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South Carolina EXPERT Surprised Me Before Tennessee Volunteers vs Gamecocks! · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to SEC Football Addiction. TJ Pittenger
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  Speaker 1: here with Jamie Bradford. Inside the game, Cox. We've also
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  Speaker 1: got a huge matchup this weekend, one in which South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina is a slight favorite despite Tennessee knocking off the
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  Speaker 1: code HMA. Jamie, did the Vegas line surprise you when
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  Speaker 1: it first came out? Or is that just the volatility
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  Speaker 1: of the SEC on a week-to-week basis and Vegas trying
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  Speaker 1: to get out in front of it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, it actually– South Carolina was actually
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  Speaker 2: a two-and-a-half point dog yesterday afternoon when the initial line
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  Speaker 2: came out. But by last night, it had flipped. And
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  Speaker 2: now they're the two– yeah, they're the two-and-a-half point favorites. No,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't surprise me because– I think that when you
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  Speaker 2: look at college football and certainly when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the SEC right now, it's really, we need to remove
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  Speaker 2: these titles and tags that we've long kind of referenced
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  Speaker 2: all these programs by and remember that each week is
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  Speaker 2: really a matchup. It's, it's just, it's who has a
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  Speaker 2: good matchup and who doesn't have a good matchup. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and so, you know, when I, look at
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  Speaker 2: these programs playing this weekend, I think that the things
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  Speaker 2: that South Carolina does pretty well matches up with Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: and vice versa. Tennessee does a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: matches up well to South Carolina that they should be
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  Speaker 2: successful with. So, you know, it's kind of a split.
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  Speaker 2: And I think if it was in Neyland, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think Tennessee probably would have opened as like a
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  Speaker 2: three-and-a-half or a four-point favorite or something like that. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's about where I probably thought it would be.
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  Speaker 1: What coming out of the bi-week is as any Florida
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  Speaker 1: was the last game. And obviously South Carolina shocked everybody,
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  Speaker 1: including the Gators by going out and really dominating that
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  Speaker 1: game for large portions of it. Then you get to
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  Speaker 1: go into a bi-week. So you get to then work
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  Speaker 1: on the things that need to be cleaned up even more.
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  Speaker 1: Just talk to me about the bi-week, what Shane has
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  Speaker 1: talked about, where you think this team has maybe gotten better,
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  Speaker 1: what they needed to work on there. Just kind of
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  Speaker 1: maybe a big picture before we get into the actual game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was an interesting time for the bye week
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  Speaker 2: because there were some things that you would like to
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  Speaker 2: see them continue to play with. You know, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: Lenore Sellers played likely the best game overall game of
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  Speaker 2: his collegiate career when you lump everything in as far
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  Speaker 2: as throwing the football, how accurate he was, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the decision making that he was making, his confidence
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  Speaker 2: in this offense just really clicking around him. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you when you go out there and your quarterback
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  Speaker 2: plays like that, you go, man, we don't want to
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  Speaker 2: sit around for two weeks. Let's get back out there
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  Speaker 2: and play. But then the other side of it, too,
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  Speaker 2: is that there were guys who are banged up that
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  Speaker 2: they needed to to sit down and let's try to
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  Speaker 2: get them healthy and make a run here in the
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  Speaker 2: back half, specifically on the defensive line, for instance, and
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  Speaker 2: other guys just have nicks and bumps and bruises that
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  Speaker 2: they were kind of playing through. So that was a
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  Speaker 2: good thing to be able to get them some help. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, When you go back to that Florida game,
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  Speaker 2: I think the one thing that really stands out is
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  Speaker 2: actually kind of simple, if you think about it. South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina stars were stars, TJ. They finally went out and
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  Speaker 2: had their stars for the large majority of the game
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  Speaker 2: play like stars. Lenoris played like a superstar. He was
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  Speaker 2: the National Player of the Week with the Davey O'Brien
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  Speaker 2: Foundation and someone else. He won two or three of them.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Harburg Dropped a couple of passes, but he also
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  Speaker 2: caught quite a few pretty good ones. He kind of
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  Speaker 2: slid into one on the sideline. He caught one in
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  Speaker 2: the end zone. And he's had some drop issues this year,
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  Speaker 2: so it was good to see him come around. And
