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Clemson Source ADMITS Something about Dabo Swinney Before MASSIVE Game vs Cal | Tigers Football · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to ACC Football Addiction. We are
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  Speaker 1: But Brian from Clemson Football Live on with us. Clemson's
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  Speaker 1: got a Friday night, thank you ACC, road trip to
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  Speaker 1: California this week. I want to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about that game, but I also want to talk a
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  Speaker 1: little big picture Clemson right now. But Brian, how you doing, man?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on. I
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  Speaker 2: always have a good time here. No, wait.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try and put you in a better mood. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how good of a mood you're in right now,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever it is, we're going to try to take
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  Speaker 1: it up a level or two. Hopefully we don't depress
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  Speaker 1: you even more. But Clemson, listen, saw some good things,
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  Speaker 1: I think, this weekend. Certainly not what anybody would have
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  Speaker 1: wanted coming into this season. But it looks like for
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  Speaker 1: a while in that North Carolina game, Clemson was completely dead.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you saw some good things out of Tate Reynolds,
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  Speaker 1: all things considered. They did fight back. I hate the
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  Speaker 1: silver lining of, well, they fought hard, but I do
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  Speaker 1: think there's a big difference in a team fighting hard
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  Speaker 1: and a team throwing up their hands and just quitting,
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  Speaker 1: which is a big deal, too. It doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be the kind of season Clemson thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be. Certainly, there are a lot of questions
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  Speaker 1: around Dabo in the future, and this will happen and
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  Speaker 1: that will happen. But overall, is there any ability for
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  Speaker 1: Clemson fans to be happy with some of those things
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  Speaker 1: that happened, or is there too much frustration there? at
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  Speaker 1: the entirety of the situation to be appreciative of those
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  Speaker 1: small wins. And then ultimately a win against North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: when it looked like they were going to maybe run
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  Speaker 1: away with it at one point.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. The phrase has been used in my comment section,
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  Speaker 2: cautiously optimistic. And I think that's a good approach to this.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: That North Carolina game was absolutely confusing. As you said,
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  Speaker 2: we started out, man, they were just dog walking us.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, here we go. And then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden they stopped running the football. That really didn't
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  Speaker 2: make sense. And then the game kind of, Kind of
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  Speaker 2: stopped at halftime. We started in the second half. We
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  Speaker 2: had our third rain delay of the season. Dude, I've
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  Speaker 2: never seen anything like that. Clemson comes back, punches the
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  Speaker 2: ball in, and it wasn't just that they scored. It
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  Speaker 2: was the play call, the play calls. It was the execution.
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  Speaker 2: And the way we sealed the game, it looked like
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  Speaker 2: not even two totally different teams playing. It looked like
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  Speaker 2: two teams from different galaxies playing who started and who finished.
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  Speaker 2: So there are some things to take away from this game.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yes, this is awesome. Tate is coming into
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  Speaker 2: his own. And the guy's really talented. He really is.
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  Speaker 2: But man, just the difference that we saw from the
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  Speaker 2: beginning to the end, it kind of makes me nervous.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess I'm trying to be optimistic about this,
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  Speaker 2: but cautiously optimistic.
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  Speaker 1: Just big picture on Clemson, there's so much conversation around
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  Speaker 1: Dabo and what this year could hold for him, what
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  Speaker 1: could end up happening. What is the vibe that you
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  Speaker 1: get on what ultimately happens with Dabo Sweeney this year?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so there are a lot more fans this year
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  Speaker 2: who are angry. I never bought into that we were
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  Speaker 2: going to be really good. Even if you went back
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  Speaker 2: to the offseason of 2025, you know, before the season
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  Speaker 2: when everyone was saying we were going to contend for
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  Speaker 2: a national championship. Anyone who wanted to be honest with
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  Speaker 2: themselves knew that this season was going to be a rebuild, right?
