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Alabama Expert LEAKS Truth Bomb on Crimson Tide before Texas A&M Game! | Aggies · SEC Football Addiction

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to SEC Football Addiction. Drew DeArmond
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Speaker 1: on with us. We've got Alabama and A & M
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Speaker 1: this weekend. Bama coming off of back-to-back defeats. Certainly need
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Speaker 1: Before we even get into the A & M game, Drew,
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Speaker 1: where's the... Where is this team mentally after taking back-to-back
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Speaker 1: defeats as a slight favorite in one and then as
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Speaker 1: a decent favorite in the other there in Neyland?
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'll just do what some people have
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Speaker 2: done in the political world.
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Speaker 3: I could plead the fifth.
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Speaker 2: I'll be able to tell you by the end of
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Speaker 2: the first quarter in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, I really don't know.
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Speaker 2: where this team is mentally. Um, they were flat as
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Speaker 2: a pancake after the emotional, physical, and, uh, just, uh, just, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, uh, high level game against Georgia. Uh, I
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Speaker 2: think they were, it seemed to me anyway, to be
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Speaker 2: physically and emotionally spent. Georgia certainly was, uh, they were
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Speaker 2: flat as a pancake against Auburn.
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Speaker 3: Auburn made some adjustments coming off the buy.
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Speaker 2: And then Gunner Stockton did not look like Brett Favre and, uh,
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Speaker 2: did make mistakes. And, Brett was known for his interceptions,
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Speaker 2: but again, I'll just say that Gunner had the best
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Speaker 2: game of his career against Alabama, played exceptionally high-level football,
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Speaker 2: but had three turnovers against Auburn that decided the game.
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Speaker 3: And then Alabama, same deal.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they came out, I thought, with one of
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Speaker 2: the worst offensive game plans I've ever seen at the
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Speaker 2: University of Alabama, especially for that environment at Tennessee, which
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Speaker 2: set noise decibel records, so of course what you do,
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Speaker 2: you come out and run RPOs where your quarterback's not comfortable,
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Speaker 2: in my opinion, doing that, and the tailback doesn't touch
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Speaker 2: the ball until the third series, and miraculously you.
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Speaker 3: Gain 17 yards, then you don't go back to it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I just thought Grubbs' entire game plan was
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Speaker 2: a colossal failure, and then the offensive line got dominated.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Both lines of scrimmage did. It was a
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Speaker 2: line of scrimmage game. Tennessee came out. They knew they
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Speaker 2: were limited at quarterback with, you know, with the Georgia McIntyre,
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Speaker 2: and they knew what they had to do, and they
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Speaker 2: did a great job of, you know, helping him out
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Speaker 2: and going to the quick game, slants, high percentage stuff,
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Speaker 2: and then, of course, hammering the football, running the ball.
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Speaker 2: Alabama's defense for a half, just kind of like it
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Speaker 2: was kind of a re-replay of the Georgia game in
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Speaker 2: that sense. stopped the run decently for a half, stood
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Speaker 2: on their heads, were put in difficult positions, only gave
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Speaker 2: up four field goals, because trust me, this could have
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Speaker 2: been the ugliest Alabama-Tennessee game in the Tide history, because
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Speaker 2: this could have been 21 or 28, nothing at half,
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Speaker 2: and just been a colossal beatdown, but somehow, some way,
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Speaker 2: Alabama was only down 12-10 at the half, and you
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Speaker 2: held out a little hope that maybe they'd come out
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Speaker 2: of the locker room, make some adjustments like they did
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Speaker 2: against Kentucky, and win the game, but Pretty much the
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Speaker 2: game was over right after. They finally convert a couple
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Speaker 2: third downs. They were 0-7 in the first half. They
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Speaker 2: convert a couple. But then what really suddenly hit again
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Speaker 2: is after a nice scramble by Keelan Russell for seven yards,
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Speaker 2: you screw up a run on second down.
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Speaker 3: You come back. You decide to.
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Speaker 2: Throw the football and got a little bit of an
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Speaker 2: RPO to the tight end.
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Speaker 3: Throws inaccurate. He catches it.