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Stewart played the best game that he's played all
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  Speaker 2: year in 29 snaps and basically affected every play that
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  Speaker 2: he was in on, whether it landed in the stat
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  Speaker 2: sheet or not. I mean, the pick that was thrown
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  Speaker 2: to Vakari Swain, who's another one of the stars, The
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  Speaker 2: coverage was perfect, but the throw was kind of rushed
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  Speaker 2: because Dylan Stewart was, I don't know, about two feet
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  Speaker 2: away from taking Aaron Filo into the next week with him. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you had the Stars show up and do
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  Speaker 2: the things that Stars are supposed to do to win games. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think matchup-wise, you know, that was a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good matchup. really, for South Carolina, but I didn't
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  Speaker 2: pick them to win the game. I actually picked them
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  Speaker 2: to lose because I thought it would be closer. I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of people were emotionally looking at that
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  Speaker 2: game going, well, this team just doesn't have it, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to get blown out on the road. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't see it that way. Shane Beamer's never lost the
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  Speaker 2: locker room. Actually, the locker room's gotten stronger with all
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  Speaker 2: the heat and pressure that's been on him, so credit
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  Speaker 2: to Coach Beamer for creating a culture like that, but
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  Speaker 2: I actually looked at the matchup and thought, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this game should probably be pretty close, but South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: has just had brutal communication and busts in the secondary. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they haven't created any turnovers. I mean, they, they,
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't force a turnover to save their life. So
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  Speaker 2: those two things, if you don't do that, you can't
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  Speaker 2: win on the road. Well, the secondary, they had one
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  Speaker 2: bust early and then it got tight from there. And
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that was the pressure up front. And
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  Speaker 2: then they, you know, they, they turned Florida over three times,
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  Speaker 2: not to mention they turned them over on downs and
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  Speaker 2: picked one off on a two point conversion in the
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  Speaker 2: end zone. So They did all that, and then they
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  Speaker 2: turned around on offense and played complimentary football and got
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  Speaker 2: that third quarter issue solved where they had been outscored. TJ,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you knew this. Going into the
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  Speaker 2: Florida game, they had been outscored in the third quarter
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  Speaker 2: in SEC play 31-0. I mean, it was pretty embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: And then they turned around and outscored the Gators 14-3
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  Speaker 2: and basically put that thing to bed. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that they like where they are. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: certainly Tennessee is finding ways to win games. Credit to them.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a typical hype-o. football team where they're just
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  Speaker 2: going to outscore you and hang 40 plus on the board.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that the matchup this weekend is
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  Speaker 2: going to be pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: I think what's interesting about the matchup is again, this
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  Speaker 1: sellers offense and, and what South Carolina can certainly do
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  Speaker 1: if their stars play like stars goes up against, is it,
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  Speaker 1: is it fair to call Tennessee the best defense in
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  Speaker 1: the sec right now? Might be like, I just, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: at worst top three, Like tech Texas playing at their
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  Speaker 1: best is way up there. They certainly didn't play at
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  Speaker 1: their best on Saturday against Florida. And now Simmons is
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  Speaker 1: out for three to four weeks. LSU is a different
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  Speaker 1: defense at home and on the road. It's not Bama.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia would still be up there despite their, their troubles
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  Speaker 1: against Auburn. They also had four turnovers in that game
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  Speaker 1: or three turnovers in that game.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, so that are three or four, right? So like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how much you blame it on the defense.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Florida. It's Ole Miss's defense looked really good.
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  Speaker 1: They they'd be up there, but Tennessee, yeah, like top
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  Speaker 1: two or three. And the way that they went out
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday and just shut down an Alabama offense that
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody would say like, yeah, that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the better offenses. Keelan's playing some of the best football
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  Speaker 1: at quarterback. And that to me is so interesting. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: I would like South Carolina's defense to probably be able
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  Speaker 1: to hold Tennessee down just by virtue of, of, Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: being pretty one-dimensional with a young guy back there playing
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  Speaker 1: at quarterback. No disrespect to Bishop, who I think is, again,
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  Speaker 1: one of the best running backs in the SEC as well.