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  Speaker 2: And so this is not really a shock that it's
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  Speaker 2: a rebuild season, but to see some of the things
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  Speaker 2: we've seen, like the offensive line, I mean, man, they're
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  Speaker 2: just struggling to block. It really doesn't make sense. It
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  Speaker 2: kind of sticks a knife in and twists it, right?
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  Speaker 2: At this point, seeing Takeover so early on is kind
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  Speaker 2: of shocking. I know Vazina's injured, but it's kind of shocking.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm kind of wondering... If maybe Dabo and the
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  Speaker 2: administration are feeling, yes, everybody, they're not kind of down.
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  Speaker 2: They are ticked off. And maybe they're trying to make
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  Speaker 2: some changes. I don't know. But I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing more and more of the Clemson fan base angry. Like,
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  Speaker 2: across the board. People who were, like, very optimistic before
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  Speaker 2: the LSU game, they're sitting here going, yeah, we're not
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  Speaker 2: giving you the benefit of the doubt now. So... I
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  Speaker 2: think that you're starting to feel that in the Clemson community.
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  Speaker 2: We have to flip over and look at the buyout.
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  Speaker 2: If Clemson wanted to fire Dabo, I'm not calling for
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  Speaker 2: him to be fired, by the way. If they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to fire Dabo right now, it would actually be cheaper
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  Speaker 2: than waiting and firing him next year. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that, I mean, he would.
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  Speaker 1: Have to win him again. Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: Because of the contract, the contract, how it's laid out.
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  Speaker 2: So if they fired him right now, they would owe
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  Speaker 2: him $ 57 million. Next year it would be 60.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. I've never heard of that. Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes bullets flush backwards, my friend. And it did in
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  Speaker 2: this case. So, you know, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people questioning in the Clemson community. After he signed that extension,
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  Speaker 2: did he just retire? You know, and as the season,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you lose by six touchdowns basically to LSU.
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  Speaker 2: People are no longer going to look on the bright side.
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  Speaker 2: A few of them will, but, you know. Most of
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  Speaker 2: them are no longer doing that. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: Dabo would have to lose like basically eight or nine
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  Speaker 2: games for them to even entertain the thought of firing him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see that happening. And again, I'm not calling
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  Speaker 2: for that. But I will say this. I've seen more
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  Speaker 2: Clemson fans angry right now than I've ever seen them
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  Speaker 2: angry since, well, maybe the 90s.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get right back to chatting with Brian, but first
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  Speaker 1: their support. Now back to Brian. Would it ever get
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  Speaker 1: bad enough? Dabo does not strike me as the kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy that would ever walk away at all. You
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  Speaker 1: don't think a 5-7 season would have him be like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, man, this just isn't for me anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like he's kind of the one to double down
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  Speaker 1: and say, all right, I'm going to get it right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and look, when I say this, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to sound like I'm taking a shot at him personally.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the man, right? I don't know him,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not going after him. Would you walk away
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  Speaker 2: from $ 57 million?
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  Speaker 1: Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I think there's that side of it, too.
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  Speaker 1: But also, I do think Dabo, to his fault, his credit,
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  Speaker 1: however you want to look at it, I think when
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  Speaker 1: he says he believes he can get it turned around,
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  Speaker 1: I think he truly does believe that. Whether you agree
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  Speaker 1: with him or not, I think there is the side of, like,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. Mike Norvell's miserable on the sideline right now,
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  Speaker 1: and he ain't walking away from $ 49 million. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he hates his life. Let me just look at him.
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  Speaker 1: But he's not walking away from that. I could hate
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  Speaker 1: my life for a couple more weeks if I would
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  Speaker 1: do with that kind of money was coming. So that
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  Speaker 1: part does matter, too. But I think Dabo truly believes
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  Speaker 1: he can turn it back around. Now, whether or not
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  Speaker 1: he can, I don't know, and people will debate that.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he does believe it. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's just like, bring me my money and screw you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I think he thinks he can get it done.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I wrestle inside with that because there's a
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  Speaker 2: part of me that I think that he's like, look,
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  Speaker 2: I won two championships and we know the resume and
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  Speaker 2: so on. And I kind of think that maybe he
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  Speaker 2: does believe that. He's like, yeah, sure, I can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing. We're getting... we have more time in
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  Speaker 2: between those national championships and now than we ever have.
