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Texas SOURCE ADMITS Something About Ohio State Buckeyes Before Longhorns Game! · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: All right. Welcome back to college football addiction.
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  Speaker 2: We are presented by prize picks Jerry Hamilton here with
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  Speaker 2: on Texas football game of the year type stuff for Texas,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio state, just a massive one down in Austin Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night could not be a better time slot for this too.
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  Speaker 2: I'd imagine that the partying will start very soon after
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  Speaker 2: we start recording this, but they've all been waiting for
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  Speaker 2: us to record before they go out and go crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But just this game is so important in so many
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  Speaker 2: different angles. But I think it's a lot more important
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  Speaker 2: for Texas to go out and win this game than
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  Speaker 2: it is Ohio State. When I think about what happened
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  Speaker 2: last year, when I think about both teams' schedules, not
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  Speaker 2: that Ohio State's is not hard, too. When I think about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just we have a little more confidence in
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State to win these big games. And we're waiting
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  Speaker 2: on Texas to do it, too.
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  Speaker 1: And it's at home.
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  Speaker 2: So every way I look at it, it's like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Texas has got to win this game. Now,
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  Speaker 2: they'll be fine if they don't. They have plenty of opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: But this game is huge for Steve Sarkeesian and the boys.
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  Speaker 3: I totally agree with you, TJ. Look, it's a huge game.
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  Speaker 4: For both programs. I'll get into that for the Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State side at the end of this answer.
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  Speaker 3: But from the Texas perspective, I think you're right, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the Texas fan base feels that as well. Look,
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  Speaker 3: there is no getting around the fact that Ohio State's
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  Speaker 3: lost 15 NFL draft picks on defense the last two
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  Speaker 3: years combined from those teams Texas played.
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  Speaker 4: One, that means guys that weren't starting.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe a couple of portal guys that came over got drafted,
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  Speaker 3: but those were great players. Not good, great players. Caleb Downs,
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  Speaker 3: Arvel Reese. I can keep going on. McDonald at D-line.
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  Speaker 3: We can keep naming guys. There were some of those
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  Speaker 3: that were styles, were great football players. As talented as
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State is, as good a coach as Matt Patricia is,
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  Speaker 3: at some point there's a Tiny fall off.
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  Speaker 4: Does that mean they're not going to win a national championship?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just like when you look at Miami this year.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to be quite as good at those
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  Speaker 3: edge spots as you were last year. Does that mean
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  Speaker 3: you can't win a title?
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: But it does mean you may have to be a
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  Speaker 3: little different at times. And this Ohio State defense has
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  Speaker 3: lost so many players that this should easily be Texas'
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  Speaker 3: best offensive output against Ohio State because the last two
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  Speaker 3: weren't great.
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  Speaker 4: So were more than even good. the Texas fans would say.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's the reality of where this game
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  Speaker 3: is for Texas. Texas goes out and gets Cam Coleman.
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  Speaker 3: They get Melvin Ciani at right tackle. They're able to
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  Speaker 3: kick Brandon Baker, who's an NFL player, in the right guard.
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  Speaker 3: They have Trevor Goosby back at left tackle. They went
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  Speaker 3: out and get Hollywood Smothers and Relique Brown to go
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  Speaker 3: with Cam Coleman.
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  Speaker 4: Emmitt Mosley's healthy this year. He didn't play in that
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  Speaker 4: game last year. He's a really good player.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be a drafted player. So Arches in year two
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  Speaker 3: as a starter. and I think this game will tell
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  Speaker 3: us how much he's progressed. I don't think last week
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  Speaker 3: there was much to tell from that on progression. I
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  Speaker 3: don't buy all the people saying, oh, well, I can
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  Speaker 3: tell all these clickbait things.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I can tell how much he's progressed. Really, can you?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think you can.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I like Arch, and I think Arch is
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  Speaker 3: a really good player, but you can't go off of
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  Speaker 3: that game and go out there and start saying how
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  Speaker 3: much a guy's progressed.