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  Speaker 1: But thoughts on South Carolina being able to score and
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  Speaker 1: score consistently against a really good defense in this conference?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question, and it's a key point
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  Speaker 2: in the ballgame. Tennessee gives up about 15 points per
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  Speaker 2: game to SEC opponents, and the most they've allowed is 20,
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  Speaker 2: and that 20-17 loss against Texas, you know, South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: offense is pretty good, which is remarkable, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they've been able to turn this thing around in less
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  Speaker 2: than a year under Kendall Bryles. And now him and
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  Speaker 2: Lenore Sellers, if you go back and look at the
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  Speaker 2: last six quarters, they're very much more so on the
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  Speaker 2: same page. Last game, you know, Carolina offensively on the
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  Speaker 2: ground this year has been great. I mean, they were
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  Speaker 2: the top rushing team in the league going into the
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  Speaker 2: Florida game, and Florida was number two. And that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just because they played Kent State and Towson to start
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  Speaker 2: the season. They were the top Russian team in the
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  Speaker 2: league versus league opponents as well going into that game. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was– you know, but they didn't run
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  Speaker 2: it very much, I should say. I mean, they certainly
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  Speaker 2: attempted to. I think they probably could have busted a
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  Speaker 2: few more. But, again, Sellers was in a groove. And so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Kendall just kind of kept feeding him. It
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  Speaker 2: was like, look, man, if you're throwing it like this,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to let you keep throwing it. They never
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  Speaker 2: felt like he was putting the ball in harm's way,
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  Speaker 2: and it worked out. I mean, he threw some dimes.
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  Speaker 2: So– Tennessee's pretty good at that. They're pretty good at
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  Speaker 2: slowing down the run game and kind of forcing you
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  Speaker 2: into being one-dimensional. I think the key here is that
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  Speaker 2: the Vols haven't seen an offense like this on the road.
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  Speaker 2: They did go to Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech's offense isn't
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina's. They went to Arkansas. That's not South Carolina's either.
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  Speaker 2: Alabama clearly has a very, very good offense, and Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Coleman-Williams didn't play in the ballgame How much did that
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  Speaker 2: affect things? I don't know. It's hard for me to
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  Speaker 2: look at Ryan Coleman-Williams being out and go, well, because
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  Speaker 2: he was out, they scored 30-plus points less than what
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  Speaker 2: they would usually score. I just can't go that far.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that Ryan, as good as he is,
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  Speaker 2: makes up for three or four scores per game. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a real Tennessee defense under Coach Knowles, and they're
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  Speaker 2: very good on the defensive line. So if you're South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina defense, The ticket there is Lenora Sellers. They know
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  Speaker 2: that Matt Fuller and Jabri Coleman are one and two.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to get their carries. But Lenora Sellers' threat
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  Speaker 2: to run the football, like that's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: key to this thing and how Tennessee chooses to defend that.
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  Speaker 2: And with Donovan Murph kind of coming on at wide receiver,
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  Speaker 2: Mo Brown coming on at tight end, it's starting to
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  Speaker 2: give Lenora Sellers a couple of extra options that he
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  Speaker 2: can truly trust to catch the football versus where he
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  Speaker 2: was just a couple of weeks ago. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that Carolina is probably going to have to
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  Speaker 2: be committed to the ground game to get themselves into
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  Speaker 2: good third down positions to be able to convert. They
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  Speaker 2: were excellent at converting against Florida, but a lot of
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  Speaker 2: those were third and longs, too, and Florida's secondary is
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  Speaker 2: very suspect. That's not the case with Tennessee. You can't
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  Speaker 2: be in third and long all game and expect to
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  Speaker 2: just convert those things, so they're probably going to have
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  Speaker 2: to be pretty committed to it, but I also do
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  Speaker 2: believe that there's going to be great balance with Lenora
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  Speaker 2: Sellers in throwing the football as well. And if that's
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  Speaker 2: the case, that's probably going to help loosen that thing
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit for the Gamecocks. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: both these teams run the football very well. Deshaun Bishop's elite. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think, you know, whoever can really, really
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  Speaker 2: run it well and not turn it over probably is
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  Speaker 2: going to have a pretty good chance to win this sucker.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the interview held Florida to 120 yards rushing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I was going to go to next is,
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  Speaker 1: is the run game.