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  Speaker 2: And it's only going to get worse, right? And so
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  Speaker 2: that is where we go from what he believes to reality.
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  Speaker 2: And he's really slow to pull the trigger on certain things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're not just talking about NIL. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about hiring and firing. We have a few coaches that's
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  Speaker 2: still on the staff who has been there for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. People's been calling for their head for a very,
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  Speaker 2: very long time. Their unit's not even performing good. And
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  Speaker 2: they're totally fine. And they'll be there next year and
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  Speaker 2: the year after that. So it's just like, yes, you
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  Speaker 2: want to believe that he truly believes that he will
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  Speaker 2: win and do these things. Maybe so. But he just
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  Speaker 2: drags his feet. And it was explained to me many
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  Speaker 2: years ago. I was talking to someone and they said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you're supposed to take a right turn
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  Speaker 2: right now and you say, no, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go a few miles down the road, then I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to take a right turn. Sure, you made a right turn,
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  Speaker 2: but you made it at the wrong time. And that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of what I wonder with Sweeney.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that, well, no, let's transition a little
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  Speaker 1: bit to JKS. Hey, do me a favor if you're
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  Speaker 1: This game at Cal, JKS presents an interesting problem. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's one of the better quarterbacks. Cal has not
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  Speaker 1: been super impressive this year, but he himself is good
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  Speaker 1: and can, in my opinion, take over a game at times.
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  Speaker 1: Just big picture thoughts on that game out on the
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  Speaker 1: West Coast. Thank you, ACC.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, thank you. ACC. By the way, I've been
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  Speaker 2: working on his name, and I'm going for it. Jaron
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  Speaker 2: Keave Sangapolitelli.
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  Speaker 1: You're better than me. JKS is way too easy, man,
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  Speaker 1: for me to be trying all that. Yeah, I ain't
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  Speaker 1: doing that. I finally got Toga Vailoa. I finally got
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  Speaker 1: Ian Maliava. I do a lot of BYU stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten a lot of those down. I'm not. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: JKS is so easy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. I know. I know. I had to put
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  Speaker 2: you on the spot there. I've been working on it. No,
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  Speaker 2: you're 100% right. I mean, this guy can sling it.
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  Speaker 2: He's a left-handed quarterback, 6'3. When Tasha Lapoi took over
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  Speaker 2: at Oregon, what was the first– or not Oregon, left Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: went to California, what was the first thing he did?
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  Speaker 2: Hopped on a jet, flew straight to Hawaii, said, I
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  Speaker 2: have to lock you down, man. And when you watch
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  Speaker 2: him flick his wrist and the ball travels 65 yards
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  Speaker 2: effortlessly to a specific spot, I mean, it'll freak you out.
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  Speaker 2: But you are right. To me, this game is not
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  Speaker 2: nearly about him. I expect him to get his. He's
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  Speaker 2: one of those guys. It's kind of like with Clemson's
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  Speaker 2: Sammy Brown, one of the best linebackers in all of
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  Speaker 2: college football. It doesn't matter if Clemson plays good or bad.
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  Speaker 2: Sammy's still going to play great, you know. So I
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  Speaker 2: think JKS is definitely going to take advantage of busted coverages.
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  Speaker 2: He has two really good receivers in Chase and Strong,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to get the ball to them. Really,
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  Speaker 2: the question for me, can they stop us? And that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of funny, but if you step back and you
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  Speaker 2: look at what Syracuse did to them, they had over
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  Speaker 2: 400 yards of total offense. But where Syracuse killed themselves,
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  Speaker 2: they turned over the ball three times and they were
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  Speaker 2: penalized like out through the roof. So I think this
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  Speaker 2: is the tale of two inconsistent teams who has good
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  Speaker 2: players here and there who would just be more consistent.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing JKS. I think
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  Speaker 2: the guy's incredible. I think he does fly under the
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  Speaker 2: radar at times because he's at Cal, but if anyone
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  Speaker 2: sleeps on him, he will make you pay very quickly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What did Clemson do well against North Carolina in that
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  Speaker 1: second half that they need to continue this week?