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  Speaker 4: Same thing with Julian Sand.
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  Speaker 3: This week we start to see those things, and that's
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  Speaker 3: a huge game for Texas because your point, onto your point, TJ,
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  Speaker 3: if you, the loser of this game Saturday night has
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  Speaker 3: one game cushion on their schedule. And these are arguably
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  Speaker 3: the two toughest schedules in the country for the contenders
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  Speaker 3: for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, Texas, if they drop this game and
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  Speaker 3: you have one game to play, if they're going to
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  Speaker 3: say one game, you know, 10 and two.
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  Speaker 4: Gets you in.
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  Speaker 3: If you play a great schedule in the sec or
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  Speaker 3: big 10, nine and three, it's still, you may or
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  Speaker 3: may not probably not.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, But, you know, Texas still has– we can just
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  Speaker 4: zip down the list if we want. We know the schedule.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you've got Oklahoma neutral.
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  Speaker 3: You're at A & M the end of the year.
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  Speaker 3: You have Florida and Ole Miss back-to-back weeks. You're at
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee in September 26th. Everything at LSU, boy, that looks
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  Speaker 3: a little tougher today.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't it?
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  Speaker 3: So, you look at the schedule and say, so we
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  Speaker 3: can only drop one more of those games? We can
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  Speaker 3: have one bad game where we have to play through
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  Speaker 3: some injuries that happen over the course of a season
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  Speaker 3: and we got one hiccup left? That looks like a
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  Speaker 3: tougher task. For Ohio State.
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  Speaker 4: Though, I think it's the same thing, TJ.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, do I think the loser of this
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  Speaker 3: game is not going to make the college football playoffs?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 3: But what I am saying is your margin for error
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  Speaker 3: goes way down. The winner of this game has two
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  Speaker 3: games to play with, where if a sand or an
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  Speaker 3: arch went down and you dropped the game, okay, it's
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  Speaker 3: not devastating to you.
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  Speaker 4: You have two to play with.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's the same for Ohio State, and
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  Speaker 3: I think both these teams are fully capable of I
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  Speaker 3: don't think anything's guaranteed for the loser of this game.
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  Speaker 4: Because just go look at Ohio State's road schedule, too.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Bloomington.
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  Speaker 2: Have to play Oregon at home. Michigan, maybe not. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see how they look later in the year. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's still all there, man. It's still a very tough
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  Speaker 2: road to get through. I know it's so hard to
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  Speaker 2: have massive takeaways from week one when a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the teams play.
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  Speaker 1: Bad competition or lower competition.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but did you see anything that kind of does
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  Speaker 2: tell you, Hey, here's where I think we maybe took
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  Speaker 2: a step forward or is that just too hard to project?
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  Speaker 1: No, that kind of opponent.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think talent wise. Absolutely. You can see that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you can see it at positions. You can
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  Speaker 4: see it individually.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Cam Coleman, you adding Cam Coleman to a
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  Speaker 3: receiver core, the Ryan Wingo and Emmett Mosley, Cam Coleman's
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  Speaker 3: a top what three, four receiver in the country. I
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  Speaker 3: think Jeremiah Smith's one and Malachi Toney's two, and I
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  Speaker 3: think Cam Coleman is in that conversation for three and
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  Speaker 3: probably the leader to be three, a first-round pick after
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  Speaker 3: this year. So, yeah, I mean, he makes Ryan Wingo's
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  Speaker 3: job easier. He makes Emmitt Mosley's job easier. He makes Arch.
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  Speaker 4: Manning's job easier. It's Arch.
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  Speaker 1: It's Arch.
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  Speaker 4: Good one.
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  Speaker 1: It's Arch.
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  Speaker 4: Hollywood Smothers, Relique Brown. Yeah. Great. Trey Weiser's not getting
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  Speaker 4: on the field at FSU. Yeah. I mean, he's 13th.
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  Speaker 4: And he's a good.