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  Speaker 2: Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like Tennessee's offensive line a lot more than I
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  Speaker 1: like Florida's. And so I would, I mean, you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's coming. If you're the South Carolina defense, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that it, I mean, certainly they will game plan,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think it takes a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: like figuring out like, whereas, you know, so I was
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  Speaker 1: down in Miami this weekend and it's pick your poison
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  Speaker 1: with that offense. Well, Tennessee's, you know, it's a healthy
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  Speaker 1: dose of Bishop and Morris and those guys like going
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  Speaker 1: to be running down your throat or at least attempting
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  Speaker 1: to all day South Carolina against the run. you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think if you're, if you're Beamer and you,
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  Speaker 1: and that staff and you say like, Hey, if George
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  Speaker 1: McIntyre comes out and just beats us, then he just
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  Speaker 1: beats us. Like if that's what, but like all the
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  Speaker 1: attention has to be on slowing down that ground game.
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  Speaker 1: And again, if this redshirt freshman comes out and throws
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  Speaker 1: for 300, so be it, you know, like it just
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  Speaker 1: sometimes players make plays and that's how we'll lose, but
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  Speaker 1: it can't be Bishop with three touchdowns and 180 yards.
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  Speaker 3: That is the reason we take an L here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Carolina's secondary is probably going to be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the same from that Florida game, which
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  Speaker 2: is keep the ball in front and let's focus on
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  Speaker 2: controlling the run game as best as we can. I
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  Speaker 2: try to stay away from the four-letter word, stop. It's
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  Speaker 2: hard to stop a run game. But if you can
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  Speaker 2: control it and force them to do things that they
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  Speaker 2: don't want to do or they're not better at doing
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  Speaker 2: than running the football, you're going to have a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good chance. And obviously that's what happened down in the
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  Speaker 2: swamp last weekend for South Carolina. But, yeah, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: Deshaun Bishop's real. I mean, he's real. The Morris kid,
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  Speaker 2: Dwayne Morris, or how do you say that? It's not Dwayne.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something like that, but I just call him
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  Speaker 1: Morris just to not mess it up.
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  Speaker 2: He's just going to go, yeah, Morris is fine. They
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  Speaker 2: both average.
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  Speaker 3: Try covering BYU with all those names. That's the fun one.
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  Speaker 2: Telling you what now. Yeah, there's no doubt. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: both average, what, six yards a carry. Dylan Stewart is,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's not only a difference maker as far
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  Speaker 2: as it, like, when he's on the field, we know
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  Speaker 2: he's elite, okay? But Dylan Stewart is one of the
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  Speaker 2: guys who can bring out the best in the guys
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  Speaker 2: that line up next to him. For instance, Caleb Herring
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  Speaker 2: is the starting edge opposite Stewart. Well, Herring was a
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  Speaker 2: five-star top player in the state in Tennessee, played for
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  Speaker 2: the Vols, transferred here in the offseason. Herring, against the run,
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  Speaker 2: is pretty good. But he's had some issues in getting
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  Speaker 2: to the passer. Well, last week, when Dylan Stewart was
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  Speaker 2: in there, Caleb Herring was getting to the passer. You know,
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  Speaker 2: not getting all the way there, but the pressure was there.
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  Speaker 2: Against the run, he's been pretty good. But, see, Dylan
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  Speaker 2: Stewart requires double, if not triple, attention every time the
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  Speaker 2: ball snaps. It doesn't matter who they put out there.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what they do with him. There are
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  Speaker 2: very few, if any, who can defend him consistently one-on-one.
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  Speaker 2: You're not just going to hold him for three or
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  Speaker 2: four seconds unless you're actually holding him, which a lot
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  Speaker 2: of teams do. And then South Carolina's interior is very,
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  Speaker 2: very good. Tommy Duragia is the highest-rated pass rusher at
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  Speaker 2: the defensive tackle position in college football this year. He's
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  Speaker 2: very good. Gabe Brown-Lodin, he's been banged up the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks. He's expected to be back this week.