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Speaker 2: He falls down a yard short. And then, of course,
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Speaker 2: you run a counter trade from the Joe Gibbs era
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Speaker 2: that's slow developing and gets stuffed on fourth down. And
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Speaker 2: basically it was over after that because Tennessee just played
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Speaker 2: keep away and Alabama's defense wore down. And, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of interesting. But with both coordinators, it's kind
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Speaker 2: of a boom or bust. They try to create havoc
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Speaker 2: on defense and create turnovers. They did create a turnover
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Speaker 2: to set up their only touchdown on an interception, but
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Speaker 2: they didn't really come close to turning it over again
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Speaker 2: and getting that game-changing turnover because, honestly, when they got
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Speaker 2: the disastrous turnover for Tennessee with the kickoff return, or
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Speaker 2: excuse me, the punt, and the situation where they accidentally
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Speaker 2: touched a punted football and Alabama gets the ball at
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Speaker 2: the 22, you really, at that point in time, you
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Speaker 2: should have scored to take the lead at halftime. But instead,
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Speaker 2: you fumble it on fourth down because you try to
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Speaker 2: fool them. Instead of coming out of the timeout, running
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Speaker 2: the toss, using those tight ends you've been using all
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Speaker 2: year and getting physical, you try to put Rico Scott
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Speaker 2: at tailback. And they'd used this play once before, and
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Speaker 2: it worked. But they tried to sneak Daniel Hill in there.
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Speaker 2: They screwed the handoff up. Plus, you know, it just
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Speaker 2: seemed like Keelan was tripping over linemen's feet all game.
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Speaker 2: Just the whole thing was just discombobulated, the entire game
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Speaker 2: plan and I just felt like it was just they
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Speaker 2: were trying to fool people. It's like from the opening snap,
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Speaker 2: think about it. I mean, Ryan Coleman-Williams is out. So,
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Speaker 2: of course, you run an RPO trying to throw the
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Speaker 2: ball to Derek Meadows on first down, and Meadows has
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Speaker 2: got like three catches. Like, to me, and there's been
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Speaker 2: some excuse as well. Tennessee was trying to take this away.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they were trying to take away the
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Speaker 2: tight ends. I think they were trying to take away
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Speaker 2: Lottie Brooks. So to me, I think the lead dog
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Speaker 2: in this whole thing should have been Marshall Pritchett.
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Speaker 3: He should have caught double-digit passes.
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Speaker 2: You should have been going to him and Caleb Edwards early,
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Speaker 2: running the football early to settle the quarterback down, let
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Speaker 2: him get into the game like you did against Mississippi State,
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Speaker 2: and they just didn't do that. They totally abandoned the
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Speaker 2: running game. They put everything on the quarterback, and Keelan
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Speaker 2: was rattled and didn't play very well at all. Like
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Speaker 2: I say, you reap what you sow. But Alabama lost
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Speaker 2: the turnover battle, turned it over four times, 4-1. You're
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Speaker 2: just not going to win doing that against a team
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Speaker 2: like Tennessee or 4-2.
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Speaker 3: But still, I mean, I just thought it was a
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Speaker 3: terrible game plan.
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Speaker 2: And then I didn't think the game plan on defense
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Speaker 2: from Kane Womack was very good either.
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Speaker 3: They didn't man up. They didn't try to pressure.
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Speaker 2: They didn't– I never thought they affected George McIntyre. He
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Speaker 2: never looked rattled to me. They let him settle in.
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Speaker 2: And so I just thought all the way around it
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Speaker 2: was a colossal failure. And where we are now, that's
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Speaker 2: kind of what you asked to start the segment, TJ.
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Speaker 2: We're at a fork in the road. And I don't
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Speaker 2: just mean for the damn season. I mean for this
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Speaker 2: coaching staff. Now, am I saying something imminent is happening
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Speaker 2: because we've already had Michael Oxley, former Bama assistant, get
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Speaker 2: dismissed today at Maryland?
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Speaker 3: I don't think that. But I'll just say this.