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  Speaker 3: Player, and he gave his heart to the University of
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  Speaker 3: Texas program. But they obviously upgraded there with Hollywood Smothers
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  Speaker 3: and Relique Brown. Tight ends are a year older, I
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  Speaker 3: think better players. Melvin Siani at right tackle is not–
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sitting here saying, oh, he's a massive upgrade
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  Speaker 3: over Brandon Baker. He's a massive upgrade for the offensive
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  Speaker 3: line because you can move Brandon Baker to more of
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  Speaker 3: his natural right guard spot. So Melvin Siani's a draft pick.
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  Speaker 3: So on defense, I mean, look, a young guy like
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  Speaker 3: Justice Terry was injured last year, ended up having a
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  Speaker 3: five-star recruit out of Manchester, Georgia, had a pec shoulder
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  Speaker 3: deal that kind of played through in high school, played
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  Speaker 3: through at Texas.
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  Speaker 4: He had surgery.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's a healthy player. He hadn't been a healthy player,
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  Speaker 3: and now he's 290. He was 258 when he got
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  Speaker 3: to Texas. So you can look at those things at
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  Speaker 3: Bo Masco. Raheem Biles is a freak. I know you're
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  Speaker 3: familiar with him in the ACC. Raheem Biles is not
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  Speaker 3: a good player. I think he's a great football player.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't mean he's going to be a top 10
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  Speaker 3: or 15 pick. You can see that guy's a great player.
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  Speaker 3: He did the same thing Saturday he did in the
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  Speaker 3: ACC at Pitt. That guy's just a playmaker. You can
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  Speaker 3: see areas where they definitely upgraded in some talent spots,
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  Speaker 3: but to the degree, all this stuff matters on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: when you play Ohio State and then you get into
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  Speaker 3: your SEC schedule. It's no different, TJ, that if you
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  Speaker 3: know if anybody watched LSU and your only answer is
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  Speaker 3: Clemson sucks well then you're underestimating the talent okay LSU
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  Speaker 3: they have a ton of talent in their starters and
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  Speaker 3: all you had to do was watch a half of
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  Speaker 3: that game and then go back and watch LSU last
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  Speaker 3: year to say okay these guys are really really talented
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  Speaker 3: and Lane Kiffin's got a great offensive scheme.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah with this matchup the biggest question I had for
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State and I will do this on both sides
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  Speaker 2: but The biggest question I had for Ohio State coming
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  Speaker 2: in this year was their offensive line. Obviously, the last
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  Speaker 2: two times we saw them play, gave up five sacks
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  Speaker 2: to Indiana, gave up five sacks to Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Both elite defensive lines.
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  Speaker 2: But let's not kid ourselves that Texas also doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: an elite defensive line and a great front.
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  Speaker 1: Is that.
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  Speaker 2: Is that, I mean, obviously we all know like games
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  Speaker 2: are one of the trenches and all these things.
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  Speaker 1: And even with cam and even with.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah and Julian and arch, but like, is that, is
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  Speaker 2: that the matchup that you feel like this comes down to?
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  Speaker 1: Is that Texas front versus the Ohio state front?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, on both sides.
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  Speaker 3: That's really where I come out because, look, if you
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  Speaker 3: look at those Ohio State games last year, Miami had
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  Speaker 3: them at 45 yards rushing. That's counting sacks. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they sacked Julian Sane five times. He threw a couple
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  Speaker 3: of picks, right? He threw a pick against Indiana, was
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  Speaker 3: sacked five times. Indiana had 60 more rushing yards than
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State did in that game. The blueprint for their
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  Speaker 3: losses were pretty much the same. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 3: look at it, They were pretty much the same. So, look,
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  Speaker 3: and I know the teams are different, but I 100% agree, TJ.
