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September 28, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 8: Welcome to the Writer's Roundtable with Rusty Burson, Robert Cessna,
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Speaker 2: Welcome in. Glad to have you with us.
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Speaker 9: It is Overreaction Monday here with the writers. This portion
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Speaker 10: Rusty Burson is in. Robert Cessna is in.
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Speaker 9: Two weeks in a row. Cease, you have flunked the Aggies.
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Speaker 9: You've given them Fs.
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Speaker 2: I would say they earned them. Okay, I didn't know.
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Speaker 2: I didn't think A & M would win. I thought
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Speaker 2: LSU would win. I thought A & M would play
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Speaker 2: much better. One thing, I said I could have lost
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Speaker 2: a lot of money, which luckily you don't gamble. I
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Speaker 2: would have bet they'd play much better, and if you
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Speaker 2: told me, what's the odds you're going to score a touchdown?
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Speaker 2: And I'd say, well, gee, even if they get blown out,
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Speaker 2: they'll score a touchdown later, whatever. Surely they'll score a touchdown. But, man,
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Speaker 2: that was just a total, other than the special teams,
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Speaker 2: and even Reuben Owens couldn't catch that kickoff. He dropped
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Speaker 2: it at the one. That was pretty ugly to watch.
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Speaker 5: You know, I said last week that I didn't want
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Speaker 5: to overreact for one week. But I can overreact right now.
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Speaker 5: That game brought back memories.
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Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
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Speaker 5: Horrific memories of the 2015 Ole Miss game, which is
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Speaker 5: the last time the Aggies failed to score a touchdown.
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Speaker 11: If you remember, they ruined, some idiot coach ruined two
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Speaker 11: quarterbacks that night. Kyle Allen and Kyler Murray because Kyler
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Speaker 11: Murray was suspended and the cameras kept focusing on and
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Speaker 11: Kyle Allen was having a terrible game and someone threw
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Speaker 11: the quarterbacks under the bus.
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Speaker 2: Like two for 17 or whatever it was.
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Speaker 12: I wish.
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Speaker 5: After watching this game on Saturday night, I wish that
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Speaker 5: we had Kyle Allen or Kyler Murray or some other
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Speaker 5: option to go to because I lost all confidence in
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Speaker 5: Marcel the week before against Kentucky. I couldn't even understand
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Speaker 5: what he was doing out there against LSU. He threw
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Speaker 5: some passes that I'm like, why do you.
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Speaker 2: Even throw that?
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Speaker 5: What good is going to come?
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Speaker 2: Nothing. He's so far in his head, man.
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Speaker 5: And they got no other options.
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Speaker 10: None.
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Speaker 4: And so I'm not surprised that they got smashed.
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Speaker 5: And I would be surprised if they can get to
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Speaker 5: seven wins now.
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Speaker 2: Rusty, this is why I'm glad you're here and I'm
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Speaker 2: older than you. Because I had blocked out that Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss game. Because I do remember that. Now you bring
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Speaker 2: it back.
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Speaker 4: That's 11 years.
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Speaker 2: Both times.
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Speaker 10: Was that the game with the biggest crowd in Kyle
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Speaker 10: Field history?
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Speaker 4: No, no, that was at Ole Miss.
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Speaker 2: At Ole Miss. Oh, yeah, okay, okay.
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Speaker 5: And they scored three points. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's funny because I'm old. I get back to the
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Speaker 2: same things. In both these games, I felt like watching
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Speaker 2: the game was getting a root canal at the dentist.
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Speaker 5: My wife says, I've got to go read a book
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Speaker 5: because this is killing me. So in the third quarter,
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Speaker 5: she's like, you're on your own.
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Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal is, and I give Elko coming in,
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Speaker 2: man up, whatever. But I consider myself a novice football player.
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Speaker 2: I've never sat a coach or whatever. But the last
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Speaker 2: two weeks on both sides, what are they trying to do?
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Speaker 2: I mean, one of those passes, they sent three on defense.
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Speaker 2: They had a spy watching for Leavitt. And LSU beat
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Speaker 2: them deep. They threw a touchdown pass.
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Speaker 5: And you couldn't get to the one-legged quarterback.
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Speaker 2: And the one-legged quarterback. I thought they were bringing back
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Speaker 2: Gunsmoke with Chester. I go, like, get Marshall Dillon.
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Speaker 5: He'd get them. I like the reference there, man.
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Speaker 4: Marshall Dillon.
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Speaker 5: That's good. That's real good.
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Speaker 10: It's the old guy's Monday here. We always come up
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Speaker 10: with a couple of those.
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Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 10: That's why our average audience listener is right around 75.
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Speaker 9: But that's okay.
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Us old people spend money, too.
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Speaker 4: That's exactly right.
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Speaker 2: You know, you're right. I go, the guy's slipping more
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Speaker 2: each play, but nobody's hitting him. He's just slipping because
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Speaker 2: he's walking around.
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Speaker 5: All I heard about was Anto Saka all offseason.
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Speaker 2: Did he play?
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Speaker 4: Like, I think he played. Yeah, he did play.
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Speaker 2: I just.
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Speaker 5: I mean, he's kind of disappeared.
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Speaker 2: He must have got some bad Cajun food.
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Speaker 5: Maybe so.
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Speaker 2: Well, we've heard about a lot of those guys in preseason.
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Speaker 5: Did you see the LSU players kind of taunting the
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Speaker 5: Yell Eaters?
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Speaker 2: Okay, I heard that, but I missed a lot of things.
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Speaker 2: I missed A & M' s touchdown catch.
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Speaker 5: About the best thing you can say that A &
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Speaker 5: M didn't do is they didn't pretend like they were
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Speaker 5: peeing on the field.
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Speaker 10: Oh, my God. We'll get to that. I don't have.
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Speaker 9: Anto Saka in the– I don't have a participation chart,
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Speaker 9: but I don't have him down as making a tackle either.
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Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure he played, but let me double check.
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Speaker 5: He didn't make a tackle.
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Speaker 4: That says a lot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there he is, Anto Saka. I think his uniform
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Speaker 2: is pretty clean. You didn't have.
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Speaker 4: To wash it?
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Speaker 5: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Clean. Yeah, it was ugly. It was one of those.
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Speaker 5: You know what?
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Speaker 2: I think the most.
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Speaker 9: Disturbing part is– when you listen to players and you
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Speaker 9: listen to Elko. And Elko's always been really confident, right?
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Speaker 9: I mean, that's part of why he's been honest. He's
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Speaker 9: been confident about what he's doing and how he's doing it.
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Speaker 9: And today, and even after the game last week, I
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Speaker 9: get the sense he doesn't have any answers right now.
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Speaker 10: I'm not saying that makes him a bad coach. He
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Speaker 10: hasn't forgotten how to coach.
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Speaker 9: I just think this particular team has mystified him because
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Speaker 9: I know he thought they were going to be good.
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Speaker 2: I know he did. And I think he.
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Speaker 10: is really grasping at straws right now.
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Speaker 5: You know, I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, I wouldn't
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Speaker 5: be surprised if Arkansas came in here and beat them.
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Speaker 5: But the way they're playing with.
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Speaker 4: No confidence right now.
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Speaker 10: They don't have any.
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Speaker 5: I don't know which one of y'all asked the question
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Speaker 5: about the history of the series.
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so that was great because you're exactly right.
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Speaker 4: Arkansas. Bad, really bad Arkansas teams.
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: This may be a bad Arkansas team. But they're going
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Speaker 5: to come in here of a lopsided way.
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Speaker 2: Hey, this is their chance to get a game, too.
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Speaker 4: It is their chance.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And I'm telling you, with A & M' s.
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Speaker 5: Total lack of confidence, I don't think that these receivers
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Speaker 5: can have any confidence that Marcel can consistently get them
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Speaker 5: the ball.
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Speaker 10: You know, when you watch a lot of college football
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Speaker 10: like I do, and again– There are other issues besides,
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Speaker 10: and I think you acknowledge this, besides just Marcel.
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Speaker 2: There are lots of other issues.
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Speaker 9: When you have, and Chambliss wasn't good enough on Saturday
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Speaker 9: to beat him by himself because he didn't have his
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Speaker 9: running back with him. I'm talking about Chambliss and Ole Miss.