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Speaker 2: The Fahrenheit on the seats– and the pressure is going
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Speaker 2: to go way up, and it can change quickly. It's
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Speaker 2: two and a half years or so into this, and
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Speaker 2: the same things keep happening. Looking unprepared on the road,
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Speaker 2: getting rattled, not playing physical football. I'm going to tell
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Speaker 2: your listeners what I've said on my show and on
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Speaker 2: a couple others.
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Speaker 3: Look, man, you've been around this game a long time.
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Speaker 3: I have.
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Speaker 2: When I was a young kid, my first memories of
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Speaker 2: Alabama football.
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Speaker 3: Were the mid-' 80s.
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Speaker 2: And, of course, that was the end of the Ray
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Speaker 2: Perkins era. He coached in 85 and 86. And then
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Speaker 2: they hired a guy from the ACC named– I don't
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Speaker 2: call him Bill. I call him William Curry because I'm
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Speaker 2: not a big fan of his. They hired William Curry
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Speaker 2: instead of Bobby Bowden. And, look, I know you're happy
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Speaker 2: about that.
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Speaker 4: It worked out okay in my seat.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I mean, he went on.
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Speaker 4: He sits right up there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he went on.
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Speaker 2: Finished his Hall of Fame career in Tallahassee, which probably
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Speaker 2: is a good thing. I mean, he certainly established Florida
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Speaker 2: State as a power, won two national championships, and had
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Speaker 2: 14 straight top five finishes. Well, he was just in
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Speaker 2: the midst of building that in 1987 when he was
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Speaker 2: thinking about coming home to Birmingham. But Alabama decided to
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Speaker 2: hire William Curry. And, you know, William Curry was soft,
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Speaker 2: I always thought, and was a fake. and never liked
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Speaker 2: his style of football, even though the offense was fun
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Speaker 2: to watch. He won– for every big game he would win,
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Speaker 2: and it was ironic, he was undefeated against Tennessee, and
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Speaker 2: he was undefeated against Penn State, but he lost to
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Speaker 2: Memphis State, at that time Memphis State.
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Speaker 3: And then he.
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Speaker 2: Lost the first homecoming game in Alabama Crimson Tide history
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Speaker 2: to Ole Miss, and they didn't complete a forward pass.
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Speaker 2: And then he faked a brick being thrown through his window.
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Speaker 2: So he could garner national sympathy, but– Again, I never
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Speaker 2: liked William Curry, and as soon as this game unfolded,
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Speaker 2: this Alabama-Tennessee game, I was fooled. I thought this Alabama
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Speaker 2: staff was figuring some things out. The way they handled
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Speaker 2: the second half against Kentucky, which is a great win
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Speaker 2: right now, their best win, 32-0 in the second half,
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Speaker 2: running the football, running it against Mississippi State the entire game,
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Speaker 2: letting the quarterback settle in. And then even against Georgia,
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Speaker 2: competing the way they did, they ran the football in
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Speaker 2: that game, but everything went out the window on Saturday
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Speaker 2: in Knoxville, and they just reverted to everything that has
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Speaker 2: been wrong with this program since they got here.
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Speaker 3: And it was just soft football on both sides.
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Speaker 2: And, I mean, as soon as at the end of
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Speaker 2: the third quarter, you know, Kalen DeBoer, the sideline reporter
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Speaker 2: goes up to him, I think it's Katie George, and
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Speaker 2: she says, Coach, you guys are down 19-10.
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Speaker 3: How do you get your offense going?
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Speaker 2: And he says, I called everybody together and I looked
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Speaker 2: in their eyes and I know they're good. And then
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Speaker 2: after the game, he's, well, we talked to everybody.
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Speaker 3: We know we got them. leadership on the scene. We
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Speaker 3: know we've got the guys that turn this thing around.
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Speaker 3: We did it. We've done it before. We know we
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Speaker 3: got to get going. We looked in their eyes.
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Speaker 2: All I, all I, you know, I have really good
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Speaker 2: connections to the Alabama program and the William Curry era.
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Speaker 3: Now, all I need to.
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Speaker 2: Hear is, is do what Bill did before he played Auburn.