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  Speaker 2: They opened up the playbook. That's it. That's really it
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive side of the football. We started off
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  Speaker 2: the game with the frustrating quick pass out to the sideline. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I get why we did that. It's because we want
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  Speaker 2: to get the freshmen comfortable. To me, Tate Reynolds has
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  Speaker 2: proven to the Clemson Nation, you can trust me. Either
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  Speaker 2: you can trust me or you need to trot my
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  Speaker 2: behind back over there to the sideline and pull somebody
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  Speaker 2: out here that you're going to open up the playbook
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  Speaker 2: because getting him overly comfortable and spending a quarter and
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  Speaker 2: a half to do that, it's going to cost you
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  Speaker 2: against a team who can consistently score against your defense.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't blame you maybe in the first drive
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  Speaker 2: trying to get him comfortable and get him settled into
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  Speaker 2: an environment, but good grief. This is Cal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we'll probably have as many fans as they have there,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll travel cross-country. To me, open up the playbook.
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  Speaker 2: I said this in the pregame of the North Carolina-Clemson game.
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  Speaker 2: I said, if I'm calling the offense, I am going
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  Speaker 2: to take a shot downfield. I'm talking about long. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care if the ball hits the ground and creates
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  Speaker 2: a crater in Death Valley. I'm going to let that
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  Speaker 2: defensive coordinator know you can't walk those safeties up on me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll make you pay. What happened on the last drive
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  Speaker 2: before halftime? They took a shot downfield. It fell incomplete. Afterwards,
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  Speaker 2: Clemson had more yards on that drive than they had
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  Speaker 2: in the entire first half. They ended up having to
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  Speaker 2: settle for a field goal just because time was about
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  Speaker 2: to expire, which, by the way, that was the right
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  Speaker 2: call by Sweeney was to kick the field goal and
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  Speaker 2: take the points. Yeah. And then the rest of the game,
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  Speaker 2: Clemson opened up the playbook. Open up the offensive playbook.
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  Speaker 2: Trust Tate. Or you can fly 3,000 miles back cross-country
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  Speaker 2: with a loss.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, we've done it. My team's done it.
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  Speaker 1: Not at Cal. We haven't played there yet, but did
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  Speaker 1: it against Stanford. As a 17.5-point favorite, too. So Clemson
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  Speaker 1: favored by a point and a half in this game.
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  Speaker 1: So razor-thin margins there. Vegas telling me they think Clemson's
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit better, but they give Cal... A
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  Speaker 1: little bit of credit for the home field advantage there.
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  Speaker 1: Chad Morris is somebody that, getting away from the game
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  Speaker 1: for just a moment, but Chad Morris is somebody that
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  Speaker 1: people questioned that hire when it happened. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: questioned that hire when it happened. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: nationally did. Has it gone about the way you thought
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  Speaker 1: it would through three games?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, but then I always try to be fair
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  Speaker 2: to people, and that's the reason, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: people don't like me. It's like, hey, you're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be a Clemson homer, and everything that's orange and white,
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  Speaker 2: you're supposed to protect, even if it makes you look stupid. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that. His offensive line, this
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  Speaker 2: is the worst offensive line I've seen play major college football.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the Gamecocks last year, and I'm not Just
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  Speaker 2: taking a shot at them because they're rivals of ours.
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  Speaker 2: I'm being honest. I thought that was the worst offensive
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  Speaker 2: line I'd seen play major college football. And then I
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  Speaker 2: watched Clemson this year. Nothing makes sense there. So to
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  Speaker 2: be fair to Chad Morris, man, if your offensive line
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  Speaker 2: can't block for you, you're just going to have to
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  Speaker 2: open up the playbook and start ripping out pages. We
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  Speaker 2: can't call this one. Can't call that one. That's cute,
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  Speaker 2: but can't do that. The thing with Tate coming in
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  Speaker 2: is that he gives you that mobile presence. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how much you've looked at Cade. I keep calling
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  Speaker 2: him Cade because he wears two. We've had Cade for years.