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Speaker 10: I picked Ole Miss because I thought he was good
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Speaker 10: enough to beat Florida. And I was wrong.
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Speaker 2: He was still okay.
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Speaker 10: But they were hung over from last week.
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Speaker 9: They were beaten up. They didn't have their best running
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Speaker 9: back and he wasn't good enough. But all these other
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Speaker 9: teams that I watch, when they have a quarterback, and
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Speaker 9: I'll just use Sam Leavitt, because when he's throw him
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Speaker 9: for 300 yards, and even before he was hurt running around,
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Speaker 9: you can tell the team's going to rally around that,
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Speaker 9: and they have the confidence that something's going to happen.
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Speaker 10: When you have a.
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Speaker 9: Quarterback that's struggling as bad as Marcel is, that's going
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Speaker 9: to affect both sides of the football, I believe.
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Speaker 4: You're exactly right. He completed 10 passes Saturday night.
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Speaker 5: One of the passes he completed was an amazing catch
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Speaker 5: by Aaron Gregory, reaching back behind him.
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Speaker 2: And it was like, He's like, come on, man.
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Speaker 5: You've got to, as a quarterback, as a big-time quarterback
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Speaker 5: in big-time football, you've got to.
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Speaker 2: Be able to lead those receivers.
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Speaker 5: Everybody's going to miss a pass or two or three,
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Speaker 5: but he's missing more than he's making.
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Speaker 10: I get Elko wanting to give.
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Speaker 9: His quarterback a vote of confidence when he clearly doesn't
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Speaker 9: have much right now. He's been pretty steadfast the last
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Speaker 9: two weeks with that. There's a couple of things at
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Speaker 9: play here. They see these guys every day, and I
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Speaker 9: know if he thought he had a better idea, we
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Speaker 9: would see one of the other two quarterbacks, right?
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Speaker 10: That's the first thing.
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Speaker 9: The second thing I would say is if Marcel starts
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Speaker 9: this game with the coming Saturday like we've seen the
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Speaker 9: last couple of weeks, whether you think that Your backup
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Speaker 9: can do it or not. Don't you have to put
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Speaker 9: him in the game?
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Speaker 2: Okay, here, getting back to a couple things. The era
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Speaker 2: of the transfer portal, the era we live in. And
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Speaker 2: he made a great statement today. He's making $ 3 million
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Speaker 2: a year.
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Speaker 14: Yes.
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Speaker 2: He's your quarterback.
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Speaker 9: And no one else is coming because he's the guy, right?
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Speaker 2: And you can't put any money into a backup quarterback
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Speaker 2: that's not going to see the field.
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Speaker 13: Right.
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Speaker 2: And if you're Mike Elko, like most coaches, let's say
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Speaker 2: I think he had I'm looking down. Seven, eight positions
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Speaker 2: he had a feel on through the portal. So he
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Speaker 2: gets these guys, and he's had a great year last year.
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Speaker 2: Won his first 11 games with a lot of transfers.
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Speaker 11: Yes.
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Speaker 2: So Elko's done well on a transfer. So he fills
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Speaker 2: all these holes. He feels good about life. Yes. He
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Speaker 2: comes out. They beat us. They look. Okay, against Missouri State.
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Speaker 2: Have trouble against Arizona. Now he's got all kind of
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Speaker 2: holes on both sides. He's sitting there and he goes, wow,
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Speaker 2: I thought I got somebody good to replace Cessna on
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Speaker 2: my show, Chip. And you go, the guy I got,
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Speaker 2: he's worse than Cessna. I can't believe that. So he's
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Speaker 2: got about five of those guys, I feel, that are
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Speaker 2: not as good. On both sides of the ball. And
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Speaker 2: because of the portal... that he put all the money,
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Speaker 2: the people that he knew couldn't start that job or
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Speaker 2: even be a backup, that's the guy that you have
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Speaker 2: to put in if that guy doesn't. That guy's horrible.
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Speaker 2: That's right. The guy that you got number two, you
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Speaker 2: want to put him in, it's going to get worse.
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Speaker 2: So as a coach, you're sitting there, oh, my gosh,
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Speaker 2: and getting back. I think this is the worst possible
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Speaker 2: team they could play because Arkansas comes in loosey-goosey, and
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Speaker 2: if you have a quarterback that can limp on one
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Speaker 2: leg and throw the ball against A & M' s secondary,
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Speaker 2: you might make 25 yards. So I think if I'm Elko,
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Speaker 2: I'm really concerned because of what you said. I think
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Speaker 2: he's a great disciplinarian. I don't think he's lost a team,
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Speaker 2: but you've got to win games. This is an era.
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Speaker 2: Those guys start losing games. I don't care who you are.
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Speaker 2: You're going to feel it. So here's that in Brady Hart. Yes,
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Speaker 2: they did. He completed one pass to the wrong team.
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Speaker 10: It was a pretty pass, though.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it was a spiral. It was. He threw
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Speaker 2: it on a rope.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 10: You've got to look at the coordinators, too, do you not?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Especially offense, because he's on defense.
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Speaker 10: Even on both sides.
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Speaker 9: But I know Elko really is with the defense. I
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Speaker 9: get that part. But still, they're not performing.
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Speaker 2: No. They're not performing.
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Speaker 5: The opposites of creativity on fourth downs. I mean, just
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Speaker 5: those two plays. You take those two plays.
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Speaker 10: You're talking about last week and this week, right?
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Speaker 5: No, I'm talking about last game.
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Speaker 4: LSU's fourth down play.
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Speaker 2: Oh, with the pass. With the pass. Yeah, okay.
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Speaker 4: Sucked everybody in thinking it was going to be a
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Speaker 4: direct snap.
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Speaker 14: Yep.
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Speaker 5: And it wide open.
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Speaker 14: Yep.
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Speaker 5: That is creative.
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Speaker 2: And Lane's running down the sideline.
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Speaker 13: Yep, yep.
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Speaker 4: And then A & M, they.
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Speaker 11: Run straight into the middle for the 97th.
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Speaker 4: Time in a row on fourth down.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Everybody knew that play was coming.
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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 9: You know, last week they ran the little sweep that
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Speaker 9: he didn't complete on fourth down, right?
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Speaker 5: Through that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was open.
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Speaker 4: But they also did that.
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Speaker 10: I get it. It wasn't the most creative. I get that.
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Speaker 2: Good call. I'm with you 100% because go back to Kentucky.
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Speaker 2: We ended the three tight ends. They flopped the guy.
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Speaker 2: He pretended to block wide open on their seven-yard tight.
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Speaker 2: That's creativity. When Harris caught that ball before the snap,
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Speaker 2: he was on the right side tight. They flopped him
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Speaker 2: to the left side beside another receiver, snapped the ball.
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Speaker 2: If he watched the play, he fakes like he's blocking.
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Speaker 2: He's not going to block that linebacker in. He goes
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Speaker 2: right across the middle. He is wide open. Nobody picks
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Speaker 2: him up. 57 yards. That's creativity.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's just a gut punch, too.
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Speaker 10: But if your quarterback is not performing, it is really
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Speaker 10: I will say it's hard to call play.
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Speaker 5: You're right.
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Speaker 10: Right. I mean, so it's a double edged sword here.
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Speaker 2: But maybe the quarterback and.
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Speaker 9: Obviously so far is not responding to the new guy
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Speaker 9: like he did.
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Speaker 10: A year ago to colin clive right you.
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Speaker 5: Take it back to the kentucky game when a &
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Speaker 5: m gets ball with 159 left to go in the
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Speaker 5: second quarter yes and they go super conservative yes to
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Speaker 5: me i thought that was the offense coordinator say we're
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Speaker 5: not gonna let marcel make a mistake right before the
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Speaker 5: half right we're gonna go in tight.
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Speaker 2: You're probably right and then the only drive they have
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Speaker 2: is like 15 plays 62 yards eight they get three
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Speaker 2: points that's that's like a loss when you get three
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Speaker 2: points today's LSU scored in less than three minutes every touchdown.
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Speaker 2: Because why? They're making big plays in the secondary.
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Speaker 10: A & M, I believe, is last in the league
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Speaker 10: in explosive plays.
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Speaker 2: Did I see that? And among the worst in the country.
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Speaker 2: I would imagine. Yeah, they only have five plays over
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Speaker 2: 20 yards.
