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The Next Round: Ryan Grubb Apologizes to Alabama Fans, SEC Power Rankings & Lincoln Riley’s Must-Win USC Game | Hour 1 · The Next Round

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  Speaker 1: Live now on Sporting State, it's Tuesday. That means coming
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  Speaker 1: up after we talk to Chris Doering of the SEC
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  Speaker 1: Hour 2. After that, we'll get to our upset alert.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody on the show hit something last week except for me. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody on the show hit something but for me last week.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get to a very good upset alert coming
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  Speaker 1: up in a moment. We'll jump into the NFL, what
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  Speaker 1: we saw last night here in the opening segment. And
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  Speaker 1: a ton of college football to get to. An apology
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  Speaker 1: to get to from Tuscaloosa. But let's start. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to show you the best photo and the
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  Speaker 1: best tailgate sign from Oxford this past weekend. New angle
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  Speaker 1: on the last game-ending interception from up in the stands.
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  Speaker 1: And they're talking about this. This will be hanging. This
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  Speaker 1: will be whatever your velvet... Elvis picture, dogs playing poker picture.
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  Speaker 1: This will be all over Ole Miss fans' houses and
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  Speaker 1: T-shirts forever and ever. Every barbecue joint and bar in
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  Speaker 1: Oxford will have that one. I saw the side shot
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  Speaker 1: of that. The side shot was good, but this is better.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the side shot first, but then when you
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  Speaker 1: go up top, you've seen Lane out on the field,
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  Speaker 1: and then they're all running towards him. That is the
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  Speaker 1: picture that defines the moment as everyone was The famous
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  Speaker 1: thing is hanging the Louvre. Hey, serious question. If he
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  Speaker 1: never wins a national championship, what is Lane Kiffin's legacy?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that photo right there. I mean, number two pointing.
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  Speaker 1: I really wonder what it is. Two pointing at him
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  Speaker 1: at 31, just waving at him. The wave feels more disrespectful.
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  Speaker 1: You think the wave's worse than the point? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just like, hi, we just won. I don't know. The
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  Speaker 1: point's pretty bad. Yeah, 11. The third one actually goes
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  Speaker 1: double birds. No, I'm kidding. It's just a sequence. I'd
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  Speaker 1: love to hear what they said. Yeah, they were talking too,
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  Speaker 1: I bet. The best game day sign, not actually on
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  Speaker 1: game day, but at a tailgate. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: who to give credit to for this, but this was
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  Speaker 1: so good. You're so lame, you probably think this game
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  Speaker 1: is about you. I mean, can we get an applause?
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty good, though. You're so lame, you probably think
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  Speaker 1: this game is about you. And that smirk from AI
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  Speaker 1: there from Lane Kiffin. Fun weekend. Come down to earth
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  Speaker 1: this weekend type games for both of them. They better
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  Speaker 1: be back. Still Ole Miss underdogs at Florida and a
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  Speaker 1: beaten up LSU team now taking on Texas A & M,
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  Speaker 1: who's a wounded animal coming into Baton Rouge. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: if either one of those games make it into upset
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  Speaker 1: alert coming up a little bit later on. We jump
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  Speaker 1: football last night, before we jump back into college football,
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  Speaker 1: The Rams get four touchdowns. They beat the Giants 28-6.
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  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams was good. Let's start first, though, with Matt Stafford,
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  Speaker 1: who became sixth all-time in most touchdown passing, Philip Rivers,
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  Speaker 1: with 427 touchdown passes. He didn't look old. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: look old last night. He looked good. More Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 2: Not quite what you saw last year winning an MVP
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  Speaker 2: because Devontae Adams did bail him out a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: With some really, really good catches. He really did, especially
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  Speaker 1: that one where Devontae got bumped downfield, and he had
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  Speaker 1: a sky-like third-story jump to catch it and then take
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  Speaker 1: it in for a touchdown. Oh, yeah, yeah. The first touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: The first touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, full extension, an incredible catch, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: adjustment from Devontae Adams.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought Stafford looked good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Rams were able to run the football,
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  Speaker 2: something they got away from because they got down so
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  Speaker 2: bad in the second half against San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: But Stafford looked the part without Puka.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, last year there was one game they
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  Speaker 2: played without Puka over in London against Jacksonville. Devontae had
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  Speaker 2: three touchdowns. So that's kind of the go-to when he's out.
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  Speaker 2: Puka gets in the way.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. From Devontae. That's LA Sports Talk today. Is
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  Speaker 1: our offense better without Puka? So let's take your call.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny you say that because they're making
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  Speaker 2: a decision right now on his extension because of the
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  Speaker 2: off-the-field stuff. And they can't decide whether or not they're
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  Speaker 2: going to give him this huge lucrative deal because– There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people in the organization.
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  Speaker 1: They don't trust Puka. Yeah. Well, I would say this.
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  Speaker 1: You're about to, you feel like, go into a transition
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  Speaker 1: time at quarterback. So is it more valuable to keep
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  Speaker 1: Puka around and pay him money or go young at
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  Speaker 1: the wide receiver position, bring in a free agent or something?
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  Speaker 1: How do you want to play that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you just, I mean, I would love to keep
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  Speaker 2: Puka because I think he's one of the best receivers. Now, durability,
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  Speaker 2: he's always a little nicked up. But again, he only
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  Speaker 2: missed one game last year. And we'll see how many
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  Speaker 2: misses this year. but you never know how these guys
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  Speaker 2: are going to react once they get paid. Puka was
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  Speaker 2: a guy, late draft pick, never really expected to do anything,
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  Speaker 2: and then bust on the scene, rookie year, and now
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  Speaker 2: he's not making a lot of money, and you start
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  Speaker 2: giving this guy $ 30 million a year, what's he going
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  Speaker 2: to act like?
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  Speaker 1: And don't think about the future. This may be it
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  Speaker 1: for Matt Stafford. This may be it for Sean McVay even.
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  Speaker 1: This may be For this guy, Aaron Donald, who's back.
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  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams.
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  Speaker 2: There will be a lot of significant names that will
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  Speaker 2: leave this organization after this year, win or lose.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the ride. Aaron Donald back last night on his
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  Speaker 1: first game. Made some big plays in the trenches there.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Aaron Donald. It felt good to be back out there, man.