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Speaker 2: And what he did, and you're not going to believe this,
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Speaker 2: but it's God's honest truth. He handed everybody sheets with
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Speaker 2: lyrics on it, and they all sang One Moment in
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Speaker 2: Time by Whitney Houston. That's all I need to hear
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Speaker 2: now as they're listening to, as he gives them some
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Speaker 2: kind of DVD or some kind of CD or something
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Speaker 2: or some kind of, I don't know, MP3 or whatever.
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Speaker 4: Promise Notes. Yeah, we see all these things.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you text them a song. I mean, that's all
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Speaker 3: I need to hear now.
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Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, in summation, I think this coaching
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Speaker 2: staff is at a crossroads because you can't talk physicality
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Speaker 2: and then not show it. And I think that there's
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Speaker 2: been a lot of fake toughness going on. Like, we're
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Speaker 2: going to run the football. We're going to be physical.
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Speaker 2: We've emphasized it. And then what do you do when
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Speaker 2: you go on the road to Tennessee? You play as
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Speaker 2: soft a game as I've ever seen. So I'm going
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Speaker 2: to be fascinated. to see how they play against Texas
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Speaker 2: A & M because A & M has not had
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Speaker 2: a good year.
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Speaker 3: You know that.
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Speaker 2: But they're talented and they're capable. And, you know, Ryan
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Speaker 2: Grubb tried to wear it. I didn't think Kane Womack did.
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Speaker 3: But I'm going to be.
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Speaker 2: Really interested to see how this team plays as a
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Speaker 2: whole and are they still invested and do they still
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Speaker 2: believe in their coach because I didn't see any pop
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Speaker 2: or energy at all. Now, some of that, people will say,
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Speaker 2: is because of the injuries and because of the aftermath
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Speaker 2: of the Georgia game.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: That's in the rear view. You got your butts handed
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Speaker 2: to you by Tennessee. And as Marshall Pritchett said this
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Speaker 2: week to the media, we're playoff games from now going
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Speaker 2: forward because Alabama has no margin for error. So they
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Speaker 2: have a schedule that can enable them to make the playoff.
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Speaker 2: But guess what? Your next two games are going to
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Speaker 2: decide that. And they knew this was kind of an
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Speaker 2: amen corner going into it. They're already 0-2. And so
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Speaker 2: now you've got Texas A & M with Marcel Reed,
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Speaker 2: who's enigmatic but talented, a backfield with Reuben Owens that
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Speaker 2: hasn't lived up to it, but it has potential, and
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Speaker 2: then a defense that's been up and down.
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Speaker 3: And they're trying to save their season.
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Speaker 2: So it's going to be really fascinating to see how
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Speaker 2: they come out Saturday. And then you get a bye
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Speaker 2: week to get people healthy, but you're still going to
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Speaker 2: be without a lot of pieces like Ryan Coleman-Williams, like
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Speaker 2: Rayson Delgatti, probably Nozabian Brown. So how are you going
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Speaker 2: to react against A & M? Because then you've got
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Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin waiting after a bye week, and trust me
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Speaker 2: with this, there is no team except maybe the Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss Rebels that Lane Kiffin would rather beat. And he's
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Speaker 2: never beaten Alabama because the boogeyman was on the other side. Well,
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Speaker 2: the boogeyman's been retired, and this is his first shot
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Speaker 2: since then, and he would like nothing better than to
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Speaker 2: basically put the nail in the coffin of Alabama's season
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Speaker 2: because that's– you know, basically– If you don't win these
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Speaker 2: next two games, you're looking at something like the Duke's
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Speaker 2: Mayo Bowl, and nobody had those expectations going into the year.
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Speaker 1: appreciate them for their support. You mentioned his interviews. I, um, I,
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Speaker 1: I know clips on the sideline get taken out of context.
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Speaker 1: Heck they get taken out of context on Mike Norvell
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Speaker 1: every single week, multiple times a week, you know, and
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Speaker 1: you see the funny memes, but, um, when they're showing
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Speaker 1: the decibel thing and you hear the crowd and you
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Speaker 1: panned it a bore and he just looks like he
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Speaker 1: is having a literal panic attack on the side.
