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Dixieland Delight Friday Night: Tennessee vs. Alabama: Can Josh Heupel Shock the Tide? · Hutton & Withrow Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's go, man. We're back in Chad Withrow's second home. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Hutton here, Withrow here. Hutton and Withrow mornings and Dixieland
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  Speaker 1: Delight Friday night. Let's go, man. We've got Alabama, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: We are in Knoxville. Wagon Wheel is our location. Also
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  Speaker 1: a second home for us. Yes. We're in Knoxville, spelled K-N-O-C-K-S-ville. Yes. Yes, apparently. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is a beautiful spot. We are here.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get you a scene setter for the
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  Speaker 2: weekend here, Tennessee and Alabama. Incredible spot in the old city, Hutton.
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  Speaker 2: And every time I come back, I feel like the
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  Speaker 2: winds of East Tennessee call me a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: and more each time.
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  Speaker 1: They're back. And this time it was a little warm
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  Speaker 1: for the Texas game, right?
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  Speaker 2: It was a much more lively crowd early for Texas
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  Speaker 2: because the game was early. Tennessee fans understand that this
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  Speaker 2: is a marathon, not a sprint. You pace yourself, right?
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  Speaker 2: There are people trickling in here right now. They know
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to go out until a little bit
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  Speaker 2: later than we would have before an 11 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Or noon kickoff, right?
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  Speaker 2: And then you get yourself prepped the way you should.
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  Speaker 2: As Josh Heupel said, if you want to get there early,
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of the happy hour inside the stadium with
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  Speaker 2: half-priced beverages. Then you do that. But we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have a blast here tonight. Good to have you here
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  Speaker 2: with us, Hutton.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be back, man. You were here for the
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  Speaker 1: Texas game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good to be here. This is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a blast. We're presented by Hard Rock Bet right now.
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  Speaker 1: At Hard Rock Bet, you can download the app. You
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  Speaker 1: can roll with us at hardrock.bet.com. The line currently Alabama
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  Speaker 1: favored on the road by 7.5. They come in with
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  Speaker 1: a 15.5 points over under total points scored. And I
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  Speaker 1: get the feeling you're okay with this. Not okay with it.
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  Speaker 1: But you think it's fair?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of the predictions I've seen, people talking
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  Speaker 2: about this game, 27-24 is a popular pick.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: One way or the other for Tennessee or Alabama. So
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  Speaker 2: that 50-and-a-half point line would make a lot of sense
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  Speaker 2: with that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Being a 51-point total. Look, I think that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about this game a lot, but Alabama's offense
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  Speaker 2: is so much further along than Tennessee's offense. On the
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  Speaker 2: flip side, Tennessee's defense is better than Alabama's defense.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee's defense is going to go up against a starting
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  Speaker 2: center who's never really played for Alabama, possibly in this game.
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  Speaker 1: With Gilliam on the other side, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Xavier Gilliam might be, as Cole Kubrick said, the best
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  Speaker 2: defensive player in America. There's a lot of things to
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  Speaker 2: like about Tennessee in this game, Hudden. I just keep
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  Speaker 2: going back to Keelan Russell has a QBR of 90,
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  Speaker 2: third best QBR in America this year. Their quarterback play
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  Speaker 2: has been so much better. And the story with Tennessee, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: George McIntyre, the backup, now the starting quarterback for the Vols.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I mean, coming off the Arkansas game, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like you absolutely sucked. There's got to be more with
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  Speaker 1: the conservative play calling that we saw from Josh Heupel.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there are ways to do that in
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  Speaker 1: this game that take advantage of the Alabama defense's the
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  Speaker 1: way they could have against Auburn or Arkansas. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that in a moment. But I look at this,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's an absolute great chance that Tennessee keeps
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  Speaker 1: this close for a game. And with that in mind,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking 7.5 makes me want to take Tennessee. With
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  Speaker 1: a field goal kick, whatever it might be, both special
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  Speaker 1: teams very efficient this season. Neither field goal kicker has
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  Speaker 1: made a kick beyond 50 yards. So you've got to
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  Speaker 1: get around the 32-yard line or so. That's your That's
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  Speaker 1: your spot. I think it's a close game tomorrow. I do.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm about ready to take Tennessee plus the 7.5.
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  Speaker 1: I do think the under hits.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Heifel, 2022-2024, wins this game in Knoxville. He's 2-0
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  Speaker 2: against Alabama at Neyland Stadium. When you look at what
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  Speaker 2: they were able to do in those two games, in 2022, Hutton,
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  Speaker 2: we were there. It was a laser show. It was
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  Speaker 2: Hendon Hooker hitting Jalen Hyatt. It was five touchdowns. It
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  Speaker 2: was every time Nick Saban in Alabama at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Not in a certain defense.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Heupel had the right call dialed up, and it
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  Speaker 2: was bombs away.
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  Speaker 1: It was a big run.
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  Speaker 2: It was a huge scramble by Hendon Hooker. Every answer
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  Speaker 2: they had. Tennessee's defense got shredded in that game by
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Young also. It was a true shootout in that one, right?
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  Speaker 1: It was the best single performance at quarterback that Alabama's seen. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: It was unbelievable to watch. It was a magic show. 2024,
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  Speaker 2: Josh Heupel had a really good defense. He had Dylan
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  Speaker 2: Sampson who could run, played conservatively. They win the game 24-17.
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  Speaker 2: Nico made some big throws. Made a huge throw to
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  Speaker 2: Chris Brazel for the touchdown. The go-ahead touchdown eventually won
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  Speaker 2: the game, right? I feel like this game is kind
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  Speaker 2: of a balance between the two. where Tennessee's got to
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  Speaker 2: find something through the air. They've got to get George
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  Speaker 2: McIntyre going. They've got to get Mike Matthews the football.
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  Speaker 2: They've got to get Braylon Staley playing better. But also,
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee's got a great defense in this game too. So
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  Speaker 2: can Josh Heupel go 3-0 against Alabama? I mean, college
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  Speaker 2: football fans, I don't think for the vast majority understand
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  Speaker 2: the historical significance of Tennessee and Alabama in the SEC
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  Speaker 2: race for years and years. For a Tennessee coach, given
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  Speaker 2: what they just went through, from Blaine Kiffin to Derek
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  Speaker 2: Dooley to Butch Jones to Jeremy Pruitt, to have a
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  Speaker 2: volunteer coach go 3-0 against Bama at Neyland, that would
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  Speaker 2: be gigantic for Josh Heifel.
