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Tennessee Source UPDATES You CAN'T MISS Before HUGE Texas Football Game! | Volunteers | Longhorns · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: Texas and Tennessee, a massive matchup in Knoxville and in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC. This is the complete matchup guide to that game.
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  Speaker 1: We are presented by PrizePix. I'll talk more about them
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  Speaker 1: in a moment. TJ Pittenger, Graham Coffey, back with you
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  Speaker 1: of Dog Central. And we are breaking down a one
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  Speaker 1: versus 14 matchup in which the spread does not at
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  Speaker 1: all indicate that the number one team in the country
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  Speaker 1: is going to walk into Knoxville and have an easy
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  Speaker 1: time with the volunteers.
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  Speaker 2: Graham, what are your big picture thoughts on this one?
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  Speaker 3: My big picture, big, big picture is very interested to
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  Speaker 3: see what is this version of Texas look like on
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  Speaker 3: the road? Texas has struggled on the road and really
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  Speaker 3: under Steve Sarkisian in general. They went 0-4 on the
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  Speaker 3: road in 2021, early in his career. And obviously this
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  Speaker 3: is a very different version of Texas than, than that one.
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  Speaker 3: But even last year in the SEC, they, they had
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  Speaker 3: some issues on the road, right? Like they, They had
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  Speaker 3: that close call at Kentucky that ended up in overtime.
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  Speaker 4: They had to come from way behind at Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 3: They lost to Georgia by, I think it was 25
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  Speaker 3: or 17 points or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: 35-14, I think that game was. But, yeah, how do
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  Speaker 4: they respond to this test?
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  Speaker 3: I think we saw them have the great fourth quarter
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  Speaker 3: against Ohio State, obviously. And I think for some people–
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  Speaker 3: There is kind of this assumption of, well, this is
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  Speaker 3: Texas becoming what everyone has wanted them to become under
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  Speaker 3: Arch Manning. They knock off Ohio State like they're going
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  Speaker 3: to go on and be a top four seed in
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  Speaker 3: the playoff race and go on and compete for a
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  Speaker 3: national title when they get there. And that might 100
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  Speaker 3: percent be true. But if that is true, I think
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  Speaker 3: we will get some signs of it in this game.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Like we will see them respond to one of these
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  Speaker 3: environments consistently. better than they have at any other point
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  Speaker 3: in sark's tenure and also.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned not only texas struggling on the road but
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  Speaker 1: arch has struggled on the road through two picks on
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  Speaker 1: the road at florida through a pick in the first
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  Speaker 1: half against georgia through a pick in the first half
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  Speaker 1: against mississippi state last year they were able to come
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  Speaker 1: back and win that mississippi state game um but i
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  Speaker 1: just thoughts about him specifically like we we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: this and Arch was obviously heralded, and you've got all
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  Speaker 1: the off-field stories and storylines of Peyton played there and
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee and what that name means to them. But just
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  Speaker 1: whether that pressure would be there or not, historically, he's
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  Speaker 1: not been very good on the road. Now, he threw
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of yards against Florida because they had
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  Speaker 1: to come back, and so I think he threw for
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  Speaker 1: quite a few yards at.
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  Speaker 2: At Georgia too, because they were trying to come back.
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  Speaker 1: I think in that it was either, I think the
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky game, he threw for less than a buck 50, like,
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  Speaker 1: so not the massive turnover issues that, but like just, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: historically on the road, not great. I didn't think he
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  Speaker 1: was great in that Oklahoma game last year. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: need him to be great because material was banged up.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But, um, and that's a neutral site, but again, away
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  Speaker 2: from DKR, um.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder, and I don't think he's been super sharp
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  Speaker 1: this year. I thought he sailed a lot of passes
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  Speaker 1: in that Ohio State game. I didn't think he was
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  Speaker 1: super sharp against UTSA. And so, man, I know that
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  Speaker 1: every SEC stadium likes to claim that like, oh, you're
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  Speaker 1: walking into here, we can get an easy win.
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  Speaker 2: And it's usually true for most of them. Like, I'll
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  Speaker 2: give them that.
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  Speaker 1: But Neyland absolutely is one of those places. Georgia found
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  Speaker 1: that out last year in week three. And Alabama's found
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  Speaker 1: that out here recently.
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  Speaker 2: And that is.