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  Speaker 3: And we've been talking about this on our shows on
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  Speaker 3: On Texas Football. Yeah, I mean, Cam Coleman could go
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  Speaker 3: make some 50-50 ball in 90-10 and make some spectacular
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  Speaker 3: play to win the game. Jeremiah Smith could too, but
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  Speaker 3: I really think when this game comes down to the
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  Speaker 3: offensive and defensive lines here, and I know that's such
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  Speaker 3: an elementary answer, but when you get into these games,
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  Speaker 3: What made Miami who they were last year?
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  Speaker 4: They were able to pressure the quarterback and run the football.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, let's be real.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Beck played well in the playoffs, but let's
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  Speaker 3: just go back to that. I mean, Indiana could run
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  Speaker 3: the ball in command. They could man you up and
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  Speaker 3: get after you at the quarterback position. They could slow
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  Speaker 3: down the run. So I do think that is massive. Look,
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  Speaker 3: I think Ohio State is super talented. One thing I'll
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  Speaker 3: say about Ohio State, and this doesn't mean they're not
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  Speaker 3: going to go win 11 games in the regular.
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  Speaker 4: Season, 12, 16, you know, that just, to be determined.
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  Speaker 3: But they have a minor offensive tackle issues right now.
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  Speaker 3: They pulled the right tackle against Ball State. The left
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  Speaker 3: tackle made his second career start against Ball State. And
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  Speaker 3: guys crossed his face a few times. He didn't look
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  Speaker 3: as quite as athletic as some offensive tackles they've had
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  Speaker 3: in the past years. Doesn't mean he's not a good player.
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  Speaker 3: He's a young player. But you can see, okay, and
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  Speaker 3: even Ohio State fans are a little concerned about their
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  Speaker 3: offensive line. Ohio State's offensive line has to come to play.
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  Speaker 3: They have to make a big jump from week one
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  Speaker 3: to week two because Texas does present different issues. Colin
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  Speaker 3: Simmons is a great pass rusher, an elite player, a
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  Speaker 3: top ten pick. Texas has some size on the interior.
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  Speaker 3: Now the question for the Texas interior, and this will
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  Speaker 3: play out a little bit starting this week, are they really,
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  Speaker 3: really good against the run and maybe don't have.
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  Speaker 4: The interior pass rusher they need?
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  Speaker 3: Is Will Muschamp going to have to manufacture that with
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  Speaker 3: double A gap blitzes? Right. I mean, is there something
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  Speaker 3: he's going to have to do? Because you have to
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  Speaker 3: pressure Julian saying up the middle. Yes, you want to
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  Speaker 3: have the edge pressure. But for a quarterback that's a
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  Speaker 3: pocket guy that you want to make play on the move,
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  Speaker 3: because that's what Indiana, that's what Miami did. You have
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  Speaker 3: to get pressure up through the gaps on the interior.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the question with the Texas defensive line. They
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  Speaker 3: can play the run in your forwards really big time
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  Speaker 3: nose guard against the run.
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  Speaker 4: Maraud Watson, a really good player. Hero Canu, established player.
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  Speaker 3: The young Justice Terry I talked about I think has
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  Speaker 3: some disruptive ability to him. But do you have pass rush.
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  Speaker 4: Up the middle?
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  Speaker 3: And then for the Texas offensive line, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to hold up against– look, James Smith comes off
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  Speaker 3: the bench for Ohio State. He transferred from Alabama. I
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  Speaker 3: went to see him in high school. James Smith's athleticism pops.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, at 6'3, 305, he is an elite athlete,
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  Speaker 3: the interior defensive line position. Texas has to win some
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  Speaker 3: of those one-on-ones because when he comes off the bench
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  Speaker 3: for Ohio State, he was brought in to be a
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  Speaker 3: disruptive player, and he is. John Walker, the UCF transfer
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  Speaker 3: at nose guard for Ohio State, is 6'1, probably, 305,
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  Speaker 3: but do you know what he is? He's a leverage-winning
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  Speaker 3: bull rusher over the ball. You have to anchor well,
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  Speaker 3: and you have to handle him from the center position,
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  Speaker 3: or he will collapse your pocket and disrupt your timings.