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  Speaker 1: Get that first game under my belt.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like as it started going on, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of slowed down towards the third and fourth quarter, but
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  Speaker 3: I got it under my belt, officially back playing football,
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  Speaker 3: you know, came away with a win. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: about that. The game really wasn't as fast as I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, thought. It was more of me calming myself down, right?
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  Speaker 3: You know, overrunning stuff or just being, my feet not
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  Speaker 3: being in the ground, how they supposed to be, not
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  Speaker 3: trusting my eyes, little stuff like that. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: playing a game, when I held out in 17, 18
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  Speaker 3: was the same way when I came back. It took
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  Speaker 3: about a couple games to get going.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little different. I ain't playing two years, so.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got to watch the.
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  Speaker 3: Film, see what I did good, see what I did wrong,
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  Speaker 3: and just clean it up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what a great attitude. I've always liked him. He's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: He seems like he approaches it the right way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he loves the game of football, loves his family.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just a great, great dude. And you saw,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the explosion is still there. Now, he got
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  Speaker 2: doubled a couple of times last night. He had the
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  Speaker 2: three tackles and one tackle for loss. Was really good
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  Speaker 2: against the run. I just hope we get to see
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  Speaker 2: all these guys together. I really hope that it holds
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  Speaker 2: up because you could see flashes last night against that
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  Speaker 2: Giants offensive line where they were overwhelmed, and you have
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  Speaker 2: a guy like Miles Garrett, the best in the business
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be a handful. That's a story all
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  Speaker 1: over the league, though. How many healthy bodies can you
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  Speaker 1: put out there two weeks in? It's a big storyline,
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  Speaker 1: the key injuries. Well, thank God Jackson Dart doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: as bad as it initially did. It looks like the
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  Speaker 1: reports today are a sprained MCL by Ann Rappaport. the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Network. But, I mean, we were very close to
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  Speaker 1: losing Caleb Williams, Jackson Dart, and Jaden Daniels all in
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  Speaker 1: the same weekend. Week two, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: I find it hard to believe that Caleb Williams will
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  Speaker 2: play Monday night against Philadelphia, but they're saying there's a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Dart is going to be week to week. We'll
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  Speaker 2: know a little bit more about the severity, but You know,
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  Speaker 2: he went down when I initially, when you see him
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  Speaker 2: holding the knee, you're like, you know, this is catastrophic.
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  Speaker 2: But when I saw the hit, it looked like maybe
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  Speaker 2: a deep knee bruise or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just sprained MCL is what they're saying. But
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  Speaker 1: for Caleb Williams and Dart, both of them, you take
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  Speaker 1: out the legs, the ability to run. Yeah, boy. They
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  Speaker 1: go from up here to down here. That's right. They're effective.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, yeah. Yeah, so a good win last night.
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay, after the game, admitted that, You know, he
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  Speaker 1: used the word dumbass. He called himself a dumbass on
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  Speaker 1: the way they attacked the game in Australia. It turns out,
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  Speaker 1: he says, you can't fly halfway around the world the
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  Speaker 1: day before a game and perform at top level.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if that is the legitimate excuse.
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  Speaker 2: I still saw a lot of flaws with this Rams team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, multiple special teams errors. You know, Mivas misses
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  Speaker 2: a 43-yard kick, his only attempt this year. Ethan Allen,
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  Speaker 2: who is really, really, I mean, one of the best
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  Speaker 2: punters out there, two 38-yard punts.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I had me a little play with our
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  Speaker 1: friends at Hard Rock Bet there. I thought, okay, 13-and-a-half
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  Speaker 1: first half, because in-game betting, you know, with all the injuries.
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  Speaker 1: I said, oh, 13-and-a-half. The Rams are going to be
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  Speaker 1: 13-and-a-half at halftime. And then they give the ball up.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants get a field goal. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: and then the boom, the big catch from Devontae. And
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  Speaker 1: now it's a chippy field goal. Beavis, bring him out there.
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  Speaker 1: The great kicker. The thicker kicker.
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  Speaker 2: I told you, dangle a cheeseburger, the guy would have
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  Speaker 2: made it. I'll tell you, man, yellow is not flattering
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  Speaker 2: on people that are a little bit larger. And, man,
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  Speaker 2: he looked, the thicker kicker looked more than thick.
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  Speaker 1: He looked hefty. My dad, in fact, texted, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to read you the text. You could see his whole
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  Speaker 1: belly button. He looked like the old video of Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid in Pun Passing Chick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in a
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  Speaker 1: Rams uniform. Yeah, my dad last night. right before the game,
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  Speaker 1: who are you taking tonight? And tell Lance the Rams
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  Speaker 1: are dressed like the Savannah Bananas. I love the uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: I did not like them. Oh, I thought they were great.
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  Speaker 1: My dad thinks they look like the Savannah Bananas, which
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: is a pretty big insult for you. That's a huge insult.
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: But I like the– I love the white pant. They
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: look like practice jerseys to me. I did not like them.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was a great look. Unfortunately, we're only
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  Speaker 2: going to have it one more time this year. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: the Rams have got a lot to clean up. Back
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  Speaker 2: to the McVay comment.
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  Speaker 1: He loves to take.
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  Speaker 2: Ownership, which I like the fact that he does that.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's just looking for an excuse to get
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: that out of the way. Like, who knows whether or
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: not the 23 hours, I mean, it didn't look like
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  Speaker 2: the right decision because they got walked off the field
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  Speaker 2: in the second half. But take ownership, blame it on that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about the talent. It's not about this team
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  Speaker 2: and what we've got in front of them. Because, boy,
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  Speaker 2: they have a gauntlet. And, you know, the next one,
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  Speaker 2: it gets real. You go to Denver, altitude game against
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  Speaker 2: Broncos team coming off a big win against Jacksonville. And
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a long season. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: was a nice bounce back, though. And I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 2: any win, first win in 239 days as a Rams fan,
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  Speaker 2: That was a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I am so glad you guys have survived that drought.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a drought. Oh, I know. That's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrible. No, what's that? Two-game losing streak? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we lost to Seattle in the NFC Championship.
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  Speaker 1: The last one was the NFC Championship game. It's called
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  Speaker 1: an off-season. 239 days is a long time. I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: you survived that, Lance. I want your reaction to this
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: before we move on from the NFL. Who had Michael
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: Penix Jr.? actually starting a Falcons game before Tua Tungvaluwa.