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Speaker 4: Now he could have just been shaken off a coach.
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Speaker 1: Like he could have just been saying, no, we don't
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Speaker 1: know what was good. But just that image is like,
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Speaker 1: what's burned in my brain from that game is there.
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Speaker 1: They're showing the freaking world record for the decibel. And
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Speaker 1: he looks like he's having a heart attack on the sideline.
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Speaker 1: And you're like, Yeah, that just does not... Now, again,
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Speaker 1: maybe he's just shaking off a call.
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Speaker 4: We don't know.
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Speaker 1: But all we know is what we saw, man. It
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Speaker 1: didn't look good from a perception standpoint. So A &
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Speaker 1: M this week is kind of an opportunity for a
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Speaker 1: get-right game.
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Speaker 4: You are right. They do have talent.
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Speaker 1: Marcel Reed can do really special things at times.
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Speaker 3: And if he.
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Speaker 1: kind of reverts back to his very best, then yeah,
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Speaker 1: this could be tougher than you think, but it is
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Speaker 1: at home.
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Speaker 4: You're a two score favorite for a reason.
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Speaker 1: Like this should be the opportunity for, for Alabama to
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Speaker 1: go into the bi-week with some confidence and, and really
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Speaker 1: kind of know, Hey, if we take care of business,
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Speaker 1: against LSU if we go into Death Valley and win
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Speaker 1: we would have to I don't even know shoot ourselves
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Speaker 1: in the foot is the right word we would have
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Speaker 1: to chop our leg off to to not make the
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Speaker 1: playoff you know you're not losing to Vandy you're not
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Speaker 1: losing to Chattanooga and Auburn just doesn't seem to win
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Speaker 1: in Brian Denny right so not that that one can't
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Speaker 1: get weird with it being a rivalry but I don't want.
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Speaker 4: To call it just a two-game season because you do have.
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Speaker 1: To go take care of uh business but I do
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Speaker 1: think this is really an opportunity for you to get
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Speaker 1: a lot more confidence back that may be lost against
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Speaker 1: an A & M team that Bama should be a
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Speaker 1: lot better than.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, going into the season, this was considered
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Speaker 2: by some to be more of a toss-up game because
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Speaker 2: you remember A & M was a top-ten team, really
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Speaker 2: ranked ahead of Alabama going into the season. But some
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Speaker 2: of their personnel moves, they've had injuries as well, haven't
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Speaker 2: worked out.
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Speaker 3: But again, Alabama's got.
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Speaker 2: To get this win because Alabama, You want to quell
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Speaker 2: and calm the masses a little bit.
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Speaker 3: As you said, TJ, they still have everything in front
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Speaker 3: of them.
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Speaker 2: In my opinion, especially this year with as crazy as
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Speaker 2: college football has been, and that was as crazy as
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Speaker 2: Saturday as I remember, if you're Alabama, this year I'd
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Speaker 2: almost want to win out and not be in Atlanta.
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Speaker 3: Let Ole Miss go for the first time, whatever. Let
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Speaker 3: them play Georgia.
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Speaker 4: You got enough of those trophies?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Don't go get beat up in that thing.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. Yeah. It's pointless.
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Speaker 2: Try to get into the playoff, and if you're 10-2
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Speaker 2: at that point, you have a chance, but you can't
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Speaker 2: make a mistake.
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Speaker 3: You've got to beat A & M. You're going to
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Speaker 3: have to beat LSU, and I'm going to be watching
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Speaker 3: Auburn LSU at 11 a.m. very closely.
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Speaker 2: Did Auburn have a one shining moment, or have they
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Speaker 2: found something? with running their QB, Byron Brown, 25 times
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Speaker 2: a game. Did they find something on defense by getting
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Speaker 2: rid of Xavier Adkins, who was one of their, I
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Speaker 2: thought to be, top three or four players overall and
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Speaker 2: best defender coming into the season and had played well statistically,
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Speaker 2: but behind the scenes, I think he was kind of
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Speaker 2: a train wreck off the field, and I think, too,
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Speaker 2: on the field, he was kind of trying to do
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Speaker 2: his own thing. And so you kind of, It's addition
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Speaker 2: by subtraction. You sit him and then eventually dismiss him.