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  Speaker 1: It's been since Jeremy Pruitt wore the COVID sheath. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: over his face, his entire face. The babushka. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 1: been since then that Alabama won in Knoxville. Chad, I think,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not, I think George McIntyre's going to
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  Speaker 1: run it. The boot is wide open. It is wide open,
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  Speaker 1: and on the RPO, he's going to do it one time.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to go, he's going to boot out and
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  Speaker 1: actually have the threat of running it. I think he
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  Speaker 1: gets a big yardage off of this. He makes the
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  Speaker 1: defense run. actually have to defend this. Because right now,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's been there. He just hasn't done it.
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  Speaker 1: I realize why. But it makes me think of the
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning running in with the ball in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: That is wide open. And if we see Faison Brandon
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  Speaker 1: in this game in certain spots, it's a run. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way I'm going to view it. And if we
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  Speaker 1: see McIntyre, it's a pass. I don't want to see,
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  Speaker 1: or it's a handoff. I don't want to see that
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  Speaker 1: the entire game because it's so obvious. If he just
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  Speaker 1: does it one time, it's a 20-yard gain. It's just
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  Speaker 1: that obvious, Chad. Can he do it? He's got to
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  Speaker 1: be the one to pull it and go.
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  Speaker 2: If Highpool and Faison Brandon can hit a pop pass
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  Speaker 2: in this game, I want to see the old Tim
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  Speaker 2: Tebow offense in 2006 where Urban Meyer would put Tim
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  Speaker 2: Tebow in and run situations.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But occasionally he would roll out and throw it. And
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  Speaker 1: every time Tim.
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  Speaker 2: Tebow threw it, it was a huge play. I want
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  Speaker 2: to see the fake quarterback draw where they're telegraphing. They
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  Speaker 2: got three tight ends in. All this is going on.
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  Speaker 2: Hit Luka Wolf, the freshman from Austria, at tight end.
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  Speaker 2: Something no one is predicting at all, right? If you're
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  Speaker 2: going to this game, I say that. I'm not joking.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Heupel needs three to four scheme plays like that.
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  Speaker 2: where you're going to have a situation where the defense
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  Speaker 2: is coming up, you're going to go up to it,
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  Speaker 2: fake run, throw it to somebody. In order to beat
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  Speaker 2: Alabama and keep your offense on the field, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to take some of that for Tennessee. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: the Texas game, I was saying the same thing. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to take some turnovers. It's going to take a
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  Speaker 2: special teams touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what?
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee got a special teams touchdown in that game. The
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  Speaker 2: punt return from Quay Moss. They got the onside kick
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  Speaker 2: in that game. They still couldn't win it in the end.
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  Speaker 2: When you go into a.
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  Speaker 1: Game feeling that way, it's a tough spot to be in.
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  Speaker 2: But this Tennessee team and Josh Hypel and Joey Halsley
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  Speaker 2: in particular, they're capable of drawing something up like that.
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  Speaker 1: And they have to be excellent in the red zone. Yep. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was, uh, Womack, Kane Womack, who got, um,
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  Speaker 1: Aguilar in the red zone last year. And that totally
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  Speaker 1: changed the game to give it a lot of different
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  Speaker 1: looks in the red zone. They, they have to be
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  Speaker 1: able to overcome that with McIntyre. And if they do,
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  Speaker 1: if they're able to be excellent, the red zone score
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns there, they can win the game. Um, Everyone's saying
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  Speaker 1: don't turn the football over. No one wants to. You
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  Speaker 1: just have to win the turnover battle and be able
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  Speaker 1: to go and score and capitalize. You have great field position.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can't bounce the ball off your running
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  Speaker 1: back's shoulder pad. No. Ten to half. No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, by the way, speaking of the play last year,
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  Speaker 2: talking about with Joey Aguilar before half, flashbacks to that
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  Speaker 2: with the Arkansas game. As the clock is ticking down
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  Speaker 2: to three seconds, and he's running down the field, I'm thinking, please, God,
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  Speaker 2: somebody tackle this dude. Thank God for Darius Jackson, rah-rah,
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  Speaker 2: as his teammates call him, for hustling. He was running
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  Speaker 2: a route down the field and caught the defensive line behind.
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  Speaker 2: And George McIntyre tripped him up initially, was right behind him,
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  Speaker 2: running him.
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  Speaker 1: Down as a quarterback. Can't have that.
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  Speaker 2: Can't have stupid things like that. Look, Tennessee opened the
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  Speaker 2: second half against Arkansas with a five-yard false start. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot do things like that. When you're set and ready,
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  Speaker 2: get on the field and get ready to get a
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  Speaker 2: drive going. You can't have stupid mistakes like that to
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  Speaker 2: start drives if Tennessee's going to win. But when I
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  Speaker 2: look at both rosters, Alabama's very good. They're better than
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee on offense right now. These rosters are very similar
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  Speaker 2: from a talent standpoint. And this game is at home.
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  Speaker 2: And you are a big underdog. For a game like
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  Speaker 2: this over a touchdown underdog, Vegas is saying they do
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  Speaker 2: not believe.
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  Speaker 1: They believe.
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  Speaker 2: Alabama loses to Georgia. They're going to bounce back. This
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  Speaker 2: is the week they come back. In the boomerang effect,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to win. Tennessee squeaks by Arkansas. They feel
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  Speaker 2: like they're going to let down.
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  Speaker 1: Prove them wrong. Prove them wrong if you're the Vols.
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  Speaker 1: They believe that Keelan Russell is going to go on
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  Speaker 1: the road in a huge road test. And with a
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  Speaker 1: huge home field advantage. We saw that against Auburn. That
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  Speaker 1: factored in. They believe Keelan Russell is going to handle it.
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  Speaker 1: He's handled everything very well. But keep this in mind.
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  Speaker 1: It was Keelan Russell initially. They wanted George McIntyre. in
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  Speaker 1: the recruitment. That's also a storyline with all of this
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  Speaker 1: is they landed McIntyre. I mean, I think George McIntyre's
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  Speaker 1: final choices were, yeah, Tennessee, Bama, and LSU were the
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  Speaker 1: last three. And it was McIntyre that went to Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing about the quarterback situation from Tennessee makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Let me address this also, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And I think if you look at Tennessee, right now
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  Speaker 2: they're 10th in the SEC in recruiting out of high school.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that they have shifted their focus away from
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  Speaker 2: spending so much money on freshmen in college and high
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  Speaker 2: school players to they're going to hit the portal hard
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  Speaker 2: every single year. and they feel like that's a better
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  Speaker 2: route to go. But at quarterback especially, you cannot go
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  Speaker 2: back-to-back years with George McIntyre, borderline five-star, over-a-million-dollar-a-year guy, to
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  Speaker 2: an over-two-million-dollar-a-year guy in Faison Brandon. This is not the way.