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  Speaker 2: That's big time. Kelby Collins, who transferred in from Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: has been playing very well. You start with those three,
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  Speaker 2: and then you get to the deep freezer, we call him.
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  Speaker 2: He is a true freshman, Noah Clark. Noah Clark might
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  Speaker 2: be the best overall defensive tackle on the team, but
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  Speaker 2: he's just a freshman. And this isn't me being fanboy,
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  Speaker 2: I promise you that. It's watching him progress week to week,
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  Speaker 2: and you watch that snap count keep increasing, and then
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  Speaker 2: you watch him play, and you go, yeah, I can
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  Speaker 2: see why. I mean, it's hard to block this kid.
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  Speaker 2: He's 6'5, 350 pounds. But he doesn't move like that.
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  Speaker 2: He moves like he's more around 305, 310. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Carolina is pretty good up front. And Tennessee is going
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  Speaker 2: to have to figure out whether they think that they
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  Speaker 2: can go right at that thing, which is going to
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  Speaker 2: probably hurt them a little bit in the pass game,
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  Speaker 2: or whether they need to try to spread it out
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  Speaker 2: or what they're going to do. I don't know. We're
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: going to have to figure that out when it gets
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: to the game on Saturday. But, you know, with McIntyre,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: you're right. I mean, look, you know, South Carolina– couldn't
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: cover a bucket of water for the large majority of
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: the season downfield, and that cost them in the Mississippi
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: State game, and it cost them in the Kentucky game.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: You take a play, maybe two, but certainly just one
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: in the Kentucky game away, and this team, instead of
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: three and three, is sitting here at five and one
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: and somewhere well inside of the top 20 with the
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Vols coming to town this weekend. So, you know, I
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: think that it's going to be a pretty similar approach
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: to what you saw against Aaron Filo and the Gators
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago where they're going to try
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: to let these guys do as much as they can
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: up front with Stewart being back because you can get
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: four and five man rushes with him in there and
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: try to keep everything in front of them and say,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: all right, well, we'll dare you to throw it downfield,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: but we're not going to let it get over our heads. Yeah.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Look at the last two games for McIntyre had 247
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: against Arkansas. I know that's not a Not a great team,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: but had 197 yards passing and went 21 of 31
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: for two-thirds of his passes completed against Alabama in that secondary.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see how Tennessee does play it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Is he getting to a point? Now his first game
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: against Auburn, he threw the ball 10 times and had
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: 80 yards.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Is he 86?
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Are they getting to a place in Knoxville where where
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: they are a little more comfortable with him tossing it around.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I think that's really kind of interesting because the more
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and more confidence that they put into him, it's going
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: to change the way they're able to play. It may
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: not just be, Hey, line up and just throw the
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: ball or run the ball with Bishop every single time.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: So I think that the, the way that Hypo approaches
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: this and really the way again, South Carolina, it's going
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to be dependent in this is what we talk about
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: with complimentary football is it's going to be dependent too
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: on the way the South Carolina's defense is slowing down
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: or holding South Carolina's offense. You know, if, if Tennessee
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: can really slow down sellers and company, then you may
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: not need to take as many chances with McIntyre. And
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: it may just be a, an uglier, lower scoring 20
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to 13, 20 to 17, 17 to 13 type game
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to where, yeah, I'll trust our guys running the ball
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and let them, you know, maybe convert in the fourth
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: quarter and hope that the offensive line can kind of
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: wear down the defense late. Um, So we'll see, obviously
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: turnovers play a big factor that certainly played a big
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: factor for the Alabama Tennessee game this week. But, um,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: do you have a kind of a, you know, not sellers,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: not Stewart, not Harbor, uh, cause those are maybe too easy, but, uh, uh, uh,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: an X factor here, somebody that you could really see
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: breaking out and having a good game that isn't one
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: of the top line stars that it's easy to say
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: sellers and Stewart.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Well, I look, I think it's a group.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I think in South Carolina's linebackers, I mean, they, they
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: played much better. This is a, it's a very talented
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: group and they weren't performing well. And you know, it was,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: it was, it was little things, man, you know, physically
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: you look at him, you said, well, that's an sec
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: linebacking room right there. They're all six 40 and they're
