I think they're going to be upset now that we no longer have East
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  and West divisions because that is resulting in them having to go to Old Miss
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  heavy favorite. I would think for the Rebels in that matchup Auburn. It
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  is in Lexington, but I think I would favor Alburn in that matchup.
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  And oh yeah at Texas, who against heavy favorite Texas. So I don't
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  know Jake, and you know everyone's circle in Brock vandergriff is potentially the answer.
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  I'm not bought in on that, and I think it's clear as day.
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  The last couple of years, they've tried to kind of rejuvenate their identity
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  on the offensive side of the football, sold around more have these high profile
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  quarterbacks, and the results have not followed. They need to get back to
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  grounded pound. That's where the big blue wall. It's been big Blue gets
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  your quarterback killed the last couple of years. We got to re establish that
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  offensive line and be a grounded pound, and I don't know that they have
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  the players to do that right now. So I saw you put this out
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  yesterday. Florida hires dan Enos from Arkansas. Should that make Gator fans feel,
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  well, let's just keep him away from game planning, calling plays,
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  coaching quarterbacks and if we could do all that, we're good. So yeah,
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  I mean I love the poke Florida fans because they can't seemingly take a
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  joke to save their life. But yeah, I believe he's just gonna be
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  an analyst. But you know that's not going to help anything there. I
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  don't think billion aaper. I don't know what in the world he's thinking bringing
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  in dan Enos Now. Is he overqualified to be an analyst? Sure,
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  but again, if you need that guy's help, you're in more trouble than
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  I thought. And man, I'm just shaking my head at the fact they
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  brought in a guy that engineered one of the worst offenses in all of college
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  football last year. Speaking of let's stay with Arkansas theme, can Bobby Petrino
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  could not do it for Jimbo Fisher? Can he go back to Arkansas party
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  there and save Sam Pittman's job this year? Potentially Jake, Because I'm a
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  little curious. You're not alone, so I'm not calling you out specifically,
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  but I'm a little confused why people say he didn't get it done today in
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  them, I mean, they went from averaging twenty two points per game to
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  thirty three in one offseason, and that's with three different quarterbacks due to injuries.
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  So I thought Bobby Petrino did a pretty good job at A and M
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  last year. Given that you know, now we know he had to go
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  to Jimbo's terminology, Jimbo still had his hands on it and everything like that,
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  so we know Sam Pittman's not going to do that. Now, the
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  bigger question, I think, who will Arkansas have a quarterback? And even
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  more important is how that offensive line looked. Because never in my life,
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  Jake, what I thought Sam Pittman's teams the week this would be the offensive
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  line, but it really has been, particularly last year and really the last
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  two years. So can they get that resolved? Because they could have the
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  best quarterback in the SEC, even though we know they won't. But if
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  they don't have any offensive line, it's not gonna matter and they'll all be
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  fired if they can't get that result. Michael Bratton's Talking SEC Football Wednesday edition
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  of the program. Let me get you out of here with the Alabama question.
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  Man, so much change, and of course you know some of this
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  is negligible, but new coach Ivison Debor he's on social media, new play
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  by play voice as they move away, you know, from one of the
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  greats and Eli Gold just a ton of stuff. And I saw where I
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  don't know if this is good or not. More access maybe than ever for
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  the media at spring practice for Kaylen de boor as well. What does he
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  do with Jalen Milroe? Is he the quarterback this year? Can he adapt
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  to what Milroe does and Kim Milroe adapt to what you know the coach does.
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  Yeah, Jake, I feel bad for the media members because if Alabama
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  goes into the disc like some assume that next coach is gonna strip away all
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  those availabilities. I'm blaming on the media, you know, for asking questions
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  during the week. My god. But yeah, I mean to answer your
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  question, I think Jaylen Milros I think he's horribly underrated. I guess it's
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  just because we saw him last in Michigan and it was obviously non impressive.
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  A lot of that had to do with the fact that his center cannot snap
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  the ball to him. But I mean, we're talking about a guy that
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  is he's the leading returning vote getter for last year's Heisman Trophy and everybody's throwing
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  him in the trash saying he can't play football. Well, I think he's
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  going to be much better prepared this year playing for Canader to Board than he
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  was for Tommy Reeve, who last I check, is now a tight ends
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  coach in the NFL. I think Jaylen Millroe is gonna be one of the
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  surprise players in the SCC. I'm more concerned about Alabama's defense than I am
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  the offense heading into this new era without Nick Davids, make sure to get
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  the podcast, That SEC Podcast. You can find it on YouTube as well.
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  Give him a follow on ex Always your SEC football in one place with
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  SEC Mike Michael. I appreciate your time, sir, Look have a great
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  weekend. We'll do it again soon. Absolutely, take care of Jake