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  Speaker 2: All the Star Wars quotes and everything out there, this
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  Speaker 2: is not the way. Like the way they've done it.
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  Speaker 2: You can do it and sprinkle in one guy to develop,
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  Speaker 2: and then you wait a couple years, you get the
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  Speaker 2: guy that can transfer in and contribute immediately. Tennessee doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have that, though.
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  Speaker 1: They've got two guys one year apart. Maybe the strategy
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  Speaker 1: has just been the rules aren't in place to actually
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  Speaker 1: protect the contract, like the way Nico bolted, right? Like
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  Speaker 1: he's got his money, he played, and he's gone. the
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  Speaker 1: return in investment doesn't meet the actual up front, even
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  Speaker 1: though he played. So maybe it is just a one-year
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  Speaker 1: plan until you have rules and structure in place. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it may not even matter who you recruit for a year.
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  Speaker 2: Look, if it works out, Jared Curtis at Vanderbilt the
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  Speaker 2: same way. Bryce Underwood is not working out at Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: And this is another example of that. Huge investment out
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  Speaker 2: of high school. You're our three-year guy. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: start right away. Faison Brandon, next example. was rough against Texas. Granted,
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  Speaker 2: he was hurt, was rough against Auburn. He gets taken out.
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  Speaker 2: Jared Curtis, Vandy is not good this year. They're battling
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  Speaker 2: Arkansas tomorrow to see who's going to be last place
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  Speaker 2: in the SEC. I'm very confident in saying that. That
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  Speaker 2: is going to be their one win, I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: right now for one of those teams in this game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking you over.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in their game. But again, like, Can you keep
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  Speaker 2: Jared Curtis three years? Are you going to keep Faison
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  Speaker 2: Brandon three years? Look, if Faison Brandon comes back next
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  Speaker 2: year as a starter, and Tennessee's a playoff team, which
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to, could be different with 24 teams in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: It could be.
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  Speaker 2: But if they're competing at the top of the sport
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  Speaker 2: for the next two years, you win. It's a win
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  Speaker 2: for you. If George McIntyre is truly the guy, it's
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  Speaker 2: a waste. Well, it's a waste of resources, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not the route to go in today's college football.
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  Speaker 1: It only works if your coaches are coming back. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't see that at Michigan because of other rare reasons. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got to have both sides come back and invest. Chad,
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  Speaker 1: let's not even go to the 2014. If Tennessee wins
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  Speaker 1: this game tomorrow, they are jumping into the college football playoff. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It is realistic at that point. You're in it. And
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  Speaker 1: you give Bama another loss. LSU's already got their two losses.
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  Speaker 1: They're in a great spot. I mean, you got the
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  Speaker 1: win over Bama with their 7.5 points. That won't be remembered, though,
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  Speaker 1: the 7.5-point favorites by Bama. No. Because they lost to Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: that back-to-back loss. It looks good right now.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a Tennessee and Alabama fan, I mean, Alabama, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you were very close to beating Georgia at home.
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  Speaker 1: You're upset about that. 5-1 versus 5-1. This is what
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  Speaker 1: we wanted. Here we are. We're in Knoxville. We are
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  Speaker 1: at Wagon Wheel in the old city.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted 5-1 versus 5-1 with playoff hopes on the line. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: if you're Tennessee, realistically, you've got to split these next
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  Speaker 2: two games. You can't lose both.
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  Speaker 1: You're out.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to beat Bama or you've got to beat
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: South Carolina. You beat both, Hutton. You're sitting really pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Going into November, right? If you win one of the two,
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: you're alive in November. You get a bye week on
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  Speaker 2: Halloween day. So you're still in a good spot going
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  Speaker 2: into November with Kentucky coming into Knoxville to start the month.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got that trip to A & M.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But outside that, you've got LSU coming in. All the
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  Speaker 2: top opponents for Tennessee right now, if you look at it. Kentucky,
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  Speaker 2: and as good as they've looked. Bama tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: LSU. They're in Neyland Stadium. They're all here.
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  Speaker 2: And Tennessee has not won enough big games at Neyland
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  Speaker 2: in the last year and a half. Texas was a
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  Speaker 2: continuation of that in this game. Go win a big
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  Speaker 2: game at Neyland. Go win two of the three big
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  Speaker 2: games that Neyland left. You don't have to win all
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  Speaker 2: of them. Win two of the next three. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to put yourself in a position to play for.
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  Speaker 1: That national title. They've been able to overcome some high
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  Speaker 1: pool problems. Lutz liked hearing about Kentucky being good, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, he is. He's like, damn it. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky's a challenge to Tennessee. He's also happy. They are,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. They're very good. Yeah. I mean, he's
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: also very happy that the weather is much better this
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: weekend than it was in Lexington last week.
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  Speaker 2: Something we found out is Lutz is not a fan
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: of cold weather. But I'm like, I mean, this is
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: like 60s, 50s.
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  Speaker 1: This is perfect. It's like 60s right now. Actually, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like 50. It's probably 70 degrees outside. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: wind is blowing. Because it just dropped so fast. I
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  Speaker 1: sound like a Jim Cantore over here.
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  Speaker 2: The wind is blowing slightly northwest to southeast. It's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit breezy. Feels more like 62, Hutton, but what
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  Speaker 2: we know is it's going to be perfect weather this
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: weekend for Tennessee and Alabama.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I cannot wait. We're going to be in the stadium tomorrow,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: and it's going to be awesome. We have a fight
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: in one of these games behind you. I thought you
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: said there was going to be a fight behind us
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: right now. I'm watching one of the games. I was like,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: am I going to have to throw hands? Army and
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina just got into a brawl. Um, they were showing,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: they were showing up one for last season. They ran
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: up the game. Okay. And Chad, your hard rock lock
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: of the week right now, uh, 10, three, not good
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: to lane down by seven. The spread six and a
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: half plus six and a half. We need the green
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: way to get going right here. Hutton. They're down seven
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: right now, but are you 17? And what, what was
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: the record? 14 to one, 14 to one. He's going
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: to be 17 to one soon. Um, And this was
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: the definition of the heat check.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I did no research. I do nothing but I just
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: looked at it and said, what's my gut reaction?