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Speaker 9: They have not produced any explosive plays yet.
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Speaker 2: That's the key. I mean, both sides. In today's football, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Texas and Tennessee was a little bit more old school football.
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Speaker 2: But today, you look at Florida. Ole Miss, you look
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Speaker 2: at Ole Miss, LSU last week. You've got to have plays.
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Speaker 2: You've got to make the big plays both ways.
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Speaker 5: Mississippi State has big plays, too.
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Speaker 2: What's that?
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Speaker 5: Mississippi State makes big plays, too.
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Speaker 2: Mississippi State makes big plays.
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Speaker 10: That kid's impressive.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. He's impressive.
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Speaker 5: I started the game off, the A & M game
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Speaker 5: off in the fourth quarter, flipped it over there. That
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Speaker 5: was an entertaining game.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it was a very entertaining game.
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Speaker 2: And that kid is– he can play. I watched game
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Speaker 2: day for the first time because on the road and,
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Speaker 2: of course, the way the time– Yeah. And Saban goes,
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Speaker 2: he's raising money for Taylor right now. That's the area
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Speaker 2: you live in. If you're out there, I want that
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Speaker 2: Mississippi State quarterback. I can win a national championship with him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you got the Mississippi State receiver, so now you
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Speaker 5: need to go back and get the quarterback, right?
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Basically.
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Speaker 5: We're talking about A & M, yeah. Anybody. Anybody.
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Speaker 2: Highest bidder.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 2: But it's. Nobody thought A & M would be in
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Speaker 2: this position right now because when you look at who
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Speaker 2: their back had gone up.
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Speaker 4: Nobody could have seen Kentucky coming.
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Speaker 2: A three-year starter at quarterback.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's what you want. You want a three-year and a
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Speaker 2: dual threat. Now he's a dual problem. He's not a
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Speaker 2: dual threat.
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Speaker 5: That's a good point, man. Yeah, you thought he was
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Speaker 5: going to be the dude, and.
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Speaker 4: He's turned out to be the dud.
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Speaker 2: And like I said, if you're a coach, this is
16:54
Speaker 2: so hard because what I'm writing about in my column, Mark,
16:57
Speaker 2: There is not one problem you've got to fix. There's
16:59
Speaker 2: about five.
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Speaker 16: No doubt.
17:01
Speaker 2: And only Elko knows which one's the worst. Is it
17:03
Speaker 2: the offensive line? Is it people can't cover? Your quarterbacks
17:06
Speaker 2: can't cover? Is it your ends that you thought were
17:09
Speaker 2: going to rush just the way Hal did?
17:12
Speaker 5: Well, the other question that was asked to him, you know,
17:15
Speaker 5: about which position.
17:17
Speaker 2: Special teams.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he said special teams. I was kind of disappointed
17:20
Speaker 5: he didn't say the wide receivers because except for the injuries.
17:24
Speaker 5: They performed pretty darn well. When the ball's thrown to them.
17:28
Speaker 5: Thrown to them, yeah.
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Speaker 2: There hadn't been a ton of drops. No.
17:31
Speaker 9: They hadn't had a chance to have a ton of drops.
17:32
Speaker 5: And there had been some really good catches about balls
17:35
Speaker 5: thrown behind them.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know where they're at in blocking and
17:38
Speaker 2: things like this in a running game. But my point is,
17:41
Speaker 2: there's a lot of things wrong with the A &
17:43
Speaker 2: M football team right now.
17:44
Speaker 5: Yeah, you couldn't have seen this coming.
17:45
Speaker 2: And, I mean, I always thought... As long as Elko's here,
17:49
Speaker 2: the defense is going to be pretty good. Particularly after
17:52
Speaker 2: that meltdown his first year when they had the problems
17:56
Speaker 2: and they lost four out of five, and then they
17:57
Speaker 2: came back and played so well. And he hit on
17:59
Speaker 2: a good thing today. Last year, you go back and look,
18:03
Speaker 2: a lot of times one side was really struggling, like
18:06
Speaker 2: Arkansas defense. But the offense sucked against Auburn, but the
18:11
Speaker 2: defense played well. Now both teams are playing bad.
18:14
Speaker 17: Both sides.
18:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, both sides.
18:16
Speaker 5: Like you said, and you've got Arkansas team coming in
18:18
Speaker 5: here that they're not going to be intimidated by watching
18:21
Speaker 5: that film.
18:22
Speaker 2: You're getting back to confidence. I guarantee you, if Arkansas
18:25
Speaker 2: comes in Saturday and scores the first touchdown, oh, Katie,
18:29
Speaker 2: bar the door. Because the pressure's going to be amped up.
18:32
Speaker 5: It sure will.
18:33
Speaker 9: Well, I'd argue the pressure's, you know, and that's the
18:36
Speaker 9: other thing. It's obviously already amped up. With all the expectations,
18:42
Speaker 9: and it just gets worse. So something good early, as
18:47
Speaker 9: you mentioned, Cease, has to happen to try to create
18:51
Speaker 9: some momentum. Because we're now eight quarters in. There hasn't
18:59
Speaker 9: been a lot of momentum generated, right? they need an
19:04
Speaker 9: explosive play or five.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, because I spent most of the offseason thinking A
19:10
Speaker 5: & M can be 7-0 or 6-1 going into Alabama.
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Speaker 7: Right? Yes.
19:14
Speaker 2: Well, that's out the window. I spent the last.
19:15
Speaker 5: Six months rooting for a 500 baseball team. Now I'm
19:18
Speaker 5: rooting for a 500 football team.
19:20
Speaker 2: You've got experience. What does experience do for you?
19:24
Speaker 5: Now I'm rooting for an under 500 baseball team. I
19:26
Speaker 5: could be rooting for an under 500 football team.
19:28
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. Early on, A & M' s defense did
19:32
Speaker 2: the job. Look at their first five possessions for LSU.
19:36
Speaker 2: Three and out six. Three and out four. Three and
19:39
Speaker 2: out four. Four plays for 27. They had not one
19:42
Speaker 2: touchdown drive. But the score should have been, if A
19:45
Speaker 2: & M had any kind of offense, it would have
19:48
Speaker 2: been 7-7 or maybe even 10-7 A & M. But
19:50
Speaker 2: they had zero offense for five possessions. Zero, basically. And
19:55
Speaker 2: you can't do that in today's football. You've got to
19:58
Speaker 2: be able to put boys. And I think, man, how
20:02
Speaker 2: do you handle that if you're Elko? Because you promoted
20:05
Speaker 2: your quarterback coach. Holman Wiggins to OC, and the offense
20:11
Speaker 2: is not doing anything. I mean, they only had 197 yards.
20:14
Speaker 2: That's like if you're in the 50s, that was good.
20:19
Speaker 2: Not in 2026. No, no.
20:21
Speaker 5: And actually, LSU failed a fourth down conversion early. Exactly.
20:24
Speaker 5: So you had your defense playing well, giving you a shot,
20:29
Speaker 5: and they just wore down. I mean, and like you said, Chip,
20:33
Speaker 5: it's hard. I mean, I played– on a team that
20:36
Speaker 5: had a really good defense and no offense. And it
20:39
Speaker 5: just demoralizes you as a defender after a while.
20:42
Speaker 6: True.
20:43
Speaker 5: We just gave up a touchdown. We're probably going to
20:45
Speaker 5: lose here because our offense can't do anything. So A
20:50
Speaker 5: & M' s defense has got to be demoralized when they're
20:52
Speaker 5: down double scores. It's like, well, here we go.
20:55
Speaker 2: And I always worry about today's football because a lot
20:57
Speaker 2: of those guys– It's their first year A & M
21:00
Speaker 2: or second year. Oh, yeah. I haven't been with those
21:01
Speaker 2: guys all the time. You know, we're not playing too well.
21:03
Speaker 2: You know, I need to take it easy. I might
21:05
Speaker 2: get hurt.
21:06
Speaker 9: So you just brought this up. And I'm looking at
21:10
Speaker 9: this team. You're looking for some one or two or
21:16
Speaker 9: three players, right, that are those guys that.
21:20
Speaker 10: All good teams have. That when you face some issues,
21:25
Speaker 10: these guys are in practice today, tomorrow, all week long saying, hey, we're.