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  Speaker 3: So I do– I think this is huge for Texas
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  Speaker 3: in this game on the offensive and defensive lines and
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State. I really do think the star skill players
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  Speaker 3: are going to make plays, but I still think this
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  Speaker 3: game is old school football by and large and that
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  Speaker 3: whoever can make the other one-dimensional, who can stop the
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  Speaker 3: run and run the football effectively enough, and then that
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  Speaker 3: gets you in the second and shorts, the second and mediums,
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  Speaker 3: and lets your playmakers really go get it Because I
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  Speaker 3: think the defensive coordinator that has to call his defense
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  Speaker 3: on the most second and short, second and mediums, third
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  Speaker 3: and shorts is at a disadvantage at this game. So
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  Speaker 3: I think down defense is huge. I think the ability
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  Speaker 3: to run the football is huge.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side of that, you talk about the playmakers,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's Cam going up against Sanchez or, you know, like.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, I'm just juiced that football is back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thankful we have a Wednesday night NFL game. Bring
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  Speaker 1: it all on, man.
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  Speaker 2: But when you do think about those skill positions against,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these are two of the better skill units
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  Speaker 2: in the country, and they're two of the better secondaries
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  Speaker 2: in the country.
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  Speaker 1: It is just truly good on good everywhere, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. can you even call an edge
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  Speaker 1: in that? I mean, obviously Jeremiah Smith's the best player
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  Speaker 1: in the day. I understand that.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Like, but can you even call an edge when you
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  Speaker 2: look at how much talent is in both, both rooms
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  Speaker 2: on both sides?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I'll tell you what's the, what's an interesting
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  Speaker 3: thing with this game is that the big 10 media days,
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  Speaker 3: they handed a Jeremiah Smith a schedule and said, what
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  Speaker 3: game do you have circled?
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  Speaker 4: He circled Texas. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He's two and O against Texas, but, He's had two
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  Speaker 3: of his worst games against Texas in his college career.
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  Speaker 4: And he knows that.
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  Speaker 3: And, look, Texas did an amazing job defensively against him
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  Speaker 3: in that Cotton Bowl, that national semifinal loss.
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  Speaker 4: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: That Texas secondary obviously had a Thorpe Award winner and
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  Speaker 3: great communication.
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  Speaker 4: Not good, great communication.
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  Speaker 3: A coverage bustle is like nonexistent with that secondary all
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  Speaker 3: season long.
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  Speaker 4: Last year, a little bit different. They still had some
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: of that experience.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: But this year's Texas secondary, that's the question I have
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: about Texas going into this game and some future matchups
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: in the season until it plays out and Will Muschamp
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: gets it situated where he wants it to be. I mean,
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: they moved Kobe Black to safety from corner. Everybody saw
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: his big hit that went viral last Saturday, him bringing
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: that physicality, which was kind of what people said, okay,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: can he do this? Can he bring the physicality from
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: corner to safety? Well, he did that, but he's still
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: an inexperienced player covering as a safety. Cade Phillips is
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: very talented at the corner opposite Bo Masco, still a
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: young player in coverage in terms of reps against high-level competition,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: talent-neutralized situations, or a player that may be slightly more
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: talented than him.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, you look around.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Bo Masco's second game at Texas, Grayson Littleton was a
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: star at nickel for Texas as a freshman and in
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: this game. His first ever college game was against Ohio State,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: and he was tremendous in that game. But that's kind
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: of my question, TJ, is the Texas secondary. Two years ago,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: they had great communication, like I said. They just had
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: each other's back. There weren't coverage busts. And that's why
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: it's so important, I think, for Texas to stop the
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: run so we'll doesn't always have to bring the extra
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: number and try to manufacture pressure and put those guys
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: in some adverse situations. But look, I think Jeremiah Smith
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: is the best offensive player in this game. I don't
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: think there's any doubt about that. And I find it
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: so interesting that he absolutely knows his stats from the