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  Speaker 1: Pennix Jr. back week three. He'll be the starter for
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: the Falcons, getting a start before Tua does. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when you sign Tua and you already have Michael Pennix,
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  Speaker 1: you just know you're going to deal with injuries. That
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: Tua back injury, though, that's what he's still suffering from.
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  Speaker 1: And we've all seen the video. The dude's just throwing
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  Speaker 1: a football. It's not like he got hit. I am sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say I'm stunned he's still battling this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not. I mean, that's the sad thing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not stunned by this at all. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: what you sign up for when you get to it.
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  Speaker 2: But both of these guys, Penix going back to Indiana, Washington,
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  Speaker 2: he battled injuries, and you're already seeing it early on
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL. What would suck is I remember back
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: to the Rams, Steven Jackson was such a good running
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  Speaker 2: back for a decade, played in one postseason game because
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: the Rams were so bad.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Bijan is such a talented guy. Yep.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: And, you know, you just hope his career doesn't get
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: buried because of bad quarterback play.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: But if you don't have a quarterback in this league,
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do about it. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you guys saw the photo that circulated on
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  Speaker 1: social media. It is one photo, but it's Bijan sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the bench, and he just looks totally despondent. And
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  Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh, you've already lost Bijan. You've already lost Bijan.
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  Speaker 1: It's one photo. You never know what's going on there.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of people are saying the same thing
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  Speaker 1: Lance said, is you've signed what could be a generational
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  Speaker 1: talent at running back for your franchise. And what can
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: the guy do when your quarterbacks are Jack Strand and
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Cooper Rush and broke down Tua Tongavaloa and broke down
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  Speaker 1: Michael Penix? I don't know what you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: out of this guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they look like they're going to be 0-12 to.
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  Speaker 1: Start, maybe. Oof. You never know in that case.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you never know, but I'm just saying they're
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: going to be underdogs in all of these games.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: That division, I mean, the Saints, I was about to
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  Speaker 1: say some of that division, but the Saints actually played well.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, Falcons at Packers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, then they go to the Saints, Ravens, Bears, 49ers,
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  Speaker 2: at the Bucs, Bengals, at the Chiefs, at the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a lot of losses coming up. But I
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: think we've got our top five and bottom five.
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  Speaker 1: Teams coming up. I'd be interested if you guys have
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  Speaker 1: the Falcons in your bottom five. That'll be tomorrow's show,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL Power Rating. We'll get to the SEC brought
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  Speaker 1: we flip over to college football. Before we show you
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  Speaker 1: the power rating, I want to go back for some
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  Speaker 1: sound we had yesterday from Tuscaloosa in our next round
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  Speaker 1: part of the show. It was after we got out
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: of the sport and state part of our show here
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  Speaker 1: on this part of the platform. It was from Alabama
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb, who had this to say about
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the Tides win over Florida State, which they trailed at
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  Speaker 1: 1.21 to 6 early on. Here's Ryan Grubb yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: So I was proud of the guys, you know, and
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  Speaker 5: they just didn't have any quit. They're a really resilient group.
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  Speaker 5: I'm super proud of that. You know, we had, I
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: would say, you know, I had some boo birds. I
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: told the guys, I said, shoot, guys, if you'd have
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  Speaker 5: quit as fast as some of your fans, shit, we
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't have won that game.
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  Speaker 1: So I was proud of them.
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  Speaker 5: For a bunch of 19-year-olds to go out there and
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  Speaker 5: just 21-6 and not flinch, I was fired up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, had a lot of people react on that yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Even Chris Lowe, longtime writer for a number of outlets
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  Speaker 1: now with On3 Sports, and he's covered the SEC for
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: three decades. Instantly when he saw that sound, I think
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: he was quote tweeting Nick Kelly of AL.com. He said,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see how this goes over. And it
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: went over exactly the way, the first thing everybody got
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: caught up on when he says, I was talking to
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: the players and I said, you're fans. That's right. Most
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: people were like, Wait, is it not our fans? It's
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: your fans? Are you not with us? The same guys
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: that are paying your seven-figure salary. What logo you got
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: on that shirt? Is it not our fans? Is it
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: your fans? It's not our fans? That was the first thing.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: You know, we have heard that there's some people internally
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: that maybe wanted to go to Michigan.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: This guy might have been one of them. Could have been.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: And then there were other people, other fan bases that
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: was like, You know, he's not wrong. He's not wrong.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: You guys are spoiled. You shouldn't be booing your own players.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: That could be true. That could be true, too. And,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: you know, I did the old, Nick, this is why
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban didn't let his assistants talk. You want one voice,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: one program, one voice. And that's what Nick Saban wanted.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: And a lot of people are like, Nick Saban's not
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: there anymore. That is obvious. He's not there anymore. The
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: sun barely sets in Tuscaloosa. And you get the apology.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: sent out from Yale, Alabama. Did it come from the
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: robot is my question. I think the robot did this one.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Crimson Tide faithful. My passion for the University of Alabama
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: football team runs deep. It's from Ryan Grubb there. And
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: he goes on to talk about how he enjoys locking
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: arm with his brothers and going to work. And listen,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I don't doubt the guy's love for his job and
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: what he's doing. There are just some things you don't.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: You don't do, and I think it's from a football standpoint,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the reason you don't do this. You don't say it
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: out loud. This is the kind of division, distraction, and everything.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I don't believe the Jimmy's and Joe fans, the people
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: like me in the stands, if they get upset, they
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: get upset. Him having an apology like this tells me
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: instantly that some of the Alabama people that have a
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: little bit of money were upset a little bit too. Oh,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: But I think this comes from growing frustration from Ryan
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Grubb's part of last year. Hey, we win 11 games.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: We play for an SEC championship. We go to the
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: college football playoff, and people are critical of me. It
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: seemed like there was something personal in that message yesterday.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: But what's the problem with that statement? They're critical of me.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: You can't be a successful– We, when you're worried only
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: about me. Yeah, but I think if you're a coach,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I think a successful college coach, maybe not in the pros,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: but you just mentioned Sean McVay taking accountability. I think
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: a successful coach wants the criticism to be on him
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and not on the players. It should be. I'll criticize
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: the players because I'm their coach. And Ryan Grubb, to me,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: didn't necessarily earn his money last year.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Ty Simpson was really good, but as far as a
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: complete offense, it wasn't great. It looks a lot better