21:31
Speaker 2: Going to do it.
21:32
Speaker 10: We're going to get this done. Who are those guys, right?
21:36
Speaker 9: And those guys have to not only be guys that
21:41
Speaker 9: do it.
21:42
Speaker 2: Off the field.
21:44
Speaker 9: But they have to follow that up right on the
21:47
Speaker 9: field and produce if you're going to be one of
21:49
Speaker 9: those guys.
21:50
Speaker 2: Okay, Chip, you bring up a good point because I
21:53
Speaker 2: go back to SEC media days. Who does A &
21:56
Speaker 2: M take down to SEC media days? They could take
22:01
Speaker 2: one of their two captains in the secondary who– Dalton
22:05
Speaker 2: Brooks and Ratcliffe played really well. So I think they
22:10
Speaker 2: took Ratcliffe. But my problem is both those guys are leaders,
22:13
Speaker 2: great years, but they're not playing well. On paper, it
22:16
Speaker 2: doesn't appear they're playing well this year. So when you
22:18
Speaker 2: have one of your leaders, like you said... not play
22:20
Speaker 2: it's tough to lead when you're saying like hey guys.
22:23
Speaker 10: He he was one of the ones that was sent
22:24
Speaker 10: out post game two this week.
22:26
Speaker 2: We're screwing we're screwing up when he he's screwing up
22:29
Speaker 2: i mean i'm not saying i don't see the film
22:32
Speaker 2: but obviously when you look at that that's that's a
22:35
Speaker 2: tough situation like you talk about who's good because who's
22:38
Speaker 2: playing right now if you're a and m who's playing
22:41
Speaker 2: what right now to step up and.
22:42
Speaker 10: Say yeah who can you follow me who can you name.
22:44
Speaker 2: Your kicker Well, we're laughing, but that's a problem. And
22:48
Speaker 2: you're a punter.
22:48
Speaker 5: That's a problem.
22:49
Speaker 2: That is a problem.
22:50
Speaker 5: It's bad. But it's a great point, I think, that
22:55
Speaker 5: most of us haven't really thought about so much is
22:57
Speaker 5: that you don't have these fourth- and fifth-year.
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Speaker 4: Guys who know the program like the back of their hand.
23:03
Speaker 5: You don't have a Dan Campbell who grew up wanting
23:05
Speaker 5: to be an Aggie and spent his five years here.
23:08
Speaker 10: Very few of that anymore.
23:10
Speaker 4: But that's so rare anywhere. I don't know if you have.
23:13
Speaker 5: That continuity anywhere.
23:15
Speaker 2: You know, I was thinking, Russ, when you mentioned that, like,
23:17
Speaker 2: even the franniers, even, like, let's say on bad teams,
23:21
Speaker 2: you know, Stephen McGee was a leader.
23:22
Speaker 5: Stephen McGee, exactly.
23:23
Speaker 2: He would step up. This is bull crap. Yeah, you
23:26
Speaker 2: need to have those guys. And right now, who is
23:28
Speaker 2: that guy? I mean, I don't watch the pulse and
23:31
Speaker 2: all that. I just watch the field. And normally in
23:34
Speaker 2: the past, Reed would go over there, but Reed's not
23:36
Speaker 2: doing it. Reed can't lead.
23:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't be a real big leader if you're
23:41
Speaker 5: making mistakes in the field.
23:43
Speaker 2: That makes it hard. Yeah, it really does. And you
23:45
Speaker 2: bring up a good point, Chip. I don't know who
23:46
Speaker 2: that leaders are. Yeah. You know, Sanford, but then he
23:51
Speaker 2: got hurt last, you know, so he's still coming back
23:53
Speaker 2: from his injury. He played well last year. He's a captain,
23:56
Speaker 2: Damian Sanford, but he's still recovering from getting hurt.
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Speaker 7: Who?
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Speaker 10: Who on either side of the ball right now is
24:05
Speaker 10: standing out?
24:07
Speaker 5: In a good way?
24:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.
24:10
Speaker 9: I mean, Craver's been pretty good. You saw he was
24:12
Speaker 9: a little gimpy Saturday.
24:14
Speaker 2: I'd say Craver, obviously. He's played well.
24:16
Speaker 4: I think Horton's been pretty good.
24:19
Speaker 15: Yeah.
24:20
Speaker 2: He's a new guy, though.
24:21
Speaker 14: Yeah.
24:21
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, you said veteran, right?
24:23
Speaker 10: Well, just anyone.
24:24
Speaker 2: I mean, just first-year guys.
24:25
Speaker 4: Bruce Owens runs hard.
24:27
Speaker 2: Yes, he does. Yes, he does.
24:30
Speaker 5: He's not a breakaway guy, but he runs hard, plays hard.
24:33
Speaker 10: Well, you know, I was a little surprised. I mentioned
24:36
Speaker 10: this in the first hour, guys, when you're looking.
24:40
Speaker 9: At as stats and sometimes i get that stats lie
24:44
Speaker 9: but you look at reuben owens he averaged 5.6 yards
24:48
Speaker 9: a carry he's got decent numbers okay uh 11 carries
24:52
Speaker 9: 62 yards and then kj edwards four carries 22 yards 5.2
24:57
Speaker 9: yards a carry between those two guys they had 84
25:00
Speaker 9: yards rushing on 15 carries But they got behind. There
25:06
Speaker 9: was no rhythm to the offense, obviously. They started throwing,
25:11
Speaker 9: especially when they really got behind. So you're not having
25:16
Speaker 9: the balance that you want to have. They were actually,
25:20
Speaker 9: by stats, running the ball okay. They weren't completely stuck.
25:26
Speaker 9: Their pass blocking sucked.
25:28
Speaker 5: Right?
25:29
Speaker 10: I mean, that was terrible.
25:31
Speaker 2: You hit on it because I wrote a little portion
25:33
Speaker 2: of my follow-up. 14-3 at halftime. A & M still
25:36
Speaker 2: in the game. Get the ball to start out with.
25:38
Speaker 2: They run Owens up the middle for seven yards. Second
25:42
Speaker 2: and three. They try to hit Horton on a slant,
25:44
Speaker 2: and the guy is all over. So it's incomplete. So
25:47
Speaker 2: now you go from second and three. It's start in three.
25:51
Speaker 2: They come with a blitz. Reid gets tackled before he
25:54
Speaker 2: even turns around. So you're punting the ball. Third and 14,
25:57
Speaker 2: you had a chance to get right back in the game.
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Speaker 14: No.
26:02
Speaker 2: Someone's play calling, and someone's execution.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's like they came out of the half against Kentucky,
26:09
Speaker 4: and it was just like.
26:10
Speaker 2: Boom, boom, boom.
26:11
Speaker 5: Boom, boom, boom. Like the defense.
26:12
Speaker 9: Which, as we said last week, in my mind, one
26:15
Speaker 9: of the strengths of these Elko teams is at halftime,
26:18
Speaker 9: they've been so much better.
26:20
Speaker 13: Yeah.
26:20
Speaker 2: And now they're not. And now they're not.
26:21
Speaker 10: Even in the Notre Dame game.
26:22
Speaker 5: You know, when you bust a chair, you know, that
26:24
Speaker 5: became kind of a funny thing all year long, right?
26:26
Speaker 5: Carrying the chair.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
26:28
Speaker 5: Well, I said that about Kentucky. I was like, I
26:29
Speaker 5: bet he's about to bust a chair.
26:31
Speaker 10: But you can only do that.
26:32
Speaker 4: You can't do it every week.
26:33
Speaker 2: You know, yeah. That's the problem.
26:35
Speaker 10: Yeah, you can't do that every week.
26:36
Speaker 5: Because of fate. It becomes fate.
26:38
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.
26:38
Speaker 5: In that act. Yeah, yeah.
26:40
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Speaker 2: There you go. Welcome back.
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Speaker 9: It's the Writer's Roundtable for a Monday. Rusty Burson is in.
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Speaker 9: Robert Cessna is in. It's great to have you. Brought
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Speaker 9: from Mike Elko tomorrow. He met with the media this afternoon.
31:25
Speaker 9: I figured it would be shorter than usual.
31:27
Speaker 2: It was.