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  Speaker 1: A place that, with 100,000 screaming hillbillies who are singing
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  Speaker 1: Rocky Top, shout out Dolly Parton, rest in peace. That
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  Speaker 1: place is going to be a circus at noon on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: And if Arch isn't ready to go from the jump,
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee will jump on them. And I think Jim Knowles
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  Speaker 1: will be very aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: So your thoughts are on Arch, I guess, in that
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  Speaker 2: defensive matchup.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, to your point, credit to Brent Rollins
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  Speaker 3: for posting this on Twitter earlier this week. But Arch's
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  Speaker 3: home road splits, I mean, 11 games at home in
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  Speaker 3: his Texas career, 63% completion. 242 yards a game, 26 touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: four interceptions, pressured 31% of dropbacks. You spin that to
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  Speaker 3: the road, his pressure rate goes up 12%. I think
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  Speaker 3: part of that is him holding onto the ball, truthfully.
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  Speaker 3: And his completion percentage goes down by 5%. He's got
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown interception ratio of seven touchdowns and five INTs.
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  Speaker 4: So not clean, not super efficient.
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  Speaker 3: And not being clean and not being super efficient is
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  Speaker 3: how you end up into, uh, pucker situations on the
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  Speaker 3: road where like the, the home team starts believing as
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  Speaker 3: an underdog. So yeah, Neyland is like, I'm a child
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  Speaker 3: of the sec, right? Like I, I, I grew up
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  Speaker 3: in this part of the world, North Carolina specifically, but, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, grew up going to sec football games and
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  Speaker 3: Neyland is the place that is most consistently loud in
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  Speaker 3: this conference, and it'll be very loud for this game,
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  Speaker 3: especially a historic matchup where you've got Texas coming up
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  Speaker 3: the hill to Rocky Top for the first time in forever, really.
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  Speaker 3: This will be a lot of fun, but I'm very
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  Speaker 3: curious from the Tennessee perspective of this. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how good their defense is. Since we're talking about Arch,
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  Speaker 3: let's look at Tennessee.
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  Speaker 4: We know they have Knowles. We know that Knowles.
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  Speaker 3: Defenses can struggle a lot in year one as he
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  Speaker 3: installs his system. I saw this, honestly, with Georgia last
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  Speaker 3: week playing Arkansas, who runs a 3-3-5, right? You've got
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  Speaker 3: to be patient against these 3-3-5 defenses. They often will
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  Speaker 3: have their safeties very deep, and they will try and
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  Speaker 3: give you pre-snap looks that are going to trick you
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  Speaker 3: into thinking that the deep shot is on, and then
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  Speaker 3: they're going to drop out or they're going to muddy–
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  Speaker 3: the passing lane on a slant with a big defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're not seeing the field well, which I've
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  Speaker 3: had questions about how well Arch has been seeing the
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  Speaker 3: field lately, then you can get in trouble. And I
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  Speaker 3: thought he struggled to see the field. Even during some
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  Speaker 3: of the drives in that comeback against Ohio State, there
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  Speaker 3: was a fourth down pass with a very wide open
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  Speaker 3: kind of route up the middle, sort of a little
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  Speaker 3: in-breaking type of route. And you just did not see
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  Speaker 3: it and did not throw it on time and left
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  Speaker 3: a clean pocket and ended up scrambling around and creating something.
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  Speaker 3: But if he's not on time in this game with
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  Speaker 3: this system that Knowles runs, where you don't always just
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  Speaker 3: know exactly where all these defenders are going to be
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  Speaker 3: and how they're going to rotate out after the snap,
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  Speaker 3: you can get in trouble and he can throw a
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  Speaker 3: pick or two. And if that happens in this game,
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  Speaker 3: I think that Tennessee is going to be in this
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  Speaker 3: late and possibly with a chance to win.
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  Speaker 1: Other side of the ball, Faison Brandon has looked good
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  Speaker 1: for a true freshman.
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  Speaker 2: Looked really good. No, I don't want to undersell the
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  Speaker 2: way he's looked. He's not played great competition.
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  Speaker 1: On the road in Atlanta is certainly the toughest thing
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  Speaker 1: that he's seen, but Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Tech also kind of got bullied by Colorado the week before.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want to I don't want to read
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  Speaker 1: too much into that, but still, it's a power four opponent,
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  Speaker 1: Brent Key coach team that they went in and he looks.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good against.