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Tulane will cover. They will. Need to stop. Need to
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: stop right here, Hunt. We need to stop. Hardrock.bet slash play.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: My lock of the week. We'll find out tomorrow. Ohio State,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Indiana taking the under 51.5. It's dropped to 50. So
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: I would get it up. Take the 51.5. I think
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: it's going to matter just based on what we're seeing
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: with the drop. We're going to go through some games
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: coming up. We also have The last time you and
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I were here for the Bama-Tennessee together was our night
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: with Alan Bean, Clay Travis. Yes. And that was when
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: all the demons were exercised. Yes. It was cathartic. It
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: was genuine, emotional. And when I say emotional, we mean
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: it in terms of what we saw from Clay. Yeah.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: In the back of a pickup truck. He's flying private
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: jets now. Yes. Then we were taking an Uber in
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the back of a pickup truck.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, he paid about as much as you would
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: for a private jet to that pickup truck owner.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: But, yes, it was in the back of a pickup truck.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: It's a classic moment. We're going to play that because
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: we have it on video where we were able to
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: get out of Neyland Stadium somehow. We walked about a
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: mile and a half, two miles, to get up Neyland
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Drive and close to Kingston Pike.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I can tell you exactly where we were. We were
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: pulled over in an agricultural building. And then finally someone stopped.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I forgot about the eye builder. You're right.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: They were getting turned around, and we stopped them. And
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Clay said, I think I'll pay you $ 500.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: To drive us back to our condo. He was pulling
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a Yui. He said, come on. Because he couldn't get through. Yeah.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: And he's having to turn around. And Clay was just like,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I'll just give you cash. I've got a few hundred.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: I remember Clay walking up to his room at the
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Airbnb to get the cash to bring back to the guy.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And we're back there with, like, their newlyweds, right? Like,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: there were, like, it was, like, two newlyweds. Probably in
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: their 20s that drove us. He had to, he took the,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: this is not in the video at all. He took
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the bed of the cover, the bed cover. He rolled
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: that back, took all of that stuff that he had there,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: put it in the cab. He had one other guy
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: with him, I feel like. That guy was probably sitting
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: on all that. There was a lot of.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Trust in Knoxville that night because I feel like we
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: could have been the Manson family taking him back to
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: a house.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: They could have been murderers also. Didn't care.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: We were all in orange, and we said, you know what?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: We're going to figure this out. We trust you. We're
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: going to ride back. We're going to pay you the $ 500.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: We're going to trust you with our women and put
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: them in the back of the truck, too, if we
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: need to. Everything was fine.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: You're right. And guess what happened? Nothing bad happened.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It's amazing, America, when we come together in moments like
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: that and everyone feels the glee of a big win
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: on a college football Saturday.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Incredible. They didn't make a big mistake that night. No
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: mistakes were made. I'll never forget it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: That guy got $ 500 richer for driving 15 minutes.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And for a moment that we have in the history books,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: it's legendary because it's college football. It's the fabric of
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: why we love sports because of the impact it has
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: on the past, present, and future. Here's Clay Travis in
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the bed of the pickup truck as we're about halfway
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: back to the Airbnb, and we start saying that we
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: just beat Bama to me. Clay, you were tearing up
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: at the end.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I cried.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's how much it meant to me.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: It's embarrassing to be 43 years old and cry at
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: the result of a football game, but I'll tell you this.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: When Tennessee in 1990 lost to Alabama, I was thinking
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: about this when I was watching. I was with my
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: grandpa who played for General Nealon in the 1930s. He's
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: going to cry again.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Cry. Cry. I was watching the game with him. Cry.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I was watching the game with him.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Tennessee was supposed to beat Alabama.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: They didn't ever beat Alabama when I was a kid.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: And 1990... Tennessee was trying to field goal.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: It got blocked.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Alabama recovered and made a field goal to win 9-6.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: And I cried after that game. And I was at
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: my grandpa's house. in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Red Bank, to be specific.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: And he was so disappointed in me that I cried
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: about a team, about Tennessee losing. And he said, you know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: you don't cry about losing football games. But I'm probably
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: going to cry here. When Tennessee, when that kick was
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: not good, and then Tennessee made the kick to win,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I thought back to being 11 years old. And I
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: felt like it was almost like cosmic and karmic justice
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: that Tennessee made that kick after Alabama missed it. It
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: took me back to being 11 years old in my
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: grandpa's house in Red Bank, Tennessee, who played for General
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Neal in the 1930s.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: What a fucking win. Unbelievable. Cigars are next. Yes, definitely. Clay,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: you were– how about that? Oh, the emotions. The emotions. Wow.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, Clay's got three sons. Yeah. I think he
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: may have traded one of them in for that win.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: He loves his sons. Of course we know Clay. Clay,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: we know you love your sons more than the win
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: over Alabama. But I will say, in moments like that,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: if you're a fan of a school, and I was
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: right there with him that night, there is an emotional
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: crossover there. Of euphoria. That's very rare. Alan Bean, who
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: was there that night, we're probably going to go see
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: him tomorrow at tailgating. We're going to go see him
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: inside the stadium.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Absolutely will.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: He, in fact, has said, bring me Hutton because I
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: want to recreate 2022.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Bring it on.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: And Lutz reminds us, one of his sons is an
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Alabama fan. That's the son who would have been traded
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: for that win had Clay wanted to trade a son,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: no doubt.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Alan Bean wants to run it back with 2022 with you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: But there was a game even in 2015 where Tennessee
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: comes from behind against Georgia and beat Georgia and Mark Richt.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And I remember me and Alan Bean leaving the stadium.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Because it was so euphoric. They were dead. They were gone.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: They were down 21-3 or 24-3 or whatever it was.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: They come back and win. It's moments like that you'll
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: always remember.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: See, I got the vibe that year that Tennessee was
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: going to win the game because everybody was saying, is
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: this the year? We've got the team. You've got Hooker.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: He's on a run. He's playing great. You've got the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: receiving core that's able to– you have some alphas in
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the receiving core. You have some speed in the receiving core.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: You have an offensive line that's protecting the quarterback. There
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: were things that you saw that you were like, they
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: can keep up and attract me. They really can. Can
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the defense hold them? The answer was no, but Alabama's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: defense couldn't stop them either. It was a classic. I
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: don't get the sense there's that same belief this year.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Going into the game, I don't hear a lot of sense.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: We got a chance to be a college football playoff legit.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Not just a contender, but we'll be in it after
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: this game on Sunday. I don't hear that. So I'm
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: not feeling the buzz like I was in 2022. I