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: this year. But you've got to be able to read
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the room, and you know how passionate this fan base is.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: And it is a spoiled and entitled fan base based
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: on the fact that.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: You know. They have the greatest run of college football history, Lance.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're coming off a 50-36 win over
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Florida State, and people are bitching and complaining about it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a masterpiece, but you're used to completely pounding
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: your competition into submission in the first half.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a newsflash. that the fan base
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: of the bluest of blue blood college football programs, there
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: is no more blue blood college football program than the
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Alabama Crimson Tide. I mean, there is not one. You
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: make it argue Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, USC are
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: tied with Alabama. You can argue that all you want,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: but there's nobody bluer blood than Alabama. There is no
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: fan base that expects more of their football team than
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Alabama fans do. And guess why they expect that? Because
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: it's what they've been given for basically 125 years. For
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: 125 years, more often than not, this program has been
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: in the national championship hunt. And they are just, even
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: in that program, are coming off the best run in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that program's history. So yes, Alabama fans expect a lot.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: And it's, by the way, it's going to take a
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: lot to reprogram that. And they hope they never get reprogrammed.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I get it. But Alabama fans, this generation of Alabama
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: fans that saw the Nick Saban era, They're going to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: expect a lot from their coaches. But away from the fans,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the thing that bothered me the most was that it's
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: a coach that tells me that he heard the boos,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: that it registered with him. And it closed box with
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: his headset on. Enough that he brought it up. to
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: his players. And that's just not... Last year, this team
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: used the reaction from the fan base and from the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: country after the Florida State loss as motivation inside the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: locker room. I heard it from 100 people throughout the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: season covering the team. how the reaction from not only
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Alabama fans, but the whole country to that Florida State
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: loss bonded that team together inside the locker room. But
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you know what they did? They kept it inside the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: locker room all year long. And that's the only thing
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that rubbed me the wrong way yesterday. I appreciate his apology.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And as I tweeted last night, back to... previously scheduled football.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to the football part.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how sincere the apology is,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: but you're probably right. I'm sure there were some people
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that have a little more power than Ryan Grubb that said,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you know, we are cutting you a check and this
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: is your fan base. With all that said, let's not
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: forget Ryan Grubb did not want this job. He chose
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: not to come the first time.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he came and then said, I'm your offensive coordinator
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and left like 48 hours later. Yeah, it stayed in Seattle.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And then when he was fired from that job, by
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: the way, they won a Super Bowl last year. Then
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: he had an opportunity to come back.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: But let me say this, too. And I did. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: received 100 responses like I was there. I wasn't booing
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the players. I was booing the play call. You know,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I was booing him. In real time, it's hard to
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: know what people are booing, but I think that's probably
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the case for most fans. But let me say this, too.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: To defend Ryan Grubb for a minute, which might not
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: be the popular thing to do, but to defend him
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: for a minute, what we do for a living, when
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you're talking live behind a microphone, it is very easy
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to say things you regret. And there's no dump button.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And he's talking live behind a microphone in front of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a camera. And sure, you wish you wouldn't have said that,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: but I've done it. I know you guys have. Yeah,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: but I think that was intentional. Yeah, that was premeditated.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: It was. That's completely different. It was. But don't you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: think he regrets premeditating and doing that now? I'm not
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: saying it was a smart move. Because of the reaction.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: That's right. So I'm saying there are times I've said
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: things and it gets a reaction. I'm like, yeah, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have said that. I know what I was saying,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: but I probably shouldn't have said it. But you've got
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to be a little bit smarter.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Have you not gotten a tweet ready and you're like,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you know what, I probably shouldn't send that out. He
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: knew for a long time that he was going up there.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I said it on the show yesterday. I don't know
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: why they're booing because they've scored 40-plus, 40-plus, 50-plus, but
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: they were booing the slow start again. They were booing
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it was 21-6, and they were like, oh, my God,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: we're about to lose to Florida State again. But in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the long run, when you play four quarters, Chapel, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: don't know if you know that they give you four quarters–
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: You play all four quarters. Gotcha, yeah. And at the end,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: this guy's offense has delivered every game so far. And
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: through a crappy running game last year, this guy did
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: win football games last year. So he's done a good
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: job as an offensive coordinator. But I understand you're booing
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: early on because of the frustration of another slow start. Well,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: it's circumstances. It just bothers me that he needs to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: not really talk like that. I'm... I used to hate
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that Nick Saban would let the assistants talk, but now
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I totally understand.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Do you remember at Plains Trains and Automobiles when Steve
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Martin comes in and he's like head to toe?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I've never seen it. I've referenced it a couple of times,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: but I've never seen it. It's like the best Thanksgiving
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: movie ever. You really, really need to see it. It's incredible.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: It is a good movie. This is the one with
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: John Candy, right? Yeah, John Candy and Steve Martin.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: But Steve Martin comes in, they misplaced his rental, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: so he falls down a snowbank and he comes in.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: And so the girl is very patient with him to
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: begin with. So I think you've got to practice a
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: little patience, right?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: That's right. It's the first quarter. But I also think
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you've got to practice some forgiveness, and that was kind
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: of my point. Did he say something dumb? Sure he did.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Did he regret it? I don't know. I mean, you
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: all have to debate whether he actually regrets it or
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: somebody made him do the apology. But at some point
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you've got to say– Look, he said it. He apologized.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: As long as we keep scoring points, I'm going to
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: move on. I mean, I don't know why you would
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: hold on to this.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: The reason I bring up planes, trains, and automobiles, the
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: circumstance is like the fans had been in a two-hour
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: rain delay.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: This is not how you planned your day. You've got
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: other things going on. So you're already frustrated that you're
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: having to deal with that and you're waiting it out.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we said yesterday. Of all the times to...