31:29
Speaker 10: You don't know what to ask. I mean, you know,
31:31
Speaker 10: it's hard to know.
31:33
Speaker 9: And I'll say again, this is the first time I've
31:37
Speaker 9: seen him kind of at a loss, right?
31:41
Speaker 2: Well, it went back to last week.
31:44
Speaker 13: Sure.
31:44
Speaker 2: When he said that they weren't. They'd had a bad practice.
31:48
Speaker 10: They'd had a bad practice.
31:49
Speaker 2: They weren't. things weren't catching on.
31:51
Speaker 17: Correct.
31:52
Speaker 2: And, of course, a lot of media, like, oh, we're
31:54
Speaker 2: all smart, Alex, and whatever we're talking later, why didn't
31:57
Speaker 2: you change it?
31:57
Speaker 13: Right.
31:58
Speaker 2: But, you know, we don't know what coaches go through
31:59
Speaker 2: and how it goes. He's just being honest.
32:01
Speaker 12: Yes.
32:01
Speaker 2: And then you're thinking, like, okay, well, he'll really get
32:04
Speaker 2: that corrected for LSU. But didn't.
32:07
Speaker 18: Yes.
32:07
Speaker 2: And it's worse.
32:08
Speaker 13: Yes.
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Speaker 10: You know, he– you make mistakes in the portal now.
32:14
Speaker 10: This is a problem. We were talking about– Rusty, you
32:15
Speaker 10: were talking about fourth- and fifth-year players aren't many of them.
32:18
Speaker 5: Right.
32:18
Speaker 10: You make a mistake in the portal. And you're stuck
32:22
Speaker 10: with that mistake.
32:23
Speaker 9: Because one thing he said today, which we talked about earlier, is, hey,
32:28
Speaker 9: there's no backup quarterback that's an NFL guy sitting on
32:32
Speaker 9: the bench.
32:34
Speaker 2: And that's impossible. That guy's going to be somewhere else.
32:37
Speaker 2: It's impossible to.
32:39
Speaker 10: Build great depth. you know, anymore with this portal system.
32:44
Speaker 9: And then you don't have these guys who have developed
32:48
Speaker 9: through your system, your personality for three years, right? Or
32:52
Speaker 9: four years that you used to have.
32:55
Speaker 10: And I'll go back to Indiana.
32:58
Speaker 9: Last year was the oldest team in college football that
33:01
Speaker 9: won that national championship with Indiana. And a lot of
33:04
Speaker 9: those guys had come up with Cignetti's system at James Madison, right?
33:09
Speaker 11: Yeah.
33:10
Speaker 2: So they had been with him.
33:11
Speaker 9: Right.
33:12
Speaker 2: We don't see.
33:13
Speaker 9: I mean, there's a few guys here on the roster,
33:15
Speaker 9: but there aren't many of those kind of guys.
33:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, how many guys was playing for the coach?
33:18
Speaker 14: Yes.
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Speaker 2: That's... Are you playing for the coach or the paycheck?
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Speaker 13: Right.
33:23
Speaker 5: I mean, but we don't see that commitment to your coach, right?
33:26
Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Like those guys had to Cignetti.
33:29
Speaker 2: You don't see that anymore.
33:30
Speaker 10: Not very little.
33:31
Speaker 2: And also, along with the portal, then you factor in injuries.
33:36
Speaker 2: You don't replace an All-American running back at Ole Miss.
33:39
Speaker 2: That was obvious. That was obvious.
33:42
Speaker 10: And used to, every team had four or five running backs, right?
33:44
Speaker 14: Right.
33:45
Speaker 2: And LSU now, with them losing weeks, they've lost three
33:48
Speaker 2: starters in two games. I mentioned that.
33:50
Speaker 9: They are in trouble. And I've got to tell you,
33:54
Speaker 9: I don't know about you guys. I have this sense.
33:57
Speaker 9: LSU is obviously a better coach team. The offense is better.
34:01
Speaker 9: I still don't know how good a team they are.
34:05
Speaker 2: What do you think, Rusty? I don't either. I just
34:08
Speaker 2: don't know.
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Speaker 9: Their defensive line was really solid, right?
34:13
Speaker 10: You mentioned Whitweeks. He's the quarterback of that defense. That
34:16
Speaker 10: star safety was the other guy. So they're down three guys.
34:22
Speaker 2: I would say right now, if I'd say yes, yay
34:25
Speaker 2: or nay, I'd say they do not make the playoff.
34:27
Speaker 10: I don't think it's a playoff team.
34:29
Speaker 5: No, I don't think either one of those teams. There's
34:30
Speaker 5: playoff teams that we saw Saturday night.
34:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I just think with the SEC going to
34:34
Speaker 2: nine games and Ole Miss lost one, you're going to
34:37
Speaker 2: see a lot of losses because of injuries. You are.
34:40
Speaker 2: Because no one has backups. They don't have enough money.
34:43
Speaker 2: I guess Coach will start asking for money for backups.
34:46
Speaker 9: Oh, that's inevitable. I think Georgia is still the best
34:53
Speaker 9: team personally. I mean, just looking.
34:56
Speaker 4: They're not exciting, but they're solid.
34:58
Speaker 10: No, but they're solid. They'll beat the hell out of them.
35:01
Speaker 2: And they do have depth. They have guys that's been
35:03
Speaker 2: in the program.
35:04
Speaker 5: Kirby's got it going.
35:05
Speaker 9: Kirby does.
35:06
Speaker 2: When you look at what he does.
35:07
Speaker 4: Alabama is better than I thought.
35:08
Speaker 10: Alabama's quarterback is– this kid is going to be special too.
35:12
Speaker 5: Yeah.
35:14
Speaker 10: He's really good.
35:15
Speaker 2: He's got an arm. He can run.
35:16
Speaker 5: I thought they were really soft early on.
35:19
Speaker 9: You know, I picked Alabama to be a little better
35:21
Speaker 9: this year. I feel a little better about that.
35:24
Speaker 10: I did not pick Mississippi State because I did not
35:27
Speaker 10: see this quarterback coming.
35:29
Speaker 9: And he can make all the difference and has. So,
35:33
Speaker 9: you know, I'm looking at Florida and what Summerall has done.
35:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're better than I thought.
35:38
Speaker 2: You know, and they've got the.
35:39
Speaker 9: Best running back right now in the country with Lacey out.
35:43
Speaker 10: I mean, Bob's the best. He's the best in the country.
35:45
Speaker 2: But here's what it goes back to. We always do
35:48
Speaker 2: Florida and talent. Florida is one of those programs.
35:50
Speaker 10: You've got to have somebody come in and put it together.
35:52
Speaker 2: You've got to have somebody that can coach.
35:53
Speaker 9: You know, and I'm still right on the fence with Texas.
35:58
Speaker 10: They've won two big games. And I don't care what
36:00
Speaker 10: you say about Tennessee.
36:01
Speaker 9: You go into that environment and how poor it was
36:05
Speaker 9: and how they did.
36:07
Speaker 2: They won the game.
36:08
Speaker 5: Arch is still not the quarterback I thought.
36:10
Speaker 10: He was going to be.
36:12
Speaker 2: He is not.
36:12
Speaker 9: But he's winning more than he's losing these kind of games.
36:16
Speaker 2: He's figuring out how to win games.
36:18
Speaker 10: How to win.
36:18
Speaker 2: It's not pretty.
36:19
Speaker 5: And they figured out a way to beat Ohio State.
36:22
Speaker 2: They did.
36:23
Speaker 5: And they figured out a way to hold on and
36:25
Speaker 5: beat Tennessee.
36:25
Speaker 2: They did.
36:26
Speaker 4: I hear people ridiculing him.
36:28
Speaker 5: But he's got that clutch.
36:30
Speaker 9: And then he makes some of the most incredible throws
36:35
Speaker 9: about three times a game.
36:36
Speaker 10: And you go, holy God, why can't you do that?
36:41
Speaker 4: Or he'll scramble for a big first down.
36:43
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know what I mean?
36:45
Speaker 14: Yeah.
36:45
Speaker 5: The guy's a lot faster than his other relatives.
36:48
Speaker 10: I mean, so far he's been a winner, right? I mean,
36:51
Speaker 10: that's what you say. I mean, he hasn't been pretty.
36:54
Speaker 10: But he's been a winner. And that's all, you know.