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  Speaker 2: But Tate, their name rhymes as well. If you look
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  Speaker 2: at Tate, he's a big dude. Like he is a big,
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  Speaker 2: thick dude. He'll run into you and knock you down.
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  Speaker 2: But he can throw as well. I think they need
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  Speaker 2: to move the pocket. I think that they don't need
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  Speaker 2: to call as many quarterback runs because you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get this guy hurt. But trust your rotation of your
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  Speaker 2: running back room. Take the shots downfield. Keep them honest.
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  Speaker 2: Keep the tight end involved. We have one of the
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  Speaker 2: best tight ends in America. I stick to that. I'm doubling,
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  Speaker 2: tripling down on that. But I still have to give
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  Speaker 2: Chad Morris the asterisk of he has one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst offensive lines. At the same time, throwing the ball
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  Speaker 2: out to the right and the left along the lines
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage, I don't care if it's a bubble screen,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: if it's this screen, if it's that screen. I don't
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: want to see that anymore. It's not working. And defenses
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: are getting better and better at scheming for that. They'll
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: jump the route. Just ask Ohio State against Miami. Yeah. The.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: The offensive line, does that fall on Morris, or is
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: that more of a Luke thing to you? I know
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: it impacts what Morris can do, but is that a
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Luke thing to you?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, that's a Luke thing. Now, how Morris schemes, that's
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: up to him. Sure. I mean, he's been paid a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: lot of money to call a game, so... You know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: if you want to be a top-notch offensive coordinator, you can't,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: and I'm not saying that he is, but you can't
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: sit and whine about what you don't have. You look
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: at what you do have and you say, I have
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: to adjust. I mean, that's the story of life, you know?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Life's not fair. What are you going to do next?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: And so I am shocked at how bad this offensive
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: line is. Luke has an incredible reputation. I think he's
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: a good man. I'm pulling for him. I was excited
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: about the hire versus a lot of the other hires.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: It just hasn't panned out. No less pause there, TJ.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: It's came out over the past few weeks, especially after
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: that six touchdown loss to LSU, that we went after
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: three offensive linemen and missed on all three of them
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: because we would not meet their financial demands. Well, the
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: question is, how much is Is that costing us now?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: You know, I think it's costing us a lot. But obviously,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with Luke, but it
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: is up to Chad Morris to adjust the scheme. He
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: does have a very athletic quarterback. And I say you
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: need to use it, but not too much to where
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: he ends up in traction. Yeah. Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Let's keep him from getting hurt. Brian, what do you
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: have coming this week over on the channel? What all
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: will you do? leading up to the game and obviously post-game,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and what can people expect if they go subscribe?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely. So I've already given my prediction for this game.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: You can go check that out. That's uploaded right now.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: As we go through this week, I'm going to talk
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: about the cautious optimism we need to have because let
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: me tell you this. There's already people who think that
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: we can make a run to Charlotte right now just
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: based on what we did against a subpar North Carolina team.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: So you can be excited. You need to calm down.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: There's a lot at play and a lot of ifs
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: right now. So we'll be taking a look at that.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I'll be taking a look at the approach with Cal,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: what we can learn from the Syracuse game, because Syracuse
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: really should have beaten them. They really should have beaten
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: them by two or three touchdowns. So I'll be going
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: over that and then getting ready for the big game,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: starting to hint at the big game with Miami. They're
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: coming to town on the 3rd.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you for joining us, my man. Thank you for
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: your time today. We always have a good time when
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you're on here. Go check out Clemson Football Live, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to you soon, man. Good luck on Friday.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Man, thanks for having me on. It's always a good time.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Good luck to you.