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: To criticize Alabama fans, that was probably the worst day
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: to do it. Can I just say real quick? Yeah, sure.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I think two lessons here that we've seen over the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: last two weeks, and these two are different situations, but
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tie them together real quick if you'll
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: let me. Steve Sarkeesian and Holly Rowe. The one thing
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: that a coach needs to understand is you don't have
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the big salary, you don't have the great facilities, you
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: don't have the NIL money without the TV people. So
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: was ESPN having technical difficulties? Did they take too long
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to get to Holly for the interview? Probably. But maybe
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: give them a little bit of grace because you're making $ 10,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: $ 12 million a year because of them.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: 100%.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: All right? Ryan Grubb or any other coach, not just
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Ryan Grubb, the only reason the TV folks pay that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: kind of money is because the fans that buy the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: tickets and sit at home and watch on TV. So
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you know the one group you don't ever go after
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: is the fans. College fans are the most taken advantage of. 100%.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: In any sports. That's right. They are the most taken
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: advantage of, the college football fans.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Because you think they're the most loyal? They are the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: most loyal. I think they're blindly, well, not blindly, but
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I think they are the most loyal and they get
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: crapped on more than any of them. I agree with
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Jim on this.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: They are the most loyal. I've never thought about it. Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: But possibly. I'll tell you this.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know why we always have to have apologies.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think that was a bad apology. Yeah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I think it was really, really quick. But, you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I didn't understand why Arch Manning had to apologize.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: That was really stupid. I mean, if he did, I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: thought Sark needed to. Hey, our Hard Rock Bet power
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: rating this week. On Tuesdays, we do the SEC. On Wednesdays,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: we do the NFL. Here's our SEC power rating from
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the guys brought to you by HardRock.Bet backslash Clay. We
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: stay with Georgia. The AP poll sticks with Texas, number
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: one in the country. We say, sure, if Texas is
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: number one in the country, they're number two in the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: SEC in our power rating. I have Georgia one. You
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: have Georgia one? I have Georgia one. Did you vote
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Georgia one? I'm stuck with Texas. You're stuck with Texas?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Texas has got a better run than Georgia does. Forrester, Brooks,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Georgia or Texas? I went Georgia, so I swung the vote. Okay.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I went Texas. Okay, so 3-2, Georgia-Texas. Scott and I are,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: dare I say, choosing Texas. Ole Miss is up number three.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Alabama is four. LSU only drops to five. It gets
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: interesting here. And when I'm doing this, after two, well,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: after three this week, four through five, Yeah, it's a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: crash year. It was a lot alike. It is. Alabama, LSU, Florida, Tennessee,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State at eight. A & M, Missouri, Kentucky, Oklahoma,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Auburn 13, South Carolina, Bandy Arkansas. How do we have Oklahoma?
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: But how do we have Kentucky behind A & M?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: They worked A & M. Not on my poll. I
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: didn't either. I didn't either. Wait a minute. I had
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Kentucky behind me. How, Lance? They went to Kyle Field
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and worked for him. I would like to see it again. Well,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I'd like to see it again. It only took once.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: You talk about overreacting. Now, we know you're the king
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: of overreacting. They won the game. They beat him like
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a drum. In Lance's defense, I did it too. Why?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I think A & M' s a better team.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Both Scott and Lance have A & M at No.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: 9 and Kentucky at No.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: 12. Based on what? So it's not even back-to-back.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: No.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Because I went Kentucky 9, A.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: & M 10.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Me too. I at least kept them connected.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I definitely think there are 11 teams better in the
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: conference than Kentucky.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: That was no fluke. They just played Alabama for a
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: half better than Alabama. And then they went on the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: road and beat Texas A & M.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I think you saw more of what Kentucky is in
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: that second half, where they got outscored 32-0.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we saw what A &
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: M was. And I know what Oklahoma is. I can't
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: believe you guys have Oklahoma at 12. I don't know.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Do you get ESPN, Lance? Have you watched Oklahoma? I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: literally have Oklahoma at 12. I might have them lower
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: than 12. They're a terrible offense. No, you had them
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: at 11. I did? Yeah.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Across the board, Ryan has Oklahoma 11. Dunaway has them 12.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Scott has them 11. I have them 12. And Lance
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: has them 6.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Okay. Six. Six.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I think outside of the top five, everything is like
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: piled up.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: What's it going to take for you to come off Oklahoma?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Give me a Georgia outcome where you'll finally come in
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: here and say, okay, they were bad. You'll see an
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: upset alert coming up. Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi State. Kentucky, Texas,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: A & M, Missouri. Any of those teams can beat Oklahoma? Yeah, no.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I think from 6 to 12, I'm going to cut
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: off before.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I think South Carolina, Auburn, Vanderbilt, and Arkansas, those four
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: are definitely the four in the back. But I think
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: from 6 to 11, I think any of those teams,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're all interchangeable.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Who'd y'all have 15th? Vanderbilt. I think I had Vanderbilt.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, they lost the game. Yeah, it was close.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I had South Carolina, and then I had Bandy. I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: might have had South Carolina. That was pretty universal. Where
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: did y'all have Auburn? I had Auburn 13. We're the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: group has them. I thought about having them 15.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: An absolute logjam in the poll, though, from 9 through,
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: to your point of how difficult it gets, 9 through 12,
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: it is on our composite rating, 9.8, 10.0. 10.5. Sorry, 10.4, 10.5.