36:57
Speaker 10: That's all you look at right now. And defensively, they're
37:01
Speaker 10: really good.
37:02
Speaker 17: Yeah, they are.
37:02
Speaker 2: And the flip side, Marcel's not making those plays.
37:05
Speaker 5: He's not.
37:05
Speaker 2: You have to make those plays. We're talking about the
37:07
Speaker 2: Mississippi State quarterback. Sam Leavitt made plays. On one leg.
37:10
Speaker 5: On one leg, yeah. He made plays. He really pressed
37:14
Speaker 5: me with his arm because he didn't have the wheels
37:17
Speaker 5: to make plays. Because that's his game. He's got a
37:20
Speaker 5: lot of that Johnny football in him. He throws his
37:22
Speaker 5: body around and all that stuff, but he couldn't do that.
37:26
Speaker 9: And even Lane said today, he said, I told him,
37:29
Speaker 9: that may be a blessing in disguise.
37:31
Speaker 10: You had to stay in the pocket and make your
37:32
Speaker 10: reads and throw the football.
37:33
Speaker 4: They bring in a backup who's athletic.
37:36
Speaker 13: Yes.
37:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, that kid can run.
37:38
Speaker 5: That kid can run.
37:39
Speaker 2: Yes, he could. But once again, they had the right
37:42
Speaker 2: play called, right people.
37:44
Speaker 6: He moved.
37:45
Speaker 2: He didn't throw the ball pretty.
37:46
Speaker 10: Hey, nobody has questioned, I don't think, Lane Kiffin as
37:49
Speaker 10: an offensive coach and as a play caller.
37:52
Speaker 15: No.
37:52
Speaker 10: Nobody would question that. You can take everything you want
37:56
Speaker 10: to say about him, but this guy offensively is as
38:00
Speaker 10: good as it gets.
38:01
Speaker 2: And Charlie Weiss is pretty good to work with him.
38:04
Speaker 20: Yes, he is.
38:05
Speaker 2: And I've worked together. And, you know, you've got to
38:07
Speaker 2: look at last year. I didn't think Colin Kline called
38:11
Speaker 2: a good game the last two games last year, but,
38:13
Speaker 2: you know, he called pretty well the whole year when
38:15
Speaker 2: you look at what the offense did last year.
38:16
Speaker 10: And for the most part, for the most part, his
38:19
Speaker 10: quarterback played pretty well, right? There's a lot of moving parts.
38:24
Speaker 10: And that's the other thing you wonder about. Again, I'll
38:26
Speaker 10: go back. This is a new guy. You know, I
38:29
Speaker 10: know he was on the staff. I get that. He
38:31
Speaker 10: wasn't totally unfamiliar with Holman Wiggins. But it's not working
38:36
Speaker 10: right now.
38:37
Speaker 5: I know.
38:38
Speaker 2: It's not even come close to working.
38:40
Speaker 10: It's not come close to working.
38:42
Speaker 2: You know, when we're.
38:43
Speaker 5: Talking about the different schools out here, I was shocked
38:47
Speaker 5: the way Florida just destroyed Ole Miss.
38:49
Speaker 10: Handled Ole Miss.
38:50
Speaker 13: Yeah.
38:51
Speaker 10: I just think there's several things at view. You knew
38:54
Speaker 10: that Ole Miss, there was no way to get up
38:58
Speaker 10: like that from the week before.
39:00
Speaker 2: No way.
39:01
Speaker 10: You're missing your running back. And they just got– and Florida,
39:06
Speaker 10: I'm telling you, this was their coming out party. Now
39:09
Speaker 10: I know why they were three-and-a-half point favorite. Remember, we
39:11
Speaker 10: sat here last week. How in the world is Florida
39:14
Speaker 10: a favorite? Well, after the first half, I go, okay,
39:17
Speaker 10: I get it now because they were frothing at the
39:20
Speaker 10: mouth for this game. And they played great.
39:23
Speaker 2: And that's why I thought A & M was catching
39:26
Speaker 2: LSU at a good time. I'm with you, Cease.
39:30
Speaker 9: I don't think this A & M team would catch
39:32
Speaker 9: anybody at a good time right now.
39:34
Speaker 2: The psyche of teams. LSU was ready to play.
39:36
Speaker 10: Yes, they were.
39:37
Speaker 2: Talk about leaders. Levitt stepped up.
39:39
Speaker 10: He made plays.
39:41
Speaker 5: That was an elimination game, I felt like. College football playoff.
39:44
Speaker 2: It was.
39:45
Speaker 5: But I'm still not convinced that LSU is a playoff.
39:47
Speaker 10: I don't think they are.
39:49
Speaker 2: I'm going to say nay. I don't think they are.
39:51
Speaker 5: I don't know about South Carolina either. I'm interested in
39:54
Speaker 5: the South Carolina-Kentucky game this weekend. I want to see
39:57
Speaker 5: if Kentucky's real.
39:58
Speaker 2: Yeah.
39:59
Speaker 5: Because, I mean, I saw what they did to A
40:01
Speaker 5: & M.
40:01
Speaker 2: Yeah.
40:02
Speaker 4: They did it for a half against Alabama.
40:04
Speaker 10: And they did it for the second half this last
40:06
Speaker 10: Saturday against a weak team.
40:07
Speaker 4: Weak team, yeah.
40:08
Speaker 10: They were hungover, too, by the way.
40:10
Speaker 16: Right.
40:10
Speaker 4: So they go to South Carolina.
40:12
Speaker 2: You cannot get up. We know this.
40:15
Speaker 9: Every coach will tell you maybe three or four games
40:19
Speaker 9: a year that you are peak up emotionally, right? The
40:23
Speaker 9: other times you've got to gut it out. But three
40:26
Speaker 9: or four times a year. And you're playing nine conference games, right?
40:31
Speaker 9: And I was all for that to begin with, and
40:33
Speaker 9: now I think it's really stupid.
40:35
Speaker 10: Because no one else is doing it either.
40:37
Speaker 2: I really think it's stupid. I was for nine games.
40:40
Speaker 11: Yeah.
40:41
Speaker 9: Well, we're fans, but now it's like, no, you're going
40:44
Speaker 9: to get every team beaten up.
40:46
Speaker 2: You've already mentioned that. No, I hate that.
40:48
Speaker 4: It's stupid.
40:49
Speaker 2: You're right. Now that I see it, I go, this
40:51
Speaker 2: is super.
40:51
Speaker 9: And some of the Big Ten schedules, when they don't
40:53
Speaker 9: have to play everybody, you look at some of these teams,
40:55
Speaker 9: like Indiana, it's like, hell, I don't have to play anybody.
40:58
Speaker 2: Yeah.
40:59
Speaker 5: It's funny how all three feel that way. Because I
41:01
Speaker 5: was like, yeah, nine games. Let's go. I love that.
41:03
Speaker 10: I go, let's go.
41:03
Speaker 2: Let's go ten. Now it's like, what were you thinking?
41:06
Speaker 10: What were you thinking?
41:08
Speaker 5: Now I feel like my wife is asking, what were
41:10
Speaker 5: you thinking?
41:11
Speaker 2: If they did one of these documentaries on these kids today,
41:14
Speaker 2: what I'd like to know is a big week like this,
41:17
Speaker 2: These guys are making the millions of dollars.
41:19
Speaker 13: Yeah.
41:19
Speaker 2: Do you meet with your advisor like every week? Agent.
41:22
Speaker 2: Do you talk like, hey, how's my stock market or whatever?
41:25
Speaker 2: I mean, how does that factor in when these guys
41:27
Speaker 2: are millionaires? That's a great point, Cease. That's a great point.
41:31
Speaker 5: It's like Marcel making $ 3 million a year.
41:34
Speaker 2: That's more than you make.
41:36
Speaker 10: Well, not by much, but a little.
41:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, right. He's an author.
41:41
Speaker 5: He's never going to make that kind of money ever
41:43
Speaker 5: again in his life, and so hopefully he's put it
41:45
Speaker 5: away and invested it nicely.
41:46
Speaker 2: He can ask us for advice.
41:48
Speaker 10: I can't help but think it's going to be like
41:52
Speaker 10: NFL players used to be.
41:55
Speaker 2: There will be.
41:56
Speaker 10: A handful of honest guys dealing with these guys, and
42:01
Speaker 10: most of them will be crooks.
42:02
Speaker 13: Yep.
42:03
Speaker 9: And most of these kids will leave college without any money.
42:07
Speaker 9: And it's a sad deal. And this day and age,
42:10
Speaker 9: probably no education either, you know, just like it used
42:12
Speaker 9: to be. But now they've had all this money to
42:15
Speaker 9: blow through.
42:15
Speaker 5: So you don't think they should be buying Ferraris right now?
42:19
Speaker 10: I do not think they should be buying Ferraris right now.
42:22
Speaker 5: I know for a fact there's somebody who did.
42:24
Speaker 2: Can you buy Ferraris this time? That's a given.
42:27
Speaker 5: No, I think he has to go to Houston.
42:29
Speaker 2: I didn't think there was one. You can't buy one here.
42:32
Speaker 5: You can drive one back.
42:33
Speaker 9: You can buy a lot of luxury cars around here,
42:36
Speaker 9: but not a Ferrari. Okay, on that happy note, I'm
42:40
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Speaker 12: Rangers played for their playoff hopes yesterday, and I'll let
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44:02
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44:04
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44:05
Speaker 2: This should end it.
44:06
Speaker 16: Austin Martin trotting in underneath it. He makes a one-handed catch,
44:10
Speaker 16: and the ball game's over. The Twins have won it
44:12
Speaker 16: by the score of 6-4, eliminating the Rangers from playoff
44:16
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44:21
Speaker 12: Rangers end the season with an 80-82 record, missing another
44:23
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44:26
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44:29
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Speaker 13: I felt like we should be playing next month, and
44:37
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44:39
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44:43
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44:44
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44:46
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44:47
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Speaker 2: I think.
45:45
Speaker 10: Matty Statz told me today that the spread was 14.5.
45:49
Speaker 2: I saw 14 last night.
45:50
Speaker 10: And I want in on that.
45:52
Speaker 2: I don't bet, but. That seems high to me. Last night,
45:57
Speaker 2: I thought myself is, since A & M was a 9.5 dog,
46:01
Speaker 2: I thought it'd be about 9.5. That's what I said.
46:04
Speaker 2: Last night, it was 14, the one we look at
46:06
Speaker 2: on the paper. It was 14. I go, wow, two touchdowns.
46:10
Speaker 2: For a team to have a rough time scoring.
46:11
Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly.
46:14
Speaker 2: And a series that's been just down to the wire.
46:16
Speaker 2: Always gets close.
46:17
Speaker 17: Always.
46:18
Speaker 5: For a team that's been outscored 66-27 in the first
46:22
Speaker 5: two games of conference season.
46:24
Speaker 13: Yeah.
46:24
Speaker 5: It doesn't seem like they're right.
46:26
Speaker 9: So they're averaging less than 14 a game, and they're
46:29
Speaker 9: 14-point favorites.
46:30
Speaker 14: Yeah.
46:31
Speaker 10: I mean, Arkansas may be terrible. I've just watched a
46:34
Speaker 10: little bit of them.
46:35
Speaker 2: I haven't seen enough of them.
46:35
Speaker 9: You know, I haven't either. I haven't really seen enough
46:38
Speaker 9: of them. For A & M' s sake, they probably.
46:41
Speaker 2: Hope they're terrible.
46:43
Speaker 10: But they're going to get their best shot.
46:45
Speaker 2: You know that.
46:46
Speaker 9: As you mentioned, they're coming off a big win over Tulsa.
46:49
Speaker 5: They're– Yeah, they got spanked by Utah. They got spanked
46:53
Speaker 5: by Georgia.
46:53
Speaker 2: Utah's pretty good, by the way. Yes, Utah is pretty good.
46:56
Speaker 5: And we just talked about Georgia being really good.
46:57
Speaker 2: And we know Georgia's good. Yep. I just think where
47:00
Speaker 2: A & M' s right now, they can't take anything for granted.
47:02
Speaker 10: Oh, absolutely not. They've got to find answers.
47:06
Speaker 2: And they need answers this week. This week? They need
47:08
Speaker 2: to play well before they even go to Missouri.
47:10
Speaker 10: Oh, there's no doubt about that.
47:12
Speaker 2: Because you're looking at, if A & M was 3-3
47:14
Speaker 2: after six games, whoo. I mean, oh, my gosh. Not
47:18
Speaker 2: when everybody was thinking there was a chance they'd be No.
47:21
Speaker 2: 6-1 going into Alabama or maybe even 7-0 if they
47:24
Speaker 2: got a little lucky. I picked A & M to
47:26
Speaker 2: go 9-3.
47:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did too.
47:28
Speaker 2: I was 9-3. Yeah. Maybe they will be.
47:32
Speaker 4: I seriously doubt it.
47:34
Speaker 2: But A & M, like we just mentioned, South Carolina's struggling.
47:36
Speaker 2: Oklahoma's struggling.
47:37
Speaker 5: How do you get the confidence back in your quarterback, though?
47:40
Speaker 5: You got no other options?
47:42
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like.
47:44
Speaker 10: I don't know that answer.
47:45
Speaker 9: That's why they're making $ 12 million over there.
47:49
Speaker 2: I thought, okay, my memory's always bad. I think the
47:52
Speaker 2: times I thought he looked good against Notre Dame, second
47:56
Speaker 2: half maybe, second half against South Carolina.
48:00
Speaker 5: The last two games he played against LSU were really good. So,
48:05
Speaker 5: I mean, the game.
48:06
Speaker 2: That's what I thought was going to happen. He just
48:07
Speaker 2: came off the bench last time, though.
48:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, he did.
48:10
Speaker 14: He did.
48:10
Speaker 2: Not as much pressure. Yeah, right.
48:12
Speaker 5: But what he was doing so well was that zone read,
48:15
Speaker 5: run pass option.
48:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, with his feet.
48:18
Speaker 5: Really riding the running backs before he pulled the ball.
48:22
Speaker 5: I mean, he was a magician.
48:24
Speaker 2: We hadn't seen tons of that. Getting back to LSU,
48:28
Speaker 2: first play, up the gut for 12 yards. He's going
48:32
Speaker 2: to use his legs more. This is a great idea.
48:34
Speaker 2: It didn't happen. Yeah, it did not. Well, you have
48:37
Speaker 2: 12 yards. How do you not get back to that play?
48:40
Speaker 5: You know, I sit there. Everybody's got access to the portal, right?
48:44
Speaker 5: And as I watch college football now, I'm like, How
48:47
Speaker 5: is Miami doing it so well right now? I mean,
48:51
Speaker 5: that team to me might be the best team.
48:53
Speaker 2: I've said that from day one.
48:56
Speaker 5: They really attacked the portal. And that team that came
48:58
Speaker 5: in here last year.
49:00
Speaker 2: And their quarterback.
49:00
Speaker 4: They're better than that team last year that played for them.
49:03
Speaker 10: I think you're right. Because their quarterback is really good.
49:06
Speaker 5: Yes, he is.
49:06
Speaker 2: And the quarterback was decent last year.
49:08
Speaker 14: He was.
49:09
Speaker 5: But he's not this good.
49:10
Speaker 10: Not this guy.
49:11
Speaker 2: I watched Indiana. Beck was okay.
49:13
Speaker 10: I watched Indiana Northwestern Friday night.
49:15
Speaker 2: For the first time, I was impressed with the Northwestern quarterback.
49:18
Speaker 14: Me too.
49:18
Speaker 2: Me too. And they're tied in. Me too. Oh, they're
49:20
Speaker 2: tied in. It was unbelievable.
49:23
Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
49:24
Speaker 2: I go, hey, that tied in. And Northwestern's hosting Penn
49:26
Speaker 2: State this week. They are. At their stadium that holds 5,000 people.
49:30
Speaker 5: Is it too late to send Anto Saka back?
49:33
Speaker 2: Trade him.
49:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, well.
49:35
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what they need to do. They need to
49:37
Speaker 2: get some more new rules on this transfer portal.
49:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't trade them.
49:41
Speaker 4: It's post-fours.
49:43
Speaker 2: Like, you know, 90 days? How about a nine-game deal? Yeah, exactly.
49:47
Speaker 2: Send them back within nine games.