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: last two games against Texas. And he circled that game,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: even though he beat him twice. And look, Ohio State's
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: starting a freshman at nickel. So will Texas try to
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: attack that with a more experienced player? Probably so. Ohio
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: State's secondary is really good. Is it as good as
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: it was the last two years? Probably takes a small
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: step back, too. I mean, how can you be? You
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: lost great players.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I do think the.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Devin Sanchez-Cam Coleman matchup when Sanchez-Coleman is fascinating because, to me,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: when you look at Cam Coleman, the two corners I
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: really want to see go against him in man where
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: a defensive coordinator says, my cat versus your cat is
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Devin Sanchez at Ohio.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: State and D.J. Pickett at LSU. And Texas plays them
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: both this year.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: The two sophomores are two corners that should be top 15,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: 20 picks in the NFL draft after the 2027 season.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: So I do think that Coleman-Devin Sanchez matchup, when we
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: get that Saturday night, is going to be really fun
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: to watch because he has the ability, Sanchez has the
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: ability to take that 50-50 ball, closer to 50-50. We're
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: against most corners for Cam Coleman. It's 80-20. I think
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: that he has the ability to go make a play
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: on the football in the air and run with Cam
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Coleman down the field and make those plays. I don't
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: know if I answered your question, TJ, but that is
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: my take on this from a second. Texas secondary is
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: one area I'm really watching Saturday night.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I'll give you one more that's not on the schedule,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: but maybe we'll get in the playoff. I'd like to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: see Leonard Moore and him.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I'd like to see him.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: And Texas fans, oh, well, we don't want that matchup. Well,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it'd be in the playoffs, so I guess you.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: No, you want the matchup. Bring it on, man.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: You want the matchup unless you're both 9-3 and playing
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: in a bowl game.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Right, right, right.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: In the Pop-Tart Bowl. Although they may opt out, so
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: who knows. Yeah. Quickly on this, and then we'll predict
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and get out, but Michigan-Oklahoma? Yeah.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, do you just feel like that's an Oklahoma
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: kind of runaway, or do you think Michigan plays better
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: this week?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know what to think after last week. All
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: summer I was like, oh, Michigan will give them a game.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Kyle Whittingham, it's going to have to be physical. Oklahoma
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: is going to have to physically go to Ann Arbor to.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Win the game.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: But– and I call– and I jokingly call him Backfoot Bryce,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Bryce Underwood, because he threw off his back foot so
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: much in the Citrus Bowl last year against Texas. I
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: coined him Backfoot Bryce. They don't– Michigan does not have
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the quarterback play to win the game.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Right. Period. Period. Period.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, Kyle Whittingham seriously is considering making a move.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Expensive move to make, by the way. But I go
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma two touchdowns. I know Michigan's going to come back
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: with a spirited effort.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: They should be 0-1.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, they're just– unless Bryce Underwood plays the
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: game of his life, that was the opposite last week.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I just don't– I don't think Michigan has the juice.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I think they've got enough talent, but– I think that
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: they're just going to lack the juice in this game.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I do think Mateer, healthy, a little bit better player.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I think Oklahoma can run the football a little bit better,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: but they've had, oh, well, injuries throughout fall camp. But
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: after last week, I'd be an idiot to pick Michigan.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Which means– I'm the same way, which means Michigan's probably.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Going to win. Then it's college football.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, nobody can pick Michigan after last week, really.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Nobody with a clear mind can.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I'll say that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Before the season started, I said there were seven teams
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: that could win the national championship. I had Ohio state, Oregon, Indiana, Miami,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, Texas, and Georgia. I had LSU number eight
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: and thought if it clicks in time, I'll move LSU
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: into that. Is it too much of a week one
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: react overreaction to say, no, they're in, they're in that
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: top eight, right?