17:36
Speaker 2: You put Bryce Dees in there with Elijah Melendez, and
17:39
Speaker 2: this Auburn defense holds Georgia to 115 rushing yards, spots
17:44
Speaker 2: them a 14-point lead, and comes back to win the
17:47
Speaker 2: game at the buzzer, and at one point even led
17:51
Speaker 2: by 10. And that changes the environment at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
17:56
Speaker 2: If they lose to Georgia like they had the previous
17:59
Speaker 2: nine years and get whacked, then There's a chance that
18:03
Speaker 2: Jordan-Hare is kind of flat on Saturday morning at 11 a.m.
18:07
Speaker 2: LSU can come in there, take care of business. Now
18:10
Speaker 2: it's going to be a situation where are we back?
18:13
Speaker 2: That's what Auburn's thinking. Are we back to being a
18:16
Speaker 2: contender again? Can we recreate the magic of Jordan-Hare Stadium?
18:22
Speaker 2: And we're going to see because LSU's coming in there
18:24
Speaker 2: at 11 a.m. Both of these teams are fighting for
18:27
Speaker 2: their seasons, and if Auburn can win that game and
18:31
Speaker 2: win two in a row, That changes their October completely
18:34
Speaker 2: and their outlook. They're actually a contender, and Alabama might
18:39
Speaker 2: have a much bigger battle on their hands at the
18:41
Speaker 2: end of the season in Bryant-Denny Stadium than anticipated. But
18:45
Speaker 2: if LSU comes in there, drops an anvil, and then
18:49
Speaker 2: Auburn realizes, okay, we had one moment in time.
18:52
Speaker 3: There we go.
18:53
Speaker 2: Kind of funny I went back to that, huh?
18:55
Speaker 4: Full circle.
18:56
Speaker 3: Yeah.
18:57
Speaker 2: If that's the case, then maybe Alabama can get right
19:00
Speaker 2: against A & M.
19:02
Speaker 1: Then.
19:02
Speaker 3: LSU.
19:03
Speaker 2: Will be in despair because, you know, it would be
19:08
Speaker 2: funny because you either get LSU where a situation where
19:11
Speaker 2: they would be in complete chaos because they're already out
19:14
Speaker 2: of the playoff, unbelievably, heading over there to Baton Rouge,
19:18
Speaker 2: or if they take care of Auburn, then Red Stick's
19:21
Speaker 2: going to be on fire because both teams will be
19:23
Speaker 2: fighting for their season, and Lane would like nothing better
19:26
Speaker 2: than to end Alabama's playoff hopes.
19:29
Speaker 3: And, of course, the Tides had a lot of success
19:31
Speaker 3: in Baton Rouge.
19:32
Speaker 2: You know, Kalen DeBoer's 2-0 against LSU, but he's never
19:36
Speaker 2: faced Lane Kiffin. So it's going to be really interesting
19:40
Speaker 2: how the outcomes of both of these games, Alabama-Texas A
19:44
Speaker 2: & M, Auburn-LSU, is going to go a long way
19:48
Speaker 2: toward deciding what kind of seasons. Because I think A
19:53
Speaker 2: & M' s already done. So it'll be interesting to see
19:56
Speaker 2: how hard they fight coming off of what was basically
19:59
Speaker 2: a bye week against the Citadel. But if Alabama can
20:02
Speaker 2: take care of A & M, they've got a ton
20:04
Speaker 2: to play for. You've got LSU next. It's a big rivalry.