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: all 240, 250 pounds, Sean Murphy and Justin Okorokwo and
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Fred Johnson, kind of the three stars of that group.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: That's a, that's a good looking group of kids. I'd
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: take them anywhere. And let's keep in mind that Okoronkwo
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and Murphy were recruited by Nick Saban to play at Alabama.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Nick Saban recruits pretty good linebackers. But that group down
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: in Gainesville, their eyes were much better. They tackled well.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: They took good angles to the football. All these little
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: things that a lot of people don't really pay attention
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to until the results are in and you go back
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: and you hear people talk about it and you look
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: at it and you say, yeah, I see what they're
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: talking about. So it's going to be critical for them
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: this week. Let's face it, Tennessee... They're going to run
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the football. They're going to run it well at times,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: and they're going to get to the second level. Where
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: are these guys? What are they doing? Are they able
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: to cover things up there? They're not going to throw
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: it a ton to the flat. Mike Matthews, by the way,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: a great looking wide receiver for the Vols so he's
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: a challenge out there Braylon Staley is a challenge to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: cover out there as well and Bakari Swain and Judge
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Collier are certainly going to have their their hands full
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: with that but I think it's South Carolina's linebackers you
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: know what do they choose to do with them when
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: they do send pressure do they get there I got
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: a feeling they will send some George McIntyre, he hasn't
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: started in an environment on the road like this. No
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: disrespect to Arkansas. I love Arkansas fans. I think it's
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: one of the coolest fan bases on the planet, but
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: that and Williams-Brice Stadium. It's going to be a little
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: bit different. The last time Tennessee was here, it didn't
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: go very well for them. Four years ago, 63 points
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: were up on that board. So And then they accused
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Carolina of cheating afterwards. That's a whole nother story.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: They looped you guys into the whole Michigan scandal, huh?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody around here was like, what? You know, I
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: talked to Shane about that one day. He was like,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know how some of these things come about,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: but they do, and you got to deal with it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: So I think it's Carolina's linebackers, you know, defensively. I
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: think that those guys are critical. You know, and I'll
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: give you, you know, on offense, I'll give you a
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: little bit of an X factor here, too. You know, again,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Tennessee's defense is, I think, elite. I got a lot
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: of respect for those kids. They play their rear ends off.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: They've held fantastic offenses to nothing, basically. They're carrying this
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: team while the offense is still kind of trying to
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: get it figured out. They've put that on their shoulders,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: and they've owned it. Like you said earlier, they're going
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: to game plan. I don't know if they'll stop it,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: but they're going to game plan for Matt Fuller, Jabri Coleman,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: and Lenore Sellers running the football, and other guys too,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: but those are the three main ones for South Carolina.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I think keep an eye on 44 again. You know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Mo Brown's touches continue to increase. He's kind of an H-back.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: They list him as a tight end. I list him
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: as a demon, D-E-M-O-N, because he plays special teams. He'll tackle.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: He knocks you into next week. He's fearless. And he's
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: just kind of always there, man. Like, you know, third
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and six, I don't know. Who can I throw it
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: to that I know will catch the ball? Oh, there's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Mo Brown. So if you go, like, look at his numbers,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: you're like, well, he hasn't really done much. Yeah, well,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: go look at his numbers lately, and look at the
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: little things that he does. Look who's in there pitching
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: two-point conversions and stuff like that. He's kind of a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: wherever I need this guy, he's kind of there type thing.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: So I think offensively, I think everybody knows who everybody
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: is for South Carolina, but he's one who kind of
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: sneaks under the radar and makes a big play or
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: two to keep a drive alive and things like that,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: and they're going to have to keep drives alive against
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Tennessee because they are very, very good.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: It's so hard this early in the week to know.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I really I'm interested in this game just because I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: think it would it would be so big for both teams.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: You look at what Oklahoma has left and you start
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to you start to look at a path toward man.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: They could really stack up some wins here against some
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: teams that are maybe not quite what we expected coming
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: into this season. They've got a chance for a massive