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: No, they're in that top eight. They're in that top
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: eight based on talent.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, I'm not going to dance. I, you know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I've even taken some from Texas fans on our website
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: about this, but I'm not going to dance around this.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: We know talent.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: We know what the team looks like when they're taking
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: the field and when they go out and execute at
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: a high level. What's interesting about LSU, though, but I'm
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: not picking them to go 12-0. I think the SEC,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: and they don't have the toughest SEC schedule like Oklahoma
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: or Texas maybe, but I still think these SEC teams
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: are going to beat each other up a little bit. Look,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Sam Leavitt, can he stay healthy all year the way
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: he plays? One year he did, one year he didn't
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: in the Big 12. He's a risk taker with his
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: body at the quarterback position. He's a hell of a
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: player when he's healthy. But again, you know, LSU, and
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: you know what that staff is sitting around talking about, TJ.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Now everybody's telling these guys how good they are. So
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: not only making good money, now they're being told how
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: good they are, right?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: So how are they.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Going to be in that first adverse situation when it
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: hits them in the face.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: If they go to Ole Miss, and Ole.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Miss has serious coverage issues, that's a bad thing when
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin's team is coming to town to sit there
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and say, oh, my God, we have five or six
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: coverage busts and four of them went for scores. That's
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: a dangerous place to be when LSU is coming to
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: town with Kiffin and that talent. If they go up
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: there and kind of handle Ole Miss, people are going
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: to start talking about them as a top two or
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: three contender.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I think we all knew that the talent was there.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: We just kind of wondered how quick it would click.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: And it was drive two. It was drive two that
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: it clicked. And if it wouldn't have hit off the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: guy's hands, it probably would have been drive one.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, defensively, they had some really good players back.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: But to your point, offensively, new quarterback, new offensive line,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: new running back, new wides.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was all new.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Defensively, Boy, Coach Baker is in a really good spot
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: with this defense because he had Whit Weeks, DJ Pickett,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: had another starting safety. Those freshman D linemen are only
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: going to get better, by the way. That's the thing
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: about LSU defensively. This isn't the best LSU defensively. Wait
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: until those freshman defensive linemen. Deuce Gerald's got the start.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Richard Anderson's a monster. I saw him at Edna Carr
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: in high school. Wait until those guys start factoring in.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: But then you get Ty Benefield, who's a first, second-round
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: pick from Boise at safety. You have Ross from Tennessee.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Prince Will came from Ole Miss, who's probably a second-round
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: draft pick. But they had Dominic McKinley back on the
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: inside and a couple other guys. They had some good
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: players back, but then the pieces they put around them
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: are all high level. I sat there and watched them
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: last Saturday, and I was counting the playmakers.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I was like, one, two, three, four.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I was like, wow, Coach Baker is going to have
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: fun calling defense. I'm not taking them to go 12-0,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: but their talent level in their first 22 is as
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: good as anybody.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Every SEC team feels to me like 10-2, 11-1, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: then it's how healthy are they when they get to January.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: That's the tough thing to navigate in the SEC this year, TJ,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: is you lose a week off and gain.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: An extra SEC game.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: So there's some teams, like Texas plays eight SEC games
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: in a row in the season without a week off.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a lot of games in a row
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: to play against high-level, high-leverage situations against really good athletic
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: teams because there is no– it's not very forgiving if
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: you get an injury bug at a position or two
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: throughout the season. And I do think the injuries, those
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: injury reports this year are going to play a huge
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: role in who wins the SEC.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: What's your score on this one this weekend?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I'm in a tough spot here because we did a
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: preseason prediction show and I picked Texas to go 10-2.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: And I had their two losses against Ohio State at
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: home and LSU on the road. And I can't change
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: that now because how much of a hypocrite am I
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: two weeks later? I think, you know, look, I think
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: the games at home, I think Texas has all these
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: advantages in this game from the night game, from having
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Ohio State at home. And I know Ohio State fans, oh,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: the heat won't matter. Heat matters in the south. I