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  Speaker 1: How do you evaluate a quarterback that is a true freshman,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a ton of film, but has looked really,
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  Speaker 1: really good, but will now be going up against a
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  Speaker 1: defense like Texas has and the playmakers that they have
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  Speaker 1: on that side of the ball? Just thoughts around expectations
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  Speaker 1: for him in this game. I'll get right back to
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  Speaker 2: Now back to the clip.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't know what to expect.
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  Speaker 3: I think he has done a good job of living clean, right?
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  Speaker 3: He's six touchdowns, zero interceptions on the year. When he
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  Speaker 3: has been kept clean in the pocket, he's averaging nine
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  Speaker 3: yards an attempt. He is completing over 65% of his passes,
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  Speaker 3: which is kind of a good key benchmark type number.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, when he's been blitzed so far this year,
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  Speaker 3: he's been great. He's completing 70% of his passes at
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  Speaker 3: 13 yards an attempt. Now, he's not played teams that
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  Speaker 3: can get home when they blitz against Tennessee with David
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  Speaker 3: Sanders and, and, and Perry, I believe it is their
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  Speaker 3: right tackle. So like he's had good protection. I think
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  Speaker 3: that is the, probably the key to this game, right.
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  Speaker 3: Is like, can you keep him upright and keep him
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  Speaker 3: comfortable and, and keep him from having to try and
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  Speaker 3: play off script? Cause he's a freshman who, is prone
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  Speaker 3: to all of the same types of things likely that
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  Speaker 3: we were just talking about with Arch. So I think
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  Speaker 3: for him, like what we've seen, the deep ball numbers
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  Speaker 3: were really good after a week before we previewed that
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  Speaker 3: Georgia Tech game. They've kind of gone down a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: as they should, like returning to the mean. I think
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  Speaker 3: he's been very good, though, distributing short passes, which, look,
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  Speaker 3: the highball offense, like we think of it in the
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee terms of, 2022 Tennessee with Jalen Hyatt catching five
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  Speaker 3: touchdowns against Alabama.
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  Speaker 4: And deep balls all over the place. And it's great
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  Speaker 4: if you can do that.
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  Speaker 3: But more than likely if they're going to survive in
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  Speaker 3: this game and win this game and control this game
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  Speaker 3: they're going to do it off of sustaining some of
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  Speaker 3: those short completions and I think he can do that
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  Speaker 3: like I mean he's been 25 of 30 on on
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  Speaker 3: throws of less than 10 yards this year he's been
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  Speaker 3: very good in that respect and I look at Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: I think the very interesting thing about them to this
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  Speaker 3: point in the season has been they've been super efficient
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  Speaker 3: in the red zone, or not even in the red zone,
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  Speaker 3: but if you're looking at it from an advanced stat standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: scoring opportunities are anything inside the opponent's 40. When they
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  Speaker 3: get inside the opponent's 40, they're second nationally right now
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  Speaker 3: in points off of an opportunity at 5.82, just behind Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: just above Florida and Indiana. So they've been really good.
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  Speaker 3: at cashing in and getting it all the way into
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  Speaker 3: the opposing end zone. And then also I think you
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  Speaker 3: look at what they've done in the run game. They
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  Speaker 3: haven't asked him to do too much. He hasn't had
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  Speaker 3: to do too much phase on Brandon. That is just
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  Speaker 3: because they have ran the ball so well. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think they're going to run the ball like that against Texas,
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  Speaker 3: but if he can complete those short passes and keep
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  Speaker 3: them on schedule and keep them ahead of the chains,
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  Speaker 3: when they do have a stuff run, like get them
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  Speaker 3: back into third and five, then they can certainly survive
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  Speaker 3: in this game long enough to get inside the opponent's
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  Speaker 3: 40 and do what they do well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think about the same things I think about
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  Speaker 1: from the preseason in trying to evaluate what Tennessee might
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  Speaker 1: get out of Faison Brandon. And you knew he had
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  Speaker 1: the talent, but you also knew that he was going
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  Speaker 1: into a system that was, one, a Josh Heupel system, two,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the best offensive line in the conference, at least
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  Speaker 1: top three, and a running game that is elite offensively.