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: win here this weekend. And obviously have the rivalry at
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the very end of the year. And then same thing
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: for Tennessee. Like I, so I was asked this morning,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: who do you trust in the sec? And I was like,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man. Like everybody shows vulnerabilities and greatness
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: from week to week. I was like, I still think
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Georgia is really good. I think Ole Miss is good. Tennessee,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: if they can go on the road and win here,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: like you're starting to have conversations about them. You know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it would be huge for either program. Again, what,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: what these matchups that we talk about, the Tennessee defense,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: what they can do against this, against this offense, which
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: has a lot of talent, what South Carolina's defense can
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: do against an offense that you kind of know what
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: they want to get done will be really, really interesting
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to me. I have no idea how to pick this thing.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I know you'll pick it later in the week. So
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: where can people find that? Where can people find all
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: of your content, everything you'll do throughout the week and,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: If you want to make a pick this early.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: On a Monday, you can.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: If not, I'm not going to hold you to it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You can hype it for later in the week, but
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: picking games on a Monday is hard.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd stay away from that, not with availability reports.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Although the things we've heard are trending in the right
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: direction for South Carolina, but I still want to get
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: my eyes on it before we start going that far
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: down the road. I do think it'll be a good game.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I think it'll be close. I think if you're looking
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: for a fourth quarter game, this is it. And, um,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: and I don't think it'll be what it was just
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: a couple of seasons or four seasons ago, uh, in Columbia. But, um,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you know, for us, there's a lot of ways to
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: find us. You can go to the website, you know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the big spur.com or Gamecock central.com. They're the same exact one.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: We combined them last year and, um, we can download
• 24:29
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• 24:35
  Speaker 2: you can go to YouTube, go to our inside the Gamecocks, uh,
• 24:38
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• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to all the other properties that we own and things
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: like that as well so and then on x although
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: i try to not post on x because i i
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: could just say i hope everybody has a great day
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: and somebody will tell me that i need to bridge
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: um so yeah i try to stay away from that
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: but i i i think that um i'll i'll say
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: this too you you know you mentioned who do you
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: trust in the sec i think the answer who could
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you trust the most Georgia, because if they didn't turn
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the football over, would they have won the game? I
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: think they would have. But they did turn the ball
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: over and credit to Auburn. Besides that, who do you
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: trust the most? I don't know. It's a coin flip
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: and it's week to week. And once you go through
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: a week like that, the SEC just went through this
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: just upside down, crazy week, everything's bonkers, et cetera, et cetera.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: And then you look ahead and you go, oh, man,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: there's not really that good of games on the schedule.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't buy that for two seconds.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Like Texas Ole Miss is great. LSU Auburn's great.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: This is great. Yeah. All of a sudden LSU at
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Auburn is a sexy game, you know, Tennessee and South Carolina.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Like I don't think, I don't think A & M
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: is very good, but I'm not going to be shocked
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: to look up in the fourth quarter and see a.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Close football game.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: You know, Oklahoma and Mississippi state, what's going on down there.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: You know, John Mateer has just really kind of fallen
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: off the table. Like What's the status of Kamario Taylor
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: and Fluff Bothwell? You know, if those guys are able
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: to go, the Sooners are three and a half point
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: favorites in that game right now with Taylor is, hey,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: he's all clear and ready to go. Who do you like?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Because I think I like Mississippi State, although Oklahoma's defense
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: is very, very good. And, you know, Kentucky just is
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the shock of the league. They find ways to win,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: you know, so that you look at that game and
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: you'd like to think that's probably the one game that
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: you would feel comfortable saying, well, I think Kentucky beats Vanderbilt.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And I would agree with that. But Week to week, man,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: it's all about matchups. Who's who, who's got what, and
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: then you kind of go from there. I think it's
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: going to be another pretty wild weekend in the Southeastern Conference.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Jamie, I appreciate you for hanging out.
• 26:44
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• 26:57
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