• 29:32
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  Speaker 1: $ 10 million playing somewhere next year, he will. Hard to
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: believe Mississippi State retains him unless he's the most loyal
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: player in college football. That ignited everyone's thoughts about A,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Can Mississippi State retain him? And a lot of Mississippi
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: State people said no problem. They can get $ 10 million
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to keep him if that's the price. B, that he
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: is that loyal. But a lot of people are like, God,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I hate we're to this point in college football. I agree.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: That we're going into week four, one of the, if
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: not the most exciting superstars to burst under the scenes
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: or bust under the scenes, whichever way you want to go.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: We're already talking about where he's going to play next
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: year instead of enjoying this year. All those things can
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: be true. But I mentioned it yesterday on the show.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: $ 10 million. I thought he would be our first $ 10
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: million player. He will be that valuable next year. He
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: will be that valuable. But two things I hate. Number one,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I hate the fact that we're discussing this in week three.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Because Kamario Taylor is a tremendous football player. And can't
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: we just enjoy watching him play and let all this
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: NIL stuff play out in January or February? But number two,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I also hate that we just automatically assume every player
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: is up for the highest bidder. Why don't we just
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: automatically assume that? Because that's the way it's going. Not
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: every player. Not every player. I mean, it's unfair to
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Kamario Taylor to say he's going to be Darian Mensah.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: That's right. Darian Mensah did what Darian Mensah needed to do,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and that's fine. I have no problem with him doing that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I'll give you the example. We assume Arch Manning didn't
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: maximize the amount of money he can make at Texas.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Many people have said that, yes. That he took less
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: money because he wanted to be loyal to Texas. That's right.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Why don't we assume that for Camario Taylor?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I think the assumption is, and not to get
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: into demographics and all that kind of stuff, but the
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Mannings have a ton of money.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And so the money's not that important. We don't know
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: what the Taylor family are. Yeah, I have no idea. But,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, Ty Simpson's a great example, too. Ty Simpson
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: point-blank said... If he wanted to play another year of
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: college football, he had offers that were much larger than
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: what Alabama was paying him. That's right. But he decided,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that. I want a legacy
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: at Alabama, and I'll go on to the NFL. He
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: didn't know he was going to be drafted into the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: first round by Lance's Rams.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: But if Camario is offered $ 8 million to $ 10 million,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and Mississippi State can only.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Pay him $ 4 million, he's got to go. But he
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: may not. I mean, I would agree with you. The
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: money would tell you to go, but the kid may
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: just love Mississippi State. He may love his time in Seattle.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I would think that they probably, I mean, and
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: it might be an imbalance of the roster now, they'll
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: find a way to pay him what he wants.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I think this is probably a waste of time for
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: people to have this discussion because Lance is right. There'll
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: be a Mississippi State booster that's got enough bourbon in
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: him after an Egg Bowl win that'll be like, you
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: put me down for what we need. I got it.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: The other thing is, though, how far can you get?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Again, I'm going to bring it back to the Rams.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Stafford knew, like in Detroit, this ain't going to work.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I got to go somewhere else. If Camario really wants
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to win a national championship, it ain't going to be
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: in Starkville.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: There's no house in Tuscany. I mean, he's not wrong.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to imagine them making a college
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: football playoff and then winning three or four games. I'm
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: going to do it. I'm going to do it. You'd
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: have said the same thing about Indiana. Oh, I would have.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I brought up Camario and Cam Newton a couple of
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. I'm just saying. When I said this team's
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: going to beat Alabama and people got upset. I know.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. You said the same thing about Indiana.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: But beating Alabama and then still finishing the year and
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: then making the playoffs and then winning four games or
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: three games when you get there. If they went eight
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and four, I'd be blown away.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: Is there potential that maybe he saw Mississippi State be
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: ranked number one for five weeks and were a fourth
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: quarter away from being in the college football playoff?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: They were ranked fourth. He was like in second grade.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: That would have been 2014, so that would have been
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: 12 years ago. He would have been sixth. He could
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: watch TV at 6. Maybe you love Dak Prescott. Maybe
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: he's like, that'll be me one day. I'll go. If
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Dak couldn't get him there, I want to finish what
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Dak started. Maybe Dak is Mark Cuban. Maybe he's paying
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a big chunk of the quarterback.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I would love to see it. Like we talked about yesterday,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: an undefeated, undefeated Egg Bowl. I mean, the chances are,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I think, 1% right now.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: But it would be awesome. I mean, would you say
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss could never win a national championship at Ole Miss?
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I would have said that.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it now.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I mean, why can't Camario– if
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss could do it at Ole Miss, why can't
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Camario Taylor not do it at Mississippi State? What does
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss have that Mississippi State doesn't have? Exactly. Nothing. Nothing. Well,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: they've got a better roster right now. They do right now.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: They do right now, yeah. But I'm saying State can
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: fix that.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: But I still think that they're going to lose this week.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Ole Miss. Ole Miss, yeah. And they
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: probably are.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Going to lose.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: No, I'm with you. I don't think Ole Miss is
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: going to win the national championship. But you can't say
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss could do it at Ole Miss– But Kamario
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Taylor could never do it at State. Chris Lowe, nice
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: story today, how the state of Mississippi is quarterback nirvana
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: right now with Trinidad Jambliss and Kamario Taylor. It's crazy. Yeah,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: we said it yesterday. It's hard to imagine a best
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: state with two quarterbacks that are more enjoyable to watch.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: The entertainment factor on both of them are tremendous. Sneaky good, though,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: because I started thinking about that. I mean, the number
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: two state might be Utah. Well, I was going sneaky good.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Kentucky with Keen Hulse and Minchie. That's true. Sneaky good
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: right now. I mean, I know you crapped on Kentucky
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: last segment. I like Will Stein. I'm just saying.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think that they're like one of the top
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: five teams in the SEC.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know where you guys are on Philo. He
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: looked pretty good Saturday night. for a lot of that game.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: But Philo and Mensah together in Florida could be good.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: You know, when I look at that offense, I think
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Philo might be the weak link. I'm not saying he's
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: not a good quarterback. I think he's good.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: You're standing at the bus door keeping Mensah and the,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, keeping Daniels, Ashton Daniels, and the rest of
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: them off the bus. No, no, no, no, no. Two-seater, two-seater.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, with Jaden Bond, those receivers, I'm just saying, like,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's good. Well, apparently Buster Faulkner invented offense. So,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, Philo's going to put some numbers up.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you for walking into the next line here. Did
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Buster Faulkner invent offense? Yes. They are third right now
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: in the FBS. That's what I'm told. Buster Faulkner, Georgia Tech,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: when he was there, 11th in yards per game. This year, 104th.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Florida last year, 102nd in yards per game. They're third now.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Buster Faulkner effect.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: From Karen, one of our great people. I think it's
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: going to expose Brent Key.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I think Dabo's getting exposed by lack of coordinators right now.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, this happens with some of these coaches. So
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: is Buster Faulkner the hot head coach name? Probably, 44
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: years old. MVP Mertz as well for that Twitter stat.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, had you guys heard of this guy? Oh,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: last year. Just a little bit. Georgia Tech, yeah. And
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: then when he came over, it was a big talk
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: in the offseason. It's amazing, dude. Yeah, it is. Hey,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Chris Doering's going to talk a little SEC football with
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: us coming up at the top of the hour, 11 Eastern,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: 10 Central, hour number two. When we come back here
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: on Sporting State, a little bit of a prove-it weekend
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: for one coach on a national level. Think about it.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Close your eyes. Imagine who that prove-it weekend is. Can
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: you see it? Can you see it? When we come
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: back right here on the next round. Back with you
• 37:58
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• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Sport and State. This isn't the coach I'm talking about,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: but here's Steve Sarkeesian on going to Tennessee. Number one,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: going on the road to play 14th ranked Tennessee, their
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: first meeting in Knoxville since 1969. you know, here's the deal, right?