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  Speaker 1: and a wide receiver room that has talent. Like, all
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  Speaker 1: of the pieces that you could want for a freshman quarterback, which,
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  Speaker 1: not that you ever want a freshman quarterback stepping in,
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  Speaker 1: but all the pieces that you could want for a
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  Speaker 1: freshman quarterback stepping in existed for Tennessee. And then, on
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  Speaker 1: the other side, I know there are still questions, they've
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  Speaker 1: had injuries on the defensive side of the ball, but
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  Speaker 1: a defense that should be improved, gosh, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how it couldn't be, it was maybe the worst in
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  Speaker 1: the conference last year, but a defense that should be
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  Speaker 1: improved under Jim Knowles, and I think it is, bigger
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  Speaker 1: test this weekend, But everything you could want for Faison
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  Speaker 1: Brandon in a season, I think, existed. I think that
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  Speaker 1: translates very well to this game. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: many of those things you needed against Furman or Georgia
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  Speaker 1: Tech or Kennesaw State.
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  Speaker 2: You will absolutely need them this week.
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  Speaker 1: The team that runs the ball better here and isn't one-dimensional,
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  Speaker 1: because I think Faison has his questions and I think
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  Speaker 1: Arch has his questions.
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  Speaker 2: They're very different.
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  Speaker 1: But the team that is not one-dimensional and does not
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  Speaker 1: put it all on their quarterback, It shouldn't need saying
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  Speaker 1: that the team that can run the ball better is
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  Speaker 1: probably going to win. But I do think it's big
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  Speaker 1: in this one. Whereas Ole Miss can maybe get a
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  Speaker 1: little one-dimensional. We'll talk about them in a moment. When
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  Speaker 1: you've got a guy like Trinidad that you can just
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  Speaker 1: put it all on his shoulders and go win a game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that Faison and Arch really want that.
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  Speaker 1: Not that they don't want it. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: Josh and Steve really want that for their quarterbacks of,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, you've got to go out and win us
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  Speaker 1: this game.
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  Speaker 2: It can work. I'm not saying it's impossible.
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  Speaker 1: But that's where I think guys like Hollywood and Bishop
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  Speaker 1: and all those guys come in to play.
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  Speaker 2: Morris as well.
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  Speaker 1: Who's been a good option to those guys all coming
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  Speaker 1: to play big time for me in this matchup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I think within that framework, what I'm very curious
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  Speaker 3: about is, you know, Sark has had a tendency as
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  Speaker 3: a play caller throughout his career. When he gets behind
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  Speaker 3: in a game, he can kind of abandon the run.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And I think they got so far behind so early
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  Speaker 3: against Ohio state that it was kind of impossible to
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  Speaker 3: abandon the run because they there was just so many
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  Speaker 3: drives left.
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  Speaker 4: Right. And they, they, he did a good job.
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  Speaker 3: I think of, of utilizing Hollywood Brown and relief and
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  Speaker 3: keeping the run game as a legitimate part of the
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  Speaker 3: offensive threat.
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  Speaker 4: In this game on the road in Knoxville.
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  Speaker 3: Like I've, I've been to Tennessee a number of times
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  Speaker 3: where they get ahead against Georgia and Georgia's obviously handled
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  Speaker 3: those situations well, but like that is a place where
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  Speaker 3: they're going to, feel good coming into this matchup anyways
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  Speaker 3: because of all the reasons you just explained.
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  Speaker 4: And sort of it feels like.
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  Speaker 3: They've kind of built this roster back up a little
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  Speaker 3: bit from 22 and 23. And now we're here. And
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  Speaker 3: I just am very curious, how does Texas respond from
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  Speaker 3: a play calling standpoint if Tennessee does get an early
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  Speaker 3: lead in this game? Does Texas stay committed to the run?
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  Speaker 3: Because they need to. And I think if you look
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  Speaker 3: at this Tennessee– defense to this point in the year,
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  Speaker 3: their rush success rate allowed.
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  Speaker 4: Has not been great.