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: want to. I just don't think it's not comparable. That's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: why Allenby probably doesn't want me to come break the streak. Well,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and look, I'll say it in this way, and this
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: is why you're not hearing that. Tennessee has lost their
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: identity under Josh Hyde. Let's be real about it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: 21-22, Tennessee fans felt confident because they said, a year ago,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: we scored with everyone. And we exceeded expectations. Coming off
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: NCAA sanctions left by Jeremy Pruitt.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Right. Everything else.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: But they were going to score points. They were going
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: to go for it on fourth down. 2022 was the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: perfect mix of everything. Opportunistic defense. And they had an
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: offense that was going to go for it. They were
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: going to step on your throat.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: They were going to go deep. And then what happens? 23,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: they're sort of mid everywhere. They're a good team, but
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: not great. 24, they got a great defense. They got
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: a pedestrian offense. 25, they got a great offense and
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a terrible defense. It's a seesaw effect. What do we
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: have in 2026? Pedestrian offense.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Another quarterback, yeah, you're right.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: We got Josh Heupel kicking a 51-yard field goal on
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: 4th and 1 against Arkansas.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And hooking it, right? Yeah.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: You've got all these different things where it's Josh Heupel
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: that smoked that damn cigar when they beat Alabama. And
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: was so happy in that game. That's the Josh Heifel
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Tennessee needs tomorrow.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: If they're going to win.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: He's got to bring back that we're playing with house money.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: We're going for it. We're not afraid. We got the horses.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: We've got the offense. That mentality needs to return at
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: some point for Tennessee to win a big football game
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: like this.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I think that needs to return in spots. In spots though.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Have those ready. But don't feel like you have to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: pull it out. You don't have to because you're a defense.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: You're right. That's right. You don't. Have it ready, though.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: He's got to be willing to pull the trigger, and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: so does George McIntyre. But on fourth and two, don't
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: kick a 51-yard field goal. I totally agree with that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I don't care if you run it. Figure out a
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: way to get the first down and go for it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Do you think we see Faison Brandon tomorrow? Yes. That's
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: another part of this. I do. Is how do you
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: use him? The way this news story has gone out
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: all week with, oh, Brent Hubbs had the report on purpose.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: You know, you've got the report where Hubbs is like,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I'm hearing that he's much more involved in practice. After
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: being an emergency quarterback last week, that's a huge jump.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I think he's not going to start, but he's going
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to play. I think three players will take snaps for
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Tennessee tomorrow. Okay. Okay. George McIntyre. Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Faison Brandon and Mike Matthews. I think all three. I
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: think Mike Matthews, they showed them that look against Arkansas late,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: right before they scored the go-ahead touchdown, where they went
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: direct snap to Mike Matthews. I think at least three.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I think you could see a fourth player take a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: snap tomorrow.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: It's that type of game. It's a big football game.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: You don't have to play outside yourself and play like
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: you're crazy, but you need to play like you're confident
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: and you're.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Going to go score points. And maybe the conservative aspect
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: has been setting this up a bit. Yep. You know,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: with the play call and the sheet.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: What we say in 2022 is like holding serve. A
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: touchdown was just, oh, well, they held serve. Oh, Bryce
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Young just hit another pass. Alabama held serve. It was
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: so back and forth, you felt like a stop or
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: two was going to win it. Because everyone was scoring
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: back and forth.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: And it came down to a kick. So, yep, one
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: stop could have done it. Chad, coming up, Ellie Mae
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Williams is going to join us from Sporting State. And
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: we get a vibe. She's a Tennessee grad. We'll get
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a Tennessee check. She knows the rivalry.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: She understands it. She's the daughter of a football coach.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about some of the history between
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: these two teams.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: She's going to know this. I want to know the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: football player that's most popular on campus. She's not on
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: campus anymore. I know, but she would know. Okay. She
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: would know. And I don't think it's the freshman. It's
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: not the highly recruited one. I don't know who it
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: would be. I have a guess. We'll save it. Let's
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: do it. We'll save it. Hey, this is Dixieland Delight
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Friday Night Chat. Wagon Wheel, we're in your second city. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: This is our second home. Wagon Wheel is amazing. Old City.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Mark Jernigan, the owner, has been very kind to us
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: over the years. We love this spot. Great country bar
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: in the Old City. They're playing country music behind us.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: It's Tennessee, Alabama. The leaves reflect the colors on the field.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: We got both home uniforms being worn tomorrow. We're listening
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to country music.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. We're talking ball tonight. Doesn't get any
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: better than this. Dixieland Delight to continue the ride on this.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned. We're back. It is Dixieland Delight Friday night
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: here on Sport and State at sportandstate.com. YouTube channel at
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Hutton and Withrow. Glad you're with us. Football season is here.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Third Saturday in October coming up. The eve has arrived.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Ellie Mae Williamson with us as well here just off
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: campus at Wagon Wheel. Good to see you.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Thanks. Thanks for having me, y'all.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here. So I was asking a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: question to Chad. He's got to guess the most popular
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: football player on campus. Normally it's the quarterback. It's not
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: that right now. It's... There's not an obvious answer, I
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: don't think. You would know this just based on the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: fact that you know the team, you know the friends
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: that are on campus right now.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: I would have to go with either Deshaun Bishop or
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Arion Carter. And a hot take, Xavier Gillum.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. He's the best player on the team.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I would say so.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: And the funny thing about him is he actually didn't
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: start playing football until his junior year of high school.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: So for him to come onto a college campus without
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: much of a recruiting experience or fans getting to know.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Who he was.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: He's exploded.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: It's pretty amazing when you see L.A. made the amount
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: of transfers to Tennessee that have hit immediately. Xavier Gilliam,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Quay Moss. It would be weird to say the big
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: man on campus is the guy who's been here for
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: five months or however long they've been here, six months.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: But those two guys have been big-time contributors. Deshaun Bishop's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: good answer. Arion Carter with what he's doing for cancer
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: research also.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: They've covered that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: That's what I would say.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Pretty popular guys, right?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I think those are the top three, though. Xavier, honestly, McIntyre, though, too.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: I mean, you can't say a quarterback.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: After tomorrow, he could be.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you've got to look at your quarterback
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: as somebody that's going to be leading your offense. So
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: I would say George, even though he really hasn't much,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: many snaps and much time, I still want to.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Go with the quarterback answer.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Chad, do you think you'll go with McIntyre? I would
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: not yet.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I will say if George McIntyre wins this game tomorrow,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I will run on the field and kiss him on