20:09
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin But if Auburn beats them, are they going
20:12
Speaker 2: to just be in the tank? But if they take
20:16
Speaker 2: care of Auburn, everything's on the table for them as well,
20:20
Speaker 2: which means it's going to be a hornet's nest, which
20:23
Speaker 2: Alabama should be used to. But look, I mean, we've
20:27
Speaker 2: already seen Cale and DeBoer's teams not react well on
20:30
Speaker 2: the road at times, even though his first year they
20:32
Speaker 2: did go to red stick and win. But that's Brian
20:34
Speaker 2: Kelly's red stick. This isn't Lane Kiffin's. there's just a
20:38
Speaker 2: lot of storylines to follow, but I think you'll know
20:42
Speaker 2: by the end of the first quarter, because I've watched
20:45
Speaker 2: enough Kaelin DeBoer football. If Alabama starts well, they generally
20:49
Speaker 2: play well. If they start slowly, only example of them
20:53
Speaker 2: doing that or a couple of them is Kentucky earlier
20:56
Speaker 2: this year and Oklahoma in the playoff last year, where
20:59
Speaker 2: we saw some adjustments and we saw them rally. So, uh,
21:03
Speaker 2: but most of the time when they start slow, it doesn't,
21:06
Speaker 2: it doesn't end well. So I'm expecting a faster start
21:09
Speaker 2: and some passion from these guys.
21:11
Speaker 3: But, again, I know I was joking with you about
21:14
Speaker 3: playing the fifth.
21:15
Speaker 2: I really don't know what to expect, and that's why
21:18
Speaker 2: I kind of told you, check with me after.
21:21
Speaker 3: The first quarter. We'll know.
21:23
Speaker 2: And we'll know what Alabama, what version of Alabama we're
21:27
Speaker 2: potentially getting. And I think it needs to be play action,
21:31
Speaker 2: run the football early, and let Keelan Russell settle in.
21:35
Speaker 2: Let's not have him having to be the hero again.
21:37
Speaker 2: and make every play.
21:40
Speaker 1: If it's good news, I'll text you. And whatever you say,
21:42
Speaker 1: I'll screenshot and post on the channel. If it's bad news,
21:44
Speaker 1: I'll wait till after the game and see if they
21:45
Speaker 1: respond to halftime. Cause I won't, I won't give you,
21:48
Speaker 1: I don't like what people text me during the game.
21:49
Speaker 1: So I, if it's, but if it's good, if you're
21:51
Speaker 1: up 17 to three or something, then I won't bother
21:54
Speaker 1: bothering you. What is the one thing we talked about
21:56
Speaker 1: a and M for a moment, but what is the
21:58
Speaker 1: one thing specifically, just not, not necessarily a mindset, not
22:01
Speaker 1: necessarily big picture, what DeBoer and the staff need to do.
22:05
Speaker 4: What's the one thing you want to see Bama clean
22:07
Speaker 4: up from last week?
22:08
Speaker 1: Like, you know, run game, Keelan's decision-making, offensive line, something
22:13
Speaker 1: on the defense, which I thought the defense was mostly good,
22:15
Speaker 1: gave him a chance to stay in this thing when
22:17
Speaker 1: the offense was doing nothing in the first half. But
22:20
Speaker 1: what was the one thing you want to see in
22:21
Speaker 1: this game?
22:22
Speaker 4: And then we'll wrap up and get out of here
22:24
Speaker 4: in a few.
22:25
Speaker 3: Line play on both sides, man.
22:27
Speaker 2: I want to see the offensive line playing with a
22:30
Speaker 2: physicality and then trying to establish the run, and then
22:34
Speaker 2: I want to see Alabama's run defense making A &
22:37
Speaker 2: M one-dimensional and making Marcel Reed beat them. If I
22:41
Speaker 2: see the improved line play on both sides of the ball,
22:44
Speaker 2: then I think Alabama's going to win, because if you
22:46
Speaker 2: look at Alabama's wins when they started 5-0, TJ, the
22:50
Speaker 2: line play was really good on both sides, and I
22:53
Speaker 2: didn't think it was bad against Georgia. I just thought
22:56
Speaker 2: they lost to a really good football team, but You know,
23:00
Speaker 2: that old mantra, don't let them beat you twice. Well,
23:03
Speaker 2: Alabama talked about that all week, but then they weren't
23:05
Speaker 2: prepared for Tennessee, who I think they mimicked a lot
23:08
Speaker 2: of things Georgia was doing. They mimicked they wanted to
23:11
Speaker 2: go out and play physical and throw the first punch.
23:14
Speaker 2: I want to see Alabama throw the first punch on
23:16
Speaker 2: Saturday against A & M.