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Speaker 9: The SEC and South Carolina jointly announced a one-game suspension.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we already knew it was out. I thought they
49:58
Speaker 2: were going to go ahead and send them to LSU
50:00
Speaker 2: as a punishment. Along with Colin Simmons.
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Speaker 5: I take him.
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Speaker 10: I don't know how the SEC got involved because I'm
50:08
Speaker 10: pretty sure Beamer had already said this guy's suspended indefinitely.
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Speaker 2: SEC's got to get involved.
50:13
Speaker 9: But I think the ACC got involved with the hit
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Speaker 9: on Dante Moore.
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Speaker 5: That was just terrible.
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Speaker 2: That was brutal. And the reaction was brutal. I just
50:24
Speaker 2: saw the replay. It was just. He's so fortunate.
50:31
Speaker 9: Then he got out of there with apparently only a concussion.
50:34
Speaker 9: I say only because he got smoked and they took
50:38
Speaker 9: him off in an ambulance.
50:39
Speaker 5: Who knows the organ for winning that football game?
50:42
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. I think it woke him up.
50:44
Speaker 10: Maybe for the season. Yeah.
50:45
Speaker 9: But when I saw who the backup was, because you
50:48
Speaker 9: lose track of all these guys.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
50:50
Speaker 9: The reason Nebraska's been terrible for three years was Dylan Riola.
50:54
Speaker 2: He was terrible.
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Speaker 9: He comes in Saturday and looks like Tom freaking Brady.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, what in the world? He's getting
51:05
Speaker 2: Nike money. Come on. I mean, he looked unbelievable. There's
51:09
Speaker 2: a backup quarterback. A backup quarterback.
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Speaker 13: But.
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Speaker 2: It was a USC defense. It was Lincoln-Riley. But you
51:16
Speaker 2: know who the coordinator is? It's Gary Patterson.
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Speaker 5: Gary Patterson.
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Speaker 2: This guy knows defense. He did know defense.
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Speaker 11: Well, no.
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Speaker 2: I think, well, you might be right about that.
51:28
Speaker 5: Dylan Ryola was 18-25 for 289 and two TDs.
51:32
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 9: I would never in a million years have said before
51:37
Speaker 9: that game, hey, you know who's available?
51:39
Speaker 2: Let's go get Dylan Ryola.
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Speaker 5: Well, for what we need.
51:44
Speaker 2: I mean, he was great.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
51:45
Speaker 2: I thought Gary Patterson was great, too. But you know what?
51:48
Speaker 2: When Chavis came here, I thought he was a great
51:50
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator, too.
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Speaker 13: I know.
51:52
Speaker 2: He bottomed out. But you know what?
51:54
Speaker 10: Sometimes it's like everything else. It's a fit, right?
51:59
Speaker 2: Do you fit the head coach? Do you fit the system?
52:04
Speaker 10: Do you fit what they want to do?
52:06
Speaker 5: I think there's never a fit when they come here.
52:09
Speaker 5: It seems like every year. It just never fits perfectly.
52:15
Speaker 2: Why is that, Rusty?
52:16
Speaker 4: It's the Indian burial ground.
52:17
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, man. It surprises the river. It's the
52:21
Speaker 5: Indian burial ground.
52:22
Speaker 2: The Indian burial ground. It's where coaches come to die.
52:26
Speaker 2: And defensive coordinators. And quarterbacks.
52:29
Speaker 5: Long list of quarterbacks. It hasn't been quarterback you. No,
52:32
Speaker 5: it's a long list.
52:33
Speaker 9: But they've left here and gotten better. Would you take
52:36
Speaker 9: Connor Wigman back right now?
52:37
Speaker 10: To Harneride, I would.
52:38
Speaker 2: Not now. I haven't seen enough of him. He's been
52:41
Speaker 2: really good.
52:41
Speaker 14: Really?
52:42
Speaker 10: Yeah, really good.
52:43
Speaker 2: I just watched a little bit of one game, and
52:44
Speaker 2: it wasn't impressive.
52:45
Speaker 9: Well, Houston's defensively is not great, but Willie Fritz can
52:50
Speaker 9: coach football.
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Speaker 2: Oh, there's no doubt about that.
52:52
Speaker 10: He can coach football, and they're a pretty good-looking team.
52:56
Speaker 13: Yeah.
52:56
Speaker 5: Speaking of Sam Houston State, Willie Fritz– Sam Houston was
53:00
Speaker 5: within a touchdown.
53:01
Speaker 4: At halftime of Texas Tech.
53:02
Speaker 2: Yes, they were. I know they were.
53:03
Speaker 5: And they didn't score again. That's right.
53:05
Speaker 2: Back-to-back pick sixes.
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Speaker 20: Yeah.
53:07
Speaker 2: And consecutive plays. Same guy, right? Same guy. Same guy.
53:11
Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
53:11
Speaker 2: Never seen that before. Unbelievable. Never seen that before. I
53:14
Speaker 2: haven't seen Tech play at all, but my scores tell
53:16
Speaker 2: me they're not that good.
53:17
Speaker 5: I don't think they're as good as they were last year.
53:18
Speaker 2: They're not as good as they were last year.
53:20
Speaker 10: That may not matter.
53:21
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see.
53:23
Speaker 10: Because I know they still have to play BYU. They
53:26
Speaker 10: got to.
53:26
Speaker 5: Play Utah, too, right?
53:27
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
53:28
Speaker 4: Oh, is that right?
53:28
Speaker 2: I'm not sure they play Utah.
53:30
Speaker 5: I'll look it up.
53:31
Speaker 2: Does everybody play everybody in the Big 12? No, no, no, no.
53:34
Speaker 2: Not anymore, right? Too many, too many schools. Yeah, too many.
53:36
Speaker 5: Utah does not play Tech Tech.
53:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think they did. I didn't think they did.
53:40
Speaker 10: Tech does play BYU or not.
53:42
Speaker 2: They don't play BYU. I don't think Tech plays BYU.
53:45
Speaker 9: Tech doesn't have any top 25 teams left on their schedule.
53:49
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
53:50
Speaker 10: So they might still be in the playoffs again, right?
53:54
Speaker 2: See, that's just so wrong. Yeah, well, when your league's
53:57
Speaker 2: playing nine. When the SEC's playing nine brutal games. Yeah,
54:00
Speaker 2: that's the other thing. And Tech's playing nobody. That's the
54:03
Speaker 2: other thing. So, we'll see.
54:05
Speaker 5: They go to Colorado this week.
54:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. They lost to Baylor. Yeah.
54:10
Speaker 5: And then their toughest game is Arizona State.
54:12
Speaker 10: I think the Dion experiment's over, don't you?
54:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do, too.
54:15
Speaker 2: Yeah.
54:16
Speaker 5: Or, you know what?
54:17
Speaker 2: I like Dion, but I'm just saying.
54:19
Speaker 5: Texas Tech has to go to Oklahoma State. So, Oklahoma
54:23
Speaker 5: State is ranked.
54:24
Speaker 2: That's good. Yeah, well, yeah, you're right. They are now.
54:28
Speaker 2: They weren't before.
54:28
Speaker 4: They weren't before, right.
54:29
Speaker 10: But, hey, I picked West Virginia.
54:33
Speaker 2: I picked West Virginia. I had to laugh because– What
54:36
Speaker 2: do I know? I had to laugh because I picked
54:38
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State. So watch– Game day for the first time,
54:41
Speaker 2: all those guys pick West Virginia, and they say why
54:43
Speaker 2: West Virginia is going to kill that game. I should
54:46
Speaker 2: have known better. I go, if I had watched game day,
54:48
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have picked Columbus State.
54:50
Speaker 5: Exactly. He may be the best quarterback in the country.
54:52
Speaker 2: He's really good.
54:54
Speaker 4: Outside of Miami.
54:55
Speaker 10: He's really good.
54:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, he is.
54:56
Speaker 2: Okay, boys. Oh, that's interesting. Holy cow. We solved no
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55:02
Speaker 1: Yes, we did.
55:03
Speaker 2: We said goodbye to the Rangers. Oh, yes, we did.
55:06
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55:08
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Speaker 10: I should feel better about myself. Move that graveyard that
55:12
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55:16
Speaker 2: Move that graveyard. I just don't.
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