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: the mouth.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: So then he would definitely be the most popular guy.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: This is, and you wrote about this, I know also,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the rivalry between these two teams. I was watching Dave
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Portnoy at Barstool. questioning Casey Smith about Tennessee and Alabama.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: People hate each other. I didn't even know that. He
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: didn't even realize it was a big rival.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: But the history between the two teams, third Saturday in October,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Ellie Mae, you've written about it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty cool experience.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is a story too that not many
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: people know about. The cigars are something that you have
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: to do. Winner has to do it. It doesn't matter
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: what it is. You've got to smoke the cigar afterwards.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: I actually had the opportunity to work with Legends of Tennessee,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: which is Jabari Davis and a lot of other VFLs
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: who have gone together and they started a VFL cigar
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: that was smoked on the 2022 year after Tennessee had
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: that 15.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Winless streak that they had. And so.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: I was very familiar with that story.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Trust me.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, the stadium looked like it was on fire
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: just from the cigar smoke. So it's one of those
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: like Southern delicacies and traditions that has been carried on
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: through many generations. And the story of it all. So
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: I was always familiar with cigars and, you know, smoking
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: them after when, whatever, but the story of it, I
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: was like, there's gotta be an origin.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: There's gotta be something.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: And after a few research, I found something on ESPN
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: about an Alabama trainer. And so I was like, okay,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I'm going to dig deeper here. I couldn't, Sadly, the
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: man passed away, Jim Bustry. But I was like, I
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: am going to find a son. I'm going to reach out.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: We were playing phone tag back and forth all this
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: week and reached out to him. We had a long
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: conversation just about where it all started and what he
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: remembers from it.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: So here we go. History lesson here. trainer actually graduated
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: from Tennessee. So he's a Tennessee graduate.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: He was the trainer under Mickey O'Brien and General Neeland way,
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: way back in the day. And he was also a
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: Letterman golfer. So he was a student athlete at Tennessee.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Left after that final year with General Neeland and moved
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: to Clarksville, started high school athletics and started raising a family.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: And then sure enough, the athletic director at Alabama called
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: up O'Brien and was like.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Hey, I need somebody to come and play.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: As Rocky Top plays.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: As Rocky Top plays.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Perfect serenade for the story.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: And I would just like to say, this is a
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: song about just for Tennessee. Now, let's get into that later.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Dixieland lies is a song about Tennessee.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Must discuss.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: I will die on that hill. If there's one hill
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: I will die on, I will die on that hill.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Rocky Top's great, but Dixieland Delight is our song. So anyways, yeah,
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Mickey O'Brien calls, gets a call from the athletic director
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: of Alabama and is like, we need somebody to come
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: and we need a trainer here. Who do you recommend?
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: And of course, Gushere gets the call. So he picks
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: up his entire family, his family of three and his
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: son I talked to on the phone. He told me,
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: you know, we moved in 1957, and we were there.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: So he was there for Earsworth. Last year of Earsworth,
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: I think that's– I think it was either Earlworth, Earsworth.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Something like that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: But, yeah, was there for his last year, and those
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: were tough times for Alabama.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Really tough times.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: We thought it was bad, like, going into 22, losing
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: as much, but, like, that was Bama back during that time.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: This is right before the legendary Bear Bryant comes in
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: and saves Alabama.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: You're over here like you're right.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: No, I don't know. It's what you live through, right?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: If you don't beat Bama, you don't remember ever seeing him.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Well, and it's also, it's so different now, I think,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: for this generation. Because, you know, even growing up, it
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: was like you had these heroes that were from the
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: states they represented. You know, the great Tennesseans. Phillip Fulmer
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: played at Tennessee and coached Tennessee. He turned down an
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: offer from Bear Bryant to go to Knoxville, which is
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: a big deal. He was on the state line at
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Winchester in Franklin County where he was from. You had
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: so many stories like that of interconnected players that ended
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: up going to their state school.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Now it's much more mercenary-like. Right?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Like, hey, we got guys from Penn State that have
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: no connection to Tennessee until they got here that are
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: balling out for the Vols.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: And that's fine, too. It's just different. So I do
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: think the educational aspect of it is important. Yeah. So
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: make sure these folks know about what they're getting into.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Because Florida was the big rival.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Because Saban wasn't in Bama.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: You know, and then Saban got there in 2007 and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: changed that. Yeah. And then it became Bama again. Yeah.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And I think if you ask The generation behind us,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: they would say Bama as the biggest rival. Yeah, for sure.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: The players, though, always say Bama. Yeah. Oh, for sure.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: For me, it's Bama. I mean, and I'm not that
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: old yet, knock on wood. There's wood over here.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Well, Ryan McGee even said it today.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: We had a media opportunity with him during SEC Nation
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: while they're here tomorrow. And he had just said, like,
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: in this day and age of college football, you try
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: and create so many different rivalries just based off of, like,
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: who went and got my head coach. If you look
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: at Ole Miss and LSU, like, no one would have
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: ever thought those two schools would become rivalries. And that
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: game would have so much built-up hate. going into it. But, like,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: that's just where we are in college football right now.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: You look at the transfer portal, like you mentioned, like,
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: these guys don't really know the history behind these traditions.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: And so, like, with the Legends of Tennessee, with programs
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: and DFLs and the guys that are pouring back into
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: these schools after they leave, I think that's super important
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: to keep those traditions alive, to keep the game more human,
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: more pure.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I don't... It's one thing to watch a college football game,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: but it's another thing to.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Watch it against your rival and to know the history
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: and the story behind it.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: It's completely different.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: So great job at Texas OU last week. What do
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: you have planned for sport and state tomorrow getting ready
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: for the game?
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so tomorrow we're going to SEC Nation. I'll be
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: there bright and early, so I'll be around. I'll be
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: looking for fans. I'll be grabbing different stuff, different types
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: of content ideas. We're going to be doing some fun interviews.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: I think they're really going to enjoy some of these questions.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to give it.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Away on the live.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, don't do that.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: I want these unique live reactions when I meet these people. But, yeah,
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: just kind of getting some stories behind who they think
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: in college football is thriving, their different rivalry stories, stuff
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: like that, some pure old-fashioned hate.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Have you smoked a cigar before?
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: I have never smoked a cigar.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: That's a good video.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: I have never smoked a cigar. And honestly, I don't
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: know if I.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: You coughing on a cigar would be good. You have
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to do that tomorrow if they win. Yeah, you're a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: UT grad. You got to do it.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: I honestly should. I should have done it in 22.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I just.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to cough in front of everyone. I
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: was like, maybe I'll practice tonight. I don't know. Like,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: I'll do a practice run.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: There are so many people who have it. I mean,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the players have it either, by the way.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: That is true.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: That is very true. Well, so back to the cigar story, though.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Where it all came from.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: So.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Fourth year of Paul Bear Bryant being the head coach,
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: he comes into Tennessee.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: And as a college trainer, your job is to be.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: That hype man at 6 in the morning on a
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: road game, whatever it is. But he comes in. It's
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: been 13 years since Alabama has won against Tennessee.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: He comes in there to the locker room right before
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: he leaves, and he's like, guys, before we get on
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: this bus, I just want to let you all know,
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: if y'all beat Tennessee, I will dance.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Around this locker room naked, butt naked, nothing on.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: And these guys are like, oh, yeah. I don't know
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: how that hypes up, a group of guys, but it
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: is what it is. He was really putting himself out
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: there for the team.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Really, literally. And then they did, and then they decided–
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: We're going to smoke cigars.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Well, his son was like, I remember my dad, you know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: That's why I told Coach Bryant, just like, if we win, like,
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: I'll get cigars and we'll pass them out.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: So he went to a convenience store right before they
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: got on the bus, went to a convenience store, went
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: back to the hotel.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: And his son was telling me, like, I remember watching
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: my dad pack those cigars in his bag before he left.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: These, like, convenience store, old school, they're probably really good.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Just from, like, day and age that they were.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: In, 1961. I mean. I'm sure some Cuban probably rolled
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: that thing for him.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: No doubt.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, at that point, yeah.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say what this man is as a
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Tennessee grad. Everybody can look it up.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: This man's a charlatan. That's who that man is. I
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: do not respect him. I do like the tradition of
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: the cigars, but Mr.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Goostery, zero respect for you as a Tennessee grad to
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: start the tradition on behalf of Alabama. I love it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: But, hey, it'll be really nice if Tennessee gets to
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: smoke them tomorrow.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: It's a good tradition.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: We can always say, yeah, we had them first. Who's
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: a Tennessee grad?
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Like, that's all that matters. At the end of the day,
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: his degree came from the University of Tennessee. He learned
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: what he learned to help that Alabama program.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Check out the Sports Day Socials tomorrow for all of
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: LMA's content. It'll be great. And maybe we see the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: cigar tutorial.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Could be. Yeah, that's right. Good to see you.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Chad, coming up, we can hear your picks. And we
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: need to check on some scores, too, with your hardware block.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at Tulane running a touchdown right now. Oh, wait, really? Oh,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't look. Don't you trash talk my green wave
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: just yet. We're not dead yet, baby.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Memphis looks good this year.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Look at this.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: They looked great.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: We got a score of interest, green wave 13, Memphis 10.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Four minutes left in the first half. No, it's too
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: late either. Here we go. You're getting six and a
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: half as well. Here we go. Hard Rock, the man knows.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: He's 14-1 on Friday nights. About to be 15-1. Yeah,
• 38:14
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• 38:27
  Speaker 1: State from Tennessee, Alabama. We are in Knoxville, Tennessee, and
• 38:33
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• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Huge game. Each and every Friday night, giving you the vibe.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: We're at Wagon Wheel. They open just whenever we start
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the show. And things are about to crank up.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: It's filling up already. We've got a good crowd behind us.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Great spot if you're coming in town for a Tennessee
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: game in the Old City.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Lute's got to experience the Old City for the Texas
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: game for the first time. Very unique spot. Feels at
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: times like you're almost in New Orleans.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Yes. When you walk around the streets. I agree. It's
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: very old. It's shocking. Old.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Old buildings in the old city. Great spot to come
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: hang out before a Tennessee game. We're excited to be here, Hutton,
• 39:10
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  Speaker 2: to start. You know, later start tomorrow, they're.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Good to go. If you've got a play on Coastal
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Carolina and Appy State right now, game just tied second quarter,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: early second quarter, 14 all there. And Chad, his hard
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: rock lock of the week. It's going to come through.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: It always does on Friday nights. Ooh, throwing across the body.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: What just happened, Chad? He's up 13-10. You normally don't
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: want to do that.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I think we're going to get hit with a holding
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: call on Tulane, but about a 20-yard pickup. Tulane driving
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: up 13-10. Two-minute timeout in the first half, but I
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: think this.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: One's going to be coming back. Keep in mind he's
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: getting six and a half points on this as well.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I don't like the carelessness of the quarterback, though, throwing
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: across the body. He's feeling it.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: That one should have been picked by Memphis. We're now
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: in the mode of, oh, we got defensive holding.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Declined. Tulane Greenwave on the move, baby. Here we go.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Josh Heifel's not making that play call. You know what's
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: going to be great?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I hope a lot of people are watching this on
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Saturday morning when they wake up to go ready for games.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: People who see their YouTube alerts, you know, over the
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: thousands of people who follow us on YouTube get the alert.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: They go watch it.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: And they just sit and mock me for how excited
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I am right now. Look at Whitrow so excited about Tulane,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: a team who eventually lost by 28 when it happens.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, look how giddy he is over this.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: And then you say, I was 14-1 on Friday night. Yeah. Sorry, guys,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I'm 14-2. Earlier this morning I told LT, we're going
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: through the guys from Dexter Out Live, I told LT
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: that Ryan Brown, I'm like, he's going, his lock of
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the week, by the way, guys, is Tulane plus six
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: and a half. And LT was like, oh, it's like, what?
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: He's like, I don't know. It's like coming out of
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: his skin. Yeah, he's like, I think I'll go the
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: other way. I said, well, he's, and I said 17-1.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I said, 14-1 on Friday night. He goes, oh, I
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: guess I'm going to flip it and just probably chat. Yeah,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: it's a heat check.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: This is me stepping a foot back, guy in my face,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to shoot another three to see if
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: it's my night. This might be my season on Friday night, Sutton.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: It looks that way so far.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Chad, my vibe, and Alan Bean's not going to like
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: this tomorrow when I tell him because I was going
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: into the game in 2022, last time I saw him
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: here at Neyland Stadium. I said, Tennessee's going to win
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the game. And I was adamant about it. You felt
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: really good about it. I did. I don't feel it
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: this year. I don't. There's not the confidence level from
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: the fans. There's not the vibe. There are guys that
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: we know that are talking about us being here, but
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: they're not here. They chose to drive back to Birmingham
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: or they chose to stay in Nashville. And I'm thinking, oh,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: that's not a good sign because they'd rather– watch alone
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: in their room like Chad does. In these games, you
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: would normally want to watch this alone, true or false. Oh, yeah,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: for sure. Like tomorrow, yeah. I may at some point tomorrow, too.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: The day is young. Well, that's fair. Yeah. But I'm thinking, like,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: we will be in a great spot tomorrow, but the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: vibe is, hey, I need to watch this alone so
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I don't get angry at anybody. You know what I mean?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, the vibe going into.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: This game is, and I think Josh Heupel's done a
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: great job at Tennessee, but the vibe to me is
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Josh Heupel has lost his edge. He doesn't go for
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: it when he should anymore. He's lost his aggression. And
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: we're coming off a game where Kalen DeBoer is being
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: worshipped by Alabama fans for what? Going full Nick Saban
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: on a player and saying, your dumb ass lost the
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: game for us. They loved it. They loved it. They're saying,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: we got our Saban back.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: This is our guy. He is embarrassing this guy on
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: national TV. He's embarrassing a player. He's our dude. We
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: love him. They wanted to see that fire. They got
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: that fire.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Saban would have won the game. He coached his balls
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: off in that game. He did.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I think it's just a very different
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: vibe with head coaches. So, again, Hutton, what I will
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: present is this. I want to see a pop pass
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: from Faison Brandon to Luka Wolfe. I want to see
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Tennessee go for and get a couple big fourth downs
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: in this game. I want to see some signs of
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: the old Heupel. I don't want to go back to
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: not playing defense like Heupel had in the first year
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: or two, right? I want the defense to remain. I
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: want you to trust your defense. I want you to
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: show that you can not play with speed and tempo
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: and give your defense a better chance. But let's bring
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: back some of that old aggression that you saw with
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Kalen DeBoer last week.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: The aggression is the word because Jason Swain came on
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: the show today. And I said, hey, are you nervous
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: as a former player? Do you get, like, the good nerves?
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Do you still get them going into the analyst room
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: for Vols Radio Network? And he said, no, I'm pissed off.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Because I hate this team that's coming in here. I'm
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: from Huntsville, Alabama. Just like Joey Kent. And he's like,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: this means something. They look me over, and I'm still
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: pissed off. I want to see the players have a
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: little bit. When you come in with an edge, that
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: gives you the edge at home. Because the fans are
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: coming in with that same edge. That's the home field advantage.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Can Tennessee find those guys? I don't know on offense
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: if they have those guys. You do in the run game,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: but Texas shut it down. They need to find that
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: against a good Alabama defense against the run. And if
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: they do that, They have a chance to keep this close.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: And then it comes down to the quarterback and the
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: kicker in the fourth quarter.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we heard going into the year this could
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: be the best offensive line group Josh Heupel's had. They've
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: not lived up to that hype yet. They need to
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: deliver in this game. They're going to have to do
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: that in this game if Tennessee's going to have a chance.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: George McIntyre, I think, is seeing the game well. Have
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: one less turnover.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: You know, you're going to turn the ball over at
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: some point.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Don't have three. I would prefer none, but, you know,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: two you might be able to win. One you might win.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Three you're not going to win. Don't have the one
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: No. If you just have one. Not in a big moment.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: You're right. I'm taking Bama, but right now I'm feeling
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: like it's a very close game to where they cover.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: I think Tennessee covers in this. I just think it's
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Bama because of the quarterback in the fourth. I think
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: they win by four.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've moved throughout the week. I think Tennessee covers.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I do think Bama wins the game. I just think
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: their offense is quite a bit ahead of Tennessee right now. But, again,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: if Josh Heupel returns to form, I believe Tennessee can
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: win this game at home.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: And the clock management is key. That's huge. He needs
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: to win that battle against Kalen DeBoer if he can.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: He hasn't been able to do that in recent matchups.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Not just here, but just across the board. It's not
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: been his strong suit. Chad, good to have you back
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: from Florida. It's good to have you back. You have
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: a nice tan. Thank you. Appreciate it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I worked hard on this tan, you know. Spent a
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: lot of hours out on the beach this week saying
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I just want to be tan for that Friday night.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: You earned it. Dixieland Delight Friday night tour, you know.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: What just happened back here?
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: I was third and seven. Now it's fourth and seven.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: We got Tulane kicking a field goal to go up six.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I love this.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Every point counts when you're 14 to one on Friday
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: night and you're trying to cover six and a hook
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: and you're taking a six point lead before the half.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Every point counts. I need this kicker for Tulane to
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: come in and knock this thing right through the upright.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Okay. This guy, is it a high number, Chad? 29 yards.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: It's a little close for my liking. I don't like
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: it when it's this close. He's wearing 35. I don't
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: like it when it's this close. Come on. It's a
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: little too close. Oh, my God. Oh. We're good. We're in.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: It's his night, ladies and gentlemen. A minute left.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: We've got to play some defense. Green Wave has got
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: to play a little D this final minute. I can't
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: wait until I get lit up by people that are
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: telling me after they lose by 35 in the second.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Half how excited I was. Some guy's going to bet
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: the second half right now.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: On Hard Rock.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, how about that six-point lead you had at halftime, huh?
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: As you lost by 25.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Hey, Dixieland Delight Friday night. Hardrock.bet slash clay is where
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: you can go right now.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Hey, Wagon Wheel, too. Big thanks to them for hosting us.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Mark Jernigan. Big thanks to Jacob Lutz for delivering it.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: He's a one-man band back here.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Yes. Ellie Mae Williamson was great. Fantastic.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: A terrific crowd on hand back here. My guy's got
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: an old-school Duckhead hat on. Haven't seen that in a while.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: I used to wear Duckhead. I like the Duckhead hat.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: I love the Duckhead hat.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. It's great. Throwback. Very nice. He probably
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: thinks it's a Riley Green hat. I don't think so.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: That's Duckhead, right? No, it is. He doesn't even know.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: He's not old enough to know. He can't hear me.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: He's not old enough to know. I don't know. Riley Green,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: by the way, is in Knoxville. We were at one
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: of his bars today. Yeah, he's going to be on
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: SEC Nation in the morning. I say one of his bars. Yeah, we–
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Shout-out to Wagon Wheel, yes. Let's go find some dinner.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Let's have a night. Let's have a day, shall we? Yes.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: It is a great– we circled October 17th when the
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: schedule came out across college football. Enjoy it. Full coverage
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: at sportandstate.com. We are back on Monday with full reaction
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: to the football weekend, both college and NFL. Join us
• 47:56
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• 47:59
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• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Dixieland Delight Friday night.