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: We're starting SEC play. And, you know, we've all sat
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: around when you had some time Saturday and watched some
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: of the games. And this conference, I've said it time
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: and time again, from top to bottom, anybody can beat anybody.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: And I think that's the challenge of our conference is
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: being mentally and physically prepared to play week in and
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: week out. And for us this week, it's no different.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: We're going into what I would probably consider is the
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: loudest stadium in the country, Neyland Stadium. I think Coach
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Heupel's done a tremendous job there.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Loudest stadium in the country, he says, in the stadium. Yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I agree. I've seen it. Let's pull up the Texas
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: schedule and maybe see how many more times Sark will
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: say that this year. Because it is true this week
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: going to play there. But that Texas schedule looking ahead,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I know at least one other time he's going to
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: say that. Because don't they go to Baton Rouge? Oh,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: turns out they do. Yeah, so they go to Baton
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Rouge and they go to Kyle Field. Now, Texas A & M,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: it gets loud there. I don't know if they win
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: big games there, but it gets loud there at Kyle Field.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: So do you think he says when they go to
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge in early November, does he say, we're going
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to what I think is the Loudest stadium. Did you
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: say that?
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you got to check yourself. You can't
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: pull a Butch Jones and continue to say this. Double down,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: double down, double down.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: And then Kyle Field. You never said about Kyle Field.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: That's one of your rivals.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: At their loudest, I would say Neyland is probably the
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: loudest I've ever heard.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Tiger Stadium is close. The argument I've always made is about,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: and this is primarily about night games at Tiger Stadium,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: is How do you really tell the difference? Like, is
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the night game at Tiger Stadium that much louder than
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Neyland Stadium or Jordan here when Auburn's any good? Or,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, at some point, loud is loud. Like,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I can either communicate with my players or I can't.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: And anything louder than my linemen can't hear me doesn't
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: really matter at that point, you know? And a lot
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: of these places, your linemen can't hear you. It's LSU, Tennessee, Texas,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: A & M of those three in that order. And
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: to me, LSU is the loudest. Well, but, you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: people make that– Big deal about A & M, and
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: they just never win meaningful games there, hardly. That doesn't
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: mean the, I don't want to paint you into a corner,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Ryan Grubb, but Doesn't mean the fans aren't doing their part.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: They may be. But I'm like, that's the thing. And
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I would say this about Tennessee in the 90s.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Like, I went a couple of years ago when they
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: beat Alabama, and it was a really good crowd. But
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: in the 90s is when they hit their kind of peak.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Boy, 2022, that was a zoo. The first time they
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: beat Alabama. Alabama, Tennessee, first time they beat them in
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: 15 years. That was a zoo. That seemed like it.
• 40:56
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• 42:05
  Speaker 1: prove-it day for Lincoln Riley and USC. That was the
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  Speaker 1: one I was going to say, and you could almost,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: almost make an argument on both sides of this game.
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  Speaker 1: Or Dan Lanning. Yeah, but Lanning has at least been
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: to the college football playoffs and has won a Big Ten.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: This is where I was going. If you were going
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to ask, who is it a perfect game for? And
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you're much closer to this situation, Lance, but I was
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: going to say Lincoln, right? Big game, big game.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: It's a massive game because when you look at what
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: they've got coming, Washington doesn't look as difficult as it
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: was going to be. Still could be a difficult game
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: in the Coliseum next week, the week after Oregon. But
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, this season really comes down to a couple
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: of games and, you know, they've got to find a
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: way to 10 and two.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: They don't find a way to 10 and two. I
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: don't see Lincoln Riley back.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: I really don't. I don't know whether they fire him.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: It's a mutual agreement. He takes another job. But it's
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: going to be really difficult for him to miss the
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: college football playoff again.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: If you lose this one to get to 10-2, you've
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: got to win two of these three games. So help
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: me here. Yeah, I was doing the opposite. If you
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: win this one, You can lose two or three. Yeah,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: so it's the same three games. Let's just talk about
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: those games. At Penn State, who at times has looked good.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I watched the first half of them against Temple, and
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I think it was a 3-0 halftime game. A little
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: bit of a paper tiger for me right now. Yeah,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I just don't know about them. I don't know about them.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know who they've played that's any good. But
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I do know about Ohio State, and you host them,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: and then you're at Indiana. So this Oregon game, to
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Jim's point, is do I need to win two or
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: three of those, or can I absorb two losses out
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: of those three?
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: The most difficult game stacking up, the most difficult left
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: is probably at Indiana or 1A, 1B, Ohio State and
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: the Coliseum. Then after that, it probably is Oregon this week.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: then maybe Penn State, but then maybe at UCLA. That's
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: a game we're not.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Talking about right now. Yeah, I mean, UCLA, again, I
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: don't know who they've beaten. I don't know if Cal's
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: any good or not. Final segment of Sporting State today,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: we will do, your paddle says... Tested? Not tested? Okay.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Not tested. But we'll do that coming up. Let me
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: just say, when I watch UCLA... They look like a
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: pretty good team. Oh, they're winded up. Yeah, Wayne Knight
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: can run the football. Nico's probably playing the best football
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: he's played.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got experience there. Chesney's got these guys believing
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: right now. They've got a really difficult game. Trust me,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: I watch them every Saturday night. They've been the late
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: game every Saturday night. Well, now they're East Coast this week,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: and it's virtually a pick against Maryland. And I'll tell you,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Mike Loxley needs to win a game too. With all
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: that said, I don't know about this weekend. I don't
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: know how you guys feel. I kind of lean USC,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: but I don't feel.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Good about it. You felt a lot better about it
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: in the offseason. I did. You were not expecting Oregon
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: to have back against the wall coming in with a loss.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I thought they'd be unbeaten.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but Oregon just hasn't looked the part. But I'll
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: tell you, this Gary Patterson defense that looked so good
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: in Week 2 against Fresno State, it right now is leaking.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: It's 93rd nationally against the pass right now. So the
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: defense has been shaky.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I'm willing to write a little bit, not all of it.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and I don't know if you are as a USC fan,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I'm willing to write a little bit of it off
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: going west to east and playing an earlier body clock
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: game against Rutgers. And the look-ahead factor. Yeah, and the look-ahead.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: And that's not all of it. That's by no means
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: all of it.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Do you know what he is in road games, including
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: the win last week?