23:21
Speaker 1: I think Alabama does kind of roll here. Hey, Red Stick,
23:23
Speaker 1: by the way, for those that don't know, the English
23:24
Speaker 1: translation of Baton Rouge. You get a lot more than
23:27
Speaker 1: you bargained for by listening to me and Drew ramble
23:29
Speaker 1: on about football. I do have one other non-football thing
23:32
Speaker 1: to talk to you about in just a moment, too.
23:34
Speaker 1: But I'll save it for after the prediction. I kind
23:37
Speaker 1: of like Alabama to roll here, no pun intended.
23:40
Speaker 4: See, I can do it, too.
23:42
Speaker 3: I don't know.
23:42
Speaker 4: Give me something like.
23:45
Speaker 4: I think they play well at home. I do think
23:46
Speaker 4: they bounce back.
23:47
Speaker 1: I think that's something they've shown last week was the
23:49
Speaker 1: first time they've, um, you know, you've never had to
23:52
Speaker 1: see what a Kalen board team looks like after two losses,
23:55
Speaker 1: because I think last week was the first time they've
23:56
Speaker 1: ever lost coming off of a loss. So I think
23:59
Speaker 1: you do see a bounce back. I just, I also
24:01
Speaker 1: think that it is a get right game. I just
24:03
Speaker 1: think A & M is not in.
24:04
Speaker 4: A great spot right now.
24:05
Speaker 1: I think Bama comes out flying around something like 31, 17, 34, 17.
24:08
Speaker 1: Like I think they win somewhat comfortably. I think you're
24:13
Speaker 1: in a fairly good mood. I think even that last
24:14
Speaker 1: touchdown for A & M could come in the fourth quarter,
24:19
Speaker 1: garbage time-ish. So I think Bama rolls here. What's your score?
24:24
Speaker 2: My first initial thought was 31-24, but I just thought
24:28
Speaker 2: more about Alabama's struggles the last two weeks offensively. And
24:33
Speaker 2: then A & M especially, they haven't been able to
24:35
Speaker 2: throw the football effectively. Their run game has struggled. I
24:39
Speaker 2: got 27-16 Alabama. I don't think they cover, but I
24:42
Speaker 2: think the defense can hold it into some field goals,
24:45
Speaker 2: and I think Alabama with Keelan Russell will make enough plays.
24:49
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll be pretty, but I think it'll
24:51
Speaker 2: be a 27-16 Alabama win.
24:54
Speaker 1: The last thing I want to tell you about before
24:56
Speaker 1: we get out of here, I'm going to have to
24:57
Speaker 1: get you.
24:58
Speaker 4: I'm four games away.
25:00
Speaker 1: From sending you a raise hat to wear when you
25:02
Speaker 1: come on this show, like there's.
25:04
Speaker 4: No, right. Like we're not rivals. We're not in the
25:06
Speaker 4: same league. You can throw it away.
25:08
Speaker 1: If we ever both are in the world series, they,
25:09
Speaker 1: but I'm four games away from sending you a raise hat.
25:11
Speaker 4: So just, just keep that in mind.
25:13
Speaker 3: Hey, I'll add it to the collection.
25:14
Speaker 2: I got about 250. I, uh, I'm going, well, hopefully,
25:20
Speaker 2: hopefully it gets there, but I'm going to game five.
25:23
Speaker 1: So don't get swept. If you sweep them, I would
25:25
Speaker 1: be a little upset. I won't be terribly upset, but
25:27
Speaker 1: if we go up three, I'll, I'll cheer for us
25:28
Speaker 1: to lose game four. And then, and then so I
25:31
Speaker 1: can go to game five and watch them win it all,
25:33
Speaker 1: but going to game five. So hopefully we, we make
25:35
Speaker 1: it that far.
25:36
Speaker 3: Awesome, man. Definitely. I'll take it.
25:39
Speaker 1: Take a, take just a sec to tell people where
25:40
Speaker 1: they can find you, what you got coming this week,
25:42
Speaker 1: and then we'll get out of here.
25:43
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:43
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