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  Speaker 3: They're allowing 50% of plays against the run to stay
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  Speaker 3: on schedule or ahead of schedule. And that's not what
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  Speaker 3: you want in this game. I think if you're Texas,
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  Speaker 3: you do not want to get over here and let's
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  Speaker 3: let Arch throw the ball 40 times like he did
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  Speaker 3: at Florida last year. And I do think that that
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  Speaker 3: might be where this kind of breaks down in favor
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  Speaker 3: of Texas is Texas' defense has been pretty balanced in
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  Speaker 3: terms of sort of allowing things. They've been good against
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  Speaker 3: the run and the pass for the most part. And
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  Speaker 3: I just think that this game will probably come down to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, does Tennessee have the ability to hit a
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  Speaker 3: couple of explosive plays and flip the field? if they're
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  Speaker 3: not going to get turnovers or, or get the ball
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  Speaker 3: in some way off of special teams in Texas side
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  Speaker 3: of the field.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a world where Brandon can hit.
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  Speaker 3: Two of these shots, you know, one, one in each half,
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  Speaker 3: like can he hit Mike Matthews and, and, and turn
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  Speaker 3: this thing around?
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's possible.
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  Speaker 3: He can certainly make those throws, but how, how Hypel
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  Speaker 3: manages all this with Deshaun Bishop. And the other thing
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  Speaker 3: about this game too, is, Both these teams have played
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  Speaker 3: at less than 25 seconds or right at 25 seconds
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  Speaker 3: per play so far this year.
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  Speaker 4: So like this is going to be a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of possessions for a college football game in the year
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  Speaker 3: 2026 with the clock rules.
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  Speaker 4: And the first downs that we have now.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm very, very curious what that looks like because
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee's also had the ability to have this explosive rush, right?
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  Speaker 4: Like they've been really good on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: And I know that the ground keeps the clock running,
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  Speaker 3: but with the pace they play at, I saw this
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: against Georgia last year. Like if they can script this
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: game out well and use their run game the way
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: that they want to against Texas front, then you're going
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: to get to the fourth quarter and Texas is going
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: to be tired. And so is Tennessee and who kind
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: of manages their drives early, not just to score points,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: but to rack up some of those body blows is
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: going to.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Be something to monitor as this game goes on.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Derek Owings, um, I don't know how many times we're
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: going to talk about a strength and conditioning coach, but
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Derek Owings took over strength and conditioning there from Indiana.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: And if it is a fourth quarter game, you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: obviously he has not been there for a super extended
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: period of time, but how, how does that maybe factor
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: in if, if some of those body blows start to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: hit three and a half points for, I'm sorry, five
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and a half points for Texas in this.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I think that's too many.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I think Tennessee covers this spread and I don't know
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: if I've told you this or not, but I'm going
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: to the game in Knoxville. I'm not putting on, I'm
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: not putting on either shade of orange because I am
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: vehemently opposed to that.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: But I will be at this game.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm just trying to will it
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to happen or not, but I will take the Volunteers
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: with the upset. I'm tired of going chalk every single week.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I think the conditions are there and primed for an upset.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I think Texas is the better team. I think Tennessee
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: just needs to be the better team for like 35
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: minutes on Saturday, and I think they find a way
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: to get it done.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: So give me the Vols on the money line. What
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: you got?
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: I am.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: very much in the same boat of thinking that you are.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I do like Tennessee to cover this spread. I think
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: this game comes down to a field goal, special teams,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: something like that.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: In that scenario, I really want to pick Texas in
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: this spot.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I want to pick Arch. I want to pick the experience,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: but I don't know, man. Maybe there's something a little
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: cosmic here. We've had a lot of really good analytical
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: analysis in this preview.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go off the rails here. But I
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's a little cosmic Manning thing at play here.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: But I do just have a.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Feeling about Tennessee in this football game that I can't shake.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: And I keep trying to shake it with Faison Brandon's
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: inexperience and Tennessee's rush success rate allowed. So I'm going
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: to follow the formula and the recipe and say like
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Texas wins this game by three and it turns into
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: kind of a shootout and this total goes over of 57.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: And that's what I'm going to say. But I do think.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: That we're one arch decision or one shanked pun or
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: one thing away from.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: This fall in Tennessee's way.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: So I very much think that upset conditions are ripe
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: on Saturday.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. This was a really good
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: analytical breakdown. My head says Texas, but I'm going 100%.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Vibes play here. Sometimes you just gotta.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: My head's wrong a lot, so maybe that's a good
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: way to look at things.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Hey, don't agree that hard.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about me, personally, in my life. I was
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: thinking about my wife, honestly, when.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You said that. But yeah, complete vibes play. Shout out
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton.