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Does Brent Venables Deserve More Time? | These Numbers Made Us UPSET · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: All right, it's time to have a real conversation about
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  Speaker 1: our guy Brent Venables. Because on the internet, everybody has
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  Speaker 1: already proclaimed that he needs to be gone. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. I'm going to explain why. Because I
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  Speaker 1: think it's relevant towards this conversation. Plus, I did see
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  Speaker 1: a stat that came across earlier today and I got
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  Speaker 1: irrationally angry about it. I'm going to show it to
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  Speaker 1: y'all so y'all can be as angry as I am.
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  Speaker 1: Let's dive into that. Before we do that, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: I'm your boy, Jay. Thank y'all for pulling up to
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  Speaker 1: Do users play five? Get $ 150 in bonus lineups if
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  Speaker 1: you win. Yeah, the conversation needs to be had about
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  Speaker 1: our guy, BV. Um, defensively, the team still looks good.
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  Speaker 1: They actually had a solid second half against Georgia. Um,
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  Speaker 1: they had moments of, uh, non-clarity in the first half
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  Speaker 1: and missing assignments, but they still made it tough for
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  Speaker 1: Georgia to move. Like I had some Georgia fans that
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  Speaker 1: I chatted with. They were just like, this is insane
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  Speaker 1: that we can't move the ball on y'all. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: Not really. This is kind of how this works. But
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  Speaker 1: they had some good teams, great teams, will find holes
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  Speaker 1: and figure out ways to get points. And they did that.
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  Speaker 1: So defense wasn't perfect, but the defense overall still barely
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  Speaker 1: gave up 300 yards, which is a good thing for
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  Speaker 1: what this team wants to do. And so in total defense,
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  Speaker 1: this team is still up there, ranked pretty high, number
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  Speaker 1: eight in the country, to be exact, right there with Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: And we had like 296 yards in the game. But
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  Speaker 1: I digress. The defense is still here. And so when
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  Speaker 1: everybody asks, all right, is it time for us to
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  Speaker 1: really get rid of Brent Venables? The challenge you run
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  Speaker 1: into that is in today's landscape of college football. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you have told me that we're broke
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  Speaker 1: as a program, even though we've spent and gotten certain players.
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  Speaker 1: Talent's not the problem. It's been the coaching on the
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  Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. So you're going to need
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  Speaker 1: to let somebody go. And I totally 100% agree. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of the season, you need a clean slate
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  Speaker 1: on offense. Find a way to keep Dillon McCullough with
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  Speaker 1: Jason Witten to go with the new coaching staff, hoping
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  Speaker 1: they can find a home. I don't think anybody would
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  Speaker 1: pass on having Jason Witten on staff. Same thing with
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  Speaker 1: Dillon McCullough, who is very well respected and does a
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  Speaker 1: really good job of not only coaching, but also recruiting.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to make sure your offensive coordinator is
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  Speaker 1: is someone that's going to want to run that pro
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  Speaker 1: and run it down your throat. Basically Buster Faulkner, who
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  Speaker 1: I really wish we would have considered hiring a long
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  Speaker 1: time ago, but I digress. Your challenge, if you let
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  Speaker 1: BV go, your defense is gone. You're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to find another defensive coordinator that will be able to
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  Speaker 1: bring in similar talent. And yes, BV does recruit in
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of don't come to Oklahoma for me, come
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  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma for Oklahoma. But let's be realistic. These kids
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  Speaker 1: love playing in his system. Period. They do. And there's
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  Speaker 1: another factor to that, too, that, yeah, BV is actually liked.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of the biggest problems here for most
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  Speaker 1: of us is we do like him. We like him
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  Speaker 1: as a person. We like what he's doing on the defense.
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  Speaker 1: We literally just traded him for Lincoln Riley. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, most of y'all hated Lincoln Riley even
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  Speaker 1: when he was here. So USC hates him. They can't
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  Speaker 1: get rid of him. $ 70 million buyout. I think BV's
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  Speaker 1: is definitely less than that. And it's something that can
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  Speaker 1: be done, but you replace BV, you're looking at roughly
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 million in new staff and new everything and roster
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  Speaker 1: in order to fill up everything you want. If Oklahoma's
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  Speaker 1: as broke as everybody say they are, ain't no way
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  Speaker 1: they can do that. I think they got the money
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  Speaker 1: to do it, but I think they actually like the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we have a good defense and a conference
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  Speaker 1: that if you have a good defense, you typically can
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  Speaker 1: win games. We won 10 with a good defense. If
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  Speaker 1: you add offense to that, guess what? you win more
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  Speaker 1: so now the big thing is we can't retain people
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  Speaker 1: and this is where things get a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: in the direction that we should be able to go
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  Speaker 1: this coming season because i don't think i realize that
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  Speaker 1: by he's going to score on Missouri period. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's the best running back in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Hurts my heart that we, We've got guys his size
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the whole BV chatter piece is
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  Speaker 1: you keep him, you keep your defense. Now when you
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  Speaker 1: make your hire, it should be a coach that you
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  Speaker 1: can bring in that will bring in his people. That
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  Speaker 1: is the most important thing now. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: that's why a change that to me will happen We'll
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  Speaker 1: be bigger and better for Oklahoma going forward. The reason
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  Speaker 1: is we got a new AD, Roger Denny. You've got
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  Speaker 1: a front office staff of Jim Nagy. So to me,
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  Speaker 1: what they're going to do is it's time to make
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  Speaker 1: that change. And they actually will be able to like,
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  Speaker 1: screw this saving money by retaining coaches and just bring it. No,
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  Speaker 1: go find somebody that has an established staff with them
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  Speaker 1: that will follow them here and let them run their offense.
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  Speaker 1: You got to find somebody that can do it in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC. So you probably want a coach that's had
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  Speaker 1: some SEC or some Big Ten experience, or you want
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  Speaker 1: a guy that's had a former head coach that's actually
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  Speaker 1: seen success that can come in here and adjust his
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  Speaker 1: offense to be able to be successful in the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: I've mentioned Cliff Kingsbury a couple times. I know that
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  Speaker 1: he wants to probably be a head coach again. He's
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  Speaker 1: at the Rams right now, and I mentioned him numerous
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  Speaker 1: times because He changed his entire offense when he went
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  Speaker 1: to the Cardinals. He went away from the air raid
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  Speaker 1: setup and he went to more of a power run
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  Speaker 1: setup there with the Cardinals with Kyler. They actually looked
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  Speaker 1: pretty good at moments. They just, in the end, you
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  Speaker 1: could tell that him and Kyler weren't going to work
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  Speaker 1: out and it ended up not working out in the end.
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  Speaker 1: So that's, I see why people have it as an option,
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  Speaker 1: but that is what Oklahoma has to do. So the
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  Speaker 1: thought of getting rid of BV to me just didn't
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  Speaker 1: make sense regardless of of how this is going because
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  Speaker 1: I do not believe Brent Venables had 100% say on
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  Speaker 1: who he wanted to be his offensive coordinator. I do
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  Speaker 1: believe that it was a, hey, here's your list of options,
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  Speaker 1: but we can't do X, Y, Z. Like we can't
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  Speaker 1: fire everybody and start over over here. I think Roger
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  Speaker 1: Denny will let him do that. I think Jim Nagy
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  Speaker 1: will push for that. I think Randall Stevenson, who is
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  Speaker 1: like an overseer over all of this, understands now that
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  Speaker 1: you have to. And if there's anything that helps BV
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  Speaker 1: in this is that he can sit back and do
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  Speaker 1: the Shannon Sharp meme and be like, told y'all I
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  Speaker 1: wanted this dude and y'all wouldn't let me have him
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  Speaker 1: two years ago. Y'all made me hang on to everything.
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  Speaker 1: Can we now completely refresh everything on that side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball like I did? Because remember, when he came
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  Speaker 1: here He brought all new defensive staff. He started from scratch.
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  Speaker 1: Lebby retained a lot of people because he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: people to bring with him. But Lebby also was running
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  Speaker 1: things himself, right? He knew everybody. He knew how to get,
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  Speaker 1: Lebby was the dude in charge. So in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cases, a lot of people have said that the
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  Speaker 1: hiring of Lebby was a bad idea too, but I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he put up offenses. So to me, it's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's actually a good thing at what he
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  Speaker 1: was doing. Keep that in mind. That being said, I
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  Speaker 1: saw a stat about this season that made me irrationally angry.
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  Speaker 1: Legitimately irrationally angry. Let me show you. This is what
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  Speaker 1: I think. So college football's most efficient teams. See where
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma is? See who's right next to them? See who's
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  Speaker 1: in the vicinity? Yeah, it should piss you off. Because
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  Speaker 1: besides the fact that a quarterback likes giving the ball
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  Speaker 1: to the other team, this is one of the more
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  Speaker 1: efficient teams in college football. Offense stinks, but they still
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  Speaker 1: are able to, in theory, do some stuff. The defense
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  Speaker 1: is still very stout. And I think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: continue going that direction because we're not going up against
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  Speaker 1: very tough offenses going forward. Georgia's probably the toughest. Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi State's going to get their respect. Florida as well.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's defense is mid, but it doesn't matter because their
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  Speaker 1: offense is so dang dynamic, they're doing everything. Kentucky's up
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  Speaker 1: there on offense, but our defense still is over here
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  Speaker 1: far to the right. This made me mad. I was
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  Speaker 1: pretty irrationally angry when I saw this. All because if
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  Speaker 1: we just do better and not give the ball away,
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  Speaker 1: we make that Georgia game very competitive. That's it. That's
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  Speaker 1: all we got to do. Don't give the ball away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really hoping John listens to everybody. Hoping John understands the...
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  Speaker 1: implications of this year. But at the same time, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be one of those major deals
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  Speaker 1: that if he doesn't figure something out, which I'm We
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  Speaker 1: need to make quarterback change. I think he needs to
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  Speaker 1: get his head right. But we're not. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: play him. No matter what, Arbuckle needs to be gone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep repeating that. Time for a change.
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  Speaker 1: We need something new. Let me know what y'all think.
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  Speaker 1: Get in those comments. I want to hear your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We'll talk about what things look like going
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  Speaker 1: into Texas. We'll do a mid-season, well, a bi-week review
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  Speaker 1: of the last four games. It's going to be so painful.
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