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: don't care what your temperature has been in the north.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: It still matters when you come down to the south.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: That field is going to be around kickoff is probably
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: going to be 140, 150 degrees. It was 160 last
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: week for a mid-afternoon game.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: That stuff matters.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Even Ryan Day said we're going to have to use
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: our depth this week.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: He knows it. So there's a lot of things.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: In Texas favoring this, but I can't be a hypocrite
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: and had sat on the show and said 10 and
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: two Texas, my two losses are Ohio state and LSU
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: and then go change it two weeks later.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: That what a chick.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: I've got to go based on my, uh, preseason prediction.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I've got to go a house. I may, I think
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: it may actually be a little more higher scoring too.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go Ohio state 30, Texas 24 late score, Ohio.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: State hoping to be wrong.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: That over-under is sitting at 49.5. For some reason, I
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: just think it's going to be a little bit quarterbacks
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: in second year. Maybe both defenses aren't quite as good,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: especially Texas early. They're good, but maybe in week two
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: under Muschamp. I think it may be a little more
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: higher scoring. Cam Coleman added and the running backs added
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: to the Texas mix. Ohio State has the best player
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: in the country and really good players around them. But
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I will say the team that runs the football best,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I do think has a major advantage in this game.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I like the I like the higher scoring.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I could see it being similar to not quite in
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: the same way, but similar to Louisville and Ole Miss
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: was where when it gets crunch time. both of these
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: teams just go into that extra mode and they just
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: answer each other in the second half where it's like,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: maybe it goes to the halftime 17 to 10.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: And then you're walking out of there.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Like both teams are right around that 30 or, you know,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: high twenties where they've just answered back and forth and
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: back and forth, just efficient drives.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: That'd be kind of how I see it. But I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: have no idea who wins this.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: I have no, I'm in the same place.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, how do you know?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I'll be carpenter.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I'll be carpenter came on our show. He said, man, look,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: we were talking about the teams. He was on one,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: one national title. A couple others came close. He said,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's luck, man.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: The ball, the way the ball bounces.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Bounces your way, yeah.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Who makes a play at the right.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Time and somebody doesn't make a play at the right
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: time on the other team. And less than one team
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: plays poorly. That's the type of game you're going to get.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, last year, Arch did not play well in
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: that game. If he plays well in that game, that
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: game's different. I'm not saying Texas wins, but Ohio State
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: can't play as conservative with Julian saying if Arch plays
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: well in that game, because that forces Ohio State's hand.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: So... I that's some of these games, man. It's, they're
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: fun to predict. It's fun for the fans. And, um,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: and I hope that, look, look who I cover.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I hope Texas, Steve Sarkeesian, huge for arch Manning, huge
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: for this Texas program, but I'm not going to back
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: away from a preseason prediction show two weeks ago.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: If I'm doing that, I mean, what am.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I just because of the, uh, Texas state game. So, um,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: What do you guys have coming this week? I know
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: you guys will do a watch along. I know you
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: guys will do a ton of stuff, but where can
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: people follow?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Where can they see all that and find all that?
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: We have our, yeah, on Texas football, a YouTube channel
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: on texasfootball.com. We have the watch with us. I think
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I did 75, 80,000 views last week. We had a
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: ton of views on that. It was a lot of fun.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: This week will be more because it's Ohio state and
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Ohio state fans will be coming in to talk mess.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: And if Texas is down, then the A & M
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and Oklahoma fans are going to pile into the watch
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: with us. But, On Texas Football YouTube, we do a
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: live show from the co-op, which is the campus store
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: there Friday afternoon. We had Bo Masco's dad on. All
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: the parents come through there sometimes. We had Bo Masco's
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: dad on last Friday. I think we're going to have
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: a couple of fathers of players on this week. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: we have an event Saturday at Shields, a big sporting
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: event store there in Cedar Park at 10 a.m.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Our pregame show is there.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: But on TexasFootball.com, come tell me why I'm wrong, and
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: I'd love to have the conversation with you.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, man. Should be fun. And we'll see you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: next time, bud.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Thank you.