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: He being Lincoln Riley? Yeah, I'm talking about Lincoln Riley
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: in true road games in the Big Ten. How many
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: does he play? Nine. Nine and O? He's 3-6.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: 3-6.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just not good enough. I know you've
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: pointed to next year. A lot of Alabama fans are like,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: next year's the year. That is USC. Like, USC with
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: all of these freshmen, they're going to be really, really
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: good next year.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: But I don't know if he's going to be around
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: to see it. Here's why at Penn State worries me.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: If Saturday were at Penn State rather than at Rutgers,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: they lose that game. I don't know if they stay
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: on the– oh, you're talking about– No, no, no, I'm
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: saying this past Saturday. If they played that game they
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: played at Rutgers against– At Penn State they lose that
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: game against Penn State.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they get blown out by Oregon this week
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: if they play that game.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: That's right. So then we don't even have to worry
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: about it. And that is where we are in college
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: football now. If you don't bring your A game, you've
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: got a chance to take that L pretty easily. One
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: interesting note here as we get ready for that Oregon game,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Oregon's going to be without wide receiver Jeremiah McClellan. got
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: a foot injury there, and he's going to be out.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I think he had a really big game against Boise State.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: He's a big factor in that passing game at times.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I think they're still trying to figure out who their
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: go-tos are right now for Dante Moore, and I think
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: that's been one of the problems. But, yeah, McClellan was
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: supposed to be a major factor, and he just, you know,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: seven receptions through the first three games.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, keep an eye on Miami
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: as their schedule gets a little tougher. Their injuries are
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: starting to stack up. They're down. This week they lost
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: their second running back in Charmar Brown. They lost their
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: third wide receiver on the depth chart, their third best
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, Josh Moore, second best running back. And they
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: have lost their best two corners and their fifth best corner.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: So they've been depleted at the corner, the DB side,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: and we're only three weeks into the season. They haven't
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: gotten to the tough part of their schedule. I don't
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: know if there is a tough part of their schedule.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: I was about to say, you're talking about at Notre Dame?
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: They're a 41.5 point favorite this week against Central Michigan.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: The tough part of their schedule might be at Notre Dame.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: That's right. That might be the tough part of their schedule.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: But, you know, teams that aren't great find losses. So,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: whether it's Texas Tech or Miami, if they're really not
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: a complete team that they were last year, they're going
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: to find losses.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: If those injuries end up being season-ending injuries... That may
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: not show up until they get to the playoffs, but
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: they won't be the team that they could have been
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: when we get to the college football playoff. One more
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: thing to get to before we get to Chris Doering,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: and that is there are things you can do during
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: a game that really can show up your opponent. There's
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: nothing intentional by what Georgia and Kirby Smart and their
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: coaching staff have been doing because apparently They do it
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: all the time. It's just people noticed it this week
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: against Arkansas. But they ended up doing some defensive line
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: drills during TV timeouts on the road at Arkansas. It's
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: apparently a concept this defensive line coach has used elsewhere.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Trey Scott, I think. Yeah, and it's new to Georgia.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: And those that cover Georgia are like, yeah, we've seen this.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: We thought it was weird at first, but he's been
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: consistently doing it. So whether it's been Western Kentucky or
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: whomever they've been playing, during a TV timeout, they will
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: be running some D-line drills over on the side, and
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: that happened Saturday against Arkansas, and they brought it up
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: on the broadcast that, hey, during the timeout, Georgia's D-linemen
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: are doing drills, and Kirby gets asked about it afterwards,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and part of his answer was, well, you know, you
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: have to ask Trey Scott about that, the D-line coach,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: but I know that they haven't been running the ball
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: a lot. They haven't been physical enough. So basically, we're
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: getting work in. We're getting our work in today. I
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: think he went on to say making sure they're earning
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: that NIL money. He did say that. I've seen it.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: And listen, you can put in the twos, the threes,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: the fours. You can take knees. You can just run
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: off tackle. to not show up, especially a conference opponent,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: that may be worse than doing all of that, that
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: you're running defensive lineman drills in an SEC road game,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: and you're saying afterwards they're not being physical enough? Well,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: at least you give the Arkansas fans something to watch.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: You know? God, they look good in drills. It's a
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: distraction from the game. The timeouts are more entertaining.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I do think Georgia's national championship good,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: but they haven't been tested yet.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: They haven't been tested yet. But do you think that
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: is insulting to see them running behind him for the
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: coach to say that? I don't think it was Kirby's intent.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I watched. I don't think it was either, but it
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: is insulting. It is insulting, but it's probably also true.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think Kirby just made it up.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: When you get the end of games and it's first
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: and goal at the three and the game's already decided,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: do you want the opposing team who's beaten you 45-17,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: do you want them to if they've got their twos
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: and threes in there, to go and run it off tackle,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: or do you want them to take knees first and
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: go with the three? It's almost more insulting. I agree.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: People are like, he ran up the score with that
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: late touchdown. He could have taken a knee. It's almost
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: more insulting to me if you're taking a knee if
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: it's first and go with the three.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with it. The only time
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I ever have a problem with it, and I probably shouldn't,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: is if you've got your ones in up 21 trying
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: to punch it in late. Eli Drinkwitz, but he had
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: a point to prove. But if you've got your guys
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: that have been busting their ass in fall camp, your threes.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: And your fours. Let them run the play. Yeah, give
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: them some reps. I don't particularly want you down there
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: running rubber outs trying to get a cheap touchdown. But
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: if you're just running it up the middle and I
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: can't stop you, that's on me. Yeah, it's more embarrassing
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: to me if it's first and goal at the three
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: and you've got your threes in there. Let that kid
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: get a little glory and get a touchdown. Taking a knee.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: That's on me, man. But you know I've made the
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: case before. If it's SEC versus SEC, it's impossible to
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: run the score up. There's no such thing as running
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: the score up on SEC. Now, if they're playing Furman
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: or something like that, that's going to be a different feeling.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about everything we've seen through three weeks, a
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: quarter of the regular season in the SEC with Chris
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Doering of the SEC Network when he joins us next
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: on the next round presented by Hard Rock Bet on